model of virtue

I tell you again: you've been a model of virtue.

The university essentially holds itself up as a model of virtue.

In all versions, he is presented as a model of virtue.

But as a national trend, with their leaders proclaiming it, sacrifice becomes a model of virtue.

He hated it, and constantly looked to an ancient past for a consoling model of virtue.

Of course, students living in college dormitories are not necessarily models of virtue.

Is she such a model of virtue?

"To hear Kulman talk, he must be a model of virtue and obedience."

If our students are lacking in character, perhaps we should examine more closely those people we look to as models of virtue.

Like Job in the Old Testament, she was held up as a model of virtue and devotion.

Her kindness and generosity towards others was boundless and she was a model of virtue for all to follow.

Though she appears to be the model of virtue, at least in regard to Charles, Emma's real feelings are evident in her physical state.

Sophia Western (the Squire's only daughter, the model of virtue, beauty and all good qualities)

You have traveled widely, William; you know that not even the cardinals in Avignon are models of virtue.

I want to see them anxious to make Young America a model of virtue, strength and beauty, and I believe they will in time.

A Model of Virtue (2007)

It is said that in olden days, two brothers, both models of virtue and piety, lived at this place and maintained themselves by cultivating land.

The man was hardly a model of virtue, but Lady A had picked well; he'd have the requisite skills to perform on a delicate mission like this.

To be sure, the depiction of the United States as the world's energy wastrel and of France as a model of virtue can be overdrawn.

He is held up as a model of virtue and constancy in love in the Cancioneiro de Resende at the end of the 15th century.

In 1852, she married Otto Goldschmidt, a devoted but second-rate German accompanist whom she described as "a model of virtue, industry and domesticity."

Christopher Priest might have been a model of virtue, teacher, volunteer, role model for rehabilitating juvenile delinquents; but he had known Olie Swain.

The fleur-de-lis, the symbol of sanctity and virtue, symbolizes God, man's final end, and the Blessed Virgin, model of virtue.

You can live on vegetables; yet you slaughter beasts of the field and birds of the air (or buy them when slaughtered), and consider yourself a model of virtue.

If Emineh, his wife, was a model of virtue, his father-in-law, Capelan, was a composition of every vice--selfish, ambitious, turbulent, fierce.