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rightness

[rahyt-nis] / ˈraɪt nɪs /




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I did just have this feeling of rightness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The sensation of taste and the pleasure food brings versus the maintaining of a sense of rightness in how we pursue these pleasures.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024

For its farewell, Olafsson played it more fluidly, but also with more confidence in the rightness of its hermitage.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

“The one way to preserve and defend a place’s rightness is to inhabit it, intimate, knowledgeable, and vigilant as can be.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

There was a nail-hard strength in her, a lack of any compromise, a rightness in the face of all opposing wrongness, which made you hold her in a kind of awe but not in warmth.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck


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