Word: virtuouse
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McCalla's election constituted a triumph for the virtuous, "dry," citizens of Corallis, who preach lasting welfare on John Barleycorn, but used to sneak out behind the shed every once in a while anyway. Undoubtedly, the most preached- against man in the county is Angelo Bonatura, who has the local monopoly in the illicit liquor trade, a monopoly that has taken him eight years and an artful homicide to complete...
...supposedly virtuous sheriff finds himself trapped. When the inconsistent ethics of this not really noble Roman triumph at the end, it is unexpected, to least...
...Common Sense. Franklin's character-quirky, shrewd, humorous-shows in every line of verse, in his dry homilies, and even in his most perfunctory business correspondence. The "saint of common sense" never falls from this mundane kind of sanctity. In his early middle age he is sometimes the virtuous and successful artisan-turned-entrepreneur, who could offer the sound advice of one who had walked into Philadelphia with a few coppers, three loaves and a knowledge of how to set up type as his sole capital. "Time is money," he wrote in Poor Richard in 1745, and would...
...meant by liberty, by law and by God; less obviously but just as importantly, they knew what they meant when they declared, "We hold these truths." They believed that ultimate, universal truth could be perceived by human reason. They also believed, in Murray's words, that "only a virtuous people can be free," that freedom can survive only if the people are "inwardly governed by the moral...
Never on Sunday. A rambunctious little politico-philosophical fable about the Virtuous Whore and the Quiet American, who meet and educate each other in an earthy Greek setting. Directed by Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Hellenism's latest triumphant incarnation...