Sentence examples for virtuous qualities from inspiring English sources
In response, Coriolanus is too confident in his own virtuous qualities to concern himself with answering the people's charges.
As a spiritual practice, generosity is the first of six "perfections," or virtuous qualities, one cultivates for spiritual awakening.
"A leader doesn't have to possess all the virtuous qualities I've mentioned, but it's absolutely imperative that he seems to possess them".
She gets very annoyed at public readings when unsuspecting audience members ask if she hesitated to give black characters in her novels anything but virtuous qualities – snaps at them as if correcting an obstinately clung to stupidity.
Táhirih's religious inspiration, poetic genius, philosophical acumen and physical beauty might seem an appropriate subject for hagiography: either a manaqib (the account of a holy person's merits and miracles) or a fadail (a discussion of her virtuous qualities).
I am well aware of the risks of reducing my friends to these virtuous qualities and romanticizing them in this attempt to transform the dominant image of "the refugee" as victim and threat.
So when one says that "such a man did well and worthily, his conduct is highly approvable" (EAP 5.7, 673), one predicates of this man's action a virtuous quality.
The motive of acting virtuously cannot be the standard or basic motive to virtuous action, since, according to Hume, what makes an act virtuous is its expression of a virtuous motive, which in turn reflects a virtuous quality of character (T 477).
The Argument from Uncodifiability is that explaining a virtuous person's action in terms of a desire for doing N things, where N is a natural property of actions, combined with the belief that something is N falsely presumes that there is some finite and codifiable natural kind N corresponding to every virtuous quality in actions.
Do you consider greed to be a virtuous quality?
For men in the restaurant industry, it's a virtuous quality to be edgy and unapproachable.
