In children's entertainment, especially bad children's entertainment, imperfections are presented as proof of essential goodness.
To him and his contemporaries she was the paragon of feminine virtue, the proof of her goodness being that she didn't wish to outlive her man.
It is not the proof of highest goodness never to have done wrong but it is a proof of it, sometime in one's career, to pause and ponder, to recognize the evil, to turn resolutely against it & devote the remainder of one's life to that only which is pure & exalted.
As you see indisputable proof of His goodness and blessing upon your life, you will begin to be truly thankful -- for the air conditioning, for the neighbor who smiles at you, that your shoulder doesn't hurt like it used to!
If there was such a thing as a good Germany, it was now to be found in this country (proof of America's goodness), embodied in his person; if there was a Great Writer, not at all an American notion of what a writer is, it was he.
Having felt for years that the great man's reputation was under stealth assault from those never inclined to see any pedagogical virtue behind the tough love and bluster of football culture, they pointed to the library that bore his name, as though proof of his essential goodness were exculpatory.
It's an extremely unique approach, skeptical and wary of the larger universe -- and sure to encourage the conspiracy theorists among us -- and yet there remains an optimism inherent in the writing that, even if we've been betrayed in the past, some proof of the world's goodness is sure to arrive any day now.
Good madam, of goodness remember me.
A proof-of-concept study based on a panel of LCLs showed high goodness-of-fit values for linear regression plots comparing growth inhibition profiles of paired drugs acting via a shared pathway [ 25].
Although coefficients of determination (R) were ≥0.995 in either case, this cannot be considered an ultimate proof of linearity, but merely refers to the goodness of correlation between corrected peak areas and related concentrations [ 43].
