Sentence examples for virtues convictions from inspiring English sources

We Americans are not really sure we have virtues, convictions or principles, which seem kind of demanding.

The count follows the "family tradition" of "largess" out of virtue and conviction: "It is the profoundest and noblest desire of the common people to know that the mighty are just and noble.

But they have virtues of journeymen: conviction and tenacity.

He said Connecticut's Web site explicitly disclaimed any effort to predict future dangerousness, containing the notice that individuals "are included solely by virtue of their conviction record" and that the Department of Public Safety "has made no determination that any individual included in the registry is currently dangerous".

Transfer of power is accepted more in the spirit of a disillusioned conservativism rather than out of any conviction for egalitarian virtues.

She shares her conviction of the virtues of America with her husband, whose most recent book, "American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville," was a spectacularly panned national tour d'horizon, and his first American best-seller.

The album's ironclad conviction about the virtues of maturity culminate in the title track, which has Mr. Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson and Cochran himself, in voice-over, speaking for "all of us rhyme runners and word hunters" — a guild to which Mr. Johnson is obviously proud to belong.

The conflict cannot be resolved, because the terms on the two sides — politics versus taste, virtue versus pleasure, aggrieved conviction versus disposable wealth — sail past each other.

Peche spoke from a conviction that his own work epitomized these softer virtues by sacrificing strict form to the poetic potential of materials.

A virtue in handling coalition relations, his lack of many deep-seated convictions has been a vice when it comes to dealing with his own tribe.

Weber suggested two sets of ethical virtues that a proper political education should cultivate — the ethic of conviction (Gesinnungsethik) and the ethic of responsibility (Verantwortungsethik).