Example sentences for: rightness

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

  • Losing his life savings to a menacingly fey Russian gangster (John Malkovich) in the first 10 minutes, Damon's Mike has you rooting for him not only to get payback from the weird Russki but to take what he can off anyone dumb enough to sit across a card table from him, accepting the rightness of the line "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."

  • In the film, there is no counterweight to Rock's apostle--no substantial or sane character who speaks on the rightness of Catholic dogma.

  • The screenwriter and novelist Hanif Kureishi ( My Beautiful Laundrette , 1985) has a yen for ambivalence, for situations in which no character has a monopoly on either rightness or wrongness.

  • As for Keegan and The Face of Battle , Guatam Makunda inadvertently makes my point for me: Keegan would not have had to weigh in if there wasn't a raging debate about the rightness or wrongness of Henry's actions.

  • He wants to go out and wipe the world, for instance, has an idiosyncratic rightness, bespeaking not a powerful conqueror but a great reformer.


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