McMillan’s initial observations suggested that 94 would be exceptionally long lived, which was both a drawback and, in terms of the war effort, a virtue. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For the chief virtue of a gradual approach was to extend the cost of compensation over several decades so that the full bill never landed at one time or even on one generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Virginia, in short, was being asked to trust its fate to the collective wisdom and virtue of the central government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The time-tested strategy of using those who epitomize moral virtue as symbols in racial justice campaigns is far more difficult to employ in efforts to reform the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Aristotle sought to rescue rhetoric from its place as a purely instrumental art: the highest rhetorical accomplishment, for Aristotle, was an expression of arete, or virtue. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

This could not have arisen from anything other than his inhuman cruelty, which, along with his many other virtues, made him always venerable and terrifying in the eyes of his soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

My talents are different from those of the women who cleave and part from husbands nowadays—and my virtues probably unrecognizable. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has always struck me that were newspapers better able to see the virtue of this figure, they’d be readier to print apologies. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Colonel and I said nothing, while a bunch of people who didn’t know Alaska extolled her virtues and professed to be devastated, and at first, it bothered me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Marriage was the thing, or rather, a wedding was, with its formal neatness of virtue rewarded, the thrill of its pageantry and banqueting, and dizzy promise of lifelong union. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Except for the latter, these men were offered as “character witnesses”—persons expected to attribute to the accused a few human virtues. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she to allow me no virtue—no shard of pride or decency? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Born of necessity and virtue, between the hammer...and the anvil...Are you there, Homer?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

While I learned the importance of virtue from Elnora's conduct books, Gertrude's romances held out the delights of love and the means to achieve them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I could extol your virtues endlessly, but I want you to finish reading and answer me quickly. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness, and democracy in a society that dishonored those virtues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t suffer, as many “honest men” do, from the detestable righteousness that diminishes their virtue. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute they were just like any other couple, doing things together, playing with us kids, boasting about our virtues to the neighbors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Humility was a hard virtue for me to learn, for I did not like to be always meek, with downcast eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I became her official suitor without having to perform any superhuman tasks because, despite her awesome beauty and her innumerable virtues, Rosa had no other wooers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Modesty is a virtue,” he would later write, “yet one gets further without it.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

By virtue of your everyday experiences with music, you know more than you think about music, and can probably easily answer the questions in Activity 1D. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Attention to the welfare of the nation is the highest virtue to which a citizen can aspire.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He understood that I meant my virtue, my only wealth, for he replied, “Ophelia, I know you are most honest and virtuous. I pledge to serve you truly and with, honor.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What about Prudence? Isn’t Prudence one of the virtues?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This can be called a civil principality, the acquisition of which neither depends completely upon virtue nor upon Fortune, but instead upon a fortunate astuteness. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The apron was so stiff by virtue of the starch that it could have stood alone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I should not contradict the queen, but how else should she know I was grateful for the virtues she had taught me? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This arrangement had the virtue of keeping banned individuals active as well as keeping the membership in touch with these leaders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The founder had written: “The three virtues of the Stranger are to be silent, to be cunning, but above all to be invisible.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thim bullets I was telling ye about, now: the brains didn’t be much good wid-out they were taken in single combat It was the virtue of them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If heredity had no means of maintaining variance—of “fixing” the altered trait—then all alterations in characters would eventually vanish into colorless oblivion by virtue of blending. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

So as knowledge ceases to be a question of Evidence-Perspicuity and becomes a question of Evidence-Indices a whole new set of intellectual virtues are demanded of the knower. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But because ambition succeeds best when disguised by virtue, he wanted to furnish the Alliance with an animating ideology—a manifest destiny, as it were, or mission civilisatrice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Partly this comes from having a mother who believed that a self-cleaned house was the hallmark of womanly virtue. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a virtue to have paler skin than most Iranians, not to mention hair that was several shades lighter than my family members'. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The best antidote to astrology in particular and to pseudoscience in general is, as Carl Sagan has written, real science, whose wonders are as amazing but have the added virtue of probably being real. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And those virtues preached but not practiced by the white world were merely another means of holding Negroes in subjection. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He tried to neatly type up his reports and touted the virtues of scientific policing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We tried to make this into a virtue by being as open with the police as possible to show them that in fact we had nothing to hide, not even our distaste for them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But tell me, Ophelia, how is it that you, a lady of great virtue, understand Claudius’s wicked heart?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On this morning, the virtue of the root was fully tested. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was amazed at the vividness of her jumbled recital and touched by the virtues she attributed to himself. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, therefore, that in completely new principalities, where there is a new prince, greater or lesser difficulty in maintaining them exists according to the greater or lesser virtue of the person who acquires them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d picked up biking a couple of years earlier, not by virtue of its popularity, but out of necessity. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They believed that by virtue of being white and Christian, they were superior to the Indigenous peoples they encountered. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I won’t attempt to assemble his many achievements and virtues here. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Or does the whole colony have, by virtue of the interconnections of so many small brains, the collective intellectual power of a huge contractor? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are not characterized by a particular virtue. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Though the government had appointed someone in his stead, a chief is a chief by virtue of his birth and wields authority because of his blood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If something brings us mutual pleasure and harms no one, it’s a virtue.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We might want to say that these virtues and this limit can be summed up in the word ‘objectivity’; but objectivity is a nineteenth-century concept and implies new ways of observing nature and recording information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Father approved of them because they taught the virtues most revered by the people of Zimbabwe: loyalty, bravery, courteousness and reverence for Mwari, the supreme god. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For I see now that virginity is not the highest virtue of a woman.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I don’t deny that there is truth in this, but it hardly explains why Merton found the same virtues being admired by scientists in the 1940s as were admired by scientists in the 1660s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Francesco became Duke of Milan from his station as a private citizen through appropriate methods and a great deal of virtue; and what he acquired with a thousand hardships he maintained with little effort. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It violated the core of virtue and disinterestedness presumed essential for anyone properly equipped to oversee public affairs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Fruit flies had transformed genetics by virtue of rare mutants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, being endowed with many virtues that made him venerable, while he was alive he always held both the one order and the other within their limits, and he was never either hated or despised. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Listening now to Auntie Lin bragging about the virtues of her family in China, I realize that Auntie Lin is oblivious to Auntie An-mei’s pain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like lam not hearing anything new—just the same philosophy that spawned the factions, driving people to manipulate their genes instead of separating into virtue- based groups. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The lembas had a virtue without which they would long ago have lain down to die. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Brinker, in his accelerating change from absolute to relative virtue, came up with plan after plan, each more insulated from the fighting than the last. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here is another situation where repetition is not a rhetorical virtue. Clean up the mess, Mr. Hoodhood,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The new virtues go deeper than the immediate context of the Restoration. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Walt Disney even had an entry with an animated featured entitled Victory Through Air Power, extolling the virtues of the flying machine as a weapon of war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But I was young and impatient, and did not see any virtue in waiting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do they not beg, force, and sometimes deceive women into yielding their virtue? Women do not sin this way alone, you know.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ch’ulp’o had become an important village for ceramics by virtue of both its location and its soil. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had slipped into the race with such a light assignment by virtue of a peculiarity in the race’s weight system. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are so many inquisitive people and insti-tutions abounding,” said Arobin, “that one is really forced as a matter of convenience these days to assume the virtue of an occupation if he has it not.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like being chosen by virtue of her height, but Michael Antoniou was persistent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Brevity is the soul of wit, and of many other virtues in writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He recited the virtues of Arm and described the fantastic cleverness of all three. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They knew democracy’s every virtue, vice, and shortcoming, its voice and contour, by its profound and persistent absence in their lives. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was the face of a man of hardened integrity who could no more consciously violate the moral principles on which his virtue rested than he could transform himself into a despicable toad. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The virtue of such a coarse logarithmic safety scale is that it provides us, and particularly the media, with an order-of-magnitude estimate of the risks associated with various activities, illnesses, and procedures. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the vantage point of your loved ones, a hint of cruelty. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I gasped, shocked by my father's rude mockery of my virtue. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In short, with mercenaries the greatest danger is their reluctance to fight; with auxiliaries, their military virtue. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I studied its precise drawings and stored in iny memory the virtues and uses of all plants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Miss Deveraux, do you think that I am a threat to your virtue or reputation?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By virtue of its demographics, Levittown—older, whiter, less educated than the nation as a whole—is a late adapter, not an early one. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, jack Will didn’t need to learn any of these virtues—he already had them in abundance. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

If a shoemaker’s shoes were not bringing in enough money, he could make better ones — or cheaper ones — or bellow out the virtues of his shoes in a louder voice. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

"And I intend to read Emerson, too . . ." "Very good. Self-reliance is a most worthy virtue. I shall look forward with the greatest of interest to learning your contribution to my fate." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon arriving home he noted that his barnyard was full of seaweed, which then prompted a characteristically indiscreet observation: He had made “a good exchange...honors and virtues for manure.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They embraced racism as a virtue and craved its notoriety. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The moral law applies to rational, language-using creatures, and the law of nature binds all human beings by virtue of their capacity to recognize that there are moral obligations that are common to them all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The next night some archers desperate for warmth somehow managed to set their tent afire, which had at least the virtue of heating the adjacent tents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a country that preaches the virtues of democracy, one could reasonably assume that being stripped of basic political rights would be treated by judges and court personnel as a serious matter indeed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Therefore, it is necessary to prepare yourself with such soldiers as these, so that with Italian virtue, you will be able to defend yourself against foreigners. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the ferryman’s greatest virtues that, like few people, he knew how to listen. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Italians first discovered that it could communicate this virtue to steel or iron. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I longed to show her that I had some virtue and no lack of education. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With those words the Impostor shook them both by the hand, with an air, and left the house; leaving me much more astonished than delighted by the virtues of that same indefinite “it.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

From Cyrus’s point of view this was possibly the greatest of her virtues. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed and quoted a little Greek epigram about honesty being a dangerous virtue, and, to my surprise, opened the door and ushered me in. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Colonel did not own a suit, and by virtue of his stature could not borrow one from anyone at the Creek, so he wore black slacks and a gray button-down. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The minister’s wife is a homely woman of virtue. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The political conditions confronting the presidency in 1798 were tailor-made to call forth his excessive version of virtue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It would be wrong to read it back into the Scientific Revolution; before the precision instrumentation of the Industrial Revolution impartiality and judgement were virtues, not ways of re-describing professional competence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They brought in celebrities to sing and dance and star in comedy sketches that taught children about the virtues of cooperation or about their own emotions. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, it is completely subject to Fortune, not having the virtue that defends it faithfully in adverse times. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Offsetting that virtue, Linear B was quite ambiguous. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Saying that one does not care about race is offered as an exculpatory virtue, when in fact it can be a form of cruelty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Killconey the ferret extolled the virtues of his weasel friend, Scragg, who had met his death at the foot of the big elm tree. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I pray your virtues will restore him, that honor may come upon you both,” she whispered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As the children of families that valued scholarly pursuits, Ernest and Merle both were inculcated with the virtues of study and knowledge from an early age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sabotage had the added virtue of requiring the least manpower. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is too much singing and dancing, such lightness as loosens the restraints of virtue,” she complained, her white curls quivering. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the ancients, including no less a figure than Euclid, believed that we see by virtue of rays somehow emitted by the eye and tangibly, actively contacting the object observed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man truly believed that the whip was an instrument of virtue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now this might seem an inestimable virtue—a river that runs as nature planned it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the trust and all the virtue fell out of our world when the Specters came.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the ten days since our marriage night was disrupted, my wedded joys are all turned to sorrow. Now Hamlet finds quarrel with my virtue, but there is no cause.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Will had concealed his well, laughed loud, exploited perverse virtues, and never let his jealousy go wandering. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“O’Dell,” Quentin replied, in all sincerity, “I’m worried that your insatiable cupidity will ultimately prove to be something less than a virtue for our club.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora needed no advice on the virtues of perseverance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Here there is great virtue in the limbs, were it not for the lack of it in the heads. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The great butlers are great by virtue of their ability to inhabit their professional role and inhabit it to the utmost; they will not be shaken out by external events, however surprising, alarming or vexing. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the spectacularly bad start meant that the two-length handicap he faced by virtue of his lane assignment was even greater now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Concerning these, all the problems occur before they are acquired, since they are acquired either through virtue or through Fortune, and are maintained without one or the other. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell Dad, because I knew he’d come to school to debate Miss Page about the virtues of various numeric systems. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now each of these four founders Formed their own House, for each Did value different virtues In the ones they had to teach. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The distinction between the two “races” of flies by virtue of a single chromosomal inversion was the most dramatic example of genetic variation that any geneticist had ever seen in a natural population. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"A wise virtue in a king," said Beowulf. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny dominating at dodgeball despite his width, and always letting me finish second just by virtue of putting me in his shadow and not spiking me until the end. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The generation after Galileo had to acknowledge its dependence on Evidence-Indices and so, willy-nilly, it had to adopt the virtues of the judiciary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Only a small percentage of wild mammal species ended up in happy marriages with humans, by virtue of compatibility on all those separate counts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because for a private citizen to become a prince presupposes virtue or Fortune, it appears that either the one or the other of these two things should partially mitigate many of the problems. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Extolling its many virtues, the salesman noted that this was El Jefe’s favorite car. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that beginning the armed forces of the Roman Empire began to be weakened, and all the virtue taken away from it was given over to the Goths. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Along with most of the Virginia dynasty, however, his ascent into the revolutionary elite was not the exclusive function of talent and virtue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Still his sleep had not been without all healing virtue: he was stronger, more able to bear his burden one stage further. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Because there is a practicality to viciousness: the thief, the liar, the murderer even, has faster rules than virtue ever has; why not madness too? Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what he wanted more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the very idea of virtue was no longer an ideal in American politics, then there was no place for him in public life. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A high official conducted the ceremony and he talked too long about philosophers and models of virtue. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one the old women who had been founders of the town, several of whom had taken part in the daring crossing of the mountains, praised the virtues of General Moncada. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Over the next weeks fifty letters arrive, all extolling Vincent’s virtues as a painter, as a man, as a friend. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It surprised him, that she could use the word “virtue” without the slightest irony, as was done in the badly written articles in the women’s section of the weekend newspapers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Emmer wheat, however, has compensating virtues: it can be gathered more efficiently than barley, and it is unusual among cereals in that its seeds do not adhere to husks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mother explained that his mind was in the clouds, as though this were some singular virtue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am not certain of the virtue of what he says, but I don’t disagree. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, our girls carried extra responsibility by virtue of who their father was, knowing that their screwups could make headlines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As the Korean Bar Association has noted, “South Koreans, who publicly cherish the virtue of brotherly love, have been inexplicably stuck in a deep quagmire of indifference.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This is not caused by the greater or lesser virtue of the conqueror, but rather by the different characteristics of the conquered territories. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear Father Mulrooney telling him to contemplate the virtues of obedience. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You won’t say no? Harry, obedience is a virtue I need to teach you before you die. Perhaps another little dose of pain?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We have already seen that plant domestication involves the modification of wild plants so that they become more useful to humans by virtue of larger seeds, a less bitter taste, or other qualities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In love, unlike politics, caution is not usually a virtue. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hip-splitting pain, the blood on the conjugal bed were proof of her virtue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is to be hoped that, if his predecessors made it great by feats of arms, he will make it extremely great and venerable through his natural goodness and his countless virtues. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One cannot, therefore, attribute either to Fortune or to virtue what he accomplished without either the one or the other. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to Nat that day, and on many subsequent occasions when he preached the virtues of communism and tried to persuade me to join the party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their new science was organized around the virtues of a juge d’instruction: intellectual rigour, a set of formalized procedures, a quest for a complete proof, a confidence that one need only answer to other professionals. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Good. But let’s not forget that isn't the only weapon in your arsenal now. You've still got the promise of your virtue.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At any sign that these virtues were slipping away, they began to panic that it had been wrong to bring us here. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

An Attendant’s job is simple: keep her charge from being killed by the dead, and her virtue from being compromised by potential suitors. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I found this hardly comforting, and wondered if there was not some virtue in the quality of insincerity. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this—smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m always teasing Margot about being a paragon of virtue these days, and she hates it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Colin says he likes names that signify a virtue: Patience, Faith, Chastity. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Repetition is not always a rhetorical virtue,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Only those defences that depend on you yourself and on your own virtue are good, certain, and lasting. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cutting-edge computer of the period would hardly have been seen as distracting, unless by virtue of its sheer size people couldn’t take their eyes off of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But Granville’s presence probably did work against Seabiscuit, simply by virtue of the demands that a Kentucky Derby contender makes on his trainer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke little, not because I found silence to be a superior virtue, but because I satisfied my curiosity by listening, observing, and reading. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Evan also wasn't shy about extolling the virtues of weed and how it opened his mind to things he couldn't explore when he was sober. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Or I contended in my mind against the ignorant writers who condemned women as frail and lacking in virtue. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The chief virtue of the old wooden shack, he judged, was that “no one objected if you drove a nail into it anywhere.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As Alexander stated: “If we know anything, it is that if virtues do not equal powers, the powers will be misused.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest Rutherford was as quick as Lawrence and Lewis to divine the virtues of the deuton as a nuclear projectile. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I push out her temper, plucking it from inside her like a weed in a garden, and plant the virtues of patience and serenity. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

François was stern, demanding instant obedience, and by virtue of his whip receiving instant obedience; while Dave, who was an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck’s hind quarters whenever he was in error. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling virtue go out of me, I lit a cigarette in the instructors’ room for the first time since I’d joined the staff. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

No, I cannot believe a woman could maintain her virtue and serve honorably with the troops out west. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Or maybe California, which, if I ever get there, you can bet that I would find the virtue that possession would show us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And third, some saucy tart once tried to impugn my virtue against an oil painting of him, and in the halls of memory, some things demand context. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lawrence escorted Groves around the Rad Lab, showed him the calutron in operation, and explained its virtues so convincingly that the general was carried away. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if the defects of the family and none of the virtues had been concentrated in both. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I know only that I wished to recount it, and to speak of those whom I have known and who have striven for virtue and have perished. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He looked upon himself as a crystal pool of clarity and on his life as a troubled glass of misunderstood virtue. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I selfish?” the question slipped out involuntarily and in a tone of surprise, for the one virtue on which he prided himself was generosity. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

For seven years the two friends had been inseparable, each, by virtue of the rarity of similar and equal sensibilities, irreplaceable to the other. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Lady Constance seemed to have shrunk a size smaller just by virtue of standing within this vast, imposing space. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Without that quality, his other virtues would not have sufficed to attain the same effect. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Your confinement draws near, and your need is great, thus we will aid you. Isabel did testify to your virtue, though whether you are married or not is no matter now.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“What is your greatest fault?” asked Fred, by way of testing in her the virtue he lacked himself. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily Brent sat on the summit of Soldier Island, encased in her own armour of virtue. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Therefore, such men encounter serious problems in conducting their affairs, and meet all their dangers as they proceed, and must overcome them with their virtue. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But it was then that I understood one of my mom's greatest virtues: her capacity for empathy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A similar confusion is satirized by Moliere when he has his pompous doctor announce that his sleeping potion works because of its dormitive virtue. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You shine with virtue, and the light drew me like a moth to flame,” he replied. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was not beautiful, as Amaranta had never been, but on the other hand she was pleasant, uncomplicated, and she had the virtue of making a good impression on people from the first moment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was wild with resentment but too much under "self-control," that frozen virtue, that freezing vice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her house became the refuge of young men puling in puberty, mourning over lost virtue, and aching to lose some more. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He frequently extolled the all-encompassing virtues of Ancient Greek theatre, which drew its audience 'from the government and judicial buildings, from the country, from ships, from military barracks and from the furthest regions’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I had almost said, after all, “Well, take my friend Mary,” and very nearly descended to a catalogue of those virtues that gave Mary the right to be alive. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Miles of bunting draped dozens of platforms, where speakers, by virtue of their prestige as men of property or of exceptional eloquence, found themselves called upon to fan the wrath of the people. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was with Quintilian in believing that there was a vital connection between virtue and rhetorical accomplishment. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

A prince should also demonstrate that he is a lover of the virtues, by giving hospitality to virtuous men and by honouring those who excel in a particular skill. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

A more general and surely less parochial view was that his face had been just barely saved from too-handsomeness, not to say gorgeousness, by virtue of one ear’s protruding slightly more than the other. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Whether there is some transmission of knowledge through the ether, or whether physiognomy and expression have some linguistic virtue so subtle that we do not remark its operation, the eyes may indeed speak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My impulses were not filled with unfailing virtue. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But there is no virtue at all in clinging as some do to tradition merely for its own sake. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I happen to regard the Laughing Man as some kind of super-distinguished ancestor of mine—a sort of Robert E. Lee, say, with the ascribed virtues held under water or blood. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Is my sin a failure of virtue, or of competence? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the German people to learn the virtues of democracy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like their contemporaries in Greece, the Han Chinese saw virtue in the relationship between musical pitch in music - the relative distance between notes - and the arrangement of the stars and planets they observed above them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Still, it cannot be called virtue to kill one’s fellow citizens, to betray allies, to be without faith, without pity, without religion; by these means one can acquire power, but not glory. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

We value virtue but do not discuss it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And exercising judgement requires a specific set of virtues, the virtues you would hope to find in a jury of your peers: impartiality, assiduity, sincerity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“There are so many inquisitive people and institutions abounding,” said Arobin, “that one is really forced as a matter of convenience these days to assume the virtue of an occupation if he has it not.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I could have developed the first two virtues, but becoming a boy was sure to be difficult, if not impossible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That contrast between the immediate virtues of wheat and barley and the difficulties posed by teosinte may have been a significant factor in the differing developments of New World and Eurasian human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps we can’t understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And you a man of such true virtue...” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

While economics and the flattening of the world have pushed Reuters down this path, Glocer has tried to make a virtue of necessity. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Why did he despise me and mock my virtue? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cereal crops have the virtues of being fast growing, high in carbohydrates, and yielding up to a ton of edible food per hectare cultivated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

These opportunities, therefore, made these men successful, and their outstanding virtue enabled them to recognize that opportunity, whereby their nation was ennobled and became extremely happy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Bushmen are primitive and naturally so, but we are primitive in an artificial sense, and by virtue of the utmost effort. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged their pardon, but they only laughed at my embarrassment Loudly, Elnora lamented the decline of honor in men and virtue in women. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My virtue is honestly the last thing I'm worried about. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So if we suffered in our little house on the peanut plain of Bethlehem, it was proof that one of us had committed a failure of virtue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Bush, the sequestering of knowledge and policy authority had one special virtue: it clipped Lawrence’s wings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Despite its eye-popping wealth, the article said Midland had still retained all the quaint virtues of a small town. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the community’s stasis, its plebeian virtues and unassuming mien. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know he was learning that virtue from her father. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Those who, like these men, become princes through their virtue acquire the principality with difficulty, but they hold on to it easily. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Brobeck later judged its chief virtue to be that “no one objected if you drove a nail into it anywhere.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Still, for all Grigori’s virtues, he is impulsive. He would rather target street kids than think higher. He lacks restraint and true vision.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Of course, he always experienced a certain anguish when hanging around with Lydia’s family at their home, by virtue of the contrast with his own family and home. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They have been employed to instruct us in the whole range of our institutional virtues, from the White House to your neighborhood savings bank. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grows quickly up to a weight of a ton and lives in herds that have a well-developed dominance hierarchy, a trait whose virtues will be discussed below. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Distrustful but aggressive, he was a bundle of the weaknesses and virtues of a man struggling blindly between two societies, of a man living on the margin of a culture. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man’s love when you have removed his self-love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She arranged two trays, one for Nivea, who always breakfasted in bed, and one for Rosa, who by virtue of her illness was entitled to the same treatment as her mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king made a series of proclamations encouraging building, trade, and virtue. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had less success arguing that the States’ greatest virtue was its wide-open spaces where people never went. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither did Elisha usually come anywhere near the church on Saturday evenings; but as the pastor’s nephew he was entitled to certain freedoms; in him it was a virtue that he came at all. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Help me to understated: What is the virtue in denying one’s own desires to satisfy another’s will?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Over the next several months, as it often happens, I managed to erase the story’s flaws from my memory, taking pride in a shadowy, idealized recollection of its virtues. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esperanza lucked out, by virtue of living in Piedmont, because it meant she got to go to one of the best public high schools in the Bay Area. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

European-style roads, constructed with horses and cars in mind, view flatness as a virtue; to go up a steep hill, they use switchbacks to make the route as horizontal as possible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is the result of combining discovery with the moral virtues associated with Evidence-Indices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The scientist must be moderate: this is a new type of intellectual virtue. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the surface of it, Poppea is about lust and ambition conquering all, with poor old virtue, decency and good governance being jettisoned in the process. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But right in the middle of my little speech on the virtues of Weed Eaters, Ob pushed away his half-eaten breakfast and gave me a long sad look. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were people who felt virtuous about the affair who hadn’t had the material of virtue for a long time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Oliverotto too was captured, a year after he committed his parricide, and together with Vittellozzo, who had been his teacher in his virtues and wickedness, he was strangled. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the camps, the boys were taught the virtues of being a good soldier: cleanliness, tidiness, teamwork, and obedience. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

While the tzaddik cared for the conduct of the world, for the obtaining of heavenly grace, and especially for Israel’s preservation and glorification, his adherents had to cultivate three kinds of virtues. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“What virtues do you most admire in a man?” asked Sallie. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is possible that his virtue lived on a lack of energy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A lady’s Attendant is not there just to protect her from the restless dead. She also protects my virtue and my reputation, Sheriff.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Jonathan Tasini, the labor activist and author of The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America, seemed to use the moment to extol Sanders’ virtues while attacking Clinton as some kind of out-of-touch elite. 6 harshest reactions to Hillary Clinton’s new book — from Democrats 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this is precisely the moment to consider the impossibility of happiness without virtue. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

In question after question the nine justices revealed themselves as sharply divided as Congress and the American public over the virtues of Obama's law. Entire healthcare law may be in jeopardy 2012-03-29T00:35:00Z

He wasn't wrong, but he kept laughing at himself, and that in itself is a virtue worth preserving. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z

All the traditional female virtues—motherliness, sensuality, cooperativeness—can be made to look like vices—manipulation, seduction, collusion. A New Movie About Female Power Might Explain the Election 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the video for Once is hardly unusual: it's a hotch-potch of ideas and costumes, making a virtue of Vickers' flesh rather than her personality. Diana Vickers: 'Have fun with me!' 2010-03-30T20:30:00Z

Carnegie’s great virtue, beyond the simplicity of his core ideas, was his unadorned prose. Books Of the Times: Dale Carnegie and Emily Post for the Twitter Age 2011-10-05T05:14:23Z

While green signified the virtue of hope, white connoted “purity.” International Women's Day: 5 things you didn't know 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

Being simple and to the point is a virtue. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

At the same time, caution may often be a virtue for politicians, but rarely so for comedians. Critic?s Notebook: Comparing Fred Armisen?s ?SNL? Obama to Dana Carvey?s Bush 2011-12-05T06:52:36Z

White delineates Grant’s virtues better than any author before, and they outweighed his flaws. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Doing right, carrying yourself with honor, demonstrating strong character, respect for others, the value and importance of sacrifice and the role of forgiveness in life: These are the virtues Fowles has instilled in the team. Football player’s coming-out story disproves every dumb theory about gay athletes 2014-02-01T13:00:00Z

The old virtues are gone, the new ones unidentifiable. Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z

Why concoct a centerpiece dish that is vegetarian merely by virtue of the absence of meat? Big or small, vegetarian dishes worth Thanksgiving centerpiece status

To want to return to the miseries of a world that requires such virtues strikes me as ridiculous. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z

Obviously, online platforms favor connectivity, not simply by virtue of being online, but also arguably for profit, since the difference between connectivity and sensitivity is time, and time is money. The case for doing nothing: It's an intentional strategy, not a luxury or a cop-out 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

Arguing the virtues of venality, he wrote that without another feasible path to a sustainable financial reboot, liquidating its most valuable art is necessary. Should the Berkshire Museum sell its art? Why the answer matters to museum-goers from coast to coast 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

The M&M's mascots' exile provides a decent lesson about virtue signaling. Beneath M&M's candy-coated image switcheroo is the dark chocolatey, ethically broke business beneath 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

Wasn’t the principle virtue of the Green Bay Packers based in a communist idea: collective ownership of the means of production? Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

There is no more excellent training in this virtue than being stuck in traffic. Transcendence in Los Angeles traffic: On gridlock and mindfulness 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

So we eyeballed Pittsburgh as a place with a beguiling combination of natural beauty, urban quirkiness, and the all-important virtue of proximity. The smartest route to Pittsburgh: The one with no shortcuts 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The defining virtue of the first X-Men movies was the seriousness that Mr. Singer brought to this saga of mutants uneasily sharing fates and plotlines with humans. | 'X-Men: First Class': Mutants Go Back to Where It All Began 2011-06-02T18:23:02Z

Then again, five seconds later they were extolling the virtues of Super Soakers, which admittedly are great fun and perfect for this weather. New band of the day – The Bots (No 1,318) 2012-07-27T08:00:00Z

"It reads like a deliberate and definitive statement about who we are and about what we think virtue in the public sphere looks like — and, by implication, who doesn’t belong." Evangelical Taylor U community in uproar over Pence speech: "Deeply at odds with following Christ" 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Andrew Young’s hero was an inspiring Southern orator and a paragon of Christian virtue. 2010-01-29T06:14:00Z

Another song, "Made in America," extols the virtues of American-made products. Toby Keith is never one to mince words in songs 2011-10-19T13:27:41Z

