Sentence examples for goodness very from inspiring English sources

Intended – you infer – as satires of Thatcherism, novels such as Fixx, Nasty, Very and Goodness very often come uncomfortably close to glorifying the thing they seek to disparage.

"Fritzi was down to earth, provocative and, my goodness, very courageous — the one who inspired us, the one who reminded us that we could not possibly wait until this terrible war found its own end".

'Oh my goodness, very tense, very tense,' said Joanne Parkinson from Preston, who with her husband and daughter had managed to snatch glimpses of the play from behind a picnic table.

The pressure to focus on easily measured improvements for a few – what former development secretary, Clare Short, once described as "little bits of doing goodness" – is very real, especially when money is tight.

Sarah: oh my goodness, its very comforting to hear that.

This is an ancient problem, too, in that happiness and goodness are very hard to capture on the page.

All these people, and so many others — oh my goodness, so very many others — have "reached," or have described events or emotions "reaching," crescendos.

For him, goodness is very different from rightness.

But according to these philosophers, desires and judgments of goodness are very different things.

If one wishes only to account for a proper subset of moral notions, such as obligation, with one's theological voluntarism, then the objection from God's goodness is very weak; if one wishes to provide a sweeping account of normativity in theological voluntarist terms, then the objection is much stronger.

"Thank goodness I have very good staffers," Ms. Landrieu said.