![]() ![]() These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'virtue.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 If Frank Sinatra had a cold, Santos has an allergy to anything resembling virtue. Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 14 Feb. ![]() 2023 White represents joy, love, virtue, holiness, and all things angelic, including the purity of Jesus Christ, as described by the Christian Resource Institute. 2023 Cowsert, though, is trying to turn that necessity into a virtue. Jon Caramanica, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2023 Often Umberto reminded Brunello that working hard was not in and of itself a virtue. Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2,700 Ratings With crushed dreams and a heavy heart, Isabelle Walsh becomes the wife of New York City millionaire Sebastian Everett.Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 21 Mar. Virtue & Vanity by Astrid Jane Ray 3.29 avg. Comer knows that is regarded as a virtue. ![]() Acts of Love Virtues, at their core, are meant to be actions of love. Growing in virtue means forming a new habit and continuing that habit over time. 2023 But in his own party, and back home, Mr. Virtue is not something innately ingrained when we are born, but rather, something we practice and improve on. 2023 Present-day art historians consider Eleonora’s luxurious trappings as symbols of her status and virtue. Recent Examples on the Web The Elite has always been a rather strange-looking creation, although its occasional seating for four is something of a redeeming virtue. ![]()
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![]() ![]() All About Yoshitaka Amano is 128 pages of photographs and images, serving as the most extensive look ever in English at the artist, including an interview with Amano, a timeline of his career, a glimpse into his studio in SoHo and his favorite places in New York, a visual index of each illustration that appears in the three The Sky hardcover art books, and more! A 2 1/4" by 4 3/4" 100 page Final Fantasy animation flip book designed by Amano, containing two different "movies." A 10 1/4" by 11" acetate print with silver ink. ![]() Volume 2 (276 pages) contains his contributions for Final Fantasy IV - VI, and Volume 3 (156 pages) features his art for Final Fantasy VII - X. ![]() Volume 1 (144 pages) contains Amano's work for Final Fantasy I - III. Its contents include: Three 11 3/4" by 10 1/2" hardcover books, printed on high-quality stock. Yoshitaka Amano is one of the world's foremost fantasy artists, and the limited-edition The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy boxed set is a giant-sized (462 cubic inches!), signed collection of five books, plus bonus items that showcase Amano's ethereal illustrations for the first ten Final Fantasy games! The 12" high, 11" wide, and 3 1/2" deep box that encloses The Sky has a hinged lid decorated with artwork from Amano inside and out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Another easily made acquaintance is quick-minded teenager Kathy Ellerbeck, who wanders in to observe Tom at work, invites him to tea and chapel soon she even has him helping out with Sunday school, with an expedition to buy (as cheaply as possible) an organ for the chapel. The month is August 1920, when reminiscing narrator Tom Birkin-a young Great War veteran deserted by his wife-takes his first, underpaid professional job, uncovering the medieval wall painting in a north-of-England village church: ""This is what I need, I thought-a new start, and, afterwards, maybe I won't be a casualty any more."" Tom, still suffering from shell-shock's after-effects, lives in the church's bell-tower and shares morning coffee with fellow veteran Moon-a witty young archaeologist who's tenting in the meadow next door, digging for a medieval sarcophagus. ![]() ![]() ![]() The series is comprised of 19 books so far, with the 20th – The Engineer Wore Venetian Red – available for preorder (to be released on May 27 th), all set in the same universe. ![]() And, without knowing, that entire universe became a close friend I gradually got attached to immensely, and which I keep revisiting once in a while. Then, it was just natural I kept reading the rest of the Magnificent Devices books. I was sure I would be binging them, and I was right. When I read the description for the Lady of Devices (the first book in the series), I knew it was the kind of book I would fall in love with, so, although it was available for free, I bought the first four volumes box set. Since I knew there were many I had yet to read, I started a very thorough search on Google, reading reviews, blurbs and so on. I had just finished reading the last installment of Philip Reeve’s excellent Mortal Engines series, and I was craving for another steampunk book. ![]() I discovered Shelley Adina and her Magnificent Devices steampunk series early in 2019. Facebook Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Following a decade of neglect, there is a continuing gulf between what people need and what they receive,' says lead author Simon Bottery, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund. The overall picture is of deep decline, with many key indicators continuing to move in the wrong direction.