So let us be grateful that Lincoln Center Theater, which first presented this gently comic drama at the tail end of last season under the auspices of its LCT3 program, has moved the same production uptown to the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, where it opened on Monday with all its virtues intact.
When the smoke clears, they will find themselves dealing with much the same America, with all its virtues and all its flaws.
For all its virtues, the problem with this model is that it takes an over-simple view of history.
"Hayek's Challenge", for all its virtues, could have done with the hidden hand of an editor.
Who would have guessed that Dave Malloy's gorgeous pop opera, adapted from a slice of Tolstoy's "War and Peace," would land on Broadway with all its signal virtues intact, and in some ways heightened?
When someone who has any virtue, and therefore all the virtues, performs any proper function, he performs it in accordance with virtue or virtuously (i.e. with all the virtues) and this transforms it into a right action or a perfect function.
Mr Leakey is a proud African nationalist with all the virtues of a Victorian pioneer.
The Casual Vacancy, her tale about the poisonous relationships behind the facade of an outwardly idyllic country town, I rather enjoyed however, complete with all its old-fashioned storytelling virtues – a stylistic aspect of the novel that seemed to rile the more rigorous type of literary critic.
The problem with a formula (also its virtue) is its lack of flexibility.
"Easier With Practice" has its virtues, but plausibility is not one of them.
True, Mexico has embraced the "American startup dream"; but with its virtues, its vices came, too.
