But he laid claim to other virtues, presenting himself as a self-made man whose standing in the outside world would help bring Senegal attention and investment.
While white women were expected to carefully guard their fragile virtues, presenting a pure and feminine package to their future husbands, women of color ― especially black women ― were generally treated as sexually knowing and available from a young age, regardless of their actual experience.
With the sole exception of wisdom literature, the core genres are panegyric in nature (i.e., they praise something or someone), and the magical power and use of praise is to instill, call up, or activate the virtues presented in the praise.
In his campaign, the white-haired Mr. Sharon embraced his age as a virtue, presenting himself alternately in pictures with his grandchildren and with David Ben-GurIsraelsrael's first leader.
Yet Paolo Baratta, the can-do president of the Venice Biennale, which also runs the Art and Architecture Biennales and other events including the film festival, has turned necessity into a virtue, presenting a bold new back-to-the-future scenario.
Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas.
They presented a more convincing picture of virtue than virtue presented of itself — just as the wax rosebud or the plastic peach seemed more perfect to the eye, more what the mind thought a rosebud or a peach should be than the imperfect or original from which it had been modeled.' That, to me, explains John Meehan".
So placid and compliant a virtue presents itself less as noble self-sacrifice than failure of imagination.If the spinster's plight is unmoving, Bea and her humourless circle are all innocent victims of cruelly inert prose: "She still liked regular food, the food she used to eat, sandwiches, she also pressed flat.
At first, Erin Courtney's play "A Map of Virtue" presents itself as a quirky love story: Sarah Megann Branch and Mark Samam T. West) stand side by side onstage and deliver alternating accounts of the first time they saw each other, as if answering an unseen interviewer's questions.
It also has the notable virtues of presenting playwrights sometimes perceived as esoteric at their most spirited and accessible.
By virtue of presenting textual things via their folk taxonomies, the collection as a whole will complement archaeological and museum collections and amplify our understanding of Europe's material horizons on the eve of modernity.
