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"niceness" Definitions
  1. the quality of being kind and friendly
  2. the quality of being pleasant or attractive

176 Sentences With "niceness"

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The niceness was infectious, and it was the kind of niceness that only comes out in friendly competition (think softball league).
But pop culture's love affair with wholesomeness does not bring with it a renewed appreciation for niceness, or at least not for niceness as Ellen is currently using it.
But the niceness that Ellen DeGeneres is celebrating in her friendship with George W. Bush — the niceness that she is extraordinarily skilled at performing — is not about kindness for the powerless.
In a paper titled "Democratic Civility and the Dangers of Niceness," the political scientist Ian Ward contends that "an ethic of generalized niceness" can actually be, in many circumstances, "a means by which citizens conform to the requirements of unjust social arrangements" — we've been suckered, yet "niceness" forbids us to do anything about it.
Bryant's niceness is, ironically, the thing that fuels the show.
"Color" and "niceness" are but a small part of reality.
Niceness can be a stumbling block "to a point," she said.
It was a strong breach of the oppressive contract of niceness.
I wanted there to be a moment of niceness, of gentle thoughts.
Imagine a graph that measures the relationship of niceness to good looks.
"There's nothing but niceness on Sesame Street!" he grouses to cheerful Elmo.
"'Niceness' or 'ladyhood' is an achieved rather than ascribed status," Fox explained.
Sometimes the discrimination isn't covered in the veil of "niceness" at all.
Designers like Jason Wu and