Sentence examples for virtue went from inspiring English sources

Over time, the instinct for battlefield virtue went underground.

Roman virtue goes with the Roman arena, Voltaire and Watteau with the lettre de cachet..

The notion that forgetting is a hidden educational virtue goes back a century or more.

Roman virtue goes with the Roman arena, Voltaire and Watteau with the lettre de cachet...

Like her mother's religion, Carrie's violence comes off not as evil but as virtue gone mad.

She reluctantly accepts shop vouchers and mini-mart discounts, and watches as the price of a fictional shag (the value of her virtual virtue) goes down and down.

Her death is the emotional centre of the book, and confirms McGahern's view of the world as a place where virtue goes unrewarded - at least as far as the living are concerned.

It is with a sense of relief that we reach the end of this sanguinary story, when "the Incorruptible" — the priggish, vain, self-righteous Robespierre, a man who claimed terror was "an emanation of virtue" — goes to the convention and makes a threatening speech, which so alarms his surviving enemies that they at last unite and have him and his associates arrested and sent to the guillotine.

This basically Aristotelian view of virtue goes hand-in-hand with a basically Aristotelian view of emotions.

The Uncle Sam praised his editing and writing: "Go on martyr of virtue, go on and prosper!

But what at first seems to be an unalloyed virtue goes terribly wrong when Joseph becomes a no less devoted servant of Pharaoh.