Daniels will be one of only a few people of color at the helm of a theater in the Washington area and, by virtue of the size and influence of the Folger, the most prominent. Folger Theatre names Public Theater’s Karen Ann Daniels as new artistic director 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

After the drab virtue of Pat Nixon’s Republican cloth coat, the down-to-earth modesty of Betty Ford and the proud populism of Rosalynn Carter, Americans were hungry for some excitement and glamour. In first lady, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Architecture is a contaminated art in this sense, but that is also a virtue. Architecture Review: Architectural Canopy Shines in Battery Park City 2012-06-04T22:33:59Z

If being authentic is considered a virtue – what we should strive to be in society – then being pretentious is considered a cover-up, a face-palm to your background. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Only after that did they break through to become big names in pop culture, by virtue of their personal stories and circumstances. Can Misty Copeland be both a celebrity AND a great artist? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Jobs’s behavior also confirms equally deep assumptions about the ultimate virtue of ruthlessness in the capitalist economy. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Patience may be a virtue, but for many, it’s no strategy for finding love. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z

LaFarge writes passionately about Bach’s influence on Chopin, and the virtues of listening to period pianos to know what Chopin heard and imagined. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

In the real world, hope feels more and more distant as the supposed American virtues of tolerance are either weaponized to justify bigotry and oppression or disposed of altogether in nihilistic glee. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

There were “seven-page handwritten letters, extolling their virtues, their great looks,” he recalls. He became one of America’s most famous widowers — thanks to his wife. Now he’s trying to teach us about grief. 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

That is a rare human virtue, as the Maryland artist suggests with the show’s four other pieces, minimalist sculptures that juxtapose sleek steel with decaying organic substances. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Ancient Persians, among other early civilizations, treasured saffron for its healing, mood-enhancing and decorative virtues and, later, its culinary ones. How to Stretch Saffron, Without Sacrificing Flavor 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

The clash of different sorts of architecture, cheek by jowl, as the crescent towers would do with the ’50s slabs, is a defining virtue of great cities. NYU2031: University?s Plans for Greenwich Village 2012-03-22T17:26:23Z

The occasion was broadcast on the radio, and the recording makes her virtues clear: confident phrasing, incisive diction, a constant dramatic pressure. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Its principal virtue is its gaudy, virtuosic scoring, and its principal flaw a sense of overload, not quite redeemed by the ending, in which the textures gradually thin towards a haunting flugelhorn solo. BBCSO/Yu – review 2013-01-21T17:48:31Z

They played it in its entirety through the middle of the sixth inning, and as the dance-cam panned across the 300 level, the song’s only virtue became apparent: It brings joy to young children. There is no song of the summer 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

On Lady Antebellum’s social media pages, the announcement was met with mixed reviews, including many fans who praised the group’s “awakening,” while others slammed the trio for “virtue signaling.” Lady Antebellum, Hit Country Trio, Changes Its Name in Wake of Protests 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

It runs disturbingly counter to what the 14th amendment gave us, which was a route to citizenship that could not be denied by virtue of race, by virtue of descent, religion, political party, health, wealth. The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

As he proclaims the virtues of his financial prudence, Dotrice looks at him with a level, unblinking gaze and announces: "No, Albert, your worst enemy couldn't ever say you'd been silly with your money." When We Are Married ? review 2010-10-28T11:04:00Z

You’re not some sanguine, overlooked mouse; you are pretty animated about people’s inability to spot your virtues. I do my best to meet people, but I’m lonely and don’t have any friends 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

After tasting it, we concluded there must be a virtue in grazing in a desert. An Artist Colony Thrives in the South African Desert 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The Berg recorded Beethoven’s 16 quartets and the Grosse Fuge twice, and while both cycles have their virtues, my preference is for the earlier one, from the late 1970s and early ’80s. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Hamilton,” though, by virtue of its subject matter, extraordinary appeal and the inclinations of its creator and cast, has repeatedly ignored those norms and sought to have a public voice beyond the stage. The ticket ‘Hamilton’ is selling now? Biden-Harris. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

In the often-restrained tempos he chose and his overall approach, Mr. Tritle, the society’s music director, made a virtue of the chorus’s robust, weighty sound. Oratorio Society of New York Performs ‘St. Matthew Passion’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

To preserve Chamnan's virtue in his eyes, she told him she had saved up the money from beer garden tips. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Our own queen, once derided for her commitment to this supposedly defunct virtue, now seems to be universally lauded for it. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z

The association of the harp with chastity and virtue has dogged modern players. How the Harp Got Hip 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

One of the special virtues of this prize is that it's for a body of work. Why Hilary Mantel deserves another prize 2013-03-08T09:52:28Z

Many late still lifes, too, make a virtue of pleasure and urbanity. Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

How do the virtues and faults of this staging add up? Review: Mark Morris’s ‘The Hard Nut,’ Tchaikovsky With Cartoon Wit and Verve 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

There also isn’t a one-to-one correlation between people’s virtue and their claim to our compassion — for the simple reason that people are messy and complicated. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A struggle to find compassion for a dad who brought on health woes 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

And Khamenei, with the power granted him by virtue of his absolute guardianship, has by fiat declared a ban on normalized relations with the United States. What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

The result is a kind of exculpatory relativism, though the sentiments here lean decidedly Southward, supplemented by examples of Southern virtue and Union perfidy. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Confederacy and Others Depict the ?Lost Cause? 2011-12-05T23:01:15Z

Particularly interesting is the final act, which largely consists of a long duet for the Demon and Tamara, in which her prized virtue is pitted against his salvation. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

These days watercolour seems to be making a virtue of its old reputation for quiet discretion. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

These virtues are true of Ms. Mearns but on a larger and more complex scale. Dance Review: A ?Swan? Of Complex Shades 2011-02-14T05:15:08Z

“In classic noir novels,” he writes, “you had an outsider hero who embodied the virtues the mainstream pretended to honor—loyalty, courage, ingenuity—but rarely demonstrated.” A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

About an hour south of Jerez lay a town that, while not famous for any particular alcoholic beverage, burned itself into my memory by virtue of its sheer elegance. The Southern Charms of Spain and Portugal 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

It’s interesting to see the women in this article openly extolling their husbands’ virtues and acknowledging that their success would not be possible without their husbands’ sacrifices. Motherlode Blog: A Stay-at-Home Dad Confronts the Unexpected 2013-12-12T20:00:21Z

Her piece “Utopia” drew its inspiration from Brazil and its architect extraordinaire, the late Oscar Niemeyer, whose audacity, artistic virtue and unconventional genius Pagés clearly shares. A diamond among flamenco’s divas 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Perhaps to make a virtue of financial necessity, each of those opera productions has achieved economies of scale. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z

Members of the royal family often wear uniforms to public events by virtue of their honorary roles with the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Senior royals to skip uniforms at Prince Philip’s funeral 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

I think by virtue of the story, it helped. ‘The Walking Dead’ Says Goodbye to Andrew Lincoln. Sort Of. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Patience is a virtue, and “Queen Sugar” let its characters change slowly, making them more like actual human beings than like ensemble-drama paper dolls. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

And decisions about invitations are generally made by virtue of closeness with individual invitees — not by membership in larger affinity groups. How Do We Tell Our Kids Why Their Uncle Is in Prison? 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

They are also, by virtue of the illegality of their business, prima facie subject to aggressive policing. Criminalizing the hustle: Policing poor people’s survival strategies from Erin Garner to Alton Sterling 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

If ever there was a time and place for prefab to flaunt its virtues, it is now, in Northern California. Prefab Finds a Home in Fire-Ravaged Neighborhoods of California 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

All five were well served; all five had virtues that are absent from City Ballet’s renditions. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

I suppose this alludes to Michelangelo’s tondo of the Holy Family, but the chasm in taste between the two works is at least as wide as Rejlander’s gulf between vice and virtue. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

It represents artistic virtues such as growth, independence and survival. Review | In the galleries: Six artists go deep into the weeds 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

As a result, some of our policies and procedures inadvertently benefit some groups at the expense of others, limiting not just the desired inclusiveness but fidelity to the first four virtues as well. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Here, though, the men’s relationship, with its kindness, virtues and mutual dependences, also offers a vision of an American dream not yet wholly corrupted by unbridled self-interest. Around the Movie World in 17 Days at the New York Film Festival 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a display of bravura classicism, Romantically inflamed; but its ballerina role is one of many in which Megan Fairchild’s technical virtues — marvelously light and fleet footwork, above all — don’t add up. Dance Review: Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky at New York City Ballet 2013-06-06T20:20:40Z

K-Pop doesn't need to translate itself to Western audiences, but sometimes the old pop virtues hold up everywhere. Girls Generation, CN Blue and BTS close out KCON 2014 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

In celebrating laid-back virtues, his songs remind that the road is hard for everyone and that “winners and losers … We're all qualified, for a license to chill.” Embracing the chill in Jimmy Buffett's 'Escape to Margaritaville' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

The concept of hospitality is a near-universal virtue that is regarded as so important, it's knitted throughout world religion and history. Why are we SO obsessed with stories of hospitality gone wrong? 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

Like Chekhov’s stories, they achieve an artistic beauty that surpasses many richer, more sweeping visions by virtue of their unerring sensitivity within a narrower range. Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

His virtues as a reporter are a quick, adaptable intelligence and a willingness to do the necessary work — to read, think, travel, listen and, within the parameters of polite magazine discourse, to empathize. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Donald Trump has made a shrewd estimate of the distaste, in a part of the Republican base, for virtue or high-mindedness or public spiritedness of any sort—what he dismisses as “political correctness.” The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Though Stewart deflected many questions with sarcasm or jokes, the interview was nonetheless fascinating — by virtue of what was and was not stated. Hillary Clinton is a “little hawkish for me”: 16 fascinating facts we learned from Jon Stewart 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The message the saint failed to absorb from her own story was this: Many people—Catholic or not, ill or not—reject the idea that suffering is a virtue. The Christian right needs Jesus: Why its leaders are so indifferent to human suffering 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

To praise the perfection of “Secret Sunshine” would be to risk misrepresenting its main virtue, which is its attention to minor infelicities and inconveniences as well as to unspeakable crimes and intolerable heartaches. | 'Secret Sunshine': Fierce Tests of Endurance and the Resilience of the Spirit 2010-12-21T23:18:57Z

A more populist approach was adopted in the 1940s and 1950s, when another MoMA curator, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., embarked on a crusade to educate post-war American consumers about the virtues of “good design.” Design: MoMA Exhibit Shows How Technology Is Getting the Point Across 2011-07-17T13:17:02Z

The best coffees in the world, the ones grown at high altitudes, command higher prices specifically because of their complex acidity: Brightness is a virtue. How Cold Brew Changed the Coffee Business 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

His daughter, its paragon of virtue, is a bit of an anaemic bore. Arbitrage's villain takes advantage – why do we love it? 2013-03-04T13:07:12Z

In the eighteenth century, when the novel was still a new form, crying was a sign of readerly virtue. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

“Stories We Tell” has a number of transparent virtues, including its humor and formal design, although its most admirable quality is the deep sense of personal ethics that frames Ms. Polley’s filmmaking choices. Movie Review: ‘Stories We Tell,’ Written and Directed by Sarah Polley 2013-05-09T21:37:27Z

All these mild and almost virtues don’t quite add up to a recommendation, but if you said you wanted to see “We’re the Millers,” I wouldn’t block the door. ‘The Millers’: A pretend family on a road trip with too many detours 2013-08-07T18:20:50Z

They find it a gauzy sort of curatorial idea—which it is, but with one overriding, tremendous virtue: calling attention to visual facts. The Met’s “Unfinished” Is a Great Show, People! 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Stability is a virtue; anchors at big-city stations tend to stay for several years. Longtime D.C. TV anchor Maureen Bunyan out at WJLA, possibly ending her career 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Each tribe emphasized its devotion to honesty, love, humility, peace or other virtues. ‘Nation to Nation,’ at Museum of the American Indian 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

"I like story, I like character, I like plot. I like the traditional virtues of film." 'Not to Be Missed': Kenneth Turan on selecting his 54 favorite films 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

In a good running gag, Chris keeps trying to impress the others with the artisanal cabernet he has brought, all but pouring it down their throats as he extols its virtues. Review: In ‘The Qualms,’ a Sex Party Winds Up Being All Talk 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

A big asset to “The Shining Girls” is the emotional effect of the victims’ unusual virtue. Books of The Times: ‘The Shining Girls,’ a Novel by Lauren Beukes 2013-05-26T20:23:12Z

But the opera ends with “Make Our Garden Grow,” an uplifting paean to the virtues of creating a future through simple hard work. New York City Opera, on the Rebound With a Boost From Bernstein 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Among the virtues of the Reagan Administration, he has said, was the fact that no one there was “smiling in your face.” Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The relative virtues and vices of all the characters remain ambiguous - an intentional point. Powerful Turkish film “Winter Sleep” wows Cannes 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

His virtue seems authentic: You believe that he believes his promise to Baby Batman to avenge the murder of his parents. 'Gotham' Recap: 'Batman' Before Batman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Exactly, Cod, no one is saving the planet any longer by virtue of ANYTHING. Vegan Ice Cream Enters a Golden Age 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

An added virtue of this show is that it tells a lot about what the Abstract Expressionists were so keen to break from. Art Review: ?Real-Surreal? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-27T22:50:36Z

Yes, atheists think that morality and virtue, love and friendship, reason and grief, are physical phenomena with no supernatural component. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z

Here were the slow, accretive processes of someone ready to die, or indeed to kill, for a vision of civic virtue. In Paris Then, in Kyiv Now, Visions of Freedom and Bravery 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Unpredictability is one of the most underrated virtues in comedy. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

It's not fully exploiting the virtues of the medium yet. Why Nigeria's film industry can't yet square up to Hollywood 2012-08-21T16:37:51Z

She is worried that, by virtue of staying, she is somehow undermining the women who have so bravely spoken up to say #MeToo — of which she is also one. Her Husband Did the Unthinkable. This Is a Play About Everything After. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

One virtue of the new film is that it encourages viewers to ask afresh: What is the Force, exactly? “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Reviewed 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Striving for “moral perfection,” a twenty-year-old Benjamin Franklin worked methodically to acquire a list of virtues, from silence and sincerity to tranquility and humility. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

But maybe we ought to attach an asterisk to that “why not,” and be cautious about proclaiming our superior virtue. The FIFA corruption sideshow: Takedown of 1 percent crooks or strategic move against Putin? 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Network’s most famous virtue is its extreme and eerie prescience about where the news media would go in the next decades. Network at 40: the flawed satire that predicted Trump and cable 'news porn' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

And, as the National Ballet of Canada made clear on Thursday when it opened its production at the Kennedy Center, Aurora’s defining virtue is not surface-level beauty. Review | National Ballet of Canada gets it right: In ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ it’s what’s inside that counts 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

“I value clarity — an old-fashioned virtue — and concision,” she told The San Francisco Book Review in 2011. Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

When I’m with her, I’m reminded of the virtues of the English.” Downton Abbey Watch: A Wedding and Some Unexpected News 2013-01-07T13:30:23Z

A great virtue of Posner’s conceptual scheme is that it allows him to focus on those aspects of Trump’s presidency that are of lasting significance. Is Donald Trump a Danger to Democracy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Kellow is no saphead, and he makes objectivity a great virtue. Books of The Times: ?Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark? and ?Lucking Out? - Review 2011-10-26T22:07:52Z

One charming gag finds Stalker pausing her criminal analysis to praise the virtues of performers who are tangentially mentioned in the course of the investigation. ‘See How They Run’ Review: An Agatha Christie Mystery Spoof 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

And, given that the virtues of the manse are not dissimilar to the virtues of the mosque, the gurdwara or the Women's Institute, it's a multicultural, shared, open polity. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z

Athletes joined in, with soccer stars and cyclists extolling the virtues of a path toward peace. How novelist Fernando Vallejo's work reveals Colombia's deep divisions 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

And we think social experiences, such as morality, virtue, love, grief, are emotions and mental constructs, which evolved in us to help us survive and flourish as a social species. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z

A true ghost town is different: it’s quiet and empty by virtue of being deserted. They Live Alone in Ghost Towns 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

You may already understand why that doesn't work, but let's allow that to rest so we can further sift through the virtues of "Baking Impossible." The seasonal joy of "The Great British Baking Show" 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

For all its virtues Mr. Spielberg’s film makes Lincoln into a different hero. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z

Even when he was dealing out Cold War death, Bond seemed invariably happy with his lot, while the Fabs' music celebrated the virtues of peace and love at nearly every turn. "Love and Let Die": Why the Beatles and James Bond remain strong British cultural exports 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

Forgive the heresy, but to my mind the Rubaiyat – at least in English – is not great poetry: it's more a series of flowery Victorian Patience Strong-like verses reassuringly extolling the virtue of living for today. The World's Most Dangerous Place for Women, The Genius of Omar Khayyam and A Long Weekend With the Son of God | TV review 2010-03-31T05:45:00Z

This might be at least in part a product of these assiduously signal-y times, as I also sensed sexual virtue signaling in "Bad Sex," Aronowitz's largely superb book. Monogamy, without the “-ish”: A humble and definitely not cool defense of the closed relationship 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z

In both films hints of excess in service to virtue are readily cheered and all opposition made to look corrupt and worse. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z

But taste—even virtue—cannot be the criterion for what we are allowed to say. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The notion of Santa as artisan, crafting gifts by hand in his workshop, helped resolve the contradictions introduced by consumerism in a society in which “thrift and restraint” were seen as virtues. A Reconsideration of Santa’s Lap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

One of the great virtues of both books is that they are not addressed to white people. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

The great virtue of “The Young Karl Marx” is its clarity, its ability to perceive the way the eddies of personal experience flow within the wider stream of history. Review: In ‘The Young Karl Marx,’ a Scruffy Specter Haunts Europe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Educational carousels of cards extolled the virtues of reconnecting with yourself each morning: it benefits your mind and body to start your day purposefully, calmly, and in gratitude. Shh. It’s Breakfast Time. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

We are all endangered, these books tell us, by virtue of the fact that we are living, but even more, perhaps, because of the easily corrupted textures of our hearts. Lydia Millet finds mermaids in her new novel 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Rage's only real connection to King's texts is by virtue of it being a Bachman Book. Rereading Stephen King: week four – Rage 2012-07-03T12:59:44Z

“This is the family business. My great-grandmother, Stella, apparently coined the word ‘thrift store’ to make the sale of used clothing appeal to Protestant virtues.” Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

In this conversation, the novel questions the meaning tolerance — something that is often upheld as a virtue. “I am looking forward to my downfall”: Herman Koch on life as a bestselling author 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Its virtues are minor, even if they are a relief. ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Strawberries’ virtues land on the debit side of the crisp ledger: If the berries are wonderful, then they’re bossy; their flavor overwhelms all the others in the mix. Whether it’s crisp or crumble, three steps will make it better 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

The film upliftingly celebrates the self-proclaimed virtues of the firm that does no evil. The Internship: how cinema sold its soul – but didn't get paid 2013-07-01T14:45:37Z

But, generally, “Why We Sleep” mounts a persuasive, exuberant case for addressing our societal sleep deficit and for the virtues of sleep itself. Exploring the Necessity and Virtue of Sleep 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Playing without pathos, however, is generally a virtue in this music. Composer draws a rock-star response: Arvo Pärt’s music at the Kennedy Center

“And it was also so relevant to what’s been going on — the conversation about justice and virtue, and how those things were being manipulated to end curiosity.” Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

He is treating you as if you’re his child or his pupil — and not only that, he’s putting on a performance of his superior virtue for bystanders. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Will he stop treating you like a child? Don’t hold your breath. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Silent Witness is so often spoofed that its virtues – solid scripts, decent thesping, sympathetic characters – have become undervalued. TV highlights 08/02/2013 2013-02-07T20:00:01Z

A Kuwaiti psychologist launches a comic series of 99 superheroes based on the 99 virtues of Allah. Thursday TV Picks: 'The Office' 2011-10-12T20:49:08Z

His book, which has the virtue of being both clever and charismatic, follows a much circulated essay that he wrote, in 2013, to call out such occupations. The Bullshit-Job Boom 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Here, men date realistically, awkwardly, desperately, without free-access passes — guaranteed simply by the virtue of their maleness — to whole frontiers of coltish 23-year-olds. Critic?s Notebook: Troubles That Ring True for Women of a Certain Age 2010-12-26T21:43:21Z

His book makes you homesick for the oldest and simplest of American virtues: knowledge, skepticism and sanity. QAnon and the Fear and Loathing of an American Conspiracy Theory 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

A whole range of maternal virtues were ascribed to me. 'You have to experience it to know what fat is like' 2013-02-02T08:01:04Z

But the medieval system of vices and virtues condemned sloth. "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z

Many actors gravitate toward morally suspect characters, but he is committed to portraying virtue as “something to be celebrated — entertaining, compelling, dramatic,” he said. For David Oyelowo, the Time Has Come to Play Othello 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Pressed to identify the greatest invention, the oldest man in the world extolled the virtues of aluminum foil. Mel Brooks: ‘Donald Trump doesn't scare me. He's a song-and-dance man' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Two years ago, the Dairy’s Robin Gill was extolling its virtues in magazine interviews. Cauliflower steaks, anyone? How the humble cauli got hip 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Her book, which began by extolling the virtues of boiling water, went completely against the grain of the food culture at the time. Leftovers become luxurious with help from “The Everlasting Meal Cookbook” 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

That show, which claimed Charlie Kaufman as one of its writers, succeeded by virtue of its idiosyncrasy — it seemed to have no agenda beyond its own loopy, outré expressionism. | 'Big Lake': Chris Gethard in Will Ferrell?s Comedy Central Series 2010-08-16T22:43:00Z

The festival’s dances were — for economic reasons — almost all to taped music, but most soloists and companies made as much a virtue of this as possible. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

She’s one of those nice girls whose virtue defines her, yet also weighs her down. Movie Review: ‘Palo Alto,’ About Adolescents Stumbling Toward Adulthood 2014-05-08T21:44:34Z

I don’t know that we have an answer, but the show ended up taking a position, and it’s something close to Aristotelian virtue ethics. ‘The Good Place’ Finale Finds the Meaning of Life: ‘Yep, Nailed It’ 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

But the “Lemonade” video was an unfortunate comparison, because that astonishing hour-long operatic work offered a level of sophistication and power that this evening, for all its virtues, never quite achieved after its promising opening. Review | Talking to myself: Two ways of looking at Carrie Mae Weems’s new work 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

Rod Blagojevich is asking supporters to send notes extolling his virtues to his attorney, who will pass them along to his sentencing judge. Still devoted to Blago? Tell it to the judge 2011-10-18T12:27:00Z

Now, though, many museum directors are finding virtue in necessity. With Money Tight, Museums Favor Their Own Works Over Traveling Shows 2011-04-12T13:09:45Z

Signature generally pursues the latest edge — a virtue, for sure — but the company might expand its skills and vocabulary even further by reaching back. Signature sings out: The 25th anniversary concert

But the series is riddled with scripting snags, potentially by virtue of trying to balance camp and commentary in hour-long episodes. RuPaul made his sitcom-starring debut with "AJ and the Queen," and we are not amused 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

He symbolizes the value of extensive varietal knowledge, an increasingly underappreciated virtue in American culture. LeVar Burton has a shaky "Jeopardy!" debut, but he's still very much in this game 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

It was fitting that when Mr. Trump canned the governor, the plastic virtues of all too many a politician went into overdrive. Chicago News Cooperative: ?Celebrity Apprentice,? a Primer for Blagojevich and His Prosecutors 2010-04-09T03:30:00Z

Charms abounded, especially in Edward Johnson’s “Eliza Is the Fairest Queen,” with its studiedly fawning text: “Eliza’s breast is that fair hill,/Where virtue dwells, and sacred skill.” Music Review: Sounds Both Skin Deep and Soul-Piercing 2010-09-24T21:57:00Z

The three siblings, now adults, regard their parents’ magnanimous notion of a multiracial family with resentment, as if they were chosen to be prop pieces in Audrey and Greg’s overt display of virtue. Review | HBO has a real stinker in the dreadfully unrelatable ‘Here and Now’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

According to Islamic tradition regarding the creation of the Earth, God made ten virtues and vices and sprinkled them among the primordial territories. Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Great cities offer up as one of their distinguishing virtues this combination of serendipity and complexity. Critic?s Notebook: A Bike-Lane Perch for the Urban Show 2011-11-07T19:50:40Z

“I have chosen to make art of my vices rather than what I take to be my virtues,” Roth commented in a rare unironical admission that he had virtues. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

In the Catholic Church, however, a “saint” has a more specific meaning: someone who has led a life of “heroic virtue.” Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

He was, if I read him right, extremely skeptical about the virtue or necessity of “glorious monuments.” Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Tweens from every type of home and family can easily get swept into inappropriate activities by virtue of one simple idea: They desperately want to belong. Perspective | Help. My 12-year-old granddaughter was caught sexting. 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

The message these objects send, just by virtue of being so eminently covetable, is that covetousness is a sin we are almost powerless to resist. The Mixed Message of Earth-Friendly Design 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

She asserts that simply “by virtue of being female,” female writers are still “deemed lesser” but offers little evidence. Wresting Insight, and Poetry, From Pain 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Throughout his meteoric career, Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins has made a virtue of his anxieties about identity — social, racial, creative — in meta-theatrical plays that turn traditional forms inside out. Review: In ‘Everybody,’ Mortality Loves Company 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

This London-born painter’s drawing practice makes a virtue of being hit or miss. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

From his first entrance as Basilio, a barber, the virtues of his Danish training were evident: calm composure and high-definition placement transforming his stocky body into a thing of grace. Alban Lendorf Performs in ‘Don Quixote’ 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

I noticed that almost everyone who spoke to me about the virtues of personalized food made sure to also genuflect toward personalized nutrition – foods tailored to our peculiar metabolic needs or allergen sensitivities. Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

This advertisement extols the virtues of Russian health spas, of which there were none. In pictures: Selling the USSR as a travel destination 2013-08-14T07:30:09Z

Mendelsund makes a point about his lack of formal training, almost asking for forgiveness, but clearly he turned his outsider’s status into a virtue. Peter Mendelsund releases two books, including one that’s worth your time

Please allow this proud resident to sing its virtues; you can’t come to understand the Paris of today without spending time in the dynamic and creative 13th. Lucky 13: The unsung arrondissement you need to visit in Paris 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

"Responsibility stems from virtues and morals and education, and that's not necessarily happening with our children," Abler said. Beck promotes, criticizes youth political camps 2011-07-29T20:31:05Z

Second: sometimes refusing to obey an order is a virtue, not a sin. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z

Similar virtues were on show before intermission, in an equally substantial group of Chopin works including the great Barcarolle, the Fourth Scherzo and the Fourth Ballade. Lugansky: A pianist of awesome talent 2011-11-16T18:03:04Z

There’s nothing more maddening than debating someone who doesn’t know history, doesn’t read books, and frames their myopia as virtue. Kanye crosses the line: The 13th Amendment is sacred, especially when all are still not free 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Eulogy virtues, on the other hand, are the aspects of character that others praise when a person isn’t around to hear it: humility, kindness, bravery. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

This may sound naive, but forgiveness is possibly the most important human virtue and I doubt any of us, on our deathbeds, will be celebrating the ties we’ve broken instead of the connections we’ve made. My son is getting married and I’m not invited | Mariella Frostrup 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

The virtues of “Aging Pride,” then, lie in the works themselves. ‘Aging Pride’ Challenges the Cult of Youth 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Andrea Weber, with whom Mr. Mitchell dances the greatest of this work’s several marvelous duets, has the same virtues; to watch this pair is to experience dance as an adventure both physical and spiritual. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z

I was their leader by virtue of the little German I spoke. ‘They know this is no joke’: war letters home 2013-08-12T00:12:00Z

The play explores the roles of fate, virtue and loyalty to the state. RFK’s Granddaughter to Make New York Stage Debut 2013-12-09T18:19:41Z

The exhibition, which features more than 120 works, is well designed and installed, making a virtue of what curators often complain are the limitations of the Hirshhorn’s idiosyncratic galleries. The use and abuse of the feminine in Hirshhorn’s ‘Marvelous Objects’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

There’s authentic charm to the fine-grained didacticism of the plot of “Scary Stories,” which embodies the very virtues that it promotes. The Mild Horror of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

It includes films that advocate revolution, like the 1966 classic “The Battle of Algiers,” and works that, more by virtue of their aesthetic choices, join the opposition. Movie Review: ‘Barbara,’ Directed by Christian Petzold 2012-12-20T21:52:52Z

This is often counted as one of the ballet’s virtues: its centeredness, its grand view of things. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Tomás Saraceno’s “Cloud City” is a particularly prominent example of fun-house formalism by virtue of its being the latest summertime commission for the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Review: Tomás Saraceno’s ‘Cloud City,’ on the Met’s Roof 2012-05-25T23:00:40Z

The virtues of dry white Bordeaux are a hard sell, possibly because good examples from the best areas, Pessac-Léognan and Graves, are expensive and not easy to find. A Farmer’s Dozen From Bordeaux 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

In the second half of the book, he gives a very good overview of what most of us think of as Gatsby’s great literary virtues. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

However, our relationship with the natural world is complex, and buying plastic-wrapped artificial cheese does automatically confer virtue. Turns out our stereotypes of hunting are really about our own fear of death 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

In any case, he offers us a reassuring morality tale of virtue if not immediately rewarded, then ultimately redeemed. Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

He was, by virtue of having written a novel, connected with the murders, and this was affirmed by the highest level of authority. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

It deals with violence and death as well as compassion and love, with deception and hypocrisy as well as honesty and virtue. The Words, and Works, of Walter Dean Myers 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

