Sentence examples for something to be good from inspiring English sources

Our analysis of instrumental goodness presupposes an understanding of what it is for something to be good.

"I'm relentless in terms of getting something to be good," he acknowledged.

Misconception about songwriting: That you have to be all messed up and strung out or something to be good at it.

"Why do you need to study something to be good at it?" he asks.

All such positions are non-voluntarist in so far as they do not claim that what it means for something to be good is that God wills it to be so.

A common version of theistic voluntarism is the claim that for something to be good or right simply means that it is willed by God and for something to be evil or wrong means that it is forbidden by God.

The sheer process of reinvention, Mr. Lansky said, is satisfying: "It's more interesting to get good at something than to be good at something".

Something had to be good!

In regard to lust (desire), something believed to be good, but falsely so, several points can be made.

Lust is a longing for something believed to be good, but again is falsely so believed, since the supposed good is morally of the psyche.

My childhood taught me that I'd best find something besides sports to be good at.