Another is that local councils, like many other public institutions in Brazil, are rarely temples of civic virtue.

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Stephen Mackey, president and CEO of the Somerville Chamber of Commerce, said he's glad the business owners in his community excel at civic virtue.

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By contrast, Mr Giddens's integrated political programme boils down to a list of conventional appeals to civic virtue, in which every bet is hedged and every hard choice ducked.

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But if we gun guys are the paragons of civic virtue that we claim to be, why do we have to be ordered to lock up our guns or report a gun theft?

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In a New York Times article from 1922, a woman from the National League of Women Voters said women should be placed not below but next to a man in any representation of civic virtue.

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But a city like New Orleans, with its rebuilding challenges, its violence, its rich culture, the odd mix of civic virtue and corruption, and its long-term existential risks from hurricanes and rising seas, deserves a first-class newsgathering operation.

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The book was heavy on polemics equating moral virtue and civic responsibility with military service.

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But she says the statue itself is an allegorical image of virtue trying to resist the temptations of civic vice, depicted as two feminized sea creatures.

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The cultivation of virtue has become a hot subject at universities, along with the related study of the civic institutions (the church, the family, local voluntary associations) which are thought to foster virtue best.

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