Sentence examples for idea of rightness from inspiring English sources

Constraints and limits can be good for you, and Bryars's music, which seems to me to be characterised by an almost old-fashioned restraint, a kind of grace under pressure and acceptance of an idea of rightness, is hardly a free-for-all.

Although it was strange, the idea gave me an enormous sense of rightness.

And if rightness attaches to any of them, should we not speak of a right opinion or right pleasure; and in like manner of the reverse of rightness?

For others, however, an action seems to be properly termed 'internally right', merely because they have previously regarded it as right, the idea of 'rightness' being present in some way to his or her mind, but not necessarily among his or her deliberately constructed motives.

But there he is, in a halo of rightness.

It felt like Christmas Eve, full of rightness and promise.

And even 9/11 itself has a kind of rightness.

De Keyser's paintings have what I would call an edgy sense of rightness.

It offends their sense of rightness, indeed their sense of morality.

It's a sense of rightness, permission to meet it as an equal.

Clay offended Cannon's sense of rightness the way flying machines offended his father's generation.