Sentence examples for its rightness from inspiring English sources
But the death last September of the youngest child, Jonathan, who had been urging the family to do it, convinced them of its rightness.
Ross distinguished those prima facie duties (such as promise keeping, reparation, gratitude, and justice) from actual duties, for "any possible act has many sides to it which are relevant to its rightness or wrongness"; and those facets have to be weighed before "forming a judgment on the totality of its nature" as an actual obligation in the given circumstances.
What "always will be to poetry's credit", he wrote, is "the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it".
As we feel its rightness for the music, the ballet's ambiguities bring satisfaction.
In his book, "Smyslov's 125 Selected Games," he wrote, "The content of a game should be a search for truth, and victory a demonstration of its rightness".
There was something off in its rightness and precision, an old and familiar antagonism gone, a testiness his fingers wanted to feel.
In the coda of her Act II solo she suddenly added a soft out-of-the-blue triple pirouette that had the audience gasping aloud not because of its virtuosity but because of its unexpected rightness: it heightened Odette's light.
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully assembled social niceties, all of those subtle, sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbor's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here," that Rwanda was a one-off.
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully-assembled social niceties, all of those subtle-sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbor's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here," that Rwanda was a one-off.
King Ralph upends your moral instincts, and does it with such cheerily unblinking certainty of its own rightness that it pierces all our carefully-assembled social niceties, all of those subtle-sinister good-mannered affirmations that lead us to believe we could never take up arms, that we could never eat our neighbour's dog, that Bosnia "wouldn't happen here", that Rwanda was a one-off.
