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She is a virtuous woman.
Nobody is born good, they have to learn how to be virtuous.
For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Movie subtitles
One of those fine-mannered, virtuous, and honorable gentlemen.
And I detest him intimately from his lofty brain to the soles of his virtuous feet!
But she'd had a virtuous upbringing, so she stayed faithful to me.
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, with traitorous gifts won to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming-virtuous Queen.
And his wife's not young either, besides being virtuous.
It's a virtuous deed which I need you to help me carry out for the sake of the murderer's peace of mind.
The virtuous brothers are deceased. and the family's glory is on display behind glass.
Now comes the scene between the wicked count and the virtuous lady.
So you can go on being the virtuous lady, the brilliant professor, the great businessman.
Nearly everything that is jolly is not virtuous.
O, he was gentle, mild and virtuous.
A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion. to pray for them that have done wrong to us.
Austere. Virtuous. Roman.
I'm the most virtuous man in Rome.
The way any virtuous woman, with a beast like that.
How God must laugh at the spectacle of unvirtuous kings hanging bits of rock and metal on virtuous men.
I know. And his wife's not young either, besides being virtuous.
I hear you have a daughter called Katherine, fair and virtuous.
Come, Kate, most patient, sweet and virtuous of wives.
As virtuous as I am, but your whispering has charmed me like a spring wind.
I made you virtuous.
You're so virtuous!
Well, the virtuous proprietress of the best restaurant in France.
Virtuous.
Jesus was a great, virtuous teacher.
Which should be given only to the virtuous. Doctor, please.
And virtuous.
A virtuous woman.
Virtuous. Roman.
She's very virtuous.
I never said it was easy to have fun while being virtuous.
First of all the so-called Big Bad Wolf far from eating Little Red Riding Hood, which is his duty betrayed our brotherhood and befriended the virtuous girl.
How can Concetta, so passively virtuous, so shy and reserved help an ambitious husband ascend the slippery steps of a new society?
News and current affairs
But it is easier because once those constraints are appropriately targeted, relatively simple policy changes can yield enormous economic payoffs and start a virtuous cycle of growth and institutional reform.
Performance enhancing drugs cheapen sport, making winners out of also-rans, and depriving virtuous and superior athletes of the victories that should be theirs.
It may inspire virtuous feelings, but its vain symbolism reveals exactly what is wrong with today's feel-good environmentalism.
Yet there is a sense that progress and understanding will require something new - an economics of virtuous circles, thresholds, and butterfly effects, in which small changes have very large effects.
The logic of centrality as a source of power creates a virtuous circle, in which members of a network gain advantage by bringing more members into the network and connecting more densely to them.
Indeed, atheists and agnostics do not behave less morally than religious believers, even if their virtuous acts rest on different principles.
This virtuous feedback loop has now turned vicious, with capital inflows amounting to only a fraction of outflows.
Are today's democracies virtuous enough to rally the energies - including self-sacrifice - needed to defeat their enemies?
A carefully paced program could add enough to aggregate demand to pick up the slack in the economy, and reverse deflation, setting into motion a virtuous cycle.
In earlier times, growth was fueled by capital scarcity: capital investment attracted a high rate of return, and this created a virtuous circle of saving and investment.
It creates a virtuous circle. Growth creates jobs, and jobs reduce poverty.
By contrast, the virtuous Chinese, who save a large proportion of their incomes, were castigated by Western economists for their failure to understand that their duty to humanity was to spend.
Confucianism was essentially a philosophical justification of government by benevolent bureaucracy under a virtuous ruler.
The right has started to regroup, and Obama will surely point to this virtuous cycle as one in which the US has played a positive role, and can continue to do so.
A virtuous circle may be set in motion, leading the country, eventually, to escape the crisis zone.
The combination of economic recovery and lower interest rates would produce a virtuous dynamic in which falling interest rates and a rising budget surplus are mutually reinforcing.
India is less urbanized than China, and it is in the early stages of benefiting from the virtuous forces that normally accompany that process.
These factors, more than any virtuous policy change in recent years, are propelling growth.
Can lying ever be virtuous?
The economic variant of Machiavellianism is as powerful as the claim that political untruth can be virtuous.
It creates a virtuous circle.
Apparently doing something virtuous - like turning off the lights- makes us feel entitled to act badly afterwards.
Switching off our lights and promising to cut carbon emissions may make us feel momentarily virtuous, but that's all it does.
Michnik admits that all revolutions are incomplete in the sense that not all sinners are punished, and not all virtuous people are rewarded.