In Une Femme qu'a le coeur trop petit (1934; "A Woman Whose Heart is Too Small") Crommelynck depicts a perfect wife whose obsessive virtuousness and efficiency wither all love.
Though Diderot's plays did not live up to his theories, the emphasis upon middle-class virtuousness was to be made dramatically effective in Michel-Jean Sedaine's Le Philosophe sans le savoir (1765; "The Unwitting Philosopher"; Eng. trans. The Duel).
Baez's performance, with its "folk" virtuousness, seems naïve now.
It looked like bilge, but it was delicious: fallish, with a farmyard undertone and none of the virtuousness that normally accompanies recipes involving pulses.
Of course she can, because this is the kind of cool restaurant in Portland, Oregon, where patrons regularly seek elaborate assurances about the virtuousness of their food.
Ostensible market deafness towards Italy's virtuousness has become a recurrent government refrain as the market pressures persist.
Some critics questioned the unwavering virtuousness of many of Mr. Clancy's heroes, particularly Jack Ryan.
No drink is better suited to this particular moment in New York City's eating and drinking life, because no drink so thoroughly indulges both cheeky mixology and farm-to-table virtuousness.
Matthew Kahn, an economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied hybrid owners, said they were "a mixture of people wanting to signal their virtuousness and people wanting to get to work quickly".
Time was that to be sure of making a truly ethical home purchase you had to consult the Traidcraft catalogue and pick out something whose virtuousness was rather more outstanding than its design.
The late 1980s rap world they entered was dominated by acts from America's eastern seaboard, and by groups brilliantly espousing assorted brands of virtuousness and positivity.
