fittingness

Example Sentences

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Broccoli noted the fittingness of the scene - Craig running away from camera, into the dark.

From Washington Times • Oct. 4, 2021

Broccoli noted the fittingness of the scene — Craig running away from camera, into the dark.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021

Or a fittingness, as if something about them makes them naturally suited to be approached, the way a flower is suited by nature for bees?

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019

But there was a profound and encouraging sense of rightness, of fittingness, at Bush’s death.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2018

Hence a definite place is required for adoration, not chiefly, as though it were essential thereto, but by reason of a certain fittingness, like other bodily signs.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint