Word: virtuouse
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We’re sitting around a black veneered conference table at William Morris, the oldest of the Tinseltown talent agencies, watching no less than three promotional videos steeped in virtuous self-aggrandizement. The recruiting manager in the corner is adjusting his tie yet again, and the head agent is talking too fast to pause for breath between sentences...
...study, workers in France averaged 1,453 hours per year while German workers averaged 1,446. But workers in Britain averaged 1,673 hours per year and U.S. workers averaged 1,792 hours. As supporters of the 35-hour week are quick to point out, there's nothing intrinsically virtuous about working more hours. French workers may log fewer hours than their British counterparts, but the French are more productive; Czechs put in more hours than any other European workers, and yet they're among Europe's least productive. And while French unions and employers bitterly disagree about...
Stauffer is currently working on a book called By the Love of Comrades: Interracial Friendships, Democratic Dreams and the Meaning of America, which uses the Aristotelian idea of friendship as a “test case for a virtuous society,” he said...
...Virtuous observers who washed their hands studiously after reading of the "Ohio gang" and to whom politics is a concatenation of corruption, will receive new shocks upon reading the tales of Pennsylvania politics now current in the press. It is truly obvious that politics in Pennsylvania are not conducted with kid gloves. But to those interested in the organized basis of American politics, in its accepted and unblushing practices, in the forces, which periodically corral the "phantom public" and compel it to electoral articulation, and in the eagerness of men benefiting in party policies to continue party patrous, the revelations...
...most part, the skirmishing remains verbal. From early on, critics of the exemplary theory have held that it had no particular use for Christ's divinity. Any virtuous martyr might do. One wit remarked that the Bible could have ended with the death of Abel, a decent enough man. Calvinist Evangelicals like Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Southern Seminary, continue to press that point. Pure exemplary theory, he says, "is just an account of one human trying to impress other humans with the moral of self-sacrifice, and that is not the Christian Gospel and never...