virtue

We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

Advocates claimed that it helped to preserve virtue and to affirm the application of Sharia law.

For these self-righteous and thin-skinned folks, there are apparently limits to the liberal virtue of tolerance.

By virtue of being readers we are also writers, I now believe, but that was not always the case.

He calmly offered his vision of an ideology that merges libertarian values with social conservative virtue.

When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.

And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.

Why expect that extraordinary virtues should be in one person united, when one virtue makes a man extraordinary?

She may be as chaste as unsunned snow, she is certainly as cold: but for warm, inspiring virtue!

The smiling face of man was blotted out; gratitude, virtue, were annihilated; and life had no longer an object!