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Example sentences for: virtuous

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George Washington was virtuous, but was virtuousness altogether a good thing?
The episode stands as yet another eerie precursor to George W.'s life: As a much-overlooked New York Times story noted last spring, W. became the GOP front-runner largely because many people who told pollsters they favored Bush were "actually thinking of the father"; the confusion triggered a virtuous cycle of high poll numbers, improved fund-raising, and endorsements that has lifted W. above the pack.
Stendhal posed it in the 1830s in his novel Lucien Leuwen , in which the wealthy young Parisian hero contemplates fleeing the corruptions of monarchical old France for a new start in virtuous republican America.
But most of those residents, it is clear from these accounts, also were animated by enthusiasm for the larger experiment, Celebration's self-declared mission of turning around the soul-deadening blight of suburban sprawl and employing virtuous design and bedrock community principles to reinvigorate the nation's civic life.
He offers instead "a society that is prosperous and virtuous, but one that is exciting and fun as well."