virtue
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Hyperawareness is not a virtue, it’s a symptom of mental illness—ask your Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder friends about it sometime.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
And the new chancellor John Healey and his team have sought to make a virtue out of not saying very much beforehand.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“It Could be Otherwise” is of a similar vein, highlighting the virtue of uncertainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Cook says opposition to data centers has one virtue here: "It's bringing people together... across party lines."
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
He laughed and quoted a little Greek epigram about honesty being a dangerous virtue, and, to my surprise, opened the door and ushered me in.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Amazon wants you to see ads, to become aware of the virtues of Prime membership, and to know that there’s a Thursday Night Football game that you won’t want to miss.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
There comes a time when one extols cinema’s virtues so fiercely that it feels like posturing.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
He has opened up on his past troubles, present grievances, and at times promoted the virtues of crypto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
In “Buddenbrooks,” Thomas Mann depicted succeeding generations living comfortably on inherited wealth while progressively losing the hard bourgeois virtues that created it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing virtue
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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