The Sublime was whatever exceeded human comprehension by virtue of its vastness and dynamism. In Turner Paintings at the Met, the Bloody Business of Whaling 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, her film carries many of Whitman’s virtues and those of his successors. Review: ‘Obit’ Follows the Team That Writes Death Notices for The Times 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

How could virtue be reconciled with the accumulation of unnecessary objects? The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z

Can't government for once be persuaded of the virtue of subsidising weapons of happiness rather than weapons of destruction? Richard Eyre: arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid 2011-02-15T12:53:26Z

Our critic Jennifer Senior writes that McKibben is a proposing a thought experiment, “daring the reader to ponder the virtues of smallness in an age of military and corporate gigantism.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

But there’s another twist in the tale of the declining budget for ambitious movies: the aesthetic virtues that often arise from the creative challenges that a lack of cash imposes. The Misplaced Nostalgia for Movies Like “The Graduate” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

In 1994, in an interview with The New Yorker, Mr. Landesman expounded on his philosophy of life by extolling the virtues of carrying large wads of cash. Rocco Landesman, N.E.A. Chief, Storms Washington 2010-04-07T20:20:00Z

But you must not allow these virtues to become instruments of self-punishment. My Boyfriend Messaged Someone on a Gay Site. Does That Mean He’s Gay? 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Rather, Kondo finds virtue in respecting our objects and only surrounding ourselves with items we cherish, that "spark joy." Everybody relax: Marie Kondo isn't a fraud. She's simply as worn-out as the rest of us 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

Norman Maclean, the author I most associate with Montana, exalts the virtues of packing in the final story in his “A River Runs Through It” collection. ‘Llama therapy’ in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

And by virtue of the success of “the Jam,” Adelaide soon became the center for blown-glass art in Australia. Aussie-U.S. glass-art ties made clear at Museum of Glass 2013-07-31T22:35:09Z

Not only was it revelatory, it was also written in a prose style that displayed the virtues of vigorous and evocative English. William Boyd: rereading The Making of the English Landscape by WG Hoskins 2013-05-11T07:31:01Z

There is therefore nothing “timeless” about these artworks, and indeed of all the virtues of indigenous Australian painting, the most important is its proof that modernity and tradition are not at odds. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

This definition includes the four “cardinal” virtues: prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice; as well as the “theological” virtues: faith, hope and charity. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

“Wham Rap” was wise, in its way: its subtitle was “Enjoy What You Do,” and it praised the virtues of being yourself. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

At its foundation are his familiar musical virtues of intelligence, integrity, rigor and firm formal control. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z

It was one that made a virtue of turning all the traditional cop cliches up to volume 11. Luther; The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig II – TV review 2013-07-03T05:00:05Z

Just by virtue of having been written inside Guantánamo, Slahi’s book would be a triumph of humanity over chaos. Read “Guantánamo Diary” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Patience is a virtue, but not the only one, of local artists Sherry Trachtman and Jenny Wu. Review | In the galleries: Rejuvenating the obsolete into unconventional art 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

One of W’s virtues then was its size and the degree to which they would give the photographer full license. On the Runway: Q & A: Philip-Lorca Di Corcia 2011-02-11T15:44:28Z

George Washington was the repository of republican virtue, but even he was taken in by New York City culture when it was the capital from 1785 until 1790. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Becoming a guest will not be simple: Christian is put through a series of tests, and his virtues are weighed on a scale. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

His faults are those of melodrama — he’s impetuous, self-righteous and loyal to a fault — while his virtues are almost comically abundant. Review: ‘Poldark’ on PBS’s ‘Masterpiece’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

A connoisseur, I can wax rhapsodic about the virtues of my favorite gummy shapes as if they were a fine wine. I have a food vice, and it’s yummy and gummy 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

It’s an old story that makes for riveting viewing, but does not have the virtue of being true. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z

His owner, however, was an underdog, if only by virtue of her sex, and that provides much of the film's drama. "Secretariat" Review: A Feel Good Movie to be Proud of 2010-10-07T20:05:00Z

Morganstein added that leaders often emerge in times of crisis and disaster, exerting influence through their position or by virtue of their character. When the world’s in crisis, we need ‘grief leaders.’ Here’s how to be one. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

“The latest demands for intellectual conformity may come in progressive packaging,” Kipnis writes, “but feminists and leftist should be flinging these pieties away like lumps of dung, not kowtowing to the virtue parade.” Feminist flamethrowers: Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the modern sex wars 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

The virtue of Mark Mazzetti’s new book, “The Way of the Knife,” is the way in which it perceptively ties all these events together and paints the larger picture: Since the Sept. Books of The Times: ‘The Way of the Knife,” by Mark Mazzetti 2013-04-24T21:39:27Z

Rather than seeking racially equitable admission, he argued that she was white by virtue of mixed European, African and Cherokee ancestry. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Preposterousness is not necessarily a vice, and plausibility is a weak virtue. Review: ‘The Forger’ Stars John Travolta as a Convict and Painter 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

History is bunk; power is virtue; the sovereign individual reigns supreme; all forms of collective governance are for sissies. Our juvenile American fantasies: Comic-book fascism, the rise of Trump and “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Who, though, could play the charismatic Ameena Matthews, who becomes, by virtue of her dignity and intensity, the documentary's central figure? Trailer trash 2011-08-13T23:06:21Z

Howard consequently celebrates what one might call the positive virtues of barbarism — courage, physical strength, loyalty, ethical behavior — and contrasts these with the vices, soft luxuries and callous decadence of civilizations in eclipse. Review | Robert E. Howard became famous for creating Conan. But that warrior was only the beginning. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

In effect, he’s a sermon given a body, a pile of clichés about virtue and beauty that is infused with a soul and set into motion. Jean Renoir’s Ferocious “La Chienne” 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

I see them smiling from the covers of their books and the stories in their Instagram feeds, extolling the virtues of "emotional detox" kits and "wellness" oils. Can I spend my way out of my anxiety? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

But she, too, is an odd bird, so invested in her virtue that it becomes a form of stinginess. Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Her mother was reputed to be a woman of light virtue. Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

This signals nothing more than his means and willingness to share, and yet, I suspect in some social situations his virtue is unfairly conferred on me. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In the wake of Swift’s mainstream success, the night’s early performances emphasized both traditional county music virtues and the ever-blurring lines between its artists and pop music. 2014 CMAs: Miranda Lambert a big early winner 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The worst thing in children’s films—and the curse of the Pixar universe—is insipid virtue. The Curse of the Pixar Universe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Most cable dramas make a virtue of vice, studying the cracks in heroes who aren’t just flawed but irredeemable. ‘The Newsroom’ Ends Its Final Season on HBO 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

You can't separate the lack of civic virtue when it comes to food in America with the food of America that is quintessentially ours. A family dinner is never actually about how good the food is, says Andrew Zimmern 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

To him, anyone condemning punchlines about transgender people is virtue signaling, "trying to bring people down to raise their own status." Ellen can say "gay" now: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ends by taking a stand...for celebrity 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

If the playwriting isn't always especially sophisticated, it has the virtues of being intelligently distilled and briskly delivered. 'Fly' smartly and briskly tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen at Pasadena Playhouse 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

In this “punch top” innovation, Miller is effectively acknowledging that its customer base is those who drink only for volume — and it’s trying to thus convince more beer enthusiasts that speed drinking is a virtue. Will Walmart eat L.A.? 2012-06-26T19:39:00Z

It became better sport to repeat it and it seemed like a cleverer comparison by virtue of the fact that it had touched a nerve. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z

A moral about the virtues of diminished violence, of a small American footprint and of avoiding collateral damage might emerge in this game. Video Game Review: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist Goes Undercover 2013-08-23T20:45:58Z

“I think a good sign of being an idiot in life is believing that all virtue is vested in one of these political parties and all evil in the other,” he says. The Lincoln Project’s plan for preserving the union: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

“But,” he added, “collectors are interested in meeting artists. There are more artists here than in many other cities, by virtue of all the art schools.” Small and Scrappy Is the Way for London’s Galleries After Brexit 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

The first soloist, Jason Hartley, is, on the strength of this program, the finest McIntyre dancer, but his virtues aren’t so much exceptional here as characteristic. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z

Sita eventually convinces Rama of her virtue by walking through fire, and the couple return to Ayodhya together. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z

Range, variety, depth, clarity—that everything that Bob published shared in these virtues was his accomplishment. Postscript: Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Once or twice the story cuts corners, but the production's virtue is the actors are never upstaged by the impressive effects – flashing lights, jets of steam, and thunderous sounds of passing trains. The Railway Children 2010-07-13T00:49:00Z

Like Zweig, Ophüls knew the virtues of the world of yesterday; perhaps even more than Zweig, he also saw the vices that kept him from unmitigated nostalgia. Movie of the Week: “Letter from an Unknown Woman” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

But it also has the defects of its virtues. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z

At age 20, he created a list of 13 virtues – among them temperance, justice, chastity and humility – by which he tried to develop his character. Ken Burns on Benjamin Franklin & our nation's flawed identity: "Race is the central question" of US 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

But this is not a poem about the virtue of being passive. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z

The recent film that “Saint Laurent” most closely resembles may be Mike Leigh’s “Mr. Turner” and not only by virtue of its two-and-a-half-hour length, its episodic structure and the gorgeousness of its production design. Review: ‘Saint Laurent,’ Beautiful People, High Fashion and Career at Its Pinnacle 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The virtue — and also the limitation — of this movie is that it confronts senselessness and insists on remaining calm and sane. | 'Polytechnique': A Fictional Killer of Women Who Is All Too Familiar 2011-06-28T22:27:56Z

But these virtues were all magnified and even haloed for me by memories of the Academy Awards three months earlier. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: What Oscar Can Learn From Tony About How To Put on a Show 2011-06-16T16:54:02Z

Yet the work’s most unexpected virtue was its relaxed warmth, new for this formally brilliant artist — and winning. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

I admire the directness and simplicity of his work, a virtue most writers aspire to but rarely achieve. ArtsBeat: Another Kind of Music 2013-08-30T22:44:13Z

Few have attacked Ms. Saldana for her virtues as an actress. Should Zoe Saldana Play Nina Simone? Some Say No 2012-09-12T19:45:18Z

It was also imbued with Brittenesque colouring, by virtue of Robert Murray's tenor and the horn lines. Conquering the Antarctic ? review 2012-02-08T19:18:17Z

But it is interesting to note that a movie strenuously preaching the virtue of being different should be so fundamentally — so deliberately, so timidly — just like everything else of its kind. Movie Review: ‘Turbo,’ From DreamWorks, Shows One Way to the Finish Line 2013-07-16T22:28:39Z

Each approach has its virtues, each heightens the profile of jazz in America and each, in a way, beckons other cities to follow suit. A jazz nexus takes shape in San Francisco 2011-05-16T14:01:03Z

In it Madonna described two of her rivals, Whitney Houston and Sharon Stone, as “horribly mediocre,” adding, “They’re always being held up as paragons of virtue and some sort of measuring stick to humiliate me.” Madonna Loses Legal Battle Over Tupac Shakur Breakup Letter 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

A standout dancer or an especially good premiere can stoke desires for more than the company can reliably deliver, casting the troupe’s modest virtues in the unflattering light of discontent. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Rhimes grew up in a household where creativity was a virtue, with a mother who took her storytelling seriously from the moment she began spinning yarns. Shonda Rhimes on raising the next generation of TV producers 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

You set yourselves down as a lot of carping hypocrites; in fact, you cry aloud for the virtue of your women, while you seek to destroy the morality of ours. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Messy is neither a broadside at Marie Kondo and her cult of minimalism nor a case for the hidden virtues of hoarding. Are You a Slob? That Could Be a Great Thing 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And E. M. Cioran, on the virtues of economy and obliquity: “Is there a better sign of ‘civilization’ than laconism? The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

As I got older, I realized that the morality and the virtue of the figures that represented me in society were very, very corrupt, and didn't stand for things that were virtuous. "Better Call Saul" star on playing "the only character breaking good when everybody's breaking bad" 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

I’m also cognizant of the fact that by virtue of being born into a well-educated, middle-class household with parents who love each other, our child has already won the lottery, big time. Nobody puts baby in a cooler! Learning to parent with first-world problems 2014-03-09T00:00:00Z

Their rags-to-riches-to-rags story reveals the innate virtues and flaws of the American dream.” The Carpetbagger: Sundance Sued Over Opening-Night Documentary 2012-01-12T16:37:40Z

The pub I imagined embodied the virtues often associated with Ireland – kind and gentle, polite, good-humoured, and devoted to the spoken word in all its base and exalted forms. Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

As has been noted by Dannagal Young, the rise of outrage as the core "virtue" of the right has been decades in the making. Rush Limbaugh’s toxic patriotism will be his worst legacy 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

“We were America’s cool kids by virtue of simply being kids,” Karen observes, “even if we weren’t cool.” Books of The Times: Kurt Andersen’s ‘True Believers,’ Haunted by the ’60s 2012-07-11T21:52:28Z

Soon after Huck recognizes that he must abandon all his training in moral behavior to save the escaped slave Jim, soon after he magnificently embraces wickedness by accepting egalitarian virtue, the book itself loses steam. Critic?s Notebook: Forget What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery 2010-09-18T00:13:00Z

The “Unlocked” tracks have virtues of their own. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

A weeping Lady Gaga in her elegant up-do, extolling the virtues of hard work. Top Oscar moments: Buoyant Spike Lee, daffy Olivia Colman 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Long work hours and a packed calendar conveyed status – even virtue – when judged by capitalist values. "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

You hope they will learn each other’s virtues. Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z

And though as a six-year-old in a tiny red wheelchair I could see virtue in FDR’s New Deal, Roosevelt’s reported womanizing barred him from idol status in my mind. How I friended Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Colbert: Zach Anner on comedy and cerebral palsy (“The sexiest of the palsies”) 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

George Washington cautioned Americans against their “insatiable thirst for riches,” claiming that he never anticipated such a “dearth of public spirit and want of virtue.” Donald Trump’s winner-takes-all wasteland: America will never be “great” if we continue to worship the hustle 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Brandli speaks emphatically and at great, great length about the virtues of small farms. Tuscany Without the Crowds 2010-03-05T03:55:00Z

The Romantics were right: the virtues of nature provide a strong antidote to the viciousness of industrialization. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

But for every dirty deed, there is an expression of something resembling virtue. 'This Is How You Lose Her': love, lust and the divided heart of the male 2012-09-12T22:05:04Z

In a business that pays lip service to the virtues of diversity and inclusion, he adds, “deaf and disabled is always, somehow, a different topic for a different meeting.” In ‘Deaf Utopia,’ Nyle DiMarco Dreams of Integrating the Deaf and Hearing Worlds 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

In this way, boys are taught to express a simplified social identity by virtue of their organizational associations. Why men have so much trouble making friends 2014-04-12T16:00:00Z

“Do you give that person a sense of weight, and virtue, simply because they are the protagonist?” Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The film—the sixth in the “Mission: Impossible” series—is intelligently made, but its display of intelligence is an equivocal virtue. “Mission: Impossible—Fallout” Is Basically a Two-and-a-Half-Hour Making-Of Sequence 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Initially his project, which focused on “discipline and virtue,” existed only online, with a handful of followers. Big biceps and bigger hearts: Virginia strength gym survives quarantine by generosity of members 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Rebecca is unstoppable by virtue of advantage, but also through willfulness—she arranges chance events to her liking, fashioning herself as the deus ex machina of her own life. In Rumaan Alam’s New Novel, Motherhood Lit Tackles Race, Adoption, and White Privilege 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

The “Origins of Virtue” was published in the mid-1990s and argues that cooperation and virtue are just as deep-rooted in human nature as selfishness. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z

Whether for residential or military use, assembled in France or in Congo, these houses made a virtue of their standardized, repeating aluminum and wood parts, which now appear not just minimally chic but ecologically prudent. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

And it flourishes online because most of it is essentially illegal by virtue of its blatant disregard for copyright law. How Kindle Worlds aims to colonise fan fiction 2013-06-02T11:00:02Z

But a series like High Maintenance, and the bold, risk-inclined bottle episodes of non-anthology shows, argues implicitly that the real virtues of television lie in its capacity to take the form of a short story. Why TV's brightest shows are turning episodes into standalone stories 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

It's a radical act to show vicars as human, people expect them to be paragons of patience and virtue. Rev 'rather good' says Archbishop of Canterbury 2010-08-01T19:34:00Z

I've nothing to disagree with on Christian virtues except one, which is faith. Philip Pullman on His New Trilogy and the upcoming 'His Dark Materials' TV Show 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Easier With Practice” has its virtues, but plausibility is not one of them. Movie Review | 'Easier With Practice': On the Phone, Alienated and Indulging 2010-02-25T23:33:00Z

The whole program clocks in at well under an hour, and while such concision is certainly a virtue, the production — first commissioned by Little Island — feels too modest for a queen. Review: Dormeshia Coasts on Her Tap Mastery in ‘Rhythm Is Life’ 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

The seeming goal is to return to classical virtues and symbols, tempered by a modern woman’s sensibility. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

As a musical, it has many negative virtues: no flimflam, no scenic excess and, mercifully, nothing resembling the deep-south blackface number from Love from Judy entitled Get Out Your Old Banjo. Daddy Long Legs – review 2012-11-07T23:00:00Z

This sense of kinship is in turn the foundation of the ordinary virtues: loyalty, trust, forbearance. Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

What Termite lacks in those virtues he compensates for by overcompensating, as it were. How "The Boys" measures up with regard to TV's full frontal assault 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

When discussing the virtues of patience, Wallen said, perhaps with just a flicker of indignation, “I’ve had to learn a lot of it this past year.” The Morgan Wallen Conundrum 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Chefs are discovering its virtues as wine — and one that’s worthy of cooking with. The Case for Marsala 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

The three pieces they are presenting here this week, however, tend to show their limitations, obscure their virtues and saddle them with clichés. Dance Review: Illustrious Local Compatriot Contributes to a Troupe?s New York Visit 2011-08-16T21:52:58Z

"Billboards, newspapers, magazines, and radio commercials touted the virtues of their various advertisers' products, and companies poured enormous sums of money into advertising," Batchelor wrote. The cutthroat history behind the explosive "Perry Mason" grocery feud 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

So when , the Canadian band that is the current standard-bearer for do-it-yourself musical virtue, hit No. 1 last week with its album “The Suburbs” — replacing Eminem’s “Recovery” — there was bound to be an outburst. Arcade Fire?s Hit Record, and an Indie-Rock Identity Crisis 2010-08-15T01:30:00Z

Flashy, even brilliant buildings rarely if ever rejuvenate neighborhoods or guarantee crowds and cash just by virtue of their design, any more than restoring disused rail tracks guarantees the High Line. Critic’s Notebook: Amsterdam’s New Stedelijk Museum 2012-12-23T20:27:43Z

Television is increasingly willing to concede patience as a virtue, but only if there's a payoff. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

A side effect of Mr. Sorkin’s incurable romanticism is that he can’t resist finding virtue in even the most obvious villains. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom,’ an HBO Series From Aaron Sorkin 2012-06-21T21:29:12Z

This is both a twilight and a twilight zone; every virtue is a simulation of itself, a hollow or profaned image. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

By virtue of being available to all, a U.B.I. would not only guarantee the material existence of everyone in a society; it would establish a baseline for what membership in that society means. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

What emerges from the depths of the victims’ mortal anxiety is character—their recognition of virtue in others and, for that matter, in themselves—and survival comes off as its primal mark.—R.B. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

This Civil War-era example includes the Union Party credo and extols the virtues of the sitting President. This Is What Democracy Looked Like 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

His real difficulty as an evangelist, however, is the one afflicting most multimillionaires who expound publicly on the virtues of simple living. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z

Nothing can have absolute or accidental priority in monochrome, nothing can leap out simply by virtue of its colour. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z

Watching Hugo voters choose “no award” instead of their nominees did not teach the Puppies Catholic virtues like humility or grace, however. Instead, many became consumed with rage. The alt-right attacks sci-fi: How the Hugo Awards got hijacked by Trumpian-style culture warriors 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Good of heart, keen of wit, sharp of mind, dressed in tatters and utterly bereft of cash, he brings joy to young lovers and virtue to the greedy. | 'The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer': The Shtetl?s Champion at Baruch Performing Arts Center 2010-06-07T21:52:00Z

Generosity is an overlooked virtue in a dancer, but shouldn’t it be just as valuable as raw talent? Review: Reveling in the Tap Magic of Ayodele Casel 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

The corollary of this idea — even more striking a facet of the fashion world — is that in contemporary America celebrity is not only a virtue, it is practically the only ideal we all share. Critic?s Notebook: Does Fashion Make Good Theater? 2010-09-16T03:48:00Z

Luke’s mom is portrayed as a narrow-minded fanatic who mistakes her own narcissism for virtue. 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: Private Meets Public 2010-07-24T03:00:00Z

They were lobbying us to do “soft” stories designed less for their journalistic virtues than for their appeal to advertisers. Weingarten: Going native

In both films, the subject of war is defined by the distinctive virtues of the warrior, which are too precious and rare to be put at heedless risk. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

In its worst forms, it gave up critiquing manliness altogether, instead simply dressing up misogyny in the garments of aristocratic virtue. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

In recent years, the writer George Saunders has made the championing of so-called soft virtues—tenderness, forgiveness, patience—something of a personal crusade. Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The real housewives are nothing like these people, and therein lies their appeal and, perhaps, their virtue. Riff: ?Housewives,? Rebranded 2011-11-18T23:36:00Z

What he’s proposing is merely a thought experiment, daring the reader to ponder the virtues of smallness in an age of military and corporate gigantism. A Polite Drive for Secession in ‘Radio Free Vermont’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Prejudice “renders a man’s virtue his habit,” and thus leaves him deeply at home in the swim of time. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

But Spotted by Local’s best virtue is its practicality. Stockholm, and the Strangers Who Brought Me There 2012-06-15T18:37:54Z

More than one speaker acknowledged her virtues even as they were praising her father as if it was the Ivanka and Donald administration. Perspective | Trump’s convention speech was selling a fantasy version of himself 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Even the devil understands the virtue of patience. 2010-01-13T22:54:00Z

And that demonstrates one of the greatest virtues of the book. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z

The novels have an old-fashioned preoccupation with virtue, grace and their relation to lives as lived; though they are set in the 1950s their concerns are distinctly 18th-century. Amazing grace 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

We tried worthier pursuits, too, helping one of us move and volunteering at a camp for grieving children, but don’t ask me to pretend that virtue was our goal. This New Year’s, resolve to indulge 2014-01-01T12:45:00Z

In that respect, she was very much like Dolly Parton, another durable American star who turned sartorial trashiness into a virtue by claiming it as her own. The Media Equation: Elizabeth Taylor: Famous, but on Her Own Terms 2011-03-26T17:36:52Z

Novelists, poets, essayists, and university humanists, emerging from their proud corners, find it hard to talk of character, judgment, perceptiveness, wit, empathy, and other such virtues encouraged by serious reading. “Books Smell Like Old People”: Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore? 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

But each episode returns to the queen thematically, many of them ending with a conversation about the virtue of a dull, inactive monarchy. Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

But Tarantino devotees may view those elements as virtues. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Fate of the Furious’ and ‘No One Saw a Thing’ 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Hindsight is no clarifier in Harrison's world, overview no advantage and analysis no virtue. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

There are few activities more predictable and pathetic than old people lamenting the loss of virtue, the weakness or the incompetence of young people. My college students aren’t “snowflakes” — they’re tougher than their critics could imagine 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

"However, `The Artist' will benefit enormously from a best picture win since it will suddenly become a mainstream film by virtue of the Oscar stamp of approval." Weinsteins rule Oscars with 'Artist,' 'Iron Lady' 2012-02-27T12:37:09Z

For Capa, a classical format fit his intentions: to portray war’s self-sacrifice, comradeship and other time-honored virtues. Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

The virtue of this movie is its commitment to political ambiguity and emotional truth. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Cortez’s work was beyond category by virtue of embodying so many categories simultaneously: written verse, African and African-American oral tradition, the discourse of political protest, and jazz and blues. Jayne Cortez, Poet and Performance Artist, Dies at 78 2013-01-04T01:23:58Z

The movie and its aesthetic had some unlikely champions, like the artist Jeff Koons, who wrote the filmmakers a letter extolling its virtues, from his family vacation in South Africa. The Carpetbagger: ‘The Croods’ Team Can at Least Count on 2 Votes 2014-02-14T19:30:53Z

Lying and bloodshed are often framed as crimes when committed inside a group — but as virtues in a state of war. The science of “blue lies”: There’s a reason Trump supporters embrace his alternative facts 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Evers makes a dramatic virtue of this sense of deja vu, yet the reader still experiences a nagging feeling that we have been somewhere very like this before. If This Is Home by Stuart Evers – review 2012-07-27T21:45:11Z

They did, after all, reward virtue: intelligence, resourcefulness, musical talent, lovability. Where Donald Trump Learned to Captivate Audiences 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Citing the work of the author Douglas Rushkoff, Mr. Burnham said that watching the proliferation of comedy online had made him appreciate the virtue of old-fashioned gatekeepers. Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

“They might not support me as a pillar of virtue,” he continued, “but they generally come around.” Wichita resumes its fight for reproductive freedom 2013-04-12T14:49:00Z

The duet is a striking back-and-forth between the leading characters, even if the focus on feminine virtue is not the opera’s most novel element. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

But he never strays far from Sikh virtue. | 'Ocean of Pearls': Wrestling With One?s Conscience 2010-05-07T02:02:00Z

There is another danger for those marching: that the protests might allow liberals to solidify a sense of collective virtue without leading to other concrete actions. The Perils and Possibilities of the Never-Ending Protest 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Together, these films suggest that patience and rage are vital and complementary civic virtues. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Sustained dance virtues of phrasing or control are never the point here. Dance Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane at New York Live Arts - Review 2011-09-18T22:16:05Z

In one bit a mama bear instructed her child in the virtue of exercise. Television: Trying to Echo Childhood?s Rhythms 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

The only virtue of this washed-out year: When the circus stopped, the art world could no longer lie to itself. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

That’s why, where there’s already quality, quantity is a virtue in itself: quality isn’t static, it’s a function defined by change. The Front Row: “Uncertain Terms” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Both he and Rowan expect a certain amount of leeway in the world by virtue of their identity, which they are granted, no matter what they do. This Week in Fiction: Emma Cline on a Father Confronting His Son’s Transgression 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Based in Germany, Sehgal is eligible for the prize by virtue, said Curtis, of his British passport: he was born in London. Turner prize 2013: a shortlist strong on wit and charm 2013-04-25T15:27:55Z

We’re up to here in shows with “good” in their titles, perhaps signifying an ongoing quest for virtue. Review | ‘Good Girls’ needn’t struggle with feminist subtext. Three moms robbing a grocery store speak for themselves. 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

Chinese artists and artisans commonly used flower motifs in their work to symbolize different values; chrysanthemums, for instance, represent longevity, and peonies, royalty and virtue. 19th-Century Chinese Silks Are on the Block 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

The great virtue of Mann’s book — and much of his journalism over many years — is that it raises very large questions like these that are usually either ignored or answered in slogans. To Respect the Earth’s Limits — or Push Them? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Coetzee has always had the enviable ability, in a writer, to make a virtue of his limitations. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z

And now perhaps the virtues of Holl’s building, which greatly outweigh its defects, will inspire VCU to think more seriously about improving architecture across the whole of its campus. Review | In Richmond, a dramatic new structure is unlike any other in town 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

That sounds more benign than it was taken by many in the poetry community, where, to an extent, mystery is a virtue. Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism 2011-06-20T21:14:00Z

It may be that any book on a single film has its secret virtues, the close reading for once matching the filmmaking effort in time and intensity. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z

Three acts follow, each containing a test of virtue, wits or heart. Review: Les Arts Florissants in a Heady Mix of Cabaret and Miley Cyrus 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

The virtue of sacrifice was a constant theme in the household of my mother and grandmother. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z

There's no denying the Shakespearean contradictions within Johnson's larger-than-life character, but his virtues and flaws aren't the sole determinants of the play's action. 'The Great Society' a bustle of history lacking full LBJ picture 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the work of these players, we grasp something of what Dickens was trying to get across, that virtue is eternally at war, that it can give way at every point. 2009-12-25T01:45:00Z

The park survived Hurricane Sandy with hardly a scratch, proving the virtue of soft edges. Critic’s Notebook: Changes Needed After Hurricane Sandy Include Politics 2012-11-19T23:00:17Z

And then there’s the general pattern of Agent Cooper’s dialogue, which pivots sharply between dazzling insight into the cases and non sequiturs about Douglas firs and the virtues of a clean, reasonably priced hotel. Twin Peaks at 30: the weird and wonderful show that changed television 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

It’s this faith in the virtue of adversity that transforms “Heroes of the Frontier” from one kind of story into another, midway through its telling. Dave Eggers offers a sneak peek at his new novel, ‘Heroes of the Frontier’ 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Once they are revealed to his proud mother, of course, she pronounces him “polymorphous,” but is that a virtue that we seek, or need, in this gorgeously animated world? “Incredibles 2,” Reviewed: A Sequel in the Shadow of a Masterwork 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

And Richard was more of a vicious clown figure than usual, but without the virtues of his villainy --no sense of planning or real agency in it.I'm afraid I left at the interval. Reader reviews: your take on Schaufuss's Swan Lake and Rylance's Richard III 2012-07-27T15:06:00Z

I assumed that – by virtue of my marriage –that I was now included in the “we”. Thanksgiving Wins a Convert 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

For Ms. Ronan, who has been attached to the movie for six years, it’s a chance to show Mary as both a ruler and a woman, “filled with doubts and flaws, strengths and virtues.” A Bloody Rivalry for the Throne, This Time With Margot Robbie 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The virtue of his portraits is in their immediacy and lucidity. Art Review: Cecil Beaton?s Work at Museum of City of New York - Review 2011-11-10T23:02:14Z

