Sentence examples for virtue without from inspiring English sources

• INSIDE TRACK: Virtue without excitement.

Despite his talk of bold measures and radical solutions, therefore, what he offers is virtue without sacrifice.

In their minds a link existed between terror and virtue: "virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless".

There is another danger for those marching: that the protests might allow liberals to solidify a sense of collective virtue without leading to other concrete actions.

This kind of anecdotal marriage of psychology and economics loads the dice in favour of civic virtue without legislating for it.

Pamela is, ultimately, a 15-year-old servant who, by Richardson's telling, faces a dilemma because she wants to preserve her virtue without losing the man with whom she herself has fallen in love (and whose family employs her).

In his "Dissertation on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind," he wrote, "In the midst of so much philosophy, humanity, and civilization, and of such sublime codes of morality, we have nothing to show for ourselves but a frivolous and deceitful appearance, honor without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness".

The Passat flaunts its big-boned American virtues without sacrificing its Germanic roots.

It's possible to extol diesel's virtues without dismissing hybrid technology, and vice-versa.

Later, Jules Feiffer (whose new book, "A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears," imparts virtues without listing them) was in the rest room with his daughter, Halley, eleven.

For some, no doubt, that is the meaning of our time, but this is a novel that signals higher virtues, without evincing them.