Example sentences for: niceness

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • There are two problems with this emphasis on niceness, one small and one large.

  • The small problem is that as virtues go, niceness is wildly overrated.

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


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