Word: virtuousness
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...quaintly referred to as a "scrape." She, on her part, meticulously maintained a spotless reputation. For years she had not dared to tell anyone that she was, in the euphemism of the age, a wife in name only. Eventually she understood that in abstinence lay salvation, via a virtuous annulment. Where once she had wanted Ruskin to consummate the marriage, she now deliberately made herself as unpleasant to him as she could...
...American foreign policy seem incapable of attacking U.S. actions without elevating our opponent to a pedestal," he wrote in the Brookings Institution's recently published Agenda for the Nation. "If they discern some stupidity or self-interest on our side, they assume that the other side must be virtuous." As for hardliners, he continued, they "follow the same logic in reverse...
...relate is told in few and simple words. It is well that Director Carol Reed (The Third Man) has strayed from the far less successful Broadway version, which was stunted by stage boundaries and hampered by overplayers. Instead he has gone to a richer predecessor: David Lean's virtuous 1948 adaptation, memorable for its palpable atmosphere of terror and decorum. After a season of watching inane twitching in the name of dance, the viewer is most happily greeted by Onna White's choreography, an exuberant step-by-step exploration of Victorian zeal...
...credit here belongs wholly to de Rigault as Moliere has left vitually no stage directions. The greatest moment comes at the climax of the play when Orgon discovers that the trusted, devout Tartuffe is a hypocritical lecher thirsting after his wife. As Tartuffe lunges forward to embrace her, the virtuous lady steps quickly aside and Tartuffe lands in her husband's no longer quite so fond embrace...
...this side of true gentility, A soupfon, a sous-soupçon, just below The absolute apogee of comme il faut? They did improve the breed, they kept alive The sport of kings, so that, in 1905, The naming of this racecourse set the crown Of laurel on their virtuous renown, As beautiful, as elegant a setting As one could ever hope to find for betting...