arete
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Both poems celebrated arete — a Greek virtue which can be translated in English as “excellence” and “success,” but must be understood as a moral characteristic as much as a physical or mental one.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
This funky goop, called gloios and thought to contain the essence of arete — valor, excellence — was often funneled into small vials and sold at gyms for medicinal purposes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2016
In doing so, they sacrifice the wallet’s core virtue—what Plato would have called its arete.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2015
“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
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
For example, the purpose of a knife is to cut things, so its arête is sharpness.
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
I of course at once told him to uncoil it and get on the arête, from which he was not more than fifteen feet distant.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
