Sentence examples for virtue of things from inspiring English sources

Johnson's 1923 memoir, "Remembered Yesterdays,' notes: "What a delight it was to pick up at auction a half dozen lyre-back chairs... Let no one underrate the virtue of things.

Social and political philosophers are more interested in earthly justice – the kind of justice that obtains in virtue of things that governments are called upon to do for their citizens here on earth.

And Guy Clark quietly celebrates the homey virtues of things like homegrown tomatoes.

(See! Good things do come out of TED. Let the TED-TechCrunch healing begin!) The book doesn't advocate playing in traffic, but it does extol the virtues of things like super-gluing your fingers together, boiling water on the stove in a paper cup, and putting metal in the microwave.

We make a virtue of freezing things".

Certainly a virtue of those things is that they embrace not only design and function but also experimentation.

And simply by virtue of age, things that meant something to the adults meant nothing to the adolescents.

His father, who worked in a factory and had a contractor's skills (he built the family home), taught him the virtue of making things by hand.

The early music community is not as small or incestuous as it once was: none the less, the 29th York Early Music Festival celebrates the virtue of keeping things in the family.

This appears also to mitigate the second objection to some extent: The Muscovite possesses his belief about Stalin's purges at least as much in virtue of the things he says silently to himself and the disapproval he privately feels as in virtue of his disposition to express that opinion were the political climate to change.

There are many non-religious sources of meaning in life, and it's in virtue of such things that life without religion can be meaningful.