Sentence examples for virtuous choice from inspiring English sources

Yet the Roman model is not in Shakespeare's play the unassailably virtuous choice that it is in Plutarch.

The other half of the menu listed mainly seafood, a virtuous choice for diners planning to have one of the scrumptious desserts.

David DeSteno, a psychologist at Northeastern University in Boston and co-author of the coming book "Out of Character," about deception and other misbehavior, said: "With all of these kinds of decisions there's a battle between short- and long-term gains, a tension between the more virtuous choice and the less virtuous one.

Aristotle believed that he could defend the virtuous choice as always being in the interest of the individual.

I cannot believe that it's the more virtuous choice or the surest route to God. **.

As well as less virtuous choices of beautifully made beef burgers, a pasta of the day, and a cake display full of yummy treats.

Virtuous choices, like choosing the fruit plate over the banana split, often make us feel entitled to splurge and attack the potato chips when we get home.

Later on it occurred to her that there is usually one thing we yearn to do that's bad for us, while if we try to make the effort to do a virtuous thing, the choice is so wide, we're all worn out before we can settle on what to do.

But Scandinavia offers some useful lessons in achieving the twin grails of patient choice and virtuous competition in a system funded, like the NHS, through taxation (albeit more of it).

Some Thoughts Concerning Education explains how to educate that mind using three distinct methods: the development of a healthy body; the formation of a virtuous character; and the choice of an appropriate academic curriculum.

So the Democrats' morality tale of hard budget choices and virtuous austerity turns out not to hold water.