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 sensation of taste and the pleasure food brings versus the maintaining of a sense of rightness in how we pursue these pleasures.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2024

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

Winnie had her own strong sense of rightness.

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit