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

His rightness for the role is a marvelous coup, considering it’s the fourth film in a four-decade-old franchise that’s tightly bonded to another once-distinguished dramatic actor, Leslie Nielsen, who originated the character of Lt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 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

This does not mean that its rightness was always apparent, although careless historians and scientists often imply as much; it does mean that its rightness becomes incontestable, at least for a period of time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton