But the greatest loss was in their own attitude toward civic virtue.

He also appealed to the city's middle class by giving talks on civic virtue at area churches.

Americans have historically seen in religious practice a key to maintaining civic virtue.

Music was associated with personal, social, even civic virtues: the good, the true and the beautiful.

By the 18th century, though, the love of one's country was coming to be an unarguable civic virtue.

Its related concepts can be compared to the Western idea of civic virtue.

Of course, debates have civic virtues other than their effects on spending, so this is not an argument against them.

Finally, the citizen must, if true to his quality, be possessed of some civic virtue.

The problem here is how can social cohesion and civic virtue be promoted?

The city has risen on the American landscape as a place of plain civic virtue.