Sentence examples for rightness from from inspiring English sources

Approaching the canvases, you receive something actively intimate — the obsessive passion of the artist to wrest rightness from his material... View Article Peter Schjeldahl has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998 and is the magazine's art critic.

A simple example non-cognitivists need to be able to distinguish is that judgements of rightness from judgements of goodness.

A more radical critique of the paradigmatic natural law account of the connection between the good and the right calls into question the very idea that one can get principles of moral rightness merely from what constitutes a defective response to the good.

Maximizing utility may be what makes an action right, but it is distinct from rightness itself.

He tends to avoid the reassuring rightness we expect from painting's greats.

There was a continuum between my experience and the images on the Christmas cards propped on the mantelpiece of the cottage we rented, and when – as I returned in the evening – another fall of snow began, I felt the glow of rightness that comes from having your glass topped up at a good Christmas party.

For him, goodness is very different from rightness.

Turning from rightness to goodness, we can identify three main candidates for a liberal theory of value.

It looks at where you get your sense of rightness, of acceptance from.

But after the critical and commercial success of "Unforgiven," the emphasis in Mr. Eastwood's work would shift from the rightness of the violence to the human cost to the executioner.

He now further distinguishes truth from moral rightness by defining the latter, but not the former, in terms of idealized consensus.