rightness
Example Sentences
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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
His rightness for the role is a marvelous coup, considering it’s the fourth film in a four-decade-old franchise that’s tightly bonded to another once-distinguished dramatic actor, Leslie Nielsen, who originated the character of Lt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
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
“A good producer,” he writes “can smell nuance from a hundred yards…he knows when you’re starting to question the basic rightness of your case. That’s when he begins his pep talk. ‘
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2023
She could feel its rightness in the thrum and heat of her bones.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
