arête
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Far below, fast-flowing meltwater cuts a frozen ravine into the glacier; above, on the horizon, the Grandes Jorasses arête, a narrow ridge of rock that separates two valleys, soars with terrifying verticality.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 16, 2023
To determine the arête, or excellence, of something, you have to know what its purpose or function is.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
It is easier to determine the arête of a practical object like a knife than the arête of a person.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In ancient Greek, the word for virtue was arête, which can also be translated as “excellence.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The shrill whistle of the blast tore past their ears, singing through the weather-beaten herbage which straggled upon the side of the arête.
From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford
In some ways, Romanitas was the Romans’ spin on the old Greek combination of arete and civic virtue.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
In doing so, they sacrifice the wallet’s core virtue—what Plato would have called its arete.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2015
Yet here, in Mr. Mariota, we seem to have a young man whose stellar athletic accomplishments and exemplary off-field conduct is worthy, and emblematic of, the ancient Greek ideal of excellence known as arete.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2014
“The themes of Walt’s need to express his excellence — arete — has been there from the beginning,” Cyrino said.
From Forbes ● Sep. 28, 2013
From this point the route angled steeply upward along a graceful arete of wind-compacted snow that culminated in the South Summit—where I arrived at 11:00 to find a second, even worse bottleneck.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
