cardinal virtues
Britishplural noun
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Strip away the Crunchwraps, the Big Macs, the PlayPlaces, the sentient taste buds and the nihilistic Facebook feeds and you're left with American fast-food's three cardinal virtues: profitability, uniformity and automation.
From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023
Belying his stern image, his first encyclical, the most authoritative form of papal writing, centered on love, one of three treatises he planned to write on the cardinal virtues of love, hope and faith.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2022
Among the cardinal virtues, according to the Stoics, are courage and wisdom.
From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2021
It’s a tribute to sloth, slacking, impossible yearnings — the cardinal virtues.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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