Sentence examples for were a virtue from inspiring English sources
He enshrined stasis as if it were a virtue, though it was closer to necessity: the view camera could not stop motion.
To a Kennedy-era Catholic, divorce was a sin, labor unions were a virtue and anti-Catholic bigotry was a staple in many Protestant circles.
That's not to say Meloy doesn't recognize the Santerres' various weaknesses and failures, but she tends to view them with wry humor rather than satirical condescension, noting affectionately of one character that "he could be counted on to do absolutely the wrong thing," as if his dependability were a virtue.
For instance, if gratitude were a virtue, then it should be natural to ascribe it to certain people as a general, global character trait, the way temperance, courage, or appreciativeness might be ascribed to someone.
As she explains, if being trustworthy were a virtue, then being untrustworthy would be a vice, but that cannot be right because we can never be required to exhibit a vice, yet we can be required to be untrustworthy (84).
Still, conservatives argued that the dramatic consequences of the legislation were a virtue, not a vice.
Parsimony is a virtue too.
SAVING energy is a virtue.
