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
New foreign investment virtu ally was halted for months following the disorders.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
By borrowing a U.S. en gineering technique of offering clients "total package deals," Bufete has virtu ally cornered the Mexican engineering market while taking a lot of business away from U.S. competitors.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were no other articles of virtu in the spacious apartment; but cleanliness and decorum bestowed upon it a grace, the absence of which no idle decoration could supply.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
