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in a moral manner

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in a chaste and virtuous manner

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Many daughters have done virtuously, but she excelleth them all.' Well, I wish I could have seen her, Angel.
If they show themselves disposed to accept their proper position I will assist them to start virtuously in life by a present of one hundred pounds each.
"At eight o'clock on the appointed evening, several of us professed great weariness, and went to our room, leaving the rest sewing virtuously with Miss Cotton, who read Hannah More's Sacred Dramas aloud, in a way that fitted the listeners for bed as well as a dose of opium would have done.
This lack of clarity creates an environment ripe for the promulgation of simplistic nationalistic narratives, which paint one side as virtuously seeking peace while the other is stubbornly unwilling to compromise.
stocks have enjoyed some kind of virtuously supportive dynamic for some years now.
Gender Bonobo is, virtuously, not homophobic or transphobic.
Although common opinion often preaches selflessness and virtue, this creates the illusion that acting altruistically or virtuously will make men happy, a possibility Hobbes famously denied.
This action was taken in the hope that China's economic growth would become sustainable by forging synergies and interacting virtuously with other countries' development strategies.
Proponents of this objection state that the main problem with neo-Aristotelian accounts of moral motivation is that they prescribe that our ultimate reason for acting virtuously is that doing so is for the sake of and/or is constitutive of our own eudaimonia.
It is also absolutely necessary that we act virtuously, and this means: doing many good deeds every day, in service of the people we are in contact with, starting with the simplest and most common, ordinary things we have to do in such a service.
The Abraaj health-care fund was a prime example of how private money can be profitably and virtuously used in Africa and South Asia.
In a world of both over-consumption on the part of some people and far too many broken relationships, these readings invite us to live simply and virtuously. The readings call us to be forever mindful of others' needs while striving to grow ever more deeply into the divine vision of one body one family, so deeply loved by one God.
The very existence of people who refuse to accept evil and who seek to act virtuously burns the conscience of those who don't.
Apart from averting future ethical missteps, this enforcement will move modern China closer in step with the much touted, idealised Confucian exemplary leadership, namely,"A ruler who governs virtuously is like the north star around which all other stars revolve." (Peter T C Chang is a senior lecturer at the Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya.)
The Indian wife also gets the rather virtue-signalling role of chiding the parents on the double standard of trying to protect their daughters' virginity (they wouldn't do it if the girls were boys!) -- though in fact the scene is saved by the fact that our heroes are desperately trying to get away while also nodding along with the wife's PC rant (a nice snapshot of the way we'd all like to live a bit more virtuously, but keep being distracted by our actual everyday lives) just as the 'butt-chugging' contest is saved by the fact that Mitch is desperately trying to act young by agreeing to the contest, as if telling himself that sucking beer through one's bottom is just one of those things millennials do nowadays.