virtue rewarded
Example Sentences
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As for the ending, Beethoven’s original deus ex machina — virtue rewarded, evil punished — was referred to as a relic of a better time, but not something possible in the real world.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2019
Truth still mattered; in the epic, sprawling narrative of America, vice would eventually be punished and virtue rewarded.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2019
It was a Norman Rockwell vision of elm-shaded village life, of freckle-faced boys going fishing, of parading on July 4; it was a Horatio Alger vision of hard work and thrift and virtue rewarded.
From Time • Jun. 5, 2014
Nickleby told of virtue rewarded and villainy punished, while Les Miserables depicts a world less blessed with moral order.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marriage was the thing, or rather, a wedding was, with its formal neatness of virtue rewarded, the thrill of its pageantry and banqueting, and dizzy promise of lifelong union.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
