Sentence examples for virtuous take from inspiring English sources

I like this salad as a virtuous take on dessert or, indeed, breakfast.

They feel virtuous, take for ever and entail back-breaking work; but, when done, it is often hard to see any difference.

For a moment Crystal had seen herself as Collette might: a tragic figure, a fallen woman, but, when it came down to it, contrite and virtuous, taking responsibility for her mistake.

Since Aristotle treats all individual virtues as (learned dispositions) lying in a mean between extremes (courage, e. g., is between cowardice and foolhardiness), he also doesn't think it is virtuous to take less than one's fair share of things (though the issue is somewhat complicated for him).

The virtuous cycle takes hold when, after enough rounds, each side concludes that its adversaries will probably follow the terms of any agreement.

It sounded like a no-lose situation: I felt virtuous for taking steps to improve my health while at the same time I was improving my appearance.

Like anyone who has developed a skill in performing a complex and difficult activity, the virtuous person takes pleasure in exercising his intellectual skills.

This claim, though at first sight Hobbesian, is however not at all of a Hobbesian stripe, for Campbell holds that the self-love that motivates us to perform a virtuous act takes the form of a desire for esteem, where the desired esteem derives from our gratification of another person's self-love.

Spend a lot of money on top rate talent, qualify for the UEFA Champions League, and wait for a virtuous circle to take hold.

Its central instance is the Hobbesian view—still very much on early eighteenth-century minds that to judge an action or trait virtuous is to take pleasure in it because you believe it to promote your safety.

Egoism about virtue is the view that to judge an action or trait virtuous is to take pleasure in it because you believe it to serve some interest of yours.