Word: virtuouse
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...camera. Virtuous Liars. One of those artist pictures in which we are to believe that a married woman seeking an artist's career in New York can win fame fastest if she poses as a widow to the denizens of baldhead row. Her scamp husband is put out of the way of her second marriage to the hero, by a shot...
...Supremely perfect and virtuous assassinations...
...cold of early Winter-mornings, sleepy, reluctant and with much trust to a long overcoat; but not all of them can remember that they profited largely from the performance of that stern duty. At the time they tried to agree with the prevailing belief, that anything painful was virtuous, but not all of them succeeding in doing it, and such as didn't still have their original doubts N. Y. Times
...LADY?Melodramatic reunion of the virtuous chorus girl, the worthless husband, the luckless infant, the irate grandfather?well played and still luxuriously emotional...
Frances E. Willard. Here is a woman who has been regarded as the embodiment of the aggressively virtuous. Her very humanity has been squeezed from her by her admirers. Mr. Dibble means to change all that. He tries to show the irrepressible naughtiness underlying the intolerable perfection. She is interesting for two reasons: her career marks "the definite entrance of woman into the field of political and moral reform"; and "she was a woman who led an unusually rich and varied existence...