virtu
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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
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
All that fastidious refinement and taste could assemble, in objects of art and virtu, graced the salons.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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