Example sentences for: niceness

How can you use “niceness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Many IRS officials say the drop stems from their fear of running afoul of the new niceness laws and getting fired.

  • This is a good case in point, I think, because it exposes how the Niceness Principle works: people find a particular meaning unpleasant, so they unconsciously change it to something more comfortable.

  • David Galef's “The Niceness Principle” [XVII,4] makes a persuasive case for the phenomenon it describes.

  • The Romans provide more fodder for the Niceness Principle through Vergil, who wrote in his Eclogues , “Omnia vincit amor” `Love conquers all.

  • The Solomonic decision, to award custody to the woman who was willing to give the child to her rival rather than see it killed by being split between them was just the opposite of splitting the baby . Nevertheless, by some apparent converse of the Niceness Principle, the language perpetuates the notion that the baby was split and that a judge acts wisely in following that example.


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