Sentences with phrase «chief virtue»

Insurers, brokerages, and big mutual fund companies have done brisk business selling small firms products whose chief virtue is that you don't have to think about it.

Priests who are outspoken and are proven pastors of souls are too often excluded from the episcopate in favor of chancery clerks whose chief virtue is not having blotted their copybooks.

The founders considered justice one of the chief virtues.

Besides their availability, among their chief virtues is versatility.

In discussions about the sole trustee management of the pension fund, Comptroller DiNapoli has consistently cited the ability to protect the pension fund from raids as one of the sole trustee's chief virtues.

Ironically, the artemisinins» chief virtue — speed — is also a weakness: The supercharged action translates to rapidly diminishing drug levels in the bloodstream.

While the film does suffer from various issues it can be said its chief virtues are in its strong directing and its solid performances.

The snazzy images of Miller's film (he wrote and co-directed with Robert Rodriguez) are its chief virtue.

«Lovelace,» the story of the porn star's rise and fall, presents a strange creative paradox: the film's chief virtue is its strong acting, yet the characterizations are also uniformly one - note.

But the chief virtue of Logan is neither its brutality nor its foul language.

But the film's chief virtue is the lead performances by Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley.

The car's chief virtue is its simplicity.

The chief virtue of the exhibition is its organization.

I believe strong, intimate relationships are among the chief virtues for a happy life.