Sentence examples for virtuous without from inspiring English sources

The challenge was derided as "slacktivism"—a way for people to feel virtuous without doing much.

But Facebook, and many innovations of its vintage, are statistically virtuous without being comprehensively virtuous.

The challenge was derided as "slacktivism" — a way for people to feel virtuous without doing much.

In other words, people can adopt the simplest solutions as a part of a deliberate denial strategy that enables them to feel virtuous without changing their real behaviour.

On the subject of the strict Islamic dress code that includes the hijab, he once he was against a crackdown on women wearing looser clothing in the sweltering summers, and even suggested they could still be "virtuous" without them.

In a culture that is inarticulate about moral categories and touchy about giving offense, teaching empathy is a safe way for schools and other institutions to seem virtuous without risking controversy or hurting anybody's feelings.

Yet, there can be no virtuous conduct without right knowledge, the clear distinction between the self and the nonself.

Some have given way to shameful and desperate sorrow at the loss of a dog or horse; others have borne the death of virtuous children without any extravagant or unbecoming grief, have passed the rest of their lives like men, and according to the principles of reason.

Some might object that God could have created virtuous people without their having to go through the troubles that afflict our present existence, that dispositions to good behavior need not be established through suffering (Mackie 1955, 205 06).

I think it is possible to talk about character and virtuous living without falling into a politics of respectability.

They can potentially 'do good' by imposing self-correction within the market, but without virtuous intent.