Word: virtuouse
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...quick images, Maximov slashes a scene in place. His hero, hating the smug, virtuous world, rejects the sympathy of the few kind and decent people he encounters because it is rage itself, he comes to understand, that keeps him alive. "I defend myself against them," he thinks in a rare moment of self-understanding, "with all the fury accumulated in years of wolfish life." Eventually he gives in and accepts society, because he realizes that, bad as it is, it is redeemed by individual acts of humanity...
...incident sorely embarrassed the authorities, and deepened a growing concern in Toyo No Kunshi Koku (the Oriental Country of Virtuous Men) over the kind of image that Japan will present to Olympic visitors. For reasons of face, few top officials are willing to admit that the problem exists, but Seitaro Kawakami, chief of "crime prevention " in the Tokyo police, concedes: "Our work is becoming feverish be cause we simply must make Tokyo truly worthy of being the Olympic host city...
...virtuous woman is perpetually threatened by a cloud no bigger than a man's hand...
...Dickens describes Seth Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewit as "a most exemplary man; fuller of virtuous precept than a copybook. Some people likened him to a direction-post, wnich is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there . . . His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low fence of white cravat . . . and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you. His person was sleek though free from corpulency...
...accordingly punished by the administration. His classmates came to his rescue, assembled under Rebellion Elm, and stirred rioting which interrupted classes for two months. Tutors' windows and furniture were smashed, torpedoes were sailed through the Chapel, President Josiah Quincy was hanged in effigy, and explosions violated the virtuous Yard. A number of the rioters received the customary dismissal but at least two were taken to court and tried on a variety of civil charges...