The phrase
"highest virtue" refers to the most important and admirable quality or behavior. It represents a standard of goodness that is considered to be the best.
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Most Japanese singles still hold
very high virtues when it comes to sex and relationships.
What was once esteemed
as high virtue is now viewed with skepticism and disbelief.
Gyrovagues abound in religious groups: they
talk high virtue and demand it from everybody but themselves.
It also makes sense for the Den of the Lotus Eaters to be a Las Vegas casino: both are symbols of the power of greed and the dangers of valuing material satisfation
over higher virtues.
This restaurant
blends highest virtue of service anda honor, with Japanese rich culinary and cultural heritage.
This may well turn out to be literature's
highest virtue in our technological age: it makes us stop, pay attention, think and dream expansively.
Of course, Anders Nygren's view of agape influenced many Protestant leaders for years — and this too resulted in setting up a contrast between an agapic love for the church (a
very high virtue) versus the lowly «preferrential» love towards a friend.
In no way does it assume that all the players will be of
the highest virtue.
They worked tirelessly to instill accuracy as
the highest virtue in all of us young editors.
Do these early texts, and does Christianity as a religion, contain an appreciation for humankind's
highest virtues and most noble ideals?»
The highest virtues and loftiest goals of the academic scholar are not analytic thinking, attention to detail, or persistence in long hours of research, but rather humility, love, and patience toward others.
In this way,
the highest virtues and loftiest goals of the academic scholar are not analytic thinking, attention to detail, or persistence in long hours of research, but rather humility, love, and patience toward others.
Altruism or selflessness became
the highest virtue.
For a group of people that purport that reason is
the highest virtue and all you need, the zealots of the atheist religion sure do seem to get their jollies off by intentionally inflicting harm on their fellow man.
In still more daring fashion, Othello exemplifies
the highest virtues of Western Christendom» fortitude, courtesy, devotion to duty, and sexual delicacy» in a character who seems, to some observers, their antithesis: a black African who could routinely be associated with Islam or with barbarism.
13:8 - 10 that love means the fulfillment of the Law), but also in pagan literature love — love of man and even love of enemies — is regarded as one of
the highest virtues.
So many of us value loyalty as one of
the highest virtues that we unknowingly allow it to take a toll.
In Chinese dating customs, virginity and purity is considered
a high virtue.
Around the same time or shortly after Piers Plowman, Chaucer wrote in The Canterbury Tales that «Patience is
a high virtue... but virtue can hurt you.»
Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are
the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion.
Being pampered is
the highest virtue.
In addition, Confucianism philosophy teaches that the respect of one's elders is
the highest virtue.
The title of the exhibition, chosen by Demester, refers to the world of old philosophers, in which admitting that one knows nothing was a sign of
the highest virtue.
As far as learning a financial lesson from those old shtetls — you could do worse than teaching your kids that education and charity are
the highest virtues.