īetween 2015//20, 120,000 more people requested social care support but around 14,000 fewer people received either long- or short-term support.* ![]() The new data is part of Social care 360, The King’s Fund’s annual assessment of the state of the social care sector. The data puts further pressure on the government to commit to reform of social care in next week’s Queen’s Speech. New figures reveal the dire state of England's social care sector before the pandemic, with more people requesting support but fewer getting the help they needed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abrams, Daniel Boyarin, Gerald Bruns, Lawrence Buell, Kenneth Burke, Donald Davie, Robert Detweiler, Denis Donoghue, Terry Eagleton, Caryl Emerson, René Girard, Geoffrey Hartman, Stanley Hauerwas, Peter Hawkins, David Jasper, John Milbank, Walter Ong, S.J., Alicia Ostriker, Barbara Packer, Chaim Potok, Stephen Prickett, Annemarie Schimmel, Regina Schwartz, and Nathan A. Religion and Literature is a scholarly journal that provides a forum for discussion of the relations between two crucial human concerns: the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language.įirst published in 1984, the journal has featured articles by distinguished scholars including M.H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Struggle and Hope: The Story of Chinese Canadians - 1996 Paul Yee has written three other books but they are for the adult reading community and are considered history books. I have listed these books, as they relate to children and YA. Teach me to fly, skyfighter! and other stories. Tales from gold mountain: stories of the Chinese in the new world. " Hobbies are swimming, jogging and taiko (Japanese drumming). " Has received nine awards for his writing including Prix Enfantasie from Switzerland, Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award (19). " Liked reading adventure books about faraway places, and a bit of science fiction when growing up. " Presently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. " One of three children who grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with an aunt after his parents died. "ěorn Octoin Spalding, Saskatchewan, Canada. Multicultural, Poetry and Literature for Young Adults ![]() ![]() ![]() Weeks later, after the private dinner with Trump in which Comey says he agreed to give the president “honest loyalty,” Comey had another private Oval Office meeting with Trump. ![]() “As crazy as it sounds, I suddenly had the feeling that, in the blink of an eye, the president-elect was trying to make us all part of the same family and that Team Trump had made it a ‘thing of ours.’” “I sat there thinking, Holy crap, they are trying to make each of us ‘amica nostra’ – friend of ours. Rather than ask about how to meet the threat from Russia, Comey writes, Trump, Pence and incoming White House aides Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer quickly focused on “how they could spin what we’d just told them,” debating “how to position these findings for maximum political advantage.” Comey and other top intelligence officials were at Trump Tower to brief the president-elect, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and a small circle of their top aides on Russian efforts to influence the election. A few weeks before his private dinner with the president, shortly before his inauguration, Comey had a similar feeling about mob loyalty pledges during his first meeting with Trump, he writes. ![]() ![]() ![]() And unlike mostworks on poverty, this one delves into the calculations of some employers as well-their razor-thin profits, their anxieties about competition from abroad, their frustrations in finding qualified workers. We meet drifting farmworkers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation's capital-each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crisis. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor-white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. ![]() But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology-hard, honest work. ![]() ![]() ![]() "You think we need this?" Sam looked startled. So each employee will have their own little space to store stuff." "So Antoine and D'Eriq can keep a change of clothes here. "So we women won't have to put our purses in a drawer in your desk," I said. "What for?" Sam didn't sound indignant, but like he genuinely wanted to know. "See here?" I paced off a modest area just outside the storeroom. "No, I want to buy some," I said over my shoulder. ![]() "Uh-oh, you want to move the furniture?" Sam was half-smiling as he followed me into the bar. "Come on in and let me show you something," I said. ![]() Jannalynn hadn't told him a vampire was coming into her bar, a Were bar. I may not be able to read two-natured minds as easily as I can human minds, but I could tell Sam was genuinely surprised. "He says they're stocking TrueBlood at the Hair of the Dog." I was treading on shaky ground. When the truck had gone, Sam came out of the trailer and came over to the bar. Tell him I said to catch some crappie for me." "It'll be fine," I said, which meant almost nothing except that I felt goodwill toward the McClure family. "They gonna have to take out some college loans, do it themselves." "This'll be number three," Duff said, shaking his head with a rueful grin. ![]() |