cardinal virtues

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Strip away the Crunchwraps, the Big Macs, the PlayPlaces, the sentient taste buds and the nihilistic Facebook feeds and you're left with American fast-food's three cardinal virtues: profitability, uniformity and automation.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

“One of the cardinal virtues within McKinsey is confidentiality,” a former McKinsey associate, Ethan M. Rasiel, wrote in a 1999 book called “The McKinsey Way.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2019

But thoroughness and transparency, in lesser matters as well as these of life and death, are cardinal virtues regardless.

From Washington Times • Aug. 13, 2018

Conservatism considers one of the cardinal virtues to be prudence.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald