Sentence examples for thought rightly from inspiring English sources

I thought – rightly – that the film would provide a suitable preface to Trump's global horror show.

All those things that sport taught you as a child it was thought, rightly or wrongly, made you good empire builders".

The photocopies of the Japanese screen were given to me by the director because he thought, rightly, that I would love them.

The publishers, Heinemann, had invested a huge sum in the project and thought – rightly – that Gilbert was the only candidate with the knowledge and energy sufficient to carry it through to a successful conclusion.

And at this point, the uncharitable reader might well observe that it took the egocentric narrator nearly 300 pages to arrive at a fairly banal realization that seemed obvious enough more than 200 pages earlier, when he acknowledged, "I had never thought rightly of how to be a parent or a husband, only of possessing a child, of owning a wife".

We thought, rightly or wrongly, that it would be best at that point to announce it ourselves on Twitter to deny the tabloid the chance at an "exclusive".

They think, rightly, that they are the object of genocide".

"There's things that I think rightly concern the public on access to schools, hospitals, roads, housing".

This is the attitude taken by most good citizens toward their government and I think rightly so.

They think (rightly) that inconclusive election results and a mood of national crisis made joining the Tories in the coalition last year the responsible thing to do.

They will all be part of this renegotiation, and I've given myself – I think rightly – the referendum must be held by the end of 2017.