The demoralization of society is advanced when the word "values" supplants the word "virtues" in political and ethical contexts.
It was a statement of values – the word "values" recurred throughout the speech far more often than any other – not a programme or a manifesto.
Mr. Quayle, onetime critic of Murphy Brown's choosing to be a single mother, repeatedly used the word "values" in explaining his support for the governor.
Perfectionism, a sense of urgency, quantity over quality, worship of the written word, valuing formal education over lived experience, the assumption of objectivity, conflict avoidance.
Last night, Walter Isaacson said the word, "values" so many times that I lost count.
The energy and straightforward manner of Westerners clashed with the cool heart, placidity and soft words valued by Thai culture.
It was an era when rhetoric and linguistic proficiency and words words words were valued, prized, exalted and exulted in.
We're sometimes even afraid to use the word values.
The tricky part for voters is defining the word value.
And the word evaluation contains the word value in it — meaning it assumes a set of values.
