Rightness

The song signifies the ultimate rightness of those steadfast in their beliefs, suggesting the rightness of Gush Emunim's struggle against anti-settlement policy by the government.

But like Lawrence, he failed to win his own people to the rightness of his cause by the time he died.

When he introduced the two women that spring, Ms. Laurent’s instant approval reinforced Mr. Ruivinho’s sense of rightness about falling in love with Ms. Marzaro.

Norman Manley did not campaign effectively and lost because of his belief in the rightness of the Federation and saw little need to counter the fears generated by Bustamante.

This 56-year-old adult in the steampunk-lite outfit who cries on stage at his own rightness?

Try to behave with quiet confidence in the rightness of your position.

Although the most famous two chapters are heavily ironical and cutting about religion, it is not utterly condemned, and its truth and rightness are upheld however thinly.

Despite this advice from his colleagues, Nestorius persisted in maintaining the rightness of his position.

He sees all of these as efforts to make oneself pleasing to God in ways other than conscientious adherence to the principle of moral rightness in choosing one's actions.

He was not questioning the “rightness or wrongness” of it.

In 1634, Duvergier had become the spiritual adviser of Port-Royal-des-Champs and good friend of Angélique Arnauld ; he convinced her of the rightness of Jansen's opinions.

It is possible that this procedure started before the end of the Mycenaean age, but the idea is almost absent or vague in the Homeric poems, where the interference of the gods is not related to the rightness or wrongness of men's actions.

Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts.

On the other hand, it is not immediately clear how to physically see, touch or measure the goodness of a novel or the rightness of an action.

Rather, it is derived from the more basic standard of rightness, consequentialism : what is right is what has the best consequences (usually measured by the total or average welfare caused).

The courts, for example did not attempt to discover the facts in a case; instead, in any dispute it was up to each party to get as many people as possible to swear to the rightness of their case; "oath-swearing".

The emperor Titus's dignified yet confident ease in his management of an amphitheatre crowd and its factions were taken as a measure of his enormous popularity and the rightness of his imperium.

Yet we recognize the rightness of this appearance in relation to our historical needs.