Sentence examples for virtue shows from inspiring English sources

Indeed, in a country where some 50percentt of first marriages end in divorce and a hefty percentage of the population has known various kinds of dysfunction, upholding a Christmas-card image of the nuclear family as the gold standard of virtue shows at best a woeful lack of compassion and an inability to confront the cultural upheavals of the last 50 years.

The great virtue shown since September 11th by America in general, and President George Bush in particular that patient determination has become a vice on this issue.

According to Mintel, a market-research company, there were 3.8m members of private gyms last year, up from 2.2m in 1998.So why isn't all this virtue showing up in the figures?

He makes this point by distinguishing between two different senses of the same virtue, showing that they have different opposites.

The Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints started the saint-making process last week by recognising the "heroic virtues" shown by the nun in a lifetime dedicated to the care of society's outcasts.

This is the virtue of shows at the Islip Art Museum, which in spite of budget cuts has continued presenting regular exhibitions.

In his later writings he presents an account of virtue that shows how we can be assured of our ability to make the right choices, or to act virtuously, despite the inadequacy of much of our knowledge.

Using Alicia M in the debate as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary suffers from BAD JUDGEMENT!

This is Mr. Erwitt's deeper, sometimes obscured, virtue: to show us our world in a tender way that does not deny its darker side.

That had the virtue of showing the ensemble in a wide range of styles, but it also turned the program into a grab bag of incomplete thoughts.

Titles and terminology aside, this exhibition has the distinct virtue of showing off some very impressive works in the museum's collection, some of which have never — or rarely, at best — seen the light of day.