“An unabashed vanity project that struggles to turn its own beautiful virtue into a virtue,” judged Variety. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

"There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude." Robert Hughes quotes: 20 of the best 2012-08-07T10:44:50Z

Franz Liszt, the other towering virtuoso pianist-composer of the 19th century, had many virtues but was almost never as subtle or tasteful as Chopin: He was an enthusiastic, friendly dog, often too eager to please. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

“I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate,” former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch said on her radio program, adding that “winning is a virtue.” Perspective | The baffling defense of Herschel Walker 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Of course, these vices have come to seem like exciting virtues to modern audiences, with one scholar praising Caravaggio's "derisive irony" as though he were the father of Duchamp, Dada and the spaghetti western. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

He points out that the same communal virtues that made Minnesota work when he was young have survived — and are still useful. The Message of Thomas Friedman’s New Book: It’s Going to Be O.K. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

The station delivers with photogenic conviction a largely romantic message about the virtues of car-free travel. ARTIC bullet-train station a curious, conspicuous bit of symbolism 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

And so, you know, I'm always keeping my eyes open for those kinds of stories, where can I add value just based on the virtue of my experience. "PBS NewsHour" co-hosts report facts in an era of distrust: "There's an assumption of bias in media" 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

I went off and did exposés on arms dealers and expounded the virtues of the right to protest and, in return, he stopped wincing every time a lesbian character appeared on TV. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z

The overt message of these episodes is one of promoting mental health and wellness, along with endorsing the value and virtue of being in touch with one's emotions. In the final analysis, "Ted Lasso" is all about a man, a team and their daddy issues 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Notwithstanding his archaeological credentials, which Ms. Keller, the curator, goes to pains to emphasize in the fine catalog, Greene enthralls us now by virtue of his aesthetic sense. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

He countered that by virtue of selecting, arranging and emphasizing historical facts as he did he was expressing a tacit opinion, an argument that did not persuade every critic. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

It embossed into my life the experience of literature’s great saving virtue. By the Book: Richard Ford: By the Book 2012-06-21T14:08:18Z

Rand's cause was to celebrate what she called "the virtue of selfishness", to denigrate the poor as scroungers and to celebrate the muscular individualism of the creative heroes of capitalism. Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney 2012-08-13T15:46:04Z

Yet the troupe retains enduring virtues, as you learn from watching its leading dancers. Royal Ballet Has Slipped a Little From Its Peak Form 2013-12-20T20:39:50Z

“You swoop down and rescue” the unfortunate “with your awesome wisdom and virtue,” he intones. ‘Excellent Sheep,’ William Deresiewicz’s Manifesto 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

And yet: there’s virtue in stepping into the bracing cold, in shocking the blood awake and feeding the brain something new. O Cold Night! 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

But it’s worth observing too that even when arms are extended, they usually continue the downward flow of the shoulders: a virtue of baroque style. Dance Review: A Danish Modern Twist Updates Classical Ballet 2011-06-15T22:03:19Z

Another heartening virtue is the different ways in which Mr. Peck brings man and woman together. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-30T22:13:03Z

But let’s imagine a different juxtaposition of “Trump” and “children” — one that is proactive by virtue of being paradoxical. Raising an Un-Trump: Don't just shield your kids from Donald Trump — use him as a teaching tool 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

Playwrights, unlike screenwriters, have enormous power over the use of their work, sometimes by virtue of their contracts, and sometimes by virtue of the nature of their relationships with regional theaters. Why Some Black Playwrights Are Saying Their Shows Must Not Go On 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

The Florida Citrus Commission tried turning vulnerability into a virtue. The Death and Rebirth of the Duncan Grapefruit 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

He praised reasonableness, compromise and the virtue of working together with our opponents. If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

As a result, busy is not a virtue in this store, at least not for the customer. Critical Shopper: Suitsupply in SoHo 2012-01-31T23:25:08Z

His act of renunciation made Cincinnatus the very embodiment of Roman republican virtue, and Canova wanted his Washington to be the same: hence the tablet on which “Giorgio Washington” drafts his Italian-language resignation. A George Washington Monument, Rediscovered in Fragile Plaster 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Cora begins “The Chaperone” with quaint, even smug thoughts about racial integration, wifely submissiveness and maidenly virtue. Books of The Times: ‘The Chaperone’ by Laura Moriarty 2012-06-14T21:43:56Z

I remain an admirer of Alone in Berlin – and believe that its virtues far outweigh its vices – but clearly there are problems. Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort? 2013-03-20T09:22:00Z

Like Ms. Friedman, Ms. Wolf finds virtue in Mrs. Clinton’s lack of appeal, which she is, if anything, more forceful about describing. Hating Hillary Clinton: Female Comics Skewer the Sexism of the Likability Trap 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

The good life meant learning and then practicing wisdom, courage, justice and generosity — along with some lesser virtues, like being entertaining at a dinner party. The best “defence”: On fighting for the good life in Trumplandia 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

The book concludes with a manifesto on the virtues of public bathhouses for sex and hygiene. Review | Roberto Bolaño’s popularity surged after his death. What does a ‘new’ book do for his legacy? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Assuming everyone survives, this is basically a feel-good show and it promotes some feel-good myths: Namely, that art has civic virtue and demonstrable civic value. Review: O, for a Muse of Fire, or a Comptroller, to Save ‘Popcorn Falls’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Among its other virtues, it tastes best prepared a day or two in advance and reheated. A Succulent Brisket Almost as Good as Mom’s 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

No one is waiting for McElwee’s green light to “embrace” science, which holds its place among us by virtue of its proven utility, its lab-tested veracity. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z

Whether by virtue of his large appetite, or by being in the right place: Schaeffer and big musical projects continue to find each other. Eric Schaeffer: As his Signature Theatre celebrates its 25th year, any regrets?

In any other form of theatre a redesign would be automatic, but the gatekeepers of balletic taste are rarely persuadable of the virtues of the new. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z

Timeliness is only the first of this work’s many virtues. Theater Review: ‘La Ruta,’ a Portable Production by Working Theater 2013-04-26T22:43:18Z

For educators, harnessing reading to virtue is deadly. Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

“For me it was a kabuki theatre, virtue signal,” she continued. Meghan McCain trashes Trump’s State of the Union call for unity after president insults her late dad 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

I think hope is the name not of a temperament or an emotion, but of a virtue. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The result is “equal parts vérité character study and probing meditation on the virtues of success,” Beandrea July said in her review for The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Try Harder!’ and ‘Sheryl’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he also badly botches a section that addresses Harlan’s postwar insistence on his innocence by inserting a clip from “Jew Süss” in which the caged Süss declares his own virtue. Movie Review | 'Harlan': Haunted by What Dad Did in the War 2010-03-02T23:38:00Z

“Your homo- or heterosexuality is neither a virtue nor a flaw. It just isn’t. Who you want to have sex with is not something you cultivate.” The rugby buddy movie that tackles homophobia with a laugh 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Recently, though, a handful of Manhattan bars have found virtue in the lukewarm. Lukewarm Drinks, Enthusiastic Reaction 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

It would be a shame if its many virtues were to be overlooked amid the hollow, distracting commercial babble of the Broadway spring season. | 'Kin': No Connection Is Too Far, or Unlikely 2011-03-22T02:01:24Z

Animals not only share our virtues but surpass us in their pursuit. One Life peddles one big lie 2011-07-25T12:53:39Z

Despite the liberties Sandburg took with facts and legends, his portrait of Lincoln instructs the reader in the personal virtues that made Lincoln’s an extraordinarily wise, decent and crucial presidency. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

ME The side of right and virtue and truth and beauty, of course, the side of the greatest dramatist and poet who ever trod the earth. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z

And it has its strengths, it has its virtues, but there's nothing about the Crimean war, there's nothing about interstellar travel. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z

I used to blame him for the weakened body that killed him — a product, I thought, of his weakened virtue. Junk Food Was Our Love Language 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

To honor one’s mother is seen as a virtue, and “to strive to extend her life by even one day is a solemn duty.” ‘Inheritance From Mother’: A must-read novel about the tangled bonds of motherhood 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” celebrates the virtues of patient listening, gentleness and the honest expression of feelings. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

An episode on appreciating wine asks how to engage with society without becoming conformist; one about finding a parking spot is a brief for the virtue of boredom. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

And yet these very shortcomings sometimes manage to turn into virtues. Movie Review | 'Blood Done Sign My Name': A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ?70 2010-02-19T04:53:00Z

That inner distance between events and dramatic arcs is one of the film’s great virtues. The Return of Julie Dash’s Historic “Daughters of the Dust” 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Rather than inquire into its virtues or lack of them, let’s get rid of grammar completely! Comma Queen: To Whom It May Concern 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

They were also utterly dauntless, self-control being honored as the supreme virtue. Review | The dauntless machismo of the Vikings 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Scott of the New York Times wrote that “the real virtue of this short, sometimes frustrating book lies in its insistence that thinking for oneself is a difficult and lifelong undertaking.” “Why grow up?” is a political question: Our cult of youth is no accident — and it has dire consequences 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

To screenwriters and dramatists, it’s a city dominated either by virtue or venality, a place where the political classes operate out of a sense of the greater good — or are just plain operators. In Washington, the drama never ends

In fact, after its first romantic flourish, the poem demonstrates many of the classical virtues: proportion, self-discipline, the integration of mind and body. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z

A pedant might note that elsewhere in his writings, Coelho has argued that friendship is a form of love so should not be considered a distinct virtue. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

Simply by virtue of his dapper suits, his superior smirk, his unflappable self-confidence and his lack of scruples, Rimmer rises rapidly, transforming a stodgy little agency into a hub of crass advertising. From All-Star Flop to Astute Satire in Just 50 Years 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

If you think frankness is a virtue, watch this. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Are they motivated by inherent virtue or the need to show off? At least he’s not a Koch Brother: Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to give away $45 billion is good news 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the spring and summer Mark Morris showed four works new to New York, showing a wide range of virtues; the mixture of dance liveliness and formal ceremony in “Festival Dance” is particularly winning. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z

But if the process of asking and answering such questions did not reveal to any sane, unprejudiced mind the necessity and the virtue of subsidy, then I would eat my desk. Arts and the new coalition government 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z

For the most part, the film’s heaviness is a virtue, even when its director, James Gray, slips into grandiosity. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

In this dense volume, dedicated in many ways to the virtue of restraint, George F. Will does to the president what the president most fears: He ignores him. George Will’s Political Philosophy 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Political virtue seemed like an endless list I could never complete. I slept with the enemy: Here’s what an unlikely romance taught me about racism, Donald Trump, and our cultural obsession with male rebellion 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

The cathedral at the heart of Marcial Gala’s new novel does precisely none of these things, but, then again, virtue was never really on the mind of its visionary founder. A Fortress to Faith — or Faith’s Undoing? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

He's back on another tour starting this week, selling the virtues of punctuality, discipline and careful preparation for penalty shootouts. This week's new comedy 2013-02-02T06:00:15Z

“The supreme virtue of ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ Lorraine Hansberry’s new play, is its proud, joyous proximity to its source, which is life as the dramatist has lived it.” Sunday Reading: A Night at the Theatre 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

Our lack of money, which had been if not a virtue of ours then at least not harmful to anyone, was now denying our child things that other children had. ‘Raising Raffi,’ a Father’s Lucid Book About a Chaotic Scene 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

Though from a wide variety of backgrounds, the dancers share the same virtues of intensely elegant clarity, high refinement and fervent commitment. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

“There is some virtue in being your own person,” he said. How Newt Gingrich became the go-to interview for every story about the Trump White House 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

His hometown has made a virtue of the uncertainty by spreading a series of exhibitions and events celebrating the 500th anniversary of his birth over the next three years. Review: Bassano's Pastoral Idyll 2010-04-23T13:25:00Z

“I could use about 100 more workers,” Templet says, before extolling the virtues of rural central Maine. It’s the golden age of the swab, a 99-year-old invention that has never been more crucial 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

That is, few authorities in late 20th-century wine history spent much time extolling its virtues. Chenin Blanc From Three Places 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

She offers meticulous instructions on what to watch, listen and smell for so you don’t stray from the flour-strewn path of virtue. Dorie Greenspan’s ‘Baking Chez Moi,’ reviewed: It’s no mere puff project

“Captain Fantastic” packs many of the virtues that mark the most notable and enduring cinematic fantasies. The Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic” 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

To that end, L’Estrange doesn’t care if not everybody is convinced about the virtues of alternative formats, or if certain kinds of wine drinkers still cling to the traditional 750ml glass bottle. Thinking inside the box: how cask wine became cool again 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

These are films that generate passion or controversy by virtue of their troubling subject matter and their powerful images. How A Quiet Place became a cause célèbre for anti-popcorn crusaders 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The movie conveys an earnest effort on the part of the producers, the screenwriters, and the director to reboot Tarzan on virtuous principles, but the results feel constrained to that virtue. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

To understand the monstrous we must draw a monster so unmistakable as to represent the opposite of an equally unmistakable innocence or virtue. Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

“Physical health and moral virtue are not synonymous in Western culture, but they are closely related,” Mr. Kriegel wrote in an essay included in his 1991 collection, “Falling Into Life.” Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

White writes this appetite as neither a virtue nor a flaw, but something of which to be wary. How "The White Lotus" blurs the cinematic meaning of gaze through the lens of Valentina 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

He elaborated on Robinson’s “sense of homespun virtues,” which provide, for him, an antidote to the braggadocio in much of today’s popular culture. What We Learned When President Obama Interviewed Marilynne Robinson 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Some of this was done from afar, by figures such as the aristocratically inclined and temperamentally nostalgic Goncourt Brothers, writers and critics who reintroduced France to the virtues of 18th century, pre-revolutionary art. The French, improving American taste for more than 200 years 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

By virtue of its basis in familiar, oft-beloved source material, the superhero film has the audience in the palm of its gloved hand from frame one. Superheroes suck! 2010-05-06T11:01:00Z

I hate virtue and never will I be seen resorting to it. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z

Mr. Wu is plenty aware of the web’s virtues, not least of which is that it connects us to others. Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

The general engine of these jokes — ironic call-and-response wordplay — is not unique, and lameness as a humor virtue is well-trod ground. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I declare these jokes groundbreaking 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Sexton touts the virtue of such a long-term perspective in a section of the book about a perhaps over-discussed university issue: politically controversial campus speakers. The Professor and the Adjunct 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

The album is a tenacious attempt to retain the classic-rock virtues that Foo Fighters cherish while using all the flexibility of a digital era. Foo Fighters Stand Up for the Power of Rock (Again) on ‘Concrete and Gold’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Sleekness has its virtues — come back, Inspector Maigret! — but in Slaughter’s big tome neither does there seem to be a word wasted, which is quite a feat. The horrific night that changed a family’s life forever 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

“Honesty is brutality,” Rebecca says at one point, arguing for the virtue of lying. | 'The Zero Hour': Madeleine George?s Hitler Youth at Walkerspace 2010-07-07T21:11:00Z

Together, they tear the moldy fig leaf off a Hollywood staple, the Arthurian-style romance — with its chivalric code, knightly virtues and courtly manners — to reveal a mercenary, transactional world of men, women and power. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

His virtue is not the whole-hearted embrace of experience and exotic locales but the parsing of degrees of disappointment. Jane Smiley on Geoff Dyer: hard to take but worth the attempt 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Instead, it seems Beyond wants to associate vegetarian food with another virtue, which is not at all about waistlines and individual health concerns but rather the health of the planet. With deep-fried fake chicken, can Beyond break the link between health food and vegetarianism? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

His virtues are in conflict with each other; that’s the very definition of tragedy. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

And the chief virtue of the new staging now at Forum Theatre is a playful and precise acting style that director Michael Dove’s ensemble absolutely nails. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Without undue questioning admirably embraces certain unfashionable virtues of what might be considered a Roman brand – duty, honour, filial piety. The Eagle ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:20Z

The two best single-volume studies known to me share the virtues of erudition and brio; and they very nearly share a title — “The Soviet Tragedy,” by Martin Malia, and “A People’s Tragedy,” by Orlando Figes. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Not only are we developing bodily powers, going through puberty and stuff and discovering sex, but actually we're discovering the world of virtues. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

He has made a complicated virtue out of riding genres and trends, making him oddly impervious to attempts to puncture his credibility. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Men are allowed to accrue status simply by virtue of the output of their bodies, including their brains, with little regard to their aesthetic characteristics. As a teenager, I hated Britney Spears and decades later I'm owning up to this misogyny 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

She also forcibly integrates TV into the festival by virtue of her star power with a turn in season two of Top of the Lake. How to stage a Hollywood comeback 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

But everything we can gather seems to nullify any virtues we saw in the original film. 'Wolf Creek 2' can't match original 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Slow and steady growth used to be a cardinal virtue for the big American corporation. How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

But I wish I had some of his virtues, because generally what he thinks or says has been rewritten 50 times, and he is a lot more articulate than I am.” Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z

What irks Brolin's gangster squad is that alien corruption is robbing their city of its essential virtues. Gangster Squad reflects the west coast's fear of the east 2013-01-07T17:25:58Z

Abbott rightly refuted this theory, in part by detailing the virtues of the suspense novels that the collection reprints, which do not, in fact, gives us female characters who are mere “victims or corpses.” The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Of course, hearing myself say all that, I worry about the desire to “virtue signal,” to say “Oh look, I’ve done something good because I went to this play and was momentarily uncomfortable.” ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Fink, in 2005, responded that, in the end, the work celebrates precisely those middle-class values that Taruskin believes it rejects: the “life-affirming virtues of the ordinary, of the man, of small things.” The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Does a film need to trot out the virtues of on-screen diversity and the negative effect of racist tropes that so many have constantly parroted in recent years? ‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’ Review: A Miracle Decade 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Jurowski conducted a pungent account of the First Chamber Symphony, underlining the way the music makes an expressive virtue of the confines of its single-movement form, and an equally deft one of Pierrot Lunaire. LPO/Jurowski 2010-06-16T21:00:00Z

Coterminous with an era in which divorce rates soared and casual sex became socially unexceptionable, Mr and Mrs proselytised for the straight and narrow virtue of heterosexual commitment. Derek Batey obituary 2013-02-20T19:23:11Z

Many of the performances to be heard in JapanNYC, therefore, will be object lessons in the virtues of overcoming: overcoming constraints and, in Mr. Ozawa’s case, overcoming pain. Ozawa?s Illness Shadows Festival He Inspired 2010-12-10T16:53:00Z

Gulliver’s “Cinematic Illumination,” by contrast, was done on the cheap, and made a virtue of the projectors’ limited abilities. A Countercultural Dreamland From Tokyo Flickers at MoMA 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Rather, this film, an exception in Rohmer’s filmography and his philosophical system, takes as its subject the notion of society’s exceptions—in virtue and vice alike. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

At a time of loneliness and anxiety, it extols and exemplifies one of theater’s greatest virtues — communion. ‘The Hang’ Review: Taylor Mac Enfolds Us When We Need It Most 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Possibly all of the above — and also, I suspect, by virtue of Noé’s commitment to an idea of cinema at once visceral and analytical, sensual and cerebral. ‘Climax’ Review: A Party That Assaults the Senses and Scrambles the Brain 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

These are far from the methods of Cubist collages, which made a virtue of their elements’ disjunction, or of New York School abstraction, which emphasized the gestural production of painterly marks. The Museum Is Closed? These Paintings Have a Digital Life 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

In the first step, the title of "venerable" is given to someone who has died and been recognized by the pope as having lived heroic virtues. Neb. founder Boys Town orphanage up for sainthood 2012-02-27T23:03:18Z

Though I hadn’t read it yet, I’d scanned a dozen reviews extolling its virtues. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z

The two cocky officers come across as easy targets for the wager Alfonso proposes to test the fidelity of their wives-to-be, those supposed paragons of virtue. Music Review: ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-11-16T23:12:47Z

The movie's emperor penguins were seized upon as symbols of godly virtue, due to their monogamous partnerships and selfless child-rearing in the face of Antarctic adversity. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z

In wartime Germany, murder was made into a civic virtue. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z

“I’m very comfortable promoting the virtues of a locally owned, seven-day-a-week newspaper.” In New Orleans, a journalistic experiment with unclear results 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

But we would be wise to remember that, along with the virtues that Gewen finds in Kissinger’s performance, there was also incoherence, irrationality and shortsightedness. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

For decades, the Friars Club has been America’s temple of comedy, a fraternity of jokesters and others who relish the rimshot and proudly regard bad taste as a core virtue. At the Friars Club, When the Laughter Stopped 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

One grumble: Why is it that such an insider’s guide fails to point out the virtues of traveling outside the familiar tourist precincts? France’s Love Affair With Food 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Taleb is deeply and depressingly nostalgic for the virtues of the ancients, with their stoicism and tolerance for suffering. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z

But in medieval times, milk was also imbued with virtue and spiritual knowledge. Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze ? review 2011-07-29T23:08:16Z

This boundary crossing is presented not simply as an expressive freedom she indulges, but as a virtue in and of itself. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Sustaining a sharp and consistent point of view has always been one of the great virtues of both Mr. Maxwell and the Wooster Group. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z

As William Faulkner said: “Every man is the arbiter of his own virtues but let no man prescribe for another man’s wellbeing.” John Malkovich: ‘In relationships, I’ve had an addictive personality’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The nominal director of the film is James Solomon, but Bill Genovese is its main author, and its prime virtues arise from his quest. Kitty Genovese’s Brother Reëxamines Her Famous Murder 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The woman’s job was to keep Louise on the path of virtue. | Books: ‘Lulu in Hollywood,’ Tales From Louise Brooks 2012-06-21T21:23:59Z

But Elisabeth’s virtue — revealed in Spain in lightning bolts of righteous indignation — is no facade. New ?Don Carlo,? That Ever-Changing Opera 2010-11-20T19:37:00Z

On Saturday afternoon the virtues of “Jewels” were marvelously clear. Jonathan Stafford Bids Farewell to City Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

You see each other’s strengths and virtues and when it really works, you adopt them as your own. Cokie and Steven Roberts: A Half-Century of Changing Together 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

For years, O’Rourke wasn’t the type of candidate who could get billionaires to throw money his way, so why not, in his words, “turn a necessity into a virtue?” Beto O’Rourke gets more attention than any other 2018 candidate. Will it translate to votes? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Most of the dancers are excellent, with virtues lacking in most Western dancers. The Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ at the Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The Wild Bunch stands out as the first western to go full-bore with its reappraisal of frontier narratives, and remains the most ferociously modern example by virtue of its coal-black heart. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

Excellence of character, or virtue, is the only true good, and we should spend our lives pursuing it. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

She chooses Cogburn for what she believes is his "true grit," though readers and viewers know from the start that no one possesses that virtue more than Mattie herself. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke 
 2010-12-22T19:25:00Z

He scoffs at patriotism and the notions of duty and virtue. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ and ‘Witch’: Ambitious shows that miss the mark 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

This intensity is not an intrinsic virtue, just a characteristic. Look before you sip: A wine’s appearance offers taste, flavor clues 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

One of the many virtues of the celebratory documentary “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles” is how it transports you to this early, nerve-racking gestation period. ‘Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles’ Review: Inside a Broadway … Tradition! 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

“Alan missed on 'Succession' and totally misses here because he is busy virtue signaling,” Bloys’ troll account wrote in a response. HBO trolled critics online to shut down negative reviews, reflecting a disdain for true criticism 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

But beyond all that is an old show-business virtue that lies outside music. Review: Jeff Beck’s Virtuosic Sleight of Hand at Madison Square Garden 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The experience also demonstrated to the Army chief of staff, Gen. George C. Marshall, the virtues and potential of a citizen force. The Herculean Effort to Build an American Army 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

She extols the virtues of using canned goods and pre-chopped vegetables. Rachael Ray, the new queen of US cookery ? and she can't bake 2010-12-05T00:07:00Z

As if to convince herself, she is recounting the actor's virtues, his concern for Beverly's career suggests a good man with good intentions. Late-in-life Errol Flynn leers in 'The Last of Robin Hood' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Though a bit short on Bohemian charm, Alsop's account of the extrovert Eighth is the more successful, and shows off the virtues of the Baltimore orchestra well, too. Dvor?k: Symphonies Nos 7 & 8 2010-05-20T21:30:00Z

But the ability to quash or conceal sadness or pain is a virtue long prized by stoics, yogis, monks, kung fu masters and American he-men heroes. It’s All Right to Cry, Dude 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

No powerful media company prioritizes virtue, particularly one that has recently devoured the carcass of another. Watch "Succession" to understand why media companies reward the worst people 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Their virtues as an artistic partnership mirror their strengths as a couple closely enough that their comments about one dimension often sound like metaphors for the other. A Dynamic Duo, on and Off the Stage 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

There’s no drumroll for the “goodbye to paper,” no editor’s letter extolling the virtues of the more immediate future — we’re off the newsstand but on all your devices! Saying Goodbye to Glamour 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

The video is a model of pop-culture intertextuality that makes a virtue out of its wide-ranging sampling, and much of its fun came from peeling its thickly layered influences. Sheila Vand in ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

And, in the final sequence, Frank delivers a moral homily to his sleeping grandson about the salt-of-the-earth virtues of "ordinary people like you and me". This Happy Breed ? review 2011-07-27T17:30:04Z

At the end of the seven-minute short, the boy realizes his father’s deities and his superheroes share strengths and virtues, and he looks at his father with new respect and affection. A Diverse Pixar Crew Grabs an Oscar Nomination 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

By making us reflect on the rightness of our actions, capital punishment gave birth to virtue. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

As Mr. Wells was extolling the virtues of camping above 7,000 feet, a late visitor wondered why. The Real Burning Man 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

The only virtue of adaptations of these authors is that they encourage people to read the originals. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z

This is vexing for those of us who would like to extol the virtues of “The ___________ With the Hat,” at least in public. | 'The ___________ With the Hat': A Love Not at a Loss for Words 2011-04-12T06:30:20Z

As I was reading Dominus's piece I detected some principled disingenuousness among her interviewees — I'm going to call it sexual virtue signaling. Monogamy, without the “-ish”: A humble and definitely not cool defense of the closed relationship 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z

The plots have a way of moving and the man being interred was widely hated and the clergyman extolling his virtues hasn’t got a clue. Review: Richard Russo Returns Upstate in ‘Everybody’s Fool’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Roger-Viollet The other virtues set out in his new book are boldness, love and friendship. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

And by virtue of having been on camera since 2014 as co-anchor of the “Weekend Update” news segment, he is almost certainly better known. Comedy Tonight: ‘S.N.L.’ Then and Now 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The encoded message assumes that black chefs, cooks and cookbook authors — by virtue of their race and gender — are simply born with good kitchen instincts. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

When people disparage him as some kind of worthless fake I am furious at their blindness to his virtues. Damien Hirst, Richard Serra and Tracey Emin ? the week in art 2012-05-18T14:03:06Z

And without being preachy, it extols the virtues of learning to get along with people unlike yourself, surely a good lesson for anyone in the business of politics. 7 Shows for President Trump to Watch on His Vacation 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Moreover, the very notion of “eulogy virtues” partakes in the crisis of selfishness that Brooks is busy decrying. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

“There were so many hair moments, tons,” he said, adding that this movie’s virtue was its variety. Ted Gibson?s Top Movie Hairstyles 2012-02-14T21:01:10Z

We're the image of the typical American family now, it seems: addicts who espouse the virtues of better living through chemistry. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

While he ages credibly during the three decades the show covers, he conspicuously retains the virtues and vices of his youth. Review: ‘Hamilton’ Conquers London (King George Slays, Too) 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The movie, a rare miss for director Sidney Lumet, fell short of the mark; it has virtues as camp, particularly in Diana Ross’s performance, but ultimately lacks the courage of its convictions. Why 'The Wiz' Is NBC's Best Live Musical Yet 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Here in the entryway to one of the nation’s leading HIV-AIDS treatment clinics, discretion is a virtue. The District’s HIV clinic was failing. This ‘old, straight white guy’ managed to save it. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

As seems to be happening around the world, producers have rediscovered the virtues of acidity, which, when in balance, helps to make a wine lively and refreshing. New Wines From Old Spanish Vines 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

For these customers, privacy is paramount and discretion the cardinal virtue. Moda Operandi: A Haven for the Haves 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

If Austrian riesling is not as widely understood as its siblings in other parts of Europe, its virtues are many. Austrian Rieslings Set a High, Dry Standard 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fitch’s gripping production of a trimmed version of the opera made a virtue of the space’s smallness. Review: ‘Orphic Moments,’ With Feast, at National Sawdust 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

He knew that that legacy includes our minds, our societies and the totality of our living planet, and that by virtue of its complex interactions, it is far greater than the sum of its parts. Alfred Russel Wallace by Tim Flannery 2011-02-26T00:07:55Z

A measure of the film’s moral seriousness is that it doesn’t culminate with a fight to the death in which evil is vanquished, demons are exorcised and virtue triumphs. Review: ‘The Gift,’ a Stalker Thriller That Isn’t What It Seems 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It also thrives in a self-conscious foodie culture in which a taste for folkloric authenticity commingles with a commitment to virtue and refinement. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

In his buttoned-up Roman way, he, too, loves Antony, praising his military virtues with a starry-eyed admiration. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

“I thought, ‘I’ll be this paragon of virtue, and I’ll be the one on the side of justice trying to take these bootleggers down.’ Theater: He Looks Like a Big, Scary Guy Because He Is One 2010-12-26T02:24:21Z

I defended the virtues of bookstores in the age of online retailing and bought books whenever I got the chance, but I hardly read them. How Bibliophiles Flirt 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

