1.   A New World makes many virtues out of small things.

2.   Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.

3.   But Simon does not merely make a virtue of necessity.

4.   She made a virtue of her acting limitations by joking about them.

5.   What I did was to make a virtue of my misery.

6.   And he has made a virtue of rhetorical stridency, the very characteristic that throughout the Cold War era worked against Republican presidential candidates rather than for them.

7.   Bobs are trying to make a virtue of their all-American blandness.

8.   Bodies that would once have been considered imperfect -- fat, disabled or old -- are now in unselfconscious evidence in work that makes a virtue of their imperfection.

9.   Bush, attempting to make a virtue of a necessity, has said that he supports the single congressional inquiry.

10.   But the advisers said such a move could be particularly risky for their campaign because Bush has tried to make a virtue out of his desire to stay upbeat.