How could they demand of him that which no morality can tolerate, whereas he called them to goodness and genuine virtue?
Humans begin with the conviction that justice is a genuine virtue.
Firmness of faith and tolerance of expression is a genuine virtue to offer the Christian.
In truth, they involve nothing more esoteric than workaday conscience, clear common sense and genuine virtues.
"Endurance is a genuine virtue, but submissiveness is a quality admirable only in women," Octavius declared.
One of the genuine virtues of Ms. Wagner-Martin's biography is its successful efforts to establish Plath's original intentions anent her unpublished works, "Ariel" in particular.
Among Hadot's genuine virtues is his ability to describe even this sideshow with a degree of sympathy, getting inside the heads of these figures to understand how they saw the world.
Still, the reader should not let these and a few other minor errors, or the bad pun of the book's title, detract from the genuine virtues of this enlightening volume.
This is not yet a finished portrait, but the compassion of the character is unmistakable and becomes, as it should, the play's touchstone of genuine virtue.
There were genuine virtues in the child, her fine manners and response to affection and, mostly, how kind and gentle she was with Emily.