But the great virtue of Eyre's production and Tim Hatley's design, with its array of sewing machines, is that they never let us forget that the musical takes place against a background of work. The Pajama Game – review 2013-04-30T18:00:36Z

Jane Jacobs was talking about the civic virtues of “plain, ordinary, low-value old buildings,” but she was still an outlier. A Billion-Dollar Battle Over a Parking Lot at the Seaport 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, like many ill-behaved Hollywood characters, the women of “The Kitchen” pay a price for their criminality, but with a contemporary twist: They are punished with virtue. Review ‘The Kitchen’: Three Caged Birds Go Wildly, Witlessly Free 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

On television, RuPaul has been embodying the virtues of life in high heels for two decades. ‘Kinky Boots’ With Wayne Brady as a Cross-Dresser You Could Take Home to Mother 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Now, with the show’s host Ira Glass signed on as producer and cowriter, and Birbiglia assuming the jobs of star and director,  has become a movie of modest but solid virtues. Sleepwalk With Me: His American Life 2012-08-24T04:21:10Z

There are virtues in his always watchable if rarely penetrating interpretation. Review: ‘Hamlet’ as an After-Party That Got Out of Hand 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

She likens napping to a “decadent snack” and extols the virtues of dimly lit rooms. When it comes to happiness, Americans are doing it wrong. These books are here to help. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Carrey is the kind of performer whose shtick reliably trumps psychological sense, and the film’s blithe incoherence with respect to its main character is one of its virtues. | 'Mr. Popper?s Penguins': A Home Invasion by the Antarcticans 2011-06-16T22:03:05Z

Utterly devoid of wit, replacing that required virtue with banal repetitions and entirely predictable humour. Russell Brand to tour mosques and synagogues with new comedy show 2013-06-11T15:52:08Z

The reality is that these disqualifying flaws, for many of Trump’s supporters, are virtues. “Real Americans” vs. “Coastal Elites”: What right-wing sneers at city dwellers really mean 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

The lands are now at risk of dying out, partly because of their virtues: They exist in remote, off-the-grid areas. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

Performed on Wednesday by five women from Trinayan Dance Theater in the Odissi style of Indian dance, it’s a 70-minute suite of solos, duets and larger ensembles that demonstrates a range of truly classical virtues. Dance Review: Fringe Festival Presents Trinayan Dance Theater 2010-08-20T22:19:00Z

In his article, he cited the show as a contributor to "misrepresentations which reflect ... an unhappy compulsion on the part of some to denigrate virtues such as patriotism, honor and courage." A war over 'Blackadder' and Britain's legacy of WWI 2014-01-08T00:03:32Z

There is, then, broad agreement that academic freedom, understood as the “free search for truth and its free exposition,” is an essential academic virtue. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Seated behind the wheel of an onstage facsimile, she extolled the car’s virtues. Julia Meade, TV Pitchwoman on ‘Ed Sullivan,’ Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

For American readers, On The Road serves as a series of vignettes of all the virtues they suspect their country of possessing. The Magic of Kerouac, On the Road and Teenage Experience 2012-07-06T11:00:00Z

But the great virtue of Eldridge's approach is his painstaking exploration of what addiction entails and his refusal to pass easy moral judgements. Review 2011-03-18T00:46:40Z

All the virtues, and all the monsters are here and at the centre is a boy so dull, any of us could take his place. Harry Potter and the end of a pop-culture phenomenon 2011-07-12T18:59:01Z

No matter the many distinct virtues of British black music – why would you need our rappers if you've got hundreds of your own? How Jay Sean and Taio Cruz took America by storm 2010-04-01T20:30:00Z

In a silent speech to her mother, she observes, “If there is one virtue you are lacking, it is tact.” Three French Novels You Should Read 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Claude Lévi-Strauss observed in The Savage Mind that the virtue of a small-scale model is that it sacrifices the sensible in favour of the intelligible. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Twyla Tharp’s new ballet shares some of that story and some of those virtues. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z

“It’s a Wonderful Life” is often remembered, as one New York Times review put it just after its release, as “a parable of virtue being its own reward.” “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z

Outdoor Stove It wasn’t until this year that I began to see the virtues of car camping. | Gifts for Campers 2011-12-20T22:26:37Z

Perhaps even more impressively, she makes their virtues interesting. Amazing grace 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Having used a similar strategy on others of their works, the artists describe watching spontaneous collaborations emerge as viewers realize the virtue of coordinating their musical and visual contributions. Review: Is ‘WE’ installation deep? No. Is it fun? Definitely. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

The resultant paintings are absent — except for the Met’s own “Death of Socrates,” another tale of virtue and renunciation, which is preceded by four drawings. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Its virtues and its utilities seem so crushingly obvious.” Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Friendship and cowardice, virtue and sin – chivalry in England was never one without the other. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z

Even in Las Vegas, where selective memory is a civic virtue, memorable meals have been the focus of stag and hen parties. Food Is the Attraction at Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties 2010-06-23T04:31:00Z

Its understatement, though, can be a limitation as well as a virtue. ‘The Tender Bar’ Review: Where Everybody Knows His Name 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

He recommended Catholics reduce screen time and "offensive and harmful words, which the internet amplifies," an intention that is potentially more heart-changing than legalistically debating the virtues, or lack thereof, of faux meat. Can you eat an Impossible Burger if you're giving up meat for Lent? 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Yet through the compassion and human fallibility of his characters, McPherson provides hope that, although goodness may wear off, it's also a renewable virtue. Review: Haunting, effective revival of 'The Weir' 2013-05-24T17:12:08Z

While not without their virtue, their narratives are one-dimensional compared to films about their male counterparts. Sexism and the music doc: 'Grace Jones has had her 15 minutes' 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

There is a school of social observers whose just admiration for the virtues which they often find surviving the ordeal of poverty almost leads them to glorify that ordeal in itself. From the archive, 7 June 1907: Editorial on George Bernard Shaw's remarks on poverty 2012-06-07T06:35:00Z

I’m not sure that Mr. Rosi is interested in trafficking in hope, which is among his great virtues as a filmmaker. ‘Fire at Sea’ Is Not the Documentary You’d Expect About the Migrant Crisis. It’s Better. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

There was, of course, the union of three in the Holy Trinity, four cardinal virtues, five wounds delivered to Christ, seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and 39 names for Jesus Christ. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Nebraska’s new tourism campaign is being met with mixed reactions on social media, as the Cornhusker State’s fiercely self-deprecating campaign sarcastically highlights the very virtues it is often mocked for. Nebraska's new tourism campaign takes 'honest' approach: 'There's nothing to do here' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

However, by virtue of Diamond's painstaking descriptions of traditional life itself, The World before Yesterday really warms the cockles. Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology 2013-01-31T14:01:01Z

TIME: Paterson weighs the virtues of writing, or of making art, just for yourself versus putting it out in the world. Director Jim Jarmusch Talks New Film 'Paterson' 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The pathetic is achieved when the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensitivity or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

But if suffering is never in short supply nor are opportunities for intercession, as Helen learns, to live according to the virtues of compassion, courage, self-sacrifice. Moral Questions Lurk Beneath a Ghost Story in ‘Melmoth’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

If Archie was typically American, it was not because of its actual virtue but because of its deeply American insistence on its own virtuousness, impossible to maintain. The Corrupted American Innocence of Archie Comics 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Insofar as it frames the face, hair easily becomes the focus of a moralized understanding of physical attractiveness, telegraphing sinfulness or virtue, depending. Swooning over Justin Trudeau: Our collective freak-out over Canada’s Prime Minister is about more than “nice hair” 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

In reality, the virtue of blogs and the comments they attract lies in the diversity of opinion in itself: so does the value of democracy. The exciting absence of certainty 2011-01-20T17:52:41Z

“Our choir and our actors — by virtue of who they are and their commitment to the work — they all mean every word that they sing and say,” Mr. Doerries said. ‘Antigone in Ferguson’ Will Come to Harlem Stage This Fall 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Yet this sense of inhibition may be the movie’s signal virtue. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

This distance is an unexpected pleasure of all one’s long-ago adventures—you can see them for their virtues, when the sting of disappointment has faded. That Time My Band Opened for Blur 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Making a virtue out of necessity, Nihiwatu is totally off the grid — and even manages to produce much of its own food, electricity and diesel fuel. T Magazine: Water World 2010-11-19T20:34:00Z

These questions may seem arcane in this largely positive review, but the problems they suggest are inextricably linked to the novel’s central virtues. Review | A family saga with bounding heart, poetic delivery and plenty of swagger 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

More recently, the “alternative right” writer Jack Donovan, “an advocate for the resurgence of tribalism and manly virtue,” did. Gun owners are obsessed with zombies 2013-02-21T17:28:00Z

And it quickly reminded us of many of Ms. Taylor’s virtues: her personal loveliness and cascade of waist-length fair hair, her eerie purposefulness and capacity for keeping her audience in suspense. Dance Review: Janie Taylor and Sébastien Marcovici Depart City Ballet 2014-03-02T23:25:56Z

But I see no virtue, let alone a remedy, in refusing to enjoy a place that is free and open to all, and terrific. High Line Rhapsody 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Three centuries on, “Agrippina” remains bracing in its bitterness, with few glimmers of hope or virtue in the cynical darkness. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

I would hope that the Reichstag would continue to architecturally embody those virtues. Norman Foster Is Still Looking Upward 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

The troupe’s virtues, however, don’t always add up as they should. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z

Sofiya heaps affection upon Anna, congratulating her on her virtue, straining to prove her innocence, as if she is trying to give her heroine all the encouragement and understanding that she herself never received. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

But this is part of the charm of a play that explores, with cultivated panache, the fact that virtue and vice are, in the end, strictly relative values. Review 2011-01-21T00:42:01Z

This rediscovery of Burke is a distinct political act to retrieve a dying party … Above all, there is a critique of market fundamentalism … Politics is about the nurturing of virtue: honour, loyalty, duty and wisdom. Book reviews roundup: Edmund Burke, Inferno and Five Days in May 2013-05-24T15:00:02Z

Bennett’s Pence tried to dissuade Trump from angering North Korea any further, as Trump extolled the virtues of his own first 100 days in office. WATCH: Baldwin’s Trump sends Grim Reaper Bannon “back to hell” 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

Byron's poem posed his more ardent readers with a difficult challenge: they not only had to redeem his virtue but restore his sense of pleasure. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

Though American tastes are evolving, we're still an aggressively meat-eating people, for whom vegetables are often regarded as a form of punishment or "plant-forward" virtue performance. Drenched in caramel and a heroic pour of rum, this pineapple dessert is an express ride to paradise 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Of course if we flip over the card of the ordinary virtues we find the ordinary vices: resentment, pettiness, chauvinism. Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

But he ended up making a virtue of that by being so mysterious, which was really brilliant, turning his liabilities into a mystery, which made him very sought-after because everybody else is just the opposite. Tales From the Warhol Factory 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Two great tastes that taste great together” was how Reese’s once extolled the virtues of its famous peanut butter cups. FilmStruck and Warner Archive Instant Are Classic-Movie Troves 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Or to see the nation’s profound virtues alongside its failings. Exhibition Review: ‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives 2013-12-16T23:52:04Z

In addition to its ubiquity, Waffle House's sheer lack of pretension is another of its greatest virtues. The artistic allure of Waffle House, America’s most surprising culinary muse 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z

Thatcher is different, and not only by virtue of her domineering personality. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z

If she doesn’t pull her socks up and start to see your virtues, are you going to “leave” her, too? My relationship with my daughter is now as bad as with my ex | Dear Mariella 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

A patient and thorough cop, Farrell tries to remember the rule that his fiddle teacher taught him, “the virtue of slowness.” Book review: ‘Dry Bones in the Valley,’ exciting debut thriller by Tom Bouman

These are the virtues of a well-planned formula, which are not to be underestimated; the catalytic agent, however, was the chemistry of the leads. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z

It’s not a class in acting or comedy so much as it is a seminar in agelessness and professionalism, and in Short’s unmatched ability to turn self-absorption into a virtue. Review: Martin Short Kills in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

The organisational virtues of the Prussian state were evident in Berlin's "spotless streets", says Emmerson, and the clockwork eating habits, with supper taken at precisely 8pm followed by a routine digestive. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z

On the one hand, Ms. Papadopoulos’s take on the art and fashion worlds, which commodify and counterfeit every tender human virtue, is clearly unflinching. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Though mostly a figure of virtue and daughterly obeisance, gradually it is clear that Thomasin’s sharp mouth and modest cleavage are too much for the homestead to handle. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps it is more precise to say that the Parthenon marbles, by virtue of their presence both in Athens and London, helped spread that movement along with sympathy for the Greeks’ cause. Abroad: Demands for the Elgin Marbles Raise Art Partimony Issues 2010-05-05T19:10:00Z

Weber’s acute sense of morality was also complex; she repudiated simplistic sentimentality and wouldn’t allow a hero to be “a dummy concocted of all the impossible virtues a scenario writer could imagine.” “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Sex and the City” landed three of its four central characters with wealthy men as if by virtue of accident or entitlement but certainly not agenda. Television Review: Sex and the City (Atlanta), With Racial Politics 2011-05-29T22:12:02Z

They realize how “privileged” they’ve been, they say, by virtue of their elite university educations and other measures of status. ‘Six’ was shut down on the day it was set to open. It’s finally getting its big Broadway night. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Toccato, set to Bach cello music, showcases Oguike's choreographic virtues: the lush, downward thrust of the lower body; the rhythmic detail of the torso and arms. Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-09T18:44:00Z

A strong believer in the timeless virtues of Western civilization and the need for countries to project power in a lawless world, Professor Kagan was often categorized as a conservative. Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

One of Rattle's enduring virtues is the originality of his programming. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Rattle – review 2013-01-30T18:44:44Z

Casting her handicap as a virtue, she implies that her struggles demonstrate how hard it is for an ordinary citizen to access reliable information about environmental standards or corporate practices. Her Town Depended on the Mill. Was It Also Making the Residents Sick? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

These virtues also informed the performance of three “Liebesträume” for solo piano by Liszt that opened the program. Olympic Music Festival opens season with songs of love 2013-07-01T16:17:08Z

The compromised Melfi aside, there are no regular representatives of dogged virtue in The Sopranos, no good cop endeavouring to bring down the bad man. The Sopranos: 10 years since it finished, it's still the most masterful show ever 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Being extraordinarily affectionate and finding gleaming pieces of good in everyone are lovely virtues for a child, but a single woman with a trusting, wide-open heart spells disaster in our casual hookup culture. My sweet threesome 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z

“Purely by virtue of being born black in America,” Keith says, “I know more about who this dude is than any graduate program could ever teach you.” Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

This was where watercolour showed its special virtues: easily carried in a pocket, it was in a sense contiguous with the landscape itself. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

T spoke to Dr. Allouche about the virtues of electrical currents, the healing power of the hand and his golden rule: never, ever do steam extractions. | Dr. Philippe Allouche on the Bio-Lift Facial 2012-12-20T22:35:38Z

Ishiuchi the elder was raised according to the Japanese "good wife, wise mother" precept regarding women's submissiveness as a virtue. In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

He had neither the commercial virtues nor the military ones; in the German army in World War I he was deemed unworthy of promotion. 'Hitler': the mystery of the F?hrer's appeal 2012-04-11T22:26:08Z

She follows a math curriculum for each child and does group read-alouds of history, Shakespeare and the study of virtues. The Home Schoolfluencer 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

By virtue of job and inclination, I’ve got a lot of favorite wines. For Northern Rhône Reds, It’s Not the Age but the Emotions 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

His virtue is shattered by duplicitous superiors and the crime that engulfs his family and fills him with vengeance. 'Days of Grace' director Everardo Gout shines light on violence in Mexico 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Combine these forces with the casualization of fine dining, and restaurant patrons are more open to hearing eclectic music while debating the virtues of pinot versus cabernet grapes. The sound of great food _ curated restaurant music 2012-06-01T14:27:14Z

Someone was extolling the virtues of plantation life in a soft Southern accent as maids polished the silverware in the kitchen. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z

That’s an extremely high bar, but at its best, “Awaken, My Love!” recalls many of those virtues. Childish Gambino’s ‘Awaken, My Love!’ Sounds Like the 1970s 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

If you fused the virtues of the original “Mamma Mia!” and its new sequel, “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” the result would be one good movie. Review: “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Saves the Best for Last 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

He even extolled the virtues of rehab, swigging from a vodka bottle and then springing "leaks" from his hoodie -- a joke that brought a mix of cheers and confused silence from the audience. Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z

Everything in France is treated as a fad or fashion, which has the virtue of giving every idea its moment in the sun. Reclaiming the Past in the Internet’s ‘Infinite Present’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In a lot of books about environmentalism or sustainability, there’s this implied virtue. A book for Luddite-curious city dwellers: Mark Sundeen's 'The Unsettlers' 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

You know it's going to turn out right, that virtue is going to be rewarded and evil is going to be punished. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z

Mark was Damian's best friend at school, at odds with his gayness, partly because by virtue of being handsome and sporty he had the option of fitting in, though at a cost. Maggie and Me by Damian Barr – review 2013-04-25T09:00:12Z

It seems safe to say that Harvey Weinstein has that faith, and you can envision his homes being filled with framed samplers extolling the importance of that virtue — well, perhaps of chutzpah, too. ‘Finding Neverland’ Opens at American Repertory Theater 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Because it inculcated a false sense of virtue and goodness, Niebuhr wrote, power was more likely to transgress God's laws than do God's work. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z

Her latest bit of wisdom is a Tweet about the virtues of… bread. Oprah pardons gluten: Why her “glorious revelation that bread is okay” is causing such a stir 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

It matters that William and Kate, two grinning, waving, all but silent individuals command so much attention by sheer virtue of birth and marriage. Royal spawn is horrifyingly important 2012-12-03T21:15:00Z

"I don't want people walking in there with a sense of virtue," she says. | A Garage Sale at MoMA 2012-10-26T21:00:52Z

Here is a one-sentence review of “American Sniper”: the martial virtues are so precious, rare, and fragile that they should be sent into combat only with the greatest caution. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

"I'm just trying to integrate them into a dialogue, show that they're human beings with virtues and flaws, with their needs as parents and children." Inarritu's 'Biutiful' opens Mexican film festival 2010-10-17T01:15:00Z

Rachel is admiring Melissa's kitchen – "not trendy, not frightful antique-y, but a perfectly timeless hymn to domestic virtue" – when Melissa offers her a cup of tea. The Hive by Gill Hornby – review 2013-05-22T13:01:01Z

Baloch was brave and foolish, phenomenally independent and pathetically needy, protective of her virtue and, as was her right, also willing to trade on it. Probing the Murder of a Pakistani Internet Sensation 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Curtis’ show made a virtue out of poverty, and while that might not have been entirely new in pop culture, it sure felt that way. Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin?s Russia 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her refusal to partake in traditionally feminine activities becomes comic by virtue of her boldness, by the brazen way she throws “parent” in there, just for good measure. Perspective | Why Peg Bundy was the true ’90s-sitcom domestic goddess 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Yet some such quibbles are probably inevitable with any general positive account of the virtues of literature. How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z

Still, for all its pain, the movie is about the virtue and the quality that inhere in success. In “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Freddie Mercury Is More Interesting Than His Music 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

“The question becomes, is a white person, by virtue of their identity, prohibited” from paying homage to another group by reclaiming stereotypes? What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures

But, as George Packer has written in this magazine, Obama’s recent speeches also constitute an “extended farewell address,” extolling the virtues of “tolerance, compromise, and our common humanity.” Obama’s Lessons, Unlearned 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The talk is often full and florid, causing the taciturn Krak to complain, “What is the virtue of incessant speech?” Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z

In short, if you don't eat clean you are lacking in virtue. Clean eating: yet another pious diet to squeeze the joy out of good food 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

By virtue of its length, the elegance of its editing and the warmth of its curiosity, “Mr. Bachmann” and his class might remind you of a Frederick Wiseman film. ‘Mr. Bachmann and His Class’ Review: Learning From the Best 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

“True Style” provides an overview of their efforts: democratic men can borrow gorgeousness from above or below, luxuriating not in beauty, per se, but in work-based virtues such as “craftsmanship.” It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Protestant rule was presented as a threat not only to the British way of life and the family, but to virtue itself. "Benedetta" is the latest in a history of sexy nunsploitation that dates back to Enlightenment 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

“Every Day Is Extra” offers a detailed record of an important life, a dutiful recounting of long-forgotten triumphs and setbacks, and a high-minded coda about the virtues of public service. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Make no mistake: problems persist, but those who remain aware of the vices in this spirited, ancient city will be rewarded by its virtues. 36 Hours in Naples, Italy 2013-01-09T16:09:43Z

Among its embarrassment of virtues was its nose for character. When good TV goes bad: how The Wire lost its spark 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s a virtue, a value, a trope and an aesthetic. As far as studied nonchalance is concerned, that’s how you learn.” Brooks Brothers Revives the Preppiest Shirt Collar 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Yet too often, the wellness movement's treatment of idleness – which rebrands the medieval sin of sloth as a virtue – reinforces its privileges. "Doing nothing" is all the rage — is it a form of resistance or just an indulgence for the lucky few 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

But uncouthness turns out to have its virtues. We don't need a Die Hard 'origin' story 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

The ordinary virtues and vices are a human given. Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Given the Jimmy Savile scandal, a song extolling the virtues of "young wild girls" sounds a little off-key to British ears in 2012, but you can't fault the tunefulness at work. Bruno Mars: Unorthodox Jukebox – review 2012-12-09T00:05:56Z

Part of that hard work includes bringing that Olympic spirit – not just the old homilies of work and self-improvement through competition, but the sturdier virtues of hope and will – back to his gymnastics club. Pommel horses and protesters 2012-08-25T12:00:00Z

And as a defiant, learned and unbreakable figure of virtue, Mr. Hutson’s handsome, ever-eloquent Hans emerges as a sort of “Man for All Seasons” type of martyr. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

But, she says, “filming is a reflex” for her, and by virtue of the access privileges that came with being family she had amassed thousands of hours of footage of a notoriously private historical figure. Nancy Pelosi is notoriously private, but her daughter filmed her for years 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

There is no virtue in any of it. The Bachelor season 20, episode 5: this is the dawning of the age of amazing 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

But several weeks ago I went there on assignment for Architectural Digest and returned to the office extolling the virtues of something unexpected—a toilet. A Fabulous Fixture 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

New single Night and Day expounds the virtues of familial provision, One Life Stand values romantic dependency, and they dedicate one tune to keyboardist Joe Goddard's child sleeping nearby, "so keep it down". The kids are all right 2012-07-30T10:53:58Z

It reflects how much of this music is now based in Brooklyn, not only by virtue of where the musicians live, but also where the music is being played. Jazz in June: Sorting Through the Abundance 2011-06-02T22:13:45Z

Ideally, in contrast, he maintained that lasting connections — intimate, civil and political — are based on a mutual respect for the virtues each participant holds dear. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Liu is appealing as the initially reserved heroine, and the show serves as a picturesque, convincing argument for the virtues of heritage tourism in Yunnan Province. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

The crowd got exactly that on Saturday, and it felt like a culmination of modern moods and those old, trustworthy pop-star virtues.  Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl: Playful, precise and pure fun 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

But Ocean’s bravery — one of the sexiest virtues — earned him only praise and support — Jay-Z and Beyoncé, and Tyler, the Creator, from Odd Future, all rushed to his side with shout-outs. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z

Contrasting a Biblical ethics of individualism with the moral centrality of the state in Greek philosophy yields the surprising conclusion that obedience is rather more a Greek than Hebrew virtue. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z

This, apparently, is "a trend that undervalues the virtues of the well-made play" in favour of theatre that is characterised by a "smoke and mirrors of post-modern moves". Noises off: Memo to budding theatre professionals ? know what your 'why' is 2011-03-25T16:21:02Z

The government's embracing of private philanthropy as a virtue rather than a temporary necessity demonstrates the need for such thinking. For art's sake ? and ours 2011-03-30T21:00:00Z

“Arguably, we are the sum total of our experiences. It’s almost like building up a resume by virtue of the things that you did.” How to Live the Minimalist Lifestyle 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Its virtues are so obvious that raising a few red flags seems more churlish than usual. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ the Mini-Series, Unspools Its Power Plays on PBS 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

This sparked a debate about the virtues of “likability,” and a round of headshaking over the alignment of friendship with reading. Elena Ferrante and What Liking Is Like 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Media invocations of Orwell's virtues increased markedly after 9/11, when it seemed to some opportunist intellectuals as though his life and oeuvre prophetically justified the pre-emptive invasion of far-off sandy places. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z

By sheer virtue of asking them, Reitman's movie has injected some powerful ideas into the American political discourse at the precise moment when they are most needed. The ballad of Gary Hart: “The Front Runner” raises timely questions about sex, power and the... 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Where the word pretentious differs from pretending is that it carries with it the sting of class betrayal But claims to ordinariness and salt-of-the-earth virtue are themselves pretentious. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Civic virtue, where leaders put the common good above their own interests, formed the only bulwark against decay.” Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

The pioneering adventure travel outfitter Mountain Travel Sobek is best known for its remote adventures in wilderness destinations that, by virtue of location, require a fair investment of time to reach, let alone explore. Thousands of Miles, Seven Days 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

When you’re wistfully pining for Houston’s urban virtues, things are not going well. Tampa: America’s hottest mess 2012-08-18T16:00:00Z

While Logan opens up the subject to speculate on the difficult transition from adolescence to adulthood and the virtues of fantasy versus reality, his dialogue falls too easily into a mechanically antithetical format. Peter and Alice – review 2013-03-25T23:00:01Z

It is a measure of Rama's spiritual virtue that he accepts his exile, even after it is revoked, as his fate, or his divine duty according to dharma — the Eastern religious concept of natural law. 'Ramayana' at ACT: vivid dramatization of the Hindu epic 2012-10-20T01:32:07Z

The mods' belief that looking good was practically a moral virtue could be, the authors acknowledge, their achilles heel. The A-Z of Mod by Paolo Hewitt and Mark Baxter – review 2012-06-01T10:00:01Z

Over the last two decades, few artists in my accumulated jukebox have received as many spins, generated as many internal explorations — or received as many blank stares when I preached the band's virtues. Unsung Mekons are a musical beacon of persistence and creativity 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

They indulge in the petty comforts of gossip, their judgments disguised as concern, their desperation to reassure themselves of their luck — and virtue — disguised as pity. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

They’re left for dead by the general and are only saved by virtue of a few local villagers putting themselves at risk through a series of terrifying nighttime trips into enemy territory. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

“We do not select by virtue of advocacy or political content,” he said. Hollywood Revs Up Partisan Films a Year Ahead of Election 2011-10-19T22:54:25Z

For a book that so espouses the virtue of mind interrogating mind, there’s not much evidence of it in this book. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Carnegie's great virtue, beyond the simplicity of his core ideas, was his unadorned prose. Carnegie's and Post's common sense, updated 2011-10-07T19:51:05Z

Trilling had published a scolding review of “Portnoy’s Complaint,” characterizing the then 36-year-old Roth as “grimly deterministic,” and the novel itself as lacking “virtues of courage, kindliness, responsibility.” Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

"By virtue of being in a movie like that, it just changes people's perception of you," he says. Gosling at ease in every role except movie star 2013-03-20T16:53:12Z

You know, that vaunted virtue of politicians negotiating compromise in good faith. Making "Cobra Kai" great again: The series returns with a parable about the peril of bipartisanship 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Next season has the virtue of being more spaced out between fall and spring, unlike this year. Washington Ballet unrolls a season of world premieres and masterworks 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday night a series of these virtues, often in feminine form, caught the breath. Dance Review: Under an Enchantment and Catching Z?s for a Century, but With Both Eyes Open 2011-07-06T22:11:45Z

Gen. David Petraeus, already somewhat famous by virtue of his quote in The New York Times asking, “Someone tell me how this ends?” would be chairing the meeting. 59 Tomahawks and 5,900 years of slaughter: A brief history of Syria 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Spouting the script taken from the advertorial, they ponder the Imperial's virtues in a seedy diner and even continue the discussion in the restroom doorway as Lee takes a leak. Video artist Gerard Byrne: the great pretender 2013-01-17T06:30:01Z

The convent sits at the highest point of Ste-Marie, where it inculcates a species of virtue that tends to dwindle into convention. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z

One other incredibly interesting aspect of non-alcoholic beer is one of the primary communities that often extols its virtues: athletes. The diverse world of non-alcoholic beer 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The scene depicts the emotional reactions of the first couple to the story of a poor peasant woman abused by a sadistic tyrant until she saves herself through the virtues of Communism. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z

"When I'm with her, I'm reminded of the virtues of the English," Violet says of Laura. 'Downton Abbey' sneak peek: Matthew, Mary quarrel 2012-07-22T07:01:04Z

Making a virtue of unoriginality, this clammy little ghost story, confidently directed by Mac Carter, conjures a whole heap of atmosphere from little more than clever camera angles and bedsheet apparitions. Movie Review: In ‘Haunt,’ by Mac Carter, Unoriginality Is a Virtue 2014-03-07T00:34:19Z

It’s the incandescent lightbulb, which embodies the utilitarian virtues of cheapness, practicality, simplicity and so on, except when it comes to energy. A Compendium of Everyday Genius 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z

Yes, that is exactly what she said, and as odd as that scene seems, in all of its eccentricity it was a rather brilliant way of getting across the virtues of patience. Patience Is a (Sexual) Virtue 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

The better way is to be Isaiah Berlin’s versatile fox, not a single-minded obsessed hedgehog, or to embrace Machiavelli’s virtues of imitation, adaptation and approximation. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Gaddis says his goal was to present his subject fully and fairly, with flaws and virtues accounted. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

