uprightness

Example Sentences

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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

“And with it, black hair in its natural state of sublime uprightness has returned as a symbol of political consciousness and visionary imagining.”

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2022

While teaching a class on documentary earlier in his career, Farhadi asked his students to record one of those news stories of casual uprightness so they could discuss them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2022

In a long career in government and private industry, Mr. Ruckelshaus was widely promoted as “Mr. Clean” as much for his uprightness as for his role with the EPA.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

He had once told his children: “What I want most of all is that you live in uprightness and freedom of spirit, no matter how difficult that may be.”

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti