rightness
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“He grew more confident with each pass on his drawing, and realized ... that much of the rightness of the drawing, of any drawing, came through time and diligence and discernment.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
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
For its farewell, Olafsson played it more fluidly, but also with more confidence in the rightness of its hermitage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Her entire body felt the rightness of it, her entire body was seized to it.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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