rightness

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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The second cost of diversity derives from how employees of color perceive the rightness of their employer’s actions, otherwise known as legitimacy.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2025

“The one way to preserve and defend a place’s rightness is to inhabit it, intimate, knowledgeable, and vigilant as can be.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

“A good producer,” he writes “can smell nuance from a hundred yards…he knows when you’re starting to question the basic rightness of your case. That’s when he begins his pep talk. ‘

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2023

There were three signals she must feel: the fitness of her body, the rightness of the environment, and the chill of the atmosphere.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George