In a 1989 opinion piece, Michael Pollan questioned the “unmistakable odor of virtue that hovers in this country over a scrupulously maintained lawn”. Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Instead, it preaches the virtues of normalcy as a predictor of future success. | 'Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage': On VH-1, Prog-Rock Wizards Onstage, Maybe Angels Off 2010-06-26T00:47:00Z

Making the repertoire topical is difficult when signing contracts three or four years into the future, so Zambello champions timeless virtues. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

By his rejection of her he hopes to demonstrate Griselda’s virtue, then restore her to the throne. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z

A Vatican statement on Tuesday said Francis has approved a degree recognizing the “heroic virtues” of Wyszynski, who died in 1981. Pope puts Polish Cold War Cardinal Wyszynski on path to sainthood 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Between the familiar parental refrains of “Don’t pull on that!” and “Oh, don’t do that,” Ms. Carlson touted the virtues of the lawn. Cooper Hewitt Museum: A Mommy-and-Me Hot Spot 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The Land Institute’s research director, Tim Crews, ran down perennial grains’ virtues. Perspective | Perennial grains could be a key weapon against climate change. But not quite yet. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

It must be embedded in the Palin genetic code. made a virtue of inexperience in the 2008 presidential campaign, baiting her critics for being elitist. | Bristol Dances in Circles 2010-11-24T12:08:00Z

Humanism is a common virtue for all audiences. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z

This attitude, along with a portrait of his childhood living through the Blitz in London and his country’s attitude towards America in the aftermath of the war, is one of the book’s chief virtues. Alexander Chancellor’s Laugh 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Lucas’s self-portraits similarly draw upon the animal and the edible to reveal not only dimensions of her interior life but also the exterior pressures placed upon it by virtue of her gender. The Animal and the Edible in Sarah Lucas’s Self-Portraits 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Many on the indie side of the equation—a.k.a. the "critically adored" brand of rock—have made vulnerability a virtue. The Stones Come Back From Exile--Again 2010-05-07T20:19:00Z

What’s more, “The effect of their pity and their virtue was to leave both of us with the sense that I couldn’t possibly have anything in common with them.” Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z

Ivanka is white, wealthy, and beautiful, and these attributes often pass as moral virtues. Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

But its only real virtue is that it gives Tracie Bennett a chance to offer an impressively plausible portrait of the doomed star both on and off stage. End of the Rainbow - review 2010-11-23T01:04:00Z

I recognize the precarity of all this, the seductive notion that this deference is not a consequence of a pernicious hierarchy but rather a consequence of my own hard work, wisdom, and virtue. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Despite a politically demanding time, it acts as if ambiguity and discretion were automatically virtues. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

One might call this the Judaism of the Sunday school, a religion of love, tolerance, respect for the other, democratic values and all the other virtues to which American Jews pay homage. The Persistence of the Oldest Hatred 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

But most descendants of the performers in the film believe its virtues outweigh its faults. Book re-examines vilified film about First Nations people 2014-04-02T20:44:26Z

There is virtue in the creeping myrtle’s lack of grandeur — and that antic, humble, low and resilient growth may be what makes grandeur possible in the first place. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

It's one thing to agree that virtue brings contentment and quite another to steadfastly practise it under the pressure of our individual and collective habits. From Ace Ventura to I AM: one man's search to end human suffering 2013-01-30T15:42:24Z

For all the play's virtues, however, I found myself questioning its attack on liberal pieties. American Justice – review 2013-01-16T17:45:18Z

Isn't the Incarnation the supreme expression of God's needing to be mortal in order to manifest a fuller ranger of virtues? Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance 2012-06-29T21:55:17Z

If Taylor indulged vulgarity, Ms. Reynolds embraced virtue. The Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Smith claims that the Trump/Pence administration has made blatantly clear that "they do not reflect the best virtues of evangelicalism." Evangelical Taylor U community in uproar over Pence speech: "Deeply at odds with following Christ" 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

These countries never tire of extolling the virtues of democracy but when the people vote for the wrong party, they condemn the outcome. After Tunisia: Don't forget Palestine 2011-02-04T12:09:42Z

And so even when Thursday’s concert wasn’t entirely hitting where it aimed, you were always watching two virtues: novelty and risk. Rubén Blades at the Rose Theater 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Impatience was one of Dr. King’s great virtues: His “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was published as a pamphlet with the title “Why We Can’t Wait.” In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

In one, a white man oversees colonial natives in loincloths as they unload a ship, a demonstration of the virtues of commerce. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

This had got him into trouble in England; it was his virtue in Europe. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z

As Tuesday approaches, I’ll urge a different virtue, both for those who transmit the news and those who consume it: Perspective | Election Day will be the media’s D-Day. The skill we need most is the one we’ve never mastered. 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

The virtue of the atlas conceived by Johannes Klencke was, through sheer extravagance, to ennoble something that was actually increasingly universal. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Many dismiss the sudden cascade of new wines that proclaim their environmental virtue as New Age gimmickry. In France, Pesticides Get in Way of Natural Wines 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

It's avowedly interim and partisan but it has one unique virtue: it was written from the frontline of Thatcher's assault on British life. How Margaret Thatcher left her mark on British culture 2013-04-13T17:00:00Z

Leave aside Kevin’s snobbery, which the play implies is not just a charismatic antihero’s pose but an actual virtue shared by anyone smart and honest. Review: ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’ Sells Upward Mobility for Dummies 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Far from suggesting grace under pressure, that greatest of Hemingway virtues, it makes you think that he’s about to pass out. Hemingway the Museumgoer at the Met 2011-09-15T22:52:42Z

Mr. Tait’s collection does not run amok with ideas, and that is its virtue. On the Runway Blog: Catch Tom Ford but Don't Miss Thomas Tait During London Fashion Week 2011-09-19T07:41:56Z

Interestingly, in developing this theme, Reich favorably cites so-called “virtue conservatives” of the 1980s and 1990s. Robert B. Reich’s Recipe for a Just Society 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

If nothing else, Homecoming is a matter-of-fact demonstration of the virtue of rolling up one's sleeves, keeping calm and carrying on. Homecoming by Susie Steiner – review 2013-05-03T16:25:01Z

The movie became science fiction by virtue of that fact. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

His single redeeming quality is his capacity for hard work, the clichéd virtue of all “backward” Midwestern types. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The success of “The Waltons” owed almost everything to the actors and the characters they played, members of a homespun, hardscrabble rural family used to surmounting challenges through the old-fashioned virtues. Ralph Waite, Patriarch in TV Series ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 85 2014-02-14T06:00:50Z

So does Mr. Guirgis, whose vastly compassionate, darkly comic play cross-examines the Gospels, posing complex moral and spiritual questions about divine justice and human failures of virtue. Review: For ‘Judas Iscariot,’ a Courtroom Drama of Epic Proportions 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton The message of Cinderella is one of hope: that virtue will be rewarded, and that the darkest night will be followed by the dawn. Cinderella: Royal Ballet; Birmingham Royal Ballet ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

At least for now, this well intentioned and intermittently thrilling musical makes you want to applaud its efforts at “wokeness” while also wondering if wokeness has become just another form of virtue signaling. Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Breaks the Jukebox Musical Mold 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Rogue One” and “Captain Marvel” actor Ben Mendelsohn, who plays Milla’s father, described the script as “a beautiful rendering of the finest virtues of Australia”. Harrowing but humorous film 'Babyteeth' finds laughter in pain 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

We were sitting in yet another nondescript auditorium listening to yet another admissions counselor extolling the virtues of yet another college. The empty nest: What I learned during my daughter’s first year away 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

As the town's main wrongheaded opportunist and gentleman pot farmer, Randy employs poorly thought-out schemes and spouts platitudes and virtues in the name of drumming up sales for his pot business, Tegridy Farms. Vote or die? In its "Pandemic Special," "South Park" presents a mixed message on the election 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Like Mizoguchi, Shindo created many forceful women characters who, by virtue of their willpower and love, tend to "save" their male counterparts. Kaneto Shindo 2012-05-30T16:58:59Z

These virtues are much to the fore in That's Offensive!, a contribution to Seagull Books and Index on Censorship's "Manifestos for the 21st Century" series, addressing the issue of censorship. That's Offensive! Criticism, Identity, Respect by Stefan Collini ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:52Z

One virtue of Mr. Carroll’s theory is that it captures the paradoxical nature of horror’s allure: the very oddity that makes monsters repulsive is precisely what makes them attractive. Gray Matter: The Critique of Pure Horror 2011-07-17T04:49:00Z

Why theatricalize a work that achieves its excellence through the short story virtues of modesty, compression and understatement? Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

And in her essay, she alluded to consulting with Perrineau before publishing, saying she "generously allowed me to speak about your many virtues here and tell these readers that you are moving on." The exasperating Lena Dunham paradox: Heads she wins, tails we lose 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Church, for these folks, is the only antidote to perverse secular rhythms and virtues, and Daniel is playing their song. Are you SBNR (spiritual but not religious)? 2013-03-02T13:00:00Z

But the production does have its virtues, among them an opening ice-skating scene and a charming Christmas party. London Nutcrackers Defy Logic, and Still Delight 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

By virtue of their youth and innocence, they are primed to dive into a new sea, escape toward a new world. Of Mice and Men 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

He is on surer ground in claiming that they would be “appalled by how money has come to dominate American politics,” obliterating even the pretense of virtue. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Traditionally the prince has less to work with; his role is not exactly to be a character but to embody the virtues of honor and chivalry. Ballet Review: Ballet Stands on Ceremony 2013-12-10T16:26:42Z

Once again, I publicly praised their virtues to an increasingly skeptical world audience.  Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z

The problem, though, is that the Civil War then becomes merely a tragic clash of two sides, each convinced of its virtue and fidelity to national ideals. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Confederacy and Others Depict the ?Lost Cause? 2011-12-05T23:01:15Z

She was 17 when she joined the British army during World War II, served as an intelligence officer in Palestine and mastered the “military virtues of “courage, dash, loyalty, self-discipline.” Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

But the virtues here so outweigh the flaws that to complain seems almost like ingratitude. A New Novel by Louise Erdrich Haunted by Covid and George Floyd’s Death 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Strangely, the film’s modest dramatic virtues work actively against the pleasure principle and diminish the film’s strongest elements. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Now, I run a comedy listings website, and so am immersed in humour more than most, and I'm particularly exposed to this phenomenon by virtue of following hundreds of comedians on my professional Twitter account. Can it, armchair comedians, the joke's wearing thin 2013-02-12T17:34:12Z

Much of the trading that went on in the prelude to the crisis was almost nihilistic, utterly lacking any redeeming virtue. Film: When Did Gekko Get So Toothless? 2010-09-24T14:38:00Z

Kindness, whether from the classmate who offered a sandwich or a nurse’s smile, was the virtue that made the biggest impact on the children. What terminally ill children taught this doctor about how to live 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

“The Newsroom” is still righteous and romantic, but the characters now compete less over virtue than over virtuosity. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom’ Returns, With Some New Faces and Issues 2013-07-12T21:33:38Z

Your book begins by connecting the increasing focus on the concept of privilege with the idea of virtue. The True and False Virtues of the Left 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Divertimento No. 15” easily exemplified these virtues and far more sophisticated ones. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z

Meanwhile, an unseen narrator extols the animal’s core virtue: “Honey badger don’t give a . . .” — well, a darn. How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

These virtues, touching and arresting for their own sake, keep giving the characters more color and depth. Dance Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ From American Ballet Theater at BAM 2013-12-15T22:25:37Z

He was the French spymaster, by virtue of practice and by occupation. Make wine and kill the king: The legendary vineyard at the heart of a grand European conspiracy 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

In the end, the piece celebrates modesty and virtue with a generosity of spirit that suggests a lesser Sheridan. The Poor Soldier 2010-07-01T20:45:00Z

Service is clearly a virtue that means a lot to her. Pottermore Released a Patronus Test. Here's What Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's Might Be. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Finkelstein said the great cinematic virtue of ransom notes is that they are instantly identifiable to audiences and more economical than, say, ransom phone calls. We?re Holding Your Plot Device. If You Want It Back, Send Us ... 2011-07-02T01:33:02Z

“Old houses, buildings, whatever, attract ghosts and their stories by virtue of their longevity,” he says. Who you gonna call? Ghost historian Tim Krepp.

Discretion may be a virtue in the upscale hospitality business, but not in documentary film. Review: ‘Always at the Carlyle’ Hints at Scandal, Chooses Discretion 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Biracial characters and a diverse array of families are well-represented, and both novels extol the virtues of therapy, something the Potter books could've benefited from, considering the trauma most of the characters experience. Harry Potter echoes in new books by Rainbow Rowell and Patrick Ness 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

"I stop being 'me' for a little while and become 'us', and that way lies empathy, the great social virtue." Jon Boden's big singalong 2010-07-28T21:15:00Z

Chart-topping pop stars strive to be eclectic and strange; some can even claim to be “indie” by virtue of partnering with streaming services rather than major labels. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Success or failure simply reflects personal abilities and virtues. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z

Violet tells her daughter-in-law, Cora, that she is looking forward to seeing Cora’s mother again: “When I’m with her I am reminded of the virtues of the English.” Critic’s Notebook: ‘Downton Abbey’ Begins Third Season on Sunday on PBS 2013-01-03T12:59:00Z

But it also involves added consumption at a time when the virtue of using and accruing less is ascendant. Carolyn Hax: When people see a rainbow family through the prism of stupidity 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

His massive physique and noble image made him ideal for characters that epitomized masculine strength and pride and heroic virtues. Dara Singh, 83, Bollywood Star and Wrestler, Dies 2012-07-15T03:20:52Z

White producers can virtue signal by driving around in their Priuses, and Matthew McConaughey makes it OK for them to slum in Lincoln luxury sedans. Netflix's "#blackAF" is Kenya Barris' wealthier, shallower, and meaner "Black-ish" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

It borrows plot points from 18th-century novels — upstart families, broken engagements, virtue besmirched, a hint of the gothic — but the focus on slavery adds a rawness to the book. George S. Patton sailed off to save the world 75 years ago — and read these novels on the way 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

As a film, the show’s a success, making a virtue of necessity and opening boundless intriguing possibilities for future productions until we can all get back inside McCaw Hall again. A ‘comedy’ about a seducer? Seattle Opera tackles new version of ‘Don Giovanni’ with skill and caution 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Making a virtue of the story's anachronisms, he plays the whole thing more or less in earnest. TV review: The First Men In The Moon 2010-10-19T22:00:00Z

Not one critic turned up for the press night last week, despite the obvious virtues and important ambitions of the project. The real crisis in the arts is not funding 2010-07-22T08:00:00Z

By virtue of being a new parent, your life is full of decisions that others will judge. She’s feeding her baby formula. And the in-laws won’t shut up about it. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Reading the book can feel like watching a morality play about the virtues of being slow to judge. A Trump Biography for Teens Is a New Lens on the President’s Totalizing Awfulness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

By virtue of the vantage of these paintings, there is a gesture towards some first-person perspective: it looks like we are on ground level, looking up, or from a high window, looking down. Georgia O’Keeffe’s urban side 2012-07-25T16:42:00Z

I’m not talking about virtual travel videos or Oculus Rift or recreational drugs, each of which I’m sure has its virtues. Amid the pandemic, an adventure addict finds solace in imagination 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The hotel imposes on the inmates a bland collective culture of banal romantic pop songs and didactic playlets that dramatize the virtues of couplehood. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

They represent archetypal Bong characters: socially marginal, loyal to each other, but not necessarily heroic or noble by virtue of their poverty. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Despite initial skepticism of his information and general distrust of his character, Todbaum is accepted largely by virtue of his association with Sandy, who somewhat reluctantly vouches for his old friend. Jonathan Lethem Imagines a World Where Technology Stops Working 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

For more mature minds, if such there be, this production has the virtues of uniformity of style, which is less common in Beckett interpretations than it should be, and gleaming clarity of expression. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

These two have become a superb partnership not by virtue of any physical likeness but because they kindle each other’s mixture of playfulness and rapture. Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z

Often, it achieved that rarest of artistic virtues, a genuine feeling of spontaneity. A Return to the Nostalgia of “The X-Files” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Cultivating the eulogy virtues, at least in one’s professional life, is much harder to do with a full load of debt. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Honesty isn’t the primary virtue in pop music, but we like to pretend that it is. Review | How do we know if Lorde is keeping it real? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

A Vatican statement on Tuesday said Francis has approved a degree recognizing the “heroic virtues” of Wyszynski, who died in 1981. Pope puts Polish Cold War Cardinal Wyszynski on path to sainthood 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The positio argues for the virtues of the servant of God and can be thousands of pages long. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Not so long ago, however, there were families who considered secrecy a virtue. A Sudden Tragedy Leads to Unsinkable Family Secrets 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Then he threw out his scripted remarks and extolled the virtues of traditional families in an animated address that continued until 9:30 p.m. In Philadelphia, Pope Francis challenges Americans to live up to nation’s ideals 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

This bizarre piece of cross-gender casting made a burlesque of Antony's marriage to Caesar's sister and gave a far too literal reading to the idea of Roman virtues being masculine. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

The drive to revamp cultural coverage has overtaken major newspapers, including the New York Times, just as the wider public has been rediscovering the virtue of traditional reporting. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a truism that complicates his sweeping testimonial to the virtues of irreverence. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

In my line of work, slowness has developed into a virtue. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z

They had good reason to think this; issues of priestly “private vices and public virtues” are not something invented after the sexual revolution. A Protestant liberal defends clerical celibacy 2013-03-10T12:00:00Z

"Here is a link to a piece that I was 'required' to release immediately, by virtue of the impending legal deadline," her Tumblr social media page said on Saturday. Hip hop star Lauryn Hill gets three months for tax evasion 2013-05-07T00:42:55Z

So forgive us, Elliot Reubens and Co, but patience is not one of our virtues. New band of the day ? No 759: Faded Glory 2010-04-01T09:38:00Z

Instead of environmental causes or human rights issues, Rand and her protagonists preached the virtue of selfishness. Sorry about your boyfriend, Internet: Why Oscar Isaac’s Ayn Rand t-shirt broke a million heart-emojis 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

And I don’t want to get entangled in the arguments over jobs, the virtues of density, the baffling antipathy of a substantial portion of the general public toward modernism. A 21st-Century Renaissance for Ford Foundation Landmark 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Through the years, the deceptively simple dish has come to symbolize precision, restraint and care — and often the intersection of these virtues. From "Columbo" to "Only Murders," a pop culture survey of men making omelets 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

Patience may be a virtue, but it's not one of mine. A quick chocolate “pudding” for when you need dessert ASAP 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

Photograph: © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Once upon a time in America, the art collector was regarded as a paragon whose virtue increased with every purchase. From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark – review 2012-07-07T23:05:18Z

The honourable, chivalric man, trying to do his best in a modern world that fails to recognise his virtues, is a recurrent figure in Ford's work. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z

Among its many virtues and drawbacks, social media may be one of the most effective tools ever invented to assist journalists in harming their careers. CNN’s Diana Magnay is latest reminder that Twitter can be a journalist’s worst enemy

That incontestable virtue is crucial both to the movie’s nostalgic kick and to its dramatic emptiness. In “Allied,” Empty Nostalgia for American Heroes 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Excellent," I thought when I picked this off the pile and scanned the blurb, "a book about the virtues of procrastination. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice - review 2012-08-17T21:55:04Z

He became a New Age junkie — meditation, the est movement, yoga, Rolfing, health food — happily recommending the virtues of self-awareness therapy. Hippies, radicals, pranksters: Jerry Rubin has a bio and Paul Krassner has our review 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

We should practice the virtue of humility and avoid the excessive pride that can, when combined with great power, lead to great abuses of power. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

This one has virtues several of those lack, but misses the sheer stylistic authority that any of those have exhibited at their best. Dance Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ With National Ballet of Canada, in London 2013-04-22T21:36:14Z

While claiming high virtue and utopian prospects, it inspired spectacular violations and grotesque criminal violence. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z

The small scale mitigates the daredevil quality, but on the other hand, Bjorfors sometimes makes a virtue of the unvarnished basics. Review | Cirque du Soleil, it’s not. Cirkus Cirkor is less about spectacle and more about mission. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Dressed in miliary-style fatigues, Samba and his comrades drive out to rural villages to lecture peasants and landowners on the virtues of collective agriculture. ‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

But it’s always seemed weird to me that calling someone “angry” is supposed to be such a slam dunk insult, suggesting, as it does, that complacency is some kind of virtue. The ugly fiction the religious project onto atheists 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

There seems to be general agreement that longevity equals virtue, but this is true, in and of itself, neither in life nor in filmmaking. At 101, Portuguese director gets benefit of doubt 2010-05-14T07:07:00Z

The virtues of the series have to do with solid construction and credible plotting and characters, with satisfaction rather than excitement — it gets the job done without insulting your intelligence. When a Break From TV Brings More TV 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The boys and their younger siblings are indoctrinated in the virtues of work from an early age and enchanted by their one-room school. Book review: ‘Some Luck,’ by Jane Smiley

Not the only one, and not one of use to everybody — especially musicians who prize more traditional or popular virtues, some of whom resent his success — but a weather vane all the same. ArtsBeat: Popcast: Vijay Iyer, Jazz Weather Vane 2014-03-07T19:07:06Z

“We must imagine Sisyphus happy,” Camus famously wrote, and such a prompt is the ennobling virtue at the core of “Solitary.” The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Dressed casually in button-down shirt and sneakers, Quinn is big on the virtue of long vowel sounds. ‘Small Talk’ Review: The Art of Meaningless Banter 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

His harsher ideas were then considered acceptable quivers in the bow of statecraft; you will also see his efforts to leaven them with insights about the vicissitudes of human nature, fate and virtue. Review | Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ is looking pretty good in the Trump era 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Alcon Entertainment, which has already convinced Ridley Scott to return for a followup to his futuristic 1982 tale, issued a statement on Thursday extolling the virtues of its proposed follow up. Blade Runner 2 producers invite Harrison Ford to return for sequel 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

As for Mr. Butler, he is no more or less credible as a renegade scientific genius than in any other role he’s attempted; consistency is his chief and perhaps his only virtue as an actor. Review: In ‘Geostorm,’ Gerard Butler (and His Stubble) Save the Planet 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The film is a self-styled morality tale in which each character represents a vice or a virtue. Roger Ebert obituary 2013-04-04T21:17:32Z

James is a writer to watch, one with a fresh take on American flaws and virtues that nevertheless feels old-school screwball. Review | ‘Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe’ author Evan James is a writer to watch 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

DeLay’s quashing of bills to prohibit serious labor abuses demonstrates that even religious virtue can be flexible when there are campaign donations involved. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z

Subtlety, obviously, is not among the virtues of “Chad Deity.” Theater Review: Kristoffer Diaz?s Body Slam to the American Dream 2010-05-21T03:52:00Z

By then, Hellman’s reputation as the country’s most important female playwright was practically eclipsed by her greater celebrity as a defiant emblem of toughness and virtue. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Instead, he offers brief biographies of a range of historical figures whose lives illustrate the eulogy virtues he seeks to recover, and whose example may prove inspirational. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

What Ms. Mazzoli learned from Mr. Andriessen, as related in a video interview, were the virtues of self-reliant industry and composing for specific players. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z

Sometimes, though, a flawed production allows you to observe the virtues of a play more clearly than a perfect one does. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

A model of style, a tower of strength, he’s the artist who most winningly embodies the virtues of American Ballet Theater at its most terrific. Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Sylvia’ Is a Rich Harmony 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Nearly two centuries ago, James Madison warned: “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form of government can render us secure.” Cut Trump supporters off: The horror of migrant kids taken from parents demands personal action 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

But he, all Southern gentleman, simply extolled the virtues of being seen by a lot of movers and shakers. Model for a Day: A Writer Struts His Stuff on the Catwalk During New York Fashion Week 2012-09-14T20:07:40Z

The councillor responsible for libraries, George Brown, obviously sees a virtue in necessity. Hands off our libraries 2011-02-03T21:00:03Z

Whose talents and virtues will be admired Long after this marble shall have mouldered into dust. After the Broadway Show, a Trip to Hamilton’s Grave 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Thea Sharrock’s adaptation, A. O. Scott wrote, “makes a virtue of its absolute obviousness.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Me Before You’ and ‘A Young Doctor’s Notebook’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

It’s not only acceptable, it’s the ultimate virtue signaling. Can We Empathize With Our Enemies? One Author Wants Us to Try. 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

By virtue of those subtitles, we see him deliberately mistranslating as he mediates between Indians and Westerners, sometimes harmlessly, sometimes not. Review: ‘Saints & Strangers,’ a Thanksgiving Story Told in a Native Tongue 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

The whiggish image he crafted of Britain as a land of progress, liberty, reason, manly virtue and superior civilisation depended, Hall argues, on the contrasting reality of his female-dominated domestic experience. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

Nigerian men, in turn, are socialized to see women’s concealment of desire as a sign of virtue, in turn stoking their own desire for her quickly fading worth. The Beauty and Burden of Being a Nigerian Bride 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The non sequitur final anti-government segment seems irreconcilable with all the American virtues he's simultaneously extolling. 'America' documentary rebuts history of exploitation argument 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Over 28 years, the two debated about the greatest of all virtues. Festival of Books: Tavis Smiley's travels with his mentor, Maya Angelou 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

“Ultimately, vice just took over virtue, and he could not control himself,” she says in the film, with a disarming, girlish laugh. Film: Client 9 and Other Interested Parties 2010-10-23T02:33:00Z

Crime is mainstream by virtue of the fact that it's more real, ie we see it all around us, it affects us and it's in the real media – newspapers, etc. Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z

It’s easy to see traits such as advanced language, the ability to be self-aware, and participation in a rich shared culture as unalloyed virtues. You’re making your depression worse: Self-help is bringing us down 2014-02-16T16:30:00Z

But its twee tendencies are redeemed by great virtues: wit, confidence, formal invention and, most of all, a willingness to root its allusions in character and story, and bring everything back to friendship and feeling. "My Community Pulp Fictional Dinner with Andre" 2011-03-25T16:04:00Z

That support is likely to hinge not on his presumed morality or Christian virtue, but rather on his ability to project rugged strength and masculine power. From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The virtues of “The Act” are often distinct from the details of its dramatic arc. “The Act,” Reviewed: A Juicy True-Crime Drama That Deconstructs Soapy Tropes 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Yet they’re still good people without having to be paragons of virtue obsessed with being perfect. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 5: Making the Cut 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

And the fact that, in America, everyone is guaranteed 12 years of education for free by virtue of citizenship is one of the most beautiful things about this country. The cruel choice black women face: Between education and safety 2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

Presented here at the Cyclorama in the South End and seen on Saturday in its penultimate performance, this gymnastic, super-slo-mo rethink suggests that the virtues of justice are never black and white. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

A few comedians took to Twitter extolling the virtue of tough rooms and hostile crowds as important preparation for a nasty and difficult industry. Five Nonbinary Comics on This Moment: ‘I’m Not Some New Buzzword’ 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

"There are many virtues of a fine novel, and many tools in the novelist's tool box, of which moving quickly along is one, but only one," said Stothard. New guard edges out old in wide-ranging Booker longlist 2012-07-25T15:49:46Z

And a word, written in black letter, uncial, Copperplate Script, Roman capitals, or even the “Star Wars” font by a professional, has all the virtues of those far more complicated handmade things. The Calligraphy Stars of Instagram 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Baroque style teaches us that it is only by virtue of form that emotions gain true meaning. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z

Ms. Noujaim was also probably the only director at the guild to extol the virtues of piracy. The Carpetbagger: Jane Lynch on the Delicate Art of Awards Humor 2014-01-27T15:35:45Z

In the main competition, there are other kinds of cinematic responsibility on display — movies that count coherence, clarity and conformity to expectations among their virtues. At Venice Festival, the Wisdom of Lunatics, the Wildness of Age 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Foster’s sympathies are clear and decent, and she keeps the action vigorous and the suspense high, yet the film’s virtues remain superficial: it’s swallowed up by the very hectoring and impersonal sensationalism that it derides. Jodie Foster's Boring and Exciting “Money Monster” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

"They want to define the traditional masculine virtues, things like courage and independence and assertiveness, as a danger to society." "Dairy Pride" and "soy boys": The heated identity politics of non-dairy milk 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

One of the virtues of telling this story with animation is that everything looks equally real and those in the audience can't be sure any more than Anna about exactly who Marnie is. 'When Marnie Was There' deftly creates a magical friendship 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

You felt the volume of the histories that had been lain upon her, simply by virtue of her birth. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Cheerfulness was the very virtue my parents tried to instill in me. Garrison Keillor returns to Seattle on April 1 — no foolin’ 2014-03-24T19:36:53Z

Is that most idealized of human bonds, mother love, not a matter of virtue but utility? Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

She has never understood "why, for you men, pride is so much linked to blood", or the myriad hypocrisies of virginity and virility, virtue and honour, pure and impure blood. The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z

Whatever virtues they lack — originality, dignity, variety in chord progressions — AC/DC makes up for in consistency. AC/DC and Wu-Tang Clan: These bands are brands — and can they sell in this era?

