Mr. N'Dour, doing the traditional duty of a West African griot, makes himself the voice of a community: praising historical figures, counseling virtuous behavior.
South Indian movie stars who choose to play virtuous heroes and mythological figures from the great Hindu epics are identified in the minds of their audiences with those values, said Sara Dickey, an anthropologist and author of "Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India" (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
The contrivance was at once clever and pat, and its aftermath confirmed once again Dexter's status as a righteous figure, striving to do the virtuous thing, if only for his son's sake.
In advertising campaigns, instead of advocating for social identity, marketers can use terms such as "moral", "decent", "virtuous" to portray a social moral model figure owning an ecological car.
Among the most celebrated examples of Han lacquer painting is a basket found at Lelang (National Museum, Seoul), decorated with 94 small figures of paragons of filial piety, virtuous and wicked rulers, and ancient worthies.
Machismo divides women into two categories: sexual beings to be conquered and possessed, and mothers as authority figures that embody everything that is virtuous, gracious and worthy of praise in female nature.
Yet no matter how virtuous the underlying reason, quirks of personality almost always figure.
I FELT so virtuous handing over $1 for the Buzz Lightyear action figure my 3-year-old daughter found amid the wreckage at the charity bazaar.
There is no such thing as a good and strong supernatural female figure in Narnia: the principal representation of virtuous supernatural power is male, while the principal representation of evil power is the White Witch.
Less obvious is whether good sense will prevail.So far, the new budget figures have inspired a lot of relatively virtuous talk.
