Word: virtuousic
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...high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...
...Slowly, while tirelessly expounding Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, Chiang forged his own philosophy of rule. Deeply imbued with Confucian thought, it was a theory based on precept, on the loyalty of subject to ruler, of son to father. "If the ruler is virtuous, the people will also be virtuous," Confucius taught...
...After keeping him squirming on the hot seat for half an hour, the six unanimously decided that Lucky is "socially dangerous because of well-founded suspicions that he lives on crime and by crime." Just to help him be a good boy, the commission prescribed a virtuous regimen for Luciano, ruled that for the next two years he must 1) stay home between dusk and dawn, 2) roam no farther than Naples' near suburbs, 3) check in with the cops every Sunday, 4) avoid saloons, cafes, race tracks and all shady characters except himself...
...sneak attack camouflaged by an embrace verging on strangulation, accompanied by the lover's deceptively shy whimpering (noted Henri: "If you go about the business calmly, you can't fail"). He also jotted down guiding principles: "Heroes have intervals of fear, poltroons moments of bravery, and virtuous women moments of weakness." But the weak moments came when Henri was not about and his amorous success consisted in courting the daughter of a household and being bedded by the mother, in falling into the arms of women he didn't love while dreaming of those...
...automobile. Said Café Filho: "A man of your political standing is well aware that Brazil is starving for dollars. I know you, and I am sure you'll be happy to give up a pleasure in order to help Brazil." The Senator departed with the virtuous air of a man who had just made a sacrifice for his country...