When I last read the story, it was the quality of the prose that delighted, the rightness with which Sutcliff gives life to physical sensation.
Throughout, it is the rightness with which things fit together that feels poetic in Walton's work: he almost invariably achieves a kind of syntactical lock, even when the parts of a piece are simply stacked atop one another, either on the floor or, more often, on small cantilevered shelves.
Start being that woman now, and the rightness with food magically happens.
They disturb the viewer's sense of rightness-with-the-world, but that was the aim of Brandt's adventurous lens.
He sang for the final time at a New Year's Eve concert in Munich, suddenly deciding on the rightness of ending with an aria from his beloved Falstaff - "all the world is an illusion".
Re "Building on Faith," by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam who plans a community center near ground zero (Op-Ed, Sept. 8): We should not conflate the right to build the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan with the rightness of doing so.
When the argument is thus formulated, there is no problematic bridge that needs to be introduced connecting the goodness and badness of states of affairs with the rightness and wrongness of actions.
Rather, the jumpsuited man, a sturdy, almost fat one this time, with heavy, black-rimmed eyeglasses and a Yankees cap shielding him from the rain, appeared to be some kind of inspector, charged with insuring the rightness of the site and recording in cryptic shorthand, with a ballpoint pen on a clipboarded sheet, certain impressions.
Tied in a sack and padlocked inside a trunk, he escaped in seconds, leaving the trunk still locked, the sack still tied, but with his female assistant inside -- reaffirming "the rightness of clear sexual divisions (with man unbound and woman dependent)." Kasson keeps to an exacting scholarly standard of scrupulous research.
Finally, ethical naturalism, which identifies the rightness or goodness of actions with, say, their tendency to promote happiness, thereby reduces moral facts to natural (e.g., psychological) ones.
Mr. Gawenda's nuanced Hovstad similarly mixes sincere belief in the rightness of Stockmann's quest with an awareness that it will be a useful boon for his paper.
