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  • 11After Virtue — is a highly regarded book on moral philosophy by Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre provides a bleak view of the state of modern moral discourse, regarding it as failing to be rational, and failing to admit to being irrational. He claims that older… …

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  • 12make a virtue of necessity — To do as if from a sense of duty (or with a sense of duty called in for the occasion) something unpleasant one is forced to do • • • Main Entry: ↑virtue * * * make a virtue of necessity phrase to pretend that you are doing something because you… …

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  • 13Warriors of Virtue — Infobox Film name = Warriors of Virtue caption = Promotional poster for Warriors of Virtue imdb id = 0120479 producer = Dennis Law Ron Law Christopher Law Jeremy Law Joseph Law director = Ronny Yu writer = Michael Vickerman Hugh Kelley starring …

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  • 14make a virtue out of necessity — make a virtue (out) of necessity see ↑virtue • • • Main Entry: ↑necessity make a virtue (out) of necessity : to benefit from something that you are forced to do When he lost his driver s license, he made a virtue out of necessity and got in shape …

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  • 15Paradise Lost — Infobox Book name = Paradise Lost title orig = translator = image caption = Title page of the first edition (1668) author = John Milton illustrator = cover artists = J. B. de Medina and Henry Aldrich country = England language = English series =… …

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  • 16Libby (Lost) — Infobox Lost character Title = Elizabeth Libby First = Adrift Flashback1 = Name = Elizabeth (surname unknown) Place = Newport Beach, California, USA Profession = Clinical psychologist Actor = Cynthia WatrosElizabeth, commonly known as Libby, is a …

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  • 17Charity (virtue) — This article is about the theological term of Christianity. For other uses, see Charity (disambiguation). Allegorical personification of Charity as a mother with three infants by Anthony van Dyck In Christian theology charity, or love (agapē),… …

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  • 18make a virtue of necessity — {v. phr.} Make the best of things as they are; do cheerfully what you do. * /After Mr. Wilson lost all his money, he made a virtue of necessity and found a new and interesting life as a teacher./ Compare: MAKE THE BEST OF …

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  • 19make a virtue of necessity — {v. phr.} Make the best of things as they are; do cheerfully what you do. * /After Mr. Wilson lost all his money, he made a virtue of necessity and found a new and interesting life as a teacher./ Compare: MAKE THE BEST OF …

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  • 20Bridges' Analysis of Paradise Lost — In his book Milton s Prosody , Robert Bridges undertakes a detailed analysis of the prosody of John Milton s Paradise Lost . Bridges shows that there are no lines in Paradise Lost with less than ten syllables, and furthermore, that with a… …

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