I'm sure Bob the builder, Ivan the white van man and Billy the pretentious minimalist poet are also unsure about the aesthetic and poetic virtues of Tagore's poetry.

The aesthetic virtues of a spider plant are debatable.

Over time, the plan was altered significantly in a way that reduced the efficiency and aesthetic virtues of the plant.

But the design has an aesthetic virtue, too, giving the Burj Khalifa, for all its twenty-first-century ingenuity, a lyrical profile that calls to mind the skyscrapers of eighty or ninety years ago.

The hypocrisy might be bothersome, but I really must salute Republicans on this neglected aesthetic virtue of the Bush campaign.

Consequently, in creating their native tradition, Kievan writers drew on the "tradition one of whose higher aesthetic virtues was traditionalism itself."

But it views plainness and modesty as aesthetic virtues.

The quadri or frames are flanked by tabernacles containing figures that symbolize moral or aesthetic virtues.

The glass is especially prized for two reasons: first, its distinctive aesthetic virtue, and second, the uniqueness of the fused glass processes first developed and used by the Higginses.

The show does not promote these photographs on the basis of their formal or aesthetic virtues, which are not, as it happens, very great.