Sentence examples for In rightness from inspiring English sources

At the Republican convention, most of the delegates believe in rightness of this war.

So if rightness were given a real definition purely in terms of base properties, then it would again be clear why there could be no difference in rightness without a difference in base properties.

Assuming that natural and supernatural properties are among the base properties, the supervenience of rightness on the base properties would be easily explained on this view: because rightness is a base property, on this view, there clearly cannot be a difference in rightness without some difference in base properties.

"By instinct and habit, I was more interested in the whatness of the war rather than in the rightness or wrongness," he wrote in his 1995 memoir, "A Good Life".

Just knows that empire means being at the center of the world's attention, and through the eyes of outsiders, Europeans mostly, he shows us the unflattering ways we are sometimes seen: "rootless cosmopolitans whose culture is worse than any narcotic" in one novel; moral prima donnas with "an insufferable belief in the rightness of their own actions" in another.

Its confidence in the rightness of its approach — and in its ideal of canned, controllable nature — was unshakable.

But the son wanted to fly, so he enlisted in the Army and believed strongly in the rightness of the assault on Iraq.

It sounds very much as though Mr. Polanski became overconfident, both in the rightness of his own cause and in the safety of Switzerland as a refuge — a country that after the credit crisis suddenly seems to be much more eager to cooperate with international authorities.

His analysis is not exactly distinguished: "By instinct and habit, I was more interested in the whatness of the war than in the rightness or wrongness.

The problem with President Bush's homily, "Securing Freedom's Triumph" (Op-Ed, Sept. 11), is its bland assumption that everything American is morally and politically above question, and that this country, in its wisdom, is entitled to instruct others in the rightness of its ways.

However passionately we may believe in the rightness of our religious beliefs, we must respect not only of the right of others to disagree, but also their right to lead their lives according to a different set of beliefs.