virtu
Example Sentences
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For example, Machiavelli appears and discusses his philosophical concept of "virtu" – the qualities needed to be a leader – with the hero Ezio.
From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2011
Courting private cap ital, the new regime has returned virtu ally all foreign properties seized by Sukarno, promised tax holidays and easy repatriation of profits to all newcomers.
From Time Magazine Archive
After ten years of rising in comes, younger couples have come to look on new homes, new cars, mechanized kitchens, plentiful jobs and good pay as virtu ally everyone's guarantee in the new U.S. economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
But large further sums were spent on such bric-a- brackery, such articles of virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations."
From Time Magazine Archive
His taste in matters of virtu was one of the sources of his profusion; but it always had a reference to himself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
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