Sentence examples similar to virtuous association from inspiring English sources
It has some biblically virtuous associations (be good to Ma and Pa) but it is more often the cry of honor that justifies the stoning of unfortunate women in the primitive reaches of the Middle East, it is honor that drove some defeated Southerners into creating the KKK; honor is often a sad gray word, dust in the mouths of demagogues, used to justify cruelty, bigotry and hatred.
Thus prayer evokes things which are in your memory if you are already a worshipper within the tradition so as to make a chain of associations leading to virtuous behaviour.
But its relative resilience in a downward-dog economy may owe more to its association with the relatively virtuous yoga concept.
In this lively and well-illustrated book, Tamara Plakins Thornton documents the rural pursuits and argues that elite Bostonians drew on their rich reservoir of associations to characterize themselves as virtuous members of a legitimate American elite.
The most virtuous of future commissioners will risk the taint of association with horrors to come.European leaders have talked of a strong new president as the best way to pep up the commission and its workings.
What about virtuous cycles?