When the 1942 “Fanfare for the Common Man” is quoted in the symphony’s finale, one was left wondering whether it might suggest the potential for a return tocourage and virtue or signify something irreparably lost. Review | Despite its troubles, BSO’s concert of American music is brilliant 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

By classical virtues of Odissi dance, I certainly don’t mean “classical,” as in ballet. Dance Review: Fringe Festival Presents Trinayan Dance Theater 2010-08-20T22:19:00Z

Mr. Lapine recalled: “Bill and I were both really new at what we were doing. There was a freshness just by virtue of our ignorance.” An AIDS-Era Musical in an Age of Marriage Equality 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

He described this summer in London as the perfect example of "kalokagathia" - an ancient Greek philosophy of harmony in mind, body and virtue. Kylie thrilled by 'magical' Prom 2012-09-10T14:43:11Z

And I think by virtue of the fact she was president of the NAACP, and according to everything I read they thought she was black, we can say that she got little to no pushback. “Damn, Rachel Dolezal. Even Vanilla Ice didn’t claim to BE black”: Kamau Bell and Adam Mansbach debate race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

It has been the sense that the musical represents a time lost to us—an era of virtue, innocence, and harmless mischief that we can never get back. The Power of “Grease” 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

But some destinations, by virtue of language, ease of transportation, expense or level of hospitality, offer easier going than others. Best international destinations for the solo traveler 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

This is certainly true, yet are these virtues and ideals restricted to Christianity? ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

So many true crimes, it seems, demand that victims be charmed blind by the predators who rob them of their fortunes, their virtue or their lives. New True-Crime Books for Fall 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Knee-high and 29 ½ feet by 9 feet 2 inches, it astounds by virtue of its sheer mass, its rugged physicality intensified by contrast with the pristine white walls of the gallery. Richard Serra’s Steel Behemoths Get Into Your Head 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Taylor’s versatility is one of his least proclaimed virtues. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z

“The film’s primary virtue,” Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his review for The New York Times, “is in presenting many friends and colleagues of Khashoggi who illuminate his ideals, ventures and personal relationships.” Two New Movies Share a Clear Message: Don’t Forget Jamal Khashoggi 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Traditionally, the prince has less to work with; his role is not exactly to be a character but to embody the virtues of honor and chivalry. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Paris Opera Ballet 2013-12-22T20:39:11Z

Nonetheless, in at least some hearts, the impulse to virtue persists. Please Give warns the well-off they can never be good 2010-06-21T10:44:00Z

The Paris show includes a handful of portraits of ancient Rome's legendary Lucretia, as well as allegories of charity and other virtues. Paris exhibit spotlights German master Cranach 2011-02-07T16:33:08Z

The virtues and values of Provence spread up through the remnants of the great trade route, so that France was civilised to the extent that she submitted to this reverse takeover. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z

If you believe kindness is a virtue, this lifestlye, and our book 40 Year Old Vegan are for you. Go lean this summer with an elevated spin on a Sloppy Joe and coleslaw from “The 40-Year-Old Ve... 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

This stance has occasionally made me feel mature, worldly, wised up, like a Gauloise-smoking European rolling his eyes at America’s hang-up with moral purity, its obsession with what has lately been called “virtue signaling.” Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

He's a former substance abuser living a better life and extolling the virtues of therapy. Prince Harry's special relationship with the American media proves it's good to be the "Spare" 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

But times change, and so did Haggard, coming to openly embrace the virtues of weed, just as country music in general has come to terms with it. Merle Haggard knows: 8 country cannabis classics for your listening (and smoking) pleasure 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

You get funny accents, puppets and balloons, and a lustrous array of costumes, that last virtue by now very much a Globe norm. Theater Review: 'Betrayal' With Just Enough Sting 2011-06-28T12:00:06Z

A virtue of Boy by Band of Outsiders, the women’s label of Scott Sternberg, is that it doesn’t try to plead that it’s cool. Fashion Review: Alexander Wang, Rag & Bone, Altuzarra, Suno, Prabal Gurung: Fashion Week Reviews 2012-09-09T22:36:17Z

He is a tall basketball player who believes in the virtues of politeness and doing your homework. Review: ‘I and You’ Is Lauren Gunderson’s Sentimental Character Study 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

If he believed in a film, he supported his artists and bravely faced escalating budgets — a virtue that, in the end, was his undoing. ‘King of Jazz’ now playing — once again — in living Technicolor 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

By virtue of his position Mr. Beatty gets to leave us what could be his ultimate gift of sharing his experience. Warren Beatty Wants Six Hours of Your Time. Or More. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The virtues of each of those included are thoughtfulness, craft, the application of intelligence to difficult and sensitive issues, which – lest these sound like polysyllabic synonyms for dull – also lift the spirits. Stirling prize shortlist 2013 – review 2013-07-20T23:05:58Z

Williams's message was glib: "Patience is a virtue," she wrote. Civil Wars to release new album – despite 'irreconcilable differences' 2013-05-02T14:40:09Z

She ultimately scorns harmlessness, “as if being unable to strike back was a virtue,” leaving the stifling comforts of suburban marriage to pursue her art. ‘Harmless Like You,’ by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

One signal virtue, it suddenly turns out, is spontaneity. How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z

Some think that one of the book’s virtues lies in its prophecy. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Peck, a vocal liberal who also produced the movie, was seen as a strong, handsome example of white virtue in a confusing time of racial upheaval in America. Atticus Finch a racist? There goes the ideal 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Henry James may have been a famously verbose writer, but he also understood the virtues of restraint in storytelling. Review: Dirty Dancing to Henry James in ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

He is beyond perfect in the role of a compassionate police negotiator, and the film is, its other virtues aside, an upsetting reminder of how much he will be missed. ‘Breaking’ Review: A Bank Holdup by an Ex-Marine, for Benefits 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Jeff is, to my mind, a warrior for kindness, who has made tenderness an acceptable rock-and-roll virtue. Liner Notes for Jeff Tweedy’s “WARM” 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

The two are ostensibly a romantic pair, the one who will fight for her and the woman who is swept up by his upstanding devotion to virtue, goodness, honesty. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

“Just by virtue of their sound, they’re so culturally connected to a region or an ethnicity, it’s almost impossible to pull them apart from that.” In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The author of “The Bell Curve” warns that the white working class has abandoned the “founding virtues.” 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

Though it's hard to imagine munching on anything other than salty snacks or sweet treats during the game, there's virtue in offering at least one healthy treat. Super Bowl sweets: 7 desserts to serve at your game-day bash 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Once the larger culture considered reticence a virtue,” he writes. Books of The Times: Application Adventure: A Dad?s College Essay 2011-03-03T16:59:43Z

On this quiet beauty of an album, she once again makes a virtue of her modesty. Album review: Iris DeMent, 'Sing the Delta' 2012-10-01T17:36:00Z

A signal virtue of both the film and the novel is the refusal to make the main character, a young New Yorker named Emilia, immediately or easily likable. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z

From a commercial standpoint, Valerian shares a problem with the aforementioned films that, creatively, at least, should be a virtue: it’s too original. Follywood: how Valerian earns its place among film's strangest big budget flops 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Her black-and-white film documents the rare virtues of the work’s first cast and of many choreographic details that were changed in subsequent performances. 2010-02-06T07:29:00Z

To keep green such memories and to commemorate such virtues, it is our purpose to gather together and preserve in the Executive Mansion of the Confederacy the sacred relics of those glorious days. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Confederacy and Others Depict the ?Lost Cause? 2011-12-05T23:01:15Z

While style magazines began raving about "normcore" and the virtues of plain grey clothes, and when staying in became the new going out, I was documenting my collection of notebooks, staplers and ringbinders. From stationery fiends to hand dryer enthusiasts… who are you calling boring? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

Seneca describes magnanimity as the most resplendent of the virtues, to which Latini adds that one leading characteristic of the magnanimous is that they are careless about small expenses. Letters: Art from the sublime to the ridiculed 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

This is the epitome of virtue signaling: an actual sign enumerating the owner’s virtues. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

"One of the keys to her personality is that she was a stateless person and made a virtue of that," Goldberg says by phone from New York. Michelle Goldberg's book 'The Goddess Pose' paints vivid picture of yoga pioneer Indra Devi 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The same goes for future ZAZ classics like Top Secret! and The Naked Gun: rooting a spoof in genre obscurities from Hollywood past turns the absence of timeliness into a secret virtue. Airplane! at 40: the best spoof comedy ever made? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Endurance is a virtue, a symbol of strength. We all have a Mystery Crank: “Kimmy Schmidt” Season 3 and feminism 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

Williams unveils her answers throughout these 10 instrumentals in an unorthodox style, banging and plucking melodies from her guitar in gestures that ultimately signal empathy, humility, patience and other virtues that shouldn’t feel so strange. Perspective | Best music of 2021: Playboi Carti, Grouper, Turnstile, Yasmin Williams and more 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

He had become a pretty bad lawyer by virtue of becoming a better person, and an opportunity comes up for him to return to  school. ArtsBeat: How Dan Harmon Did, Or Did Not, Get His Groove Back at ‘Community’ 2013-12-18T17:03:13Z

“The virtues of a copy editor served her well as a translator,” Norris said. Reading Elena Ferrante in English? You’re Also Reading Ann Goldstein 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Liberals like to think that empathy is a great virtue, he says, and that progress is not only possible but morally necessary, but people would be better off cultivating a catlike indifference. Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

“He was also asked a question about, ‘How do you feel, by virtue of the fact that you are Black, about possibly being excluded from opportunities that you see your white counterparts getting?’” Sterling K. Brown and Andre Braugher’s Lives Keep Intersecting 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Two centuries later the Grimms’ stories teach virtues we still strive for: bravery, resourcefulness, loyalty, kindness, gratitude. Books of The Times: ‘Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm,’ by Philip Pullman 2012-12-17T22:41:07Z

If you don’t want to move on, or redefine your marriage as a friendship, appreciating your husband’s positive virtues and developing new ways to ignite old passions is the only alternative. I don’t want to have sex with my husband any more 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

The 11-minute film is a eulogy grounded not in individual virtues, but in the collective spirit for change and the call for justice that shone particularly brightly in these two figures. In images and words of rebirth, a poignant tribute to civil rights giants John Lewis and C.T. Vivian 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Mostly, the microphone stood for an increasingly rare virtue: listening. Perspective | Larry King’s long run made the case that there’s no such thing as a dumb question 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

In any case it never amounted to more than scrumping or, depending on your theology, seeking knowledge – which a minister of education should surely consider a virtue. Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z

The ratios of magic to meanness, of ugliness to beauty, of virtue to vice don’t really change. Review: ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Brings Him Back to Life 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

The great virtue of Jo Davies's Opera North revival is that it addresses these issues head-on rather than sweeping them under the carpet. Carousel – review 2012-08-21T12:27:35Z

Washington would display that virtue a second time by serving only two terms as the nation’s first President. The Walking Dead Watch: Cincinnatus Rises 2013-03-25T15:15:36Z

The dominant mood is maundering nostalgia: sound bites from fans, players and Yankees staff members about the glory of the team and the old stadium, and the virtues of the deep-pocketed owner. Television Review: No Fastballs, Just Nibbling at the Corners of the Boss?s Legend 2010-09-20T23:01:00Z

Is offering a bewildering number of exciting possibilities a complaint or a virtue? How does your garden grow? Starting from seed is fun and nutritious 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

By the time we get there, though, it has that pounded-with-a-leaden-hammer quality understood by dude-humor fans and practitioners as a virtue. The dude-humor master class of “Ted 2″: Flashes of offbeat brilliance among the expected spank gags and deflated ball jokes 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

So the movie is true to the book, but it has greater forward momentum just by virtue of being a film. Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z

Acid dripped as Woodhull said, “Of course ‘virtue’ must have a legal standard.” Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z

About Sherlock, Mr. Ide said: “I identified with him. He’s a loner. What was most powerful was that just by virtue of his intelligence, he could face this world and not be afraid.” Raised in South Central, Joe Ide Expands the Territory of L.A. Noir 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

“The virtue of Yankee upbringing, spiritually speaking,” he once wrote, “is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.” True North: ‘Marsden Hartley’s Maine’ at the Met Breuer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

“Might Get Lucky” is the most convincing song on “Charleston, SC 1966,” and the one that preaches the virtues of chores and child rearing as tools to get something a little naughtier. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-24T22:23:00Z

I won't give you my whole spiel on how dangerous it is to prescribe virtue or vice to ingredients. Will someone please just tell me WTF to put in my coffee? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

I, by virtue of my experience, know what it takes to create jobs. Romney on fleet of cars: 'I just am who I am' 2012-02-26T19:31:00Z

In telling his story of family tragedy and the virtues of compassion and charity, Dreher unwittingly exposes our nation’s outrageous cruelty and callousness. Conservative author Rod Dreher’s paradox: Compassion in St. Francisville and cruelty in America 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Their rags-to-riches-to-rags story reveals the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream. Carpetbagger: Eclectic as Ever, Sundance Unveils Competition Lineup 2011-11-30T21:00:03Z

Mr. Whitaker says he thinks more people are realizing the virtues of deaccessioned property, especially the couture clothes and accessories he sells. Garage Sales, So to Speak, but With Cachet 2010-02-18T00:25:00Z

Itinerancy was a characteristic of her early years, and her book focuses on the virtues of travel. The road less travelled 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

It was part of a sequence about the Trump Princess, in which its owner informs the new captain of the 300-foot yacht’s virtues. Trump and ‘Doonesbury’: The Comic Gift That Keeps On Giving 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

One of the many virtues of this recipe is that the caramel simply happens. A Foolproof Tarte Tatin Recipe From Gotham Bar and Grill 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

But there are ways in which it seems obvious that the virtues of Indian classical dance are threatened. Critic?s Notebook: Nrityagram Dance and Other Indian Troupes in New York 2012-03-25T23:19:52Z

Over two hours, a dozen presenters clicked through slides extolling the virtues, idiosyncrasies and dating criteria of their best friends. Maybe the Best Way to Find Love Is … Not on an App? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Dickens, Hardy, and Austen all left their readers with a sense of the restoration of order and the triumph of virtue, even Dostoyevsky. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Yet if her age contributes to the delight of her award, it’s also part of the virtue of it. With MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, this 70-year-old choreographer has big plans for the future 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Physical beauty is readily equated with virtue, and ugliness is evil, as with the scarred villains of James Bond or Star Wars or The Lion King. Amy Schumer and Hollywood’s ‘inner-beauty’ problem 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Although a similar threat level applies to many European cities, Dhaka – by virtue of its location and being a relatively unknown quantity among the world’s capitals – is prone to suffer significantly more. The price of free speech in Bangladesh 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Goncourt project, however, has faced little criticism — a sign of literature’s sacred place in French culture and of the belief in its life-changing virtues. From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Miller’s abstract paintings, always geometric, partake of the minimalist virtues of balance, precision and order, standard for that art in the 1960s and early 1970s. John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

One of their channels, Animal Planet, begins a reality show on Sunday that extols the rugged virtues of life in the remote frozen north. ‘Ice Lake Rebels,’ on Animal Planet, and ‘Escaping Alaska,’ on TLC 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

I felt indebted to him because he’d been extolling my virtues and working to “figure me out” for weeks. This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on Writing Predators and Their Victims 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Its emphasis was on civic virtue and, following Aristotle, often presented good citizenship as a condition of liberty. 'There is now a republican movement': anti-royal campaigners get organised 2013-07-19T17:59:00Z

Bill Ogilvie, a dancing acquaintance who is also a Universal Life minister, talked about openness and humility as virtues that bring dancing partners together. One Love, Two Steps 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

A picture of modest virtues, like David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, may trip on the red carpet and wilt in the heat of a Saturday evening screening at the cavernous Roy Thomson Hall. Silver Linings Playbook: Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence Go Dancing on the Edge 2012-09-11T13:00:54Z

As Michel tells his story to his friends, he constantly justifies himself and extols the virtues of his position. Reading group: Michel in The Immoralist: 'Are we supposed to like this guy?' 2012-07-19T08:45:21Z

He takes no clear political position on many of the hot-button topics the show raises, portraying himself as a reporter not pundit, realist not cynic, equally amazed and appalled, refusing moral judgments or virtue signaling. Why Rem Koolhaas Brought a Tractor to the Guggenheim 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Christian Rex van Minnen makes icons for an age whose virtues have curdled. Christian Rex van Minnen's modern tales of male domination, painted like an old master 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

Cold showers have their virtues: They prepare an adult for the unavoidable tortures and small indignities of the day. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Montaigne thinks empathy rather than sympathy is the cardinal social virtue. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z

She held dual British and American nationality by virtue of having been born on British soil to American parents. Life of a screen legend 2011-03-23T13:07:55Z

The list of television episodes focused on an ear is fairly short, so the forthcoming installment of the PBS series “Secrets of the Dead” grabs the attention just by virtue of its title. The World’s Most Famous Severed Ear, Close Up 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Though thoroughly modern, the story nods to the old-time religion — that is, literature — in which good guys were good and bad guys were bad, and virtue triumphs over evil. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

Patience is, for Lear, the opposite of a virtue, at least as we see him in the opening scene, when he announces his intention of turning over his kingdom to his three daughters. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z

Avowed "Ted Lasso" believers extol the virtues of its kind humor and its picture-perfect depiction of its football team, AFC Richmond, as a close-knit family of choice. The "Ted Lasso" way to make shortbread fit for “Biscuits with the Boss” 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

It’s ingenious, rousing, passionate—and yet constrained by the iron force of its own sense of virtue. Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” and the Myth of the Solitary Artist 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Is it humble to publicly propound the virtues of humility? At the Gothams, ‘Spotlight’ and Spontaneity Win the Night 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The Atlantic World Reborn,” which demonstrates the virtues of the society’s reconfiguration of history. Museum Review: ?Revolution!? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-11-10T23:07:33Z

I think Paddington embodies some of those old-fashioned virtues, including a sense of values. Paddington's Forebear: A Talk With Michael Bond 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Next, the label released “Rum,” which extols the virtues of great weather and strong booze. Meet the Brothers Osborne, the embodiment of country music’s evolution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Rather, I think that the very notion of the children’s movie is, too often, a coup of marketing that comes disguised in the very virtues that the movies purvey. “A Monster Calls” and the Stifling Lessons of Children’s Movies 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

His images appear to memorialize some more or less distant past when manliness was an unquestionable virtue. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z

Ours is a city of calloused hands, strong virtue, and beginnings. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z

But for all its virtues, the film somehow does not deliver on its promise. Film: At Venice Film Festival, Love, Sex and Bickering 2011-09-06T11:55:32Z

The threat echoes through the film as Father James, a black-cassocked figure of virtue, resolve and cutting wit, struggles with his own transgressions. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The first-lady memoir is a rite of passage, but Obama’s is different by virtue of her very identity. In revealing new memoir, Michelle Obama candidly shares her story 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

If, early in the Trump era, other conservatives were discovering the comforts of vice, he would explore the possibilities of virtue. David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Now Tintin has to come alive on the screen in an age where 10-year-kids know all about irony, sarcasm and the fact that vice and virtue are often much more intertwined than adults let on. AP Interview: Bell seeks to channel Tintin 2011-10-21T15:55:12Z

They’re just around to make you feel either good or bad by virtue of how other characters in the show respond to them. How I friended Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Colbert: Zach Anner on comedy and cerebral palsy (“The sexiest of the palsies”) 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Tears, after all, had no necessary connection to actual virtue, and they could be feigned. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

There is a virtue sometimes in admitting that we are not really there, in leaving the descriptive flourish aside and letting expository prose do the hard work. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z

Her book is littered with found phrases, from “purity policing” to “virtue signalling” to “cancel culture.” Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Another of the evening’s virtues is its use of live music in two works. Dance Review: Richard Alston Dance at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-12-15T00:49:25Z

In this case, Mr. Chandor planned to make a virtue of the film’s fidelity to the facts, according to people involved in the production. Risky Business: Hollywood Bets Big on ‘Deepwater Horizon’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Many of the author’s protagonists aspire to Marlowe’s stoic, manly virtue, but end up as unwilling detectives of their own wounded psyches, helplessly dragged into investigations of their troubled pasts. Per Petterson’s ‘I Refuse’ and ‘Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

“As far as Atticus and his virtue goes, this is a different take on ‘Mockingbird’ than Harper Lee’s or Horton Foote’s,” he said. Harper Lee’s Estate Sues Over Broadway Version of ‘Mockingbird’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Yet admirers of this creator of fat, hyperventilating novels, which extolled “the virtue of selfishness” and the capitalist superhero, have filled conservative power lists for decades. Review: ‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Some Scandinavians argue that lagom, instead of promoting virtues like humility and moderation, encourages the kind of bland conformity that Nordic countries are often accused of. The Year of Hygge, the Danish Obsession with Getting Cozy 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Payne is a canny student of modern American culture and in particular of the ways his fellow citizens conflate selfishness and virtue. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Ned’s execution is an establishing lesson to show viewers that integrity and virtue mean nothing in this universe.  “Game of Thrones” recap: “Beyond the Wall,” an adventure into thin air 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

But not every new piece merits this kind of attention, and Adams’s, for all its distinctive virtues, seemed overlong and underbaked. Review | Romantic tropes for the 21st century: the Chicago Symphony on tour 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

There are good and bad things in both charters, not a straight choice between virtue and evil – and nothing in either to signal the death of press freedom. Leveson vote: no cause for hyperventilating 2013-03-17T23:46:18Z

When Mr. Hall’s “Twelfth Night” is good — for most of the first act — your admiration is renewed for the classical virtues he has always espoused and a company eager to do them justice. Theater Review: Peter Hall Makes a Dusky Return to Illyria 2011-01-25T12:00:03Z

While there is less grandeur and poetry in these productions, the great virtue is that the company can perform in towns not usually on the ballet circuit. This week's new dance 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z

There is a type of documentary — one of the most prevalent varieties these days — that earnestly acquaints its audience with a terrible problem and rewards our attention with a gold star of virtue. ‘Fire at Sea’ Is Not the Documentary You’d Expect About the Migrant Crisis. It’s Better. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The very subject of the movie is the virtue of unvarnished authenticity, of remaining unaltered throughout the mind-bending experience of fame. What to Stream This Weekend: The Best Version of “A Star Is Born” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

But there’s also virtue in edging things along, just a little. At Paris Fashion Week, Chanel, Valentino, Saint Laurent and More 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Even as they prepare for their high-tech journey, they embody old-fashioned, noble virtues: bravery, curiosity, strength, tenderness. The Screening Room: “We Can’t Live Without Cosmos” 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

“Iranian women are Muslim women of virtue who are all supporting hijab. So a few people in this country should not consider themselves the custodians of morality,” said Rouhani, himself an Islamic cleric. Acid attacks in Iran sharpen row over Islamic dress and vigilantism 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

"The world will be a better place to live in by virtue of his existence and his presence." HBO's messy "Tiger" treats the controversial golf icon as salacious entertainment 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Striking Out,” on Acorn TV, and “Corp + Anam,” on MHz Choice, also have the virtue of offering a stark and educational contrast. Review: From Ireland, a Rebounding Lawyer and a Crusading Journalist 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

So is their surviving anywhere into the 21st century a vice or a virtue? Excalibur's castles built from postwar dreams must not be demolished 2011-01-06T21:00:04Z

How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously? Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z

Variety is its cardinal virtue, seasoned with the element of surprise. World’s Fair Artifacts, From ’39 and ’64, at Queens Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

What are the virtues of getting to see something in a big movie theater? The Return of the Cannes Film Festival 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

The pursuit of virtue seems almost perverse, given how well other series have done by focusing on the underbelly of politics. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

The test of melodramatic power is when audiences have trouble suppressing laughter at inappropriate moments; its virtue is its wondrous absurdity. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

In the last year, these virtues of patience and moral determination have been rewarded. Orwell journalism prize: the judges' remarks 2012-05-24T14:43:39Z

It is so easy to be invisible, or inaudible, simply by virtue of being female. Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

His first Inaugural Address, in 1801, barely mentioned virtue, and his reminder that “every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle” was at best a lukewarm warning against factionalism. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

We live in an era where the virtue of individuality is very much overstated. Christopher Nolan: Dunkirk Is My Most Experimental Film Since Memento 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

For centuries, writers have sung the virtues of staying connected to the routine and the mundane. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z

When the Penn Museum presented an exhibition about the Maya calendar in 2012, it concluded by genuflecting to contemporary Maya descendants, cheering their virtues, their heritage and their quest for justice and prosperity. Critic’s Notebook: Maya Treasures Visit Los Angeles to Help Build a Musuem 2014-01-17T22:54:32Z

Many of the same virtues are true of Ulanova, who is filmed in color and with music. Dance on Video From Many Corners of the Web 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Ralph makes a classic mistake: having been taught to imagine that white women are naturally innocent, he sees the purest virtue in Undine’s beauty. What Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame in America 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

And Charity, championed–during those same Sunday sessions–as one of the highest virtues of the heart was, in practice, a thing tinged with shame. My life on the streets 2013-04-18T21:27:00Z

Who believed categorically in the virtues of dressing up, rather than down. Beholder of Beauty 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Loam is not, as I once thought, a particle size somewhere in the middle of all that, but a balance of the three, all of which have their virtues. How to create a living soil 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

“A Christmas Story” looks as if it will settle in as a holiday perennial by virtue of its broad appeal if nothing else. Theater Review: ‘A Christmas Story,’ at Theater at Madison Square Garden 2013-12-15T22:32:32Z

No one puts much stock in its actual content and even those who defend it acknowledge that its primary virtue is that there just isn’t anything else to use. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Gary Greenberg Talks About 'The Book of Woe' 2013-05-29T17:00:01Z

Instead, we'll finish with a song that – though not directly about her – offered a eulogy to the virtues that she singularly failed to embody. Five songs about Margaret Thatcher 2013-04-08T13:36:00Z

Free apps, meanwhile, proliferate, adding to their basic consumer information a varied set of technological virtues and flaws. Critic?s Notebook: From Picassos to Sarcophagi, Guided by Phone Apps 2010-10-02T02:11:00Z

Neiman believes in the virtues of travel, in limiting time on the Internet, in good government and progressive education. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

So the Smithsonian’s surrender at least had the virtue of reminding everyone on both sides of the Atlantic of his work. Abroad: In Britain, Separation of Art and State 2011-01-25T23:24:38Z

It was certainly the virtue by which he lived, and the reason he was able to pursue his parallel careers in literature and medicine. The joy of Alex Comfort 2012-12-28T22:55:14Z

At least in the case of “Meet the Press,” limitations are a virtue. Chuck Todd Begins as Host of NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

“By virtue of that, I have played with every major jazz musician in the world.” N.E.A. Jazz Masters Hail From Inside and Outside the Club 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

One thing we can say about cruise ship captains is that they tend to be dashing, and this is not only by virtue of a officer’s cap or fancy epaulets. T Magazine: The Biggest Boat 2010-12-01T14:00:00Z

Most of the rest of the time, he coats himself in Auto-Tune, as if he didn’t quite trust his virtues as a singer, which in fairness to Mr. Foxx, are ample. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Just Glad to Grab the Mike 2011-01-04T01:07:08Z

Is your aim to convince people of her virtues? Documentarian Davis Guggenheim is a man with a mission (sort of) 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

It’s about running and personal growth, which is both its virtue and its vice. Review | How running transformed the life of an NPR host 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

He also struggles with the moral component of his job and the mixed virtue of choosing not to prosecute a case. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 2: Part of the Firmament 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Like the predestined elect in Calvin’s Geneva, Brooklyn’s rich think of their improved homes as an outward sign of inward virtue. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

And we understand, by virtue of the book we hold in our hands, that she has become a writer. ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

It may be a fading virtue, but at least in “La Sylphide,” human feelings hold the spotlight. New York City Ballet suits up for courage and soars in ‘La Sylphide’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

It’s playing whose virtues speak for themselves, yet its simplicity is anything but. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Its virtues, though, both make it rare among “Carmen” ballets and add to your knowledge of Miami City Ballet’s excellent dancers. Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

In a world of perpetual instant gratification, there might be some virtue in boredom. Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

The only topic more controversial this week than the virtues of “Batman v Superman” is the continuing debate over Millennials and think pieces. Bridget Jones is not a millennial: The war over “millennials in the workplace” stories hits peak absurdity 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Its virtues lie more in the area of brand extension. Television Review: ?The Wannabes? on Starz Kids & Family - Review 2011-09-04T23:30:56Z

To justify a comeback, one would have to expand on the original's virtues and sharply correct its mistakes. "Coming 2 America" takes the crown, delivering a sequel worthy of & less patriarchal than the first 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

"We need a new brand of evangelical politics, one that is increasingly marked by its habits of conversation, and the virtues that conversation fosters in us, virtues such as transparency, hospitality, and empathy." Evangelical Taylor U community in uproar over Pence speech: "Deeply at odds with following Christ" 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

By couching the family's struggle into standard operatic forms — arias, ensemble numbers — Vavrek gives convincing shape to the two-hour-plus-long work, making a virtue of the need to elaborate. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

One of this book’s many virtues is the way it contextualizes the emergence not just of the Black Lives Matter protests but of our larger contemporary moment. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

He extols the overlooked merits of convention and the hidden virtues of the status quo. Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy 2012-03-18T05:30:57Z

Though classically beautiful, she achieved her status not simply by virtue of her features but with her sense of style. The Styles of Grace at London's V&A 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z

I’m suddenly a person who disarms not with my own natural charm, but by virtue of an accent that is just an accident of birth. Being black in America is not so different from being black in Britain | Bim Adewunmi 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Trump began his presidency on a traditional note, with an inaugural speech hinting at the virtue of meaningful collaboration. ‘It doesn’t matter.’ ‘We’ll see.’ The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic every day. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

For all their virtues, however, the 16 late paintings here are not enough to fully represent Ms. Thomas’s adventurous range and her way of improvising variations on certain themes. ‘Alma Thomas,’ an Incandescent Pioneer 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

And so, despite its many virtues, the show partakes more of the humorless old Met — diligent, thorough and exhaustive — than any new spirit of what the Met Breuer might become. What’s in the box? The Met Breuer opens new possibilities in a dramatic art space 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Here the secret and interesting book, the memoir of conversion, slides into the advertised, pedantic one, about the importance of virtue. David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

