Sentences with phrase «dressed as virtue»

That our laws permit the killing of unborn children is already a sign of the barbarity which arises from radical individualism, albeit it dressed as virtue in the claim to be ensuring the «right to reproductive health».

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«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Every age in fact finds that people try to rationalise wrongdoing and dress it up as virtue.

Ginnie pepper has the taste of pepper, but not the power or virtue, notwithstanding that in Spain and various parts of the Indies they do use it to dress their meats, as we do with Calcutta pepper; but (says my author [Auicen, an Arabian physician]-RRB- it has a malicious quality, whereby it is an enemy to the liver and other entrails.

Murger used language to turn the Bohemians into romantic paragons of virtue, and it became fashionable for wealthy Parisians to dress like the Bohemians, talk like the Bohemians, and even «adopt» a Bohemian as their project.

When Repower / Senvion was spruiking the virtues of its planned 600Mw Ceres wind farm here in SA in 2012 its then head honcho «Pretty boy» in the face of an uproar from local citizens declared at a business lunch in Adelaide that «Opposition to wind farm development in South Australia is driven by political ideology dressed up as a grass roots movement.»

I'm a big believer in the philosophy that the same rules of decency and virtue will help you succeed in the legal and blog world just as much as they do in life - we aren't talking about a moral dress code like that imposed by California for its employees, but instead 12 virtues that will make our world a better place to live.