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.
They disturb the viewer's sense of rightness-with-the-world, but that was the aim of Brandt's adventurous lens.
As directors evaluate their executive programs, it is imperative they ask the question, "Is the total compensation package morally or ethically correct?" Beyond Compliance: Ethics and a New Way of Thinking Ethics is "that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions," according to Dictionary.Com.Com
It has to do with determination and the rightness and the truthfulness of the ideas".
During the first decade of his teaching he was in difficult debate with himself about the rightness of becoming a Roman Catholic.
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.
The British and American media make much of the fact that France has economic ties with Iraq; but whatever the rightness or wrongness of such ties, they do not explain France's opposition to an Iraqi war.
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.