In an age of outsourcing, she sees nothing wrong in making a virtue of local production. Portland, the US capital of alternative cool, takes TV parody in good humour 2012-02-11T16:28:31Z

In recent years Mr. Lowe’s virtues as a songwriter and performer have been garnering more recognition, especially among younger musicians. Nick Lowe, Back With a New Album, ?That Old Magic? 2011-09-13T19:59:12Z

I think it probably worries all writers, but then they say the onlooker sees most of the game, so that's the virtue of it. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z

“Baby Got Back,” with its hilariously prurient imagery, is relentless in its single-minded focus on the virtues of “healthy” rumps. We cannot lie: The cultural significance of Sir-Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Its one virtue was that it was close enough to the American military bases in Germany that we could pick up Armed Forces Radio. Work, pray, fear: my life in the Family cult 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Moving with seeming effortlessness from one story focus to the next, she draws us along with her by virtue of her elegant, understated language, language as simple yet striking as the plain truth. ‘Falling from Horses’: bringing the Western myth down to Earth 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

But this is a virtue, and the key to Dutton’s portrayal. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Indeed, one can see it as part of a reactionary groundswell of American culture that sees ignorance of science and book-learnin' not as a weakness, but as a virtue. Insane Clown Posse: a magnet for ignorance 2010-08-18T16:08:00Z

So we keep these cities, and their people, in our thoughts, while we celebrate their resilience and their virtues. These Are the 10 Best Cities to Visit Around the World 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

There are underlit toffs barking about "moral virtue" and the dangers posed by the "lower classes". Murder On The Victorian Railway: something completely different 2013-02-16T06:00:03Z

The movie itself is nearly flawless in its professionalism, which is both a virtue and a limitation. ‘No Sudden Move’ Review: Don’t Forget the Motor City 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

But as much as any other virtue or quality he possesses, what has lately come to define Mr. Fallon is his interview with Mr. Trump from Sept. 15. Jimmy Fallon Was on Top of the World. Then Came Trump. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

By virtue of their ability to read and play music, amateur musicians became better listeners of music. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

Taken collectively, then, the books possess virtues that none of them do individually. From Lao Tzu to Layups, 1,682 Pages of Phil Jackson 2014-04-03T15:44:55Z

Whether these Machiavellian virtues will be enough to bring the party back to power remains to be seen. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z

The great virtue of his style is its light-handed plainness. Combat veterans speak of pain, healing in ‘The Resilience Project’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Reagan was also well versed in politics before running a campaign of his own by virtue of leading the Screen Actors Guild. Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

Or Lord & Taylor, with its 11 floors of grand proportions and democratic attitude, more affordable and approachable than the haute Bergdorf Goodman to the north, focused on the virtues of American sportswear. New York’s Lost Department Stores 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Likewise, this production’s virtues end up substantially outweighing its flaws. Review | ‘Ragtime’ sings with purpose at Ford’s Theatre 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Our messages to each other were diverted by context and intonation, returned to sender by virtue of body language and facial expression. I fell for a Frenchman, but didn’t speak the language | Lauren Collins 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

The students of Silliman College, en masse, do not fall into this category by virtue of having been randomly assigned to live in her dorm. Who’s really demanding to be coddled on campus? Yale students aren’t the spoiled brats for refusing to be racially trolled on Halloween 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

We recall Henry James’s reminder that the supreme virtue of the novel is its truth of detail, its air of reality, its “solidity of specification.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Also courage rather than boldness is the virtue you need if you are to realise the the message, expressed in his 1988 novel, The Alchemist, that wherever your heart is you will find treasure. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

Every virtue at Red Mountain Resort cuts both ways. Next Stop: In British Columbia, Little Big Resort 2013-12-19T19:58:31Z

It’s likely that many more saw Trump’s speech for what it was: a performance that, by virtue of its obvious insincerity, signaled that he was still on their side. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Each essay is meant to summarize the virtues and history of its subject and also place it in good historical context. Review | ‘Lost Transmissions’ tracks down some of the best art you didn’t know existed 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

But the reader comes to feel for these people by virtue of their specific circumstances in the same way that we come to admire Cline for her encyclopedic knowledge of the shadings of wealth. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

When you look elsewhere in this “Beauty,” you find other remarkable virtues too. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Returns to Lincoln Center 2013-07-02T21:29:12Z

Chase Finlay, her partner, heightened all of her virtues: his combination of spacious grandeur, modesty and nobility is very moving. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z

Treason is a virtue on “Last Resort,” an ABC series beginning later this month that stars Andre Braugher as a Navy commander who takes his nuclear submarine rogue to thwart a government conspiracy. Television Review: ‘Revolution,’ From J. J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, on NBC 2012-09-16T22:07:53Z

"He was truly Shakespearean - not only physically enormous but enormous in his ambitions, his appetites, his virtues, his vices, his flaws," he said. Actor Bryan Cranston steps into LBJ's shoes for Broadway debut 2014-01-22T22:54:08Z

Publishers seem to believe that length is a virtue in mysteries, but few American police procedurals take advantage of them. Books of The Times: ?Think of a Number,? Crime Story From John Verdon 2010-07-15T21:32:00Z

They trumpeted the virtues of thrift and patriotic spending — and how much better they were than their competitors. The cutthroat history behind the explosive "Perry Mason" grocery feud 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

“Attractive characters displayed higher intelligence, lower aggressiveness and greater moral virtue,” the study said. Perspective | Why does Hollywood keep equating beauty with virtue? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Danton's Death Olivier, London Until 14 October Box office: 020-7452 3000 The virtue of Büchner's original is that it offers a portrait of a society. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z

So when you say “virtue signalling,” are you saying that bringing up these issues in a discussion is frustrating or annoying, even if somehow true? The True and False Virtues of the Left 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

In these works of literature, my students saw a wider world than the one enclosed in those 50-foot walls, and they also saw themselves: their virtues and their vices, their pain and sorrow, their aspirations. Teaching “The Odyssey” at San Quentin 2013-12-21T00:00:00Z

Hear Cain discuss the virtues of reserve at 7 p.m., A&E highlights: Trey McIntyre Project, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Talea Ensemble 2013-04-05T19:33:20Z

The virtue of the manhattan is its simplicity; even a distracted bartender can knock together a decent one. Top 10 New York Dishes of 2021 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Billy is technically an anomaly in Inishmaan, by virtue of his physical deformity. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Daniel Radcliffe as Cripple Billy 2013-06-27T17:08:49Z

Done: Reframe the patience you misspent on him into a virtue: You chose to see the good in someone, you chose to trust again. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A cheating live-in boyfriend is unexpectedly hard to quit 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

At a time when bluster, bragging and histrionic displays of self-pity are apparently the defining characteristics of American manhood, it’s nice to be reminded of the virtues of discretion and quiet. Review: Robert Redford Aims to Charm in ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

An added virtue is the novel’s re-creation of late 19th-century America. ‘The Fifth Heart,’ by Dan Simmons 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

In the last few years the comedian Mike Birbiglia has emerged as a kind of spokesman for the virtues of punctuality. Punctuality Is Having a Moment 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Given a list of familiar virtues, tolerance is unlikely to be the one most readily associated with Christianity. The political Bible, part 4: toleration 2011-08-29T08:59:00Z

Like Porter Robinson—another artist in his early twenties who saved himself from EDM’s market crash by the virtues of his own unique vision—Flume likes to tinker with an electronic sound that’s playfully outdated. Flume's New Album Skin Is The Gritty Future of Electronic Music 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, these turn out to be the four worst kids in the world – simply by being four kids who aren't paragons of Victorian silent virtue. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: a twisted Victorian morality tale 2013-06-26T16:31:07Z

It isn't surprising in the least that the richest man in the world sees that as a virtue. "Elon Musk's Crash Course" warns of the danger of a billionaire's love of being unreasonable 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Because, as she puts it, women and people of colour are – and until they are treated as equals will remain – political by virtue of their very existence. Jena Friedman: the outrageous talkshow host women have been waiting for 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

No matter how its devotees rhapsodize about its virtues, depth, versatility and complexity, most people seem to be immune to its charms. The Beauty of Saumur Champigny, Not Always Appreciated 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The small-town police officers in “Memories of Murder” are hardly pillars of virtue. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

In France, a robust appetite is a virtue if not a heroic trait. The Sensory Transcendence of a French Meal, via the Big Screen 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Often deeply religious, they saw Prohibition as a kind of social reform, a crusade to clean up the American city and restore the founding virtues of the godly republic. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z

All of In Cold Blood’s virtues are encapsulated in that opening: the black-and-white camerawork of cinematographer Conrad Hall; the music of Jones; and the performance of Robert Blake. In Cold Blood: why isn’t the movie of Capote’s bestseller a masterpiece? 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

To a contemporary eye, they are a virtue; they give Cameron’s portraits exceptional vulnerability, spirituality and candor, without quite undercutting their formality. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z

Readers may find it a little odd that Rumsfeld, that terror of bureaucrats in the George W. Bush administration, extols the virtues of Christian turn-the-other-cheek leadership. Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

When a group of refugees seeks protection in the village of Lycovrissi, the community is thrown into upheaval: Will the villagers reaffirm their Christian virtues or indulge in acts of selfishness? An Explosive Story, Freshly Relevant, Takes Center Stage in Salzburg 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Peterson spent his later years at General Mills trying to educate farmers on the virtues of regenerative agriculture, a sustainable farming practice that aims to improve the soil. Two Chefs Moved to Rural Minnesota to Expand on Their Mission of Racial Justice 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

“He entertains with steps” is what George Balanchine so loved about Bournonville, and the clarity of the steps was the great virtue of this program, which also included a bright rendering of “Bournonville Divertissements.” New York City Ballet suits up for courage and soars in ‘La Sylphide’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Surely this was the natural extension of the “Horatii” and “Socrates” and “Brutus”: art as an apparatus to instill public virtue. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Between arias, I had to listen to these very distinguished scholars go on about the great intellectual virtues of Donald Trump,” he said. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

Many were delighted to see this ostensible paragon of virtue take a fall. A New Biography Traces Tiger Woods’s Mythical Rise and Fall 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

None of that applies to Ms. Coppola’s film, which is less interested in battling repression than in observing its mechanisms and arguing, quietly and unmistakably, for its virtues. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

With clarity and momentum, he builds the case for his melancholy, which — by virtue of being born into this historical trajectory — we each have been bequeathed. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

The show’s creators frequently seem under the impression that virtue excuses lapses in artistry, as when a program note highlights the eco-consciousness of its costume construction. Review: ‘Wild: A Musical Becoming’ Is Finding Its Footing 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

And so you’re signalling your virtue by accusing people of privilege in that way. The True and False Virtues of the Left 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

The virtue of the latest mixes is that they somehow create new space and transparency around Lennon’s voice, bringing out the grain and passion of his performances. Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

While the little women never veer close to any real vices, there is no question that virtue triumphs. Timeless Preoccupations and Old-School Virtues 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

By virtue of titular importance it's the most potent incantation, and could perhaps have been used more sparingly. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z

“Originality, fetish object of the young and naive, is no virtue in itself,” he writes in an essay called “Rhyme Is a Drug.” Taylor Swift joins Rilke in Michael Robbins' 'Equipment for Living,' reviewed by Justin Taylor 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The other day President was reiterating the virtues of what the French call “l’exception culturelle,” a modern policy of government protection and promotion of French culture, particularly the film industry. Abroad: Do-It-Yourself Culture Thrives Despite Globalism 2010-04-14T17:23:00Z

But perhaps the virtue of a book like Parks’s is that it raises a meta-question that often goes unacknowledged in these debates: What leads us, as conscious agents, to prefer certain theories over others? Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

That depiction is a cinematic virtue in itself, because the lives of young women, and of the poor, are all too rarely examined in movies of careful observation and realistic substance. “American Honey” ’s Silent Youth 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Over a spinach omelet, Jennie Enterprise, the club’s founder, told me about the virtues of having a cloistered place for “ultrahigh net worth individuals” to congregate away from the bustle of the boardroom. DealBook: Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day 2012-04-04T22:26:55Z

Livingstone, convinced of the virtues of skyscrapers after being dazzled by a visit to Shanghai, made the new City skyline a major source of section 106 agreements. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z

She recounts, with visceral and somewhat mystifying granularity, a mass shooting, in 1949, that further shattered Camden’s sleepy sense of virtue. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

So it’s possible you have to work to retrain yourself to honor rest as a virtue. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A midday nap is American ingenuity at its best 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

By virtue of its title alone, “Tabloid,” Errol Morris’s astonishing new documentary, achieves a degree of serendipitous timeliness. | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ?Manacled Mormon? and His Kinky Weekend 2011-07-14T22:11:29Z

He was touting his grand economic plan, called Vision 2030, and was unapologetic about the virtues of authoritarianism. ‘MBS’ Chronicles the Shockingly Young, Powerful and Ruthless Saudi Crown Prince 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Still, traditional communities survive in large part by virtue of most members knowing when to keep their mouths shut, while online social networks are formed in a climate of perpetual disclosure. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

Though the small-framed Ms. Wang did not have a particularly big sound at the piano, she turned this into a virtue by playing with crystalline tone and myriad rich shadings. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z

She then spoke to families taking a very different route, insisting that their children maintain their Asian language, and academics who argued the virtues of doing this. Radio review: Mind Your Language 2010-09-07T06:59:00Z

Yet I welcome the digital download of Bow bells if it can encourage the virtues of self-reliance and magnanimity that are characteristic of these unjustly misrepresented people. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z

Making and exhibiting the work may have satisfied Chan’s sense of virtue, but the result does little for his audience’s understanding of the attack. Facing Violence With Brushes and Ballots 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Things did change for those intimately connected to the events of 9/11, either by virtue of what happened on that Tuesday morning or because of the two misguided wars the attacks precipitated. Testimonies From the Day the Towers Came Down 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Exactly four years ago I wrote a column in this space extolling the virtues of fat. The war on fat is over – and I won 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

This view dates back at least 100 years, with toothpaste adverts extolling the virtues of American smiles. British teeth are no worse than US smiles, say researchers 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

As often happens in tales of transformation, power is eventually tempered with responsibility, and the cruel realities of existence cede to purity, virtue and rectitude. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z

So much of jazz’s virtue lies in its ability to inherit lessons from the past, but that doesn’t mean nostalgia is the only path to prominence for musicians these days. Why the Grammys Couldn’t Resist Jon Batiste 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Just on its face, Mr. Walker’s stance would exclude from our museums many of the open letter’s signatories, whose “virtue or intention” is not in question. The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

I want to be clear that a female character — exactly like a female person — can be strong and be herself without being a paragon of virtue.  Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

“Whatever happened to humility, isn’t that a virtue or something?” the guard asks. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: 'Go Ahead, Girls, Take a Break From Your Values' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

One celebrating the great American virtues of resentment and loathing. This is what it feels like at the Republican convention in Cleveland 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Before hospitality was a business, it was more of a virtue — a barometer of civilization. What Is Hospitality? The Current Answer Doesn’t Work. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

This last performance restored my faith in Mr. Gergiev’s approach to Mahler, which searches out the elemental drama of these scores and makes a virtue of the Mariinsky Orchestra’s earthy Russian sound. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z

He’s pretty vast, and vastness, in the movies, is a virtue. For Your Reconsideration: Supporting Whom Exactly? 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

As always, the former Beatle elicits music fans to embrace the simple virtues of peace and love. Peace, love and Ringo Starr: There's joy and wisdom in his new EP "Rewind Forward" 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z

The book provides no easy answers, and that is one of its many virtues. Eye-opening book on integration by author with no black friends 2012-07-18T20:40:04Z

The spirit of the film blends mourning with perseverance, and above all acknowledges, with impish wit and lyrical solemnity, the virtues of steadfastness, represented by Tommaso, and imagination, represented by Pulcinella. Review: Angels, Some of This Earth, in ‘Lost and Beautiful’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The virtue of the show is to reveal the artistic diversity to which the taste for antiquity led in different cultures. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z

Every Mark Morris dancer exemplifies virtues of dancing freshly in the moment, but nobody makes each moment fresher than Mr. McDonald. Dance Review: An Evening Revisits Mark Morris Hits (Along With a Few of Chopin?s) 2010-09-26T22:13:00Z

I do not want to talk about the virtues of art at this art show. 'Who is the queen?' And other ways to get talking to strangers 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

Patience, according to the Buddha, is “the supreme virtue.” Transcendence in Los Angeles traffic: On gridlock and mindfulness 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

But the star, who employs an 11 piece all-female band, also made a virtue of her feminist credentials. Jay-Z joins Beyonce show in London 2014-03-01T01:07:50Z

As my 30s neared and I went on my first real date, I extolled the virtues of traditional courtship. The 10 best lessons I learned as a sex writer 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

But these three made the cut by virtue of pizzaz: The insatiable hunger of Guy Fieri’s soul: 8 amazing videos of the Food Network host, eating 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

She likes to engage old forms and new ideas, and is interested in issues of identity and in foundational American virtues like self-reliance. ‘Eternals’ Review: When Super Franchises Walk the Earth! 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Then again, perhaps there is virtue to having carried the flame, and grace now in passing the torch.” Joan Baez on Her Next Chapter: ‘I Don’t Make History, I Am History’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Rushmore was a particularly American sissy, because he was a “war-lover” and he embodied the belief that physical bravery was the ultimate manly virtue. Civil war at the cineplex: “American Sniper,” “Selma” and the battle over American masculinity 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Dear Amy: I was shocked to see such a one-sided group of letters extolling the virtues of parenthood in your usually evenhanded column. Perspective | Ask Amy: Grandmother wonders if she is obligated to babysit 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

While there is plenty of historical and anecdotal testimony to the virtues of vinegar, what does medical research have to say on the subject of vinegar and health? Is apple cider vinegar good for you? An expert weighs in 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

Honesty is a virtue of course, but for all the Hollises’ talk about extreme candor, their vulnerability is almost always a function of image management. Review | The path to enlightenment — and a happy marriage — the Hollis way 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Describing a privileged white tweeter who’s virtue signaling, he imitates, typing out, “My heart breaks on my L-shaped couch.” 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Their virtues — their virtuosity — were brutally recast as moral weaknesses and a national threat. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

A dramatic spiral staircase leads to the master suite and library on the house’s lower level, which, by virtue of being built into the sloped site, opens onto the surrounding lawns. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Across the United States 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Sex and capital are behind comics, ‘Superduperman’ suggests, not virtue or grand ideals. A Sweeping History of American Comics 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Even this show’s early numbers, extolling the homespun virtues of small-town life with harmonic “aahs” and folksy bluegrass chords, have a depressive undertow. Review: ’Groundhog Day,’ All Over Again, Now With Song and Dance 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

From airplanes we get aerial views akin to that of Tiepolo’s gods, goddesses and personifications of virtue and vice surveying the follies of mere mortals below. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

I'm not going to argue the virtues or the limitations of this trend in cooking. How to focus on simple cooking, according to a professional chef 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

Julia Raeside A charming biography of the great photographer which manages to make a virtue of its subject's irascible insistence that he isn't worth the attention. TV highlights 02/04/2013 2013-04-02T06:00:05Z

Under such conditions, the demand for perfect virtue feels impossible, even cruel. Junk Food Was Our Love Language 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Entertainment, here, would be a sobering virtue, catharsis rather than a loophole. The Reconciliation Must Be Televised 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Kynaston's many fans will be pleased to hear that Modernity Britain has all the virtues of his previous volumes. Books review roundup: The Quarry, Modernity Britain: Opening the Box 1957-1959 and Sisterland 2013-06-21T18:40:01Z

His virtues and his shortcomings were classically north European. My hero: Dag Hammarskjöld by Timothy Mo 2012-05-25T21:55:11Z

The story, which follows the real-life courtship of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Payne-Townshend in the late 1800s, starts with Shaw as a philandering bachelor, spouting revolutionary ideas and extolling his virtues. | 'Engaging Shaw': A Writer Woos With Wit at Abingdon Theater 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z

The councilman’s attempt to make virtue out of vice serves as a neat little mission statement for this week’s episode. ‘Empire’ Season 3, Episode 5: Fight Club 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Rogers was a benevolent, ditty-dispensing educator in civic virtue and human tolerance, who hymned the miracles of beautiful days and kindly friends, while acknowledging the fallibility of us all. Review: ‘American Utopia’ Is David Byrne’s Neighborhood 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Where other presidents may have worn an uncomfortable mask of hypocrisy, paying “lip service” to lofty ideals of “civic virtue,” the current president doesn’t even pretend to anything so high-minded. How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

What follows sticks rather closely to standard fantasy movie tropes: monsters, basic morals, and extolling the virtues of the imagination. Like 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules'? Scarecrow suggests more school-bully movies 2011-03-24T05:26:05Z

For all of the warm feelings they evoke, these containers aren’t necessarily vessels of unalloyed virtue. Finding Memories, and Mom’s Sewing Stuff, in a Reused Cookie Tin 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Of Masters's many virtues, the topmost is the way he refuses easy copout labels for a tricky person, his commitment to human variety and unfathomability. The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters - review 2011-08-24T13:30:01Z

It takes a romantic contrarian to ascribe idealism and virtue to the White House in the last days of the Clinton administration the way that “The West Wing” did. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom,’ an HBO Series From Aaron Sorkin 2012-06-21T21:29:12Z

What emerged here were their basic virtues of contrasting pace, which extended the evening’s range as a primer in modern classical ballet. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z

One of the great virtues of this bravura work of economic history is how much attention it devotes to issues of power. ‘Crashed’ Connects the Dots From 2008 Crisis to Trump, Brexit and More 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

In June, she lost, managing to cling to power only by virtue of losing it less badly than everyone else, and a coalition deal that put the “oh, my” into “compromise”. 'Satire has had a busy year': how to laugh at the year that was 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the least acknowledged virtue of “At Home in the World” is that it takes pains not to frame Salinger as a villain. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

I wouldn’t read too much into this observation, but it seems worth mentioning because the voices that brayed most loudly about the virtues of animal fat tended to be male. Restaurant Review: El Rey Coffee Bar & Luncheonette on the Lower East Side 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Such achievements counted, for him, as moral achievements, almost on a par with the Christian virtues. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

But their halcyon period was at the time of Britpop, when pop life approximated an Austin Powers film, and such virtues didn't count for much. Dodgy's fifth album is a musical reunion worth celebrating 2012-02-09T20:00:02Z

“Straight Into a Storm,” an affectionate documentary directed by William Miller, celebrates Deer Tick, a band from Rhode Island that has appeared to exemplify a variety of rock ’n’ roll virtues. Review: ‘Straight Into a Storm,’ a Look at the Cult Band Deer Tick 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The nearest contemporary equivalents are those commercials in which peppy young things go dancing in the streets to trumpet the virtues of cars and colas. Theater Review: In ‘If/Then,’ Idina Menzel Travels Two Paths 2014-03-31T02:00:13Z

One does not expect the hunter—or rather, the hunter’s hugely supportive wife—to appreciate, let alone practice, the virtues of the hunted. The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

He will talk for hours about the comparative virtues of Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and Fairway. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z

Today, it would be a front-runner purely by virtue of its existence. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

He is Christlike in his virtue and singularity. ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z

Everywhere you went there was an economist or "expert" expounding the virtues of deregulation, the minimal state and low taxation. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

There are hopes that TV drama can in these dark times provide an example of virtue. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Listening to Dylan has been a lifelong exercise in strenuous rearrangement, estrangement, disavowal, and change: virtues to be prized for their own sake in the artists I love the most. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

In another message, he said: "Nevertheless I apologize on behalf of his family his fans & his friends. Forgiveness is to pardon the unpardonable or it is no virtue at all." Bollywood's Salman Khan causes uproar with rape remark 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Among its crowning virtues: it is open to everyone. My Favorite Place: Little Compton, R.I. 2011-09-23T18:58:31Z

Still, the Royal Ballet and Mariinsky companies’ current productions both have important virtues, which, if combined, might produce the ideal staging. Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Schulman was inspired by how Singer felt no compunction to create virtuous Jewish characters as if to emphasize that virtue wasn’t a prerequisite for compassion. A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

And yet he continues preaching the virtues of the Torah, including to a collective of hippies in San Francisco that he calls the House of Love and Prayer. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor’ at New York Theater Workshop 2012-08-15T16:26:49Z

My thumbnail notion of tragedy is based in the three classical virtues of truth, justice, and beauty. Movie of the Week: “Tabu” 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

By the second show, the savvy Horne realized several songs had to be cut, and by virtue of her song list, the audience had to know they were seeing and hearing something special. Perspective | Bruce Springsteen is a totally new thing for Broadway. Will it change because of him? 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Although she’s eager to testify in her tutor’s defense, circumstances will challenge Lovely’s virtue and deliver one of the most painful moments in “A Burning.” Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Why would I be expected to relate to this particular kind of conflict solely by virtue of the fact that I went to Hebrew school and that my grandfather was a rabbi? The True and False Virtues of the Left 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Whether justifying foreign intervention because of the Unites States’ inherent virtue or proclaiming the need to “make America great again,” the notion that our country is uniquely moral and righteous has been circulating lately. What Trump’s slick catchphrase really means: “Make America great again” is just code for “get the best deals” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

His work is a peek into how Hollywood equates classical beauty with virtue, from Disney romances to James Bond bad guys to comedians making fun of Stephen Bannon’s face. Perspective | Why does Hollywood keep equating beauty with virtue? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Extolling the virtues of dial-up dalliances, Suzanne Fellini recorded perhaps the most relevant and practical of the songs for a quarantine playlist. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

And the virtues of the film itself are those of craft rather than art. | 'The American': A Man of Few Words and an Artisanal Weapon 2010-08-31T18:35:00Z

The cinematic virtue of verisimilitude, in short, replaces a keener aesthetic choice. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Our hearts are surely in the right place, and while virtue may be its own reward, material comfort is pretty nice too. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z

As Mr. Brown instructs in the virtues of damask wallpaper and whimsical picture framing, the slacker husbands pursue childish fantasies. | ?Spouse vs. House? : You Say Man Cave, I Say Good Taste 2011-05-03T16:48:04Z

It has, probably just by virtue of how much time we spend together, how many meals we share. Matthew Broderick Misses the Theater Very Much 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Like the CEO of Google quoted at the start of this chapter, many people link openness with virtue. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

I attended both expecting to trumpet the virtues of a more collaborative and flexible model. The future is not here: Two 21st-century chamber ensembles in D.C. 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

We don’t require that all dance works celebrate these virtues, but it’s chilling when some negate them. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

The characters are extolling the virtues of Allah yet not personifying him, Dr. Mutawa argues, but it’s a message he must repeat again and again. PBS to Show ?Wham! Bam! Islam!? on ?Independent Lens? 2011-10-12T22:48:01Z

This was low, even for this show: making a virtue of child abuse. TV Hall of Shame: #2 Secret Diary of a Call Girl 2011-02-09T13:04:29Z

Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko THE great virtue of — as articulated early in “The Social Network” by , the student who was one of that site’s founders — is that it is “exclusive.” Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z

We are used to the teen-age girl who is constitutionally imperilled by virtue of her vulnerable, sexual body. The Lovely, Menacing Girls of Justine Kurland 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

The dance shows one of Mr. Wheeldon’s finest virtues: his desire constantly to extend and, so to speak, retune his vocabulary. Dance Review: Vail International Dance Festival Presents 4 Premieres 2012-08-07T21:57:02Z

The virtues of “Ant-Man” don’t lie solely in its differences from its competitors. "Ant-Man" Is a Superhero Movie for Skeptics 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

In the face of this slaughter, an answer to the question of why people have rights simply by virtue of being people, and how to secure those rights in practice, was desperately needed. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

As its title suggests, “Ain’t Too Proud” promotes the virtue of humility, at least when it comes to keeping a team together. Review: An All-Star Team in the Temptations Musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

“And the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.” Review: In ‘Hero of the Empire,’ a Young Churchill Earns His Spurs 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wolfert, never shy about proclaiming the virtues of a beloved ingredient, made the Western food world sit up and listen. An Ancient Grain Brings the Warmth 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Patience was my goal here, although that virtue only personally comes out on special occasions. My search for the Nazi who saved my mother’s life 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

You are fairly sure that they are doing a good thing, but unless you jump down and get muddy yourself, the virtue of the task, indeed of the whole canal system, might well escape you. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z

A few drawbacks detract from these signal virtues. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z

Avoid people who make a virtue of their unwillingness or inability to edit themselves to spare the feelings of others. The life lessons school should teach you 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

It is Ms. Nottage’s point that unconditional virtue is nonexistent within the international system of economic power that keeps the play’s world spinning. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Dewdney displayed in her writing career a deep reserve of patience, a virtue that she sought to instill in her young readers. Anna Dewdney, creator of ‘Llama Llama’ series for young readers, dies at 50 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Certainly a virtue of those things is that they embrace not only design and function but also experimentation. Fashion Review: Paris Men?s Shows Offer Order Amid Chaos 2010-06-25T21:37:00Z

But energy, line and expression — prime dancerly virtues — all pour forth from him. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The modesty that defines good martial arts in the “Ip Man” franchise is also a principal virtue of the films. ‘Ip Man 4: The Finale’ Review: Head Punches and Heart 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Their PM provides the example as virtue signaler in chief. Toronto Suddenly Has a New Craving: Syrian Food 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

That’s freshly-minted “Welcome Ambassador” for New York Taylor Swift in a promotional video on NYGo.com extolling the virtues of her adopted city. Taylor Swift’s “Welcome to New York” is the worst ode to NYC ever 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Finally, it seems, George Bailey’s virtue is being rewarded. “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z

I think one of the great virtues of Home's work is the way it forces us to address our own complacency. Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane by Stewart Home – review 2013-03-05T13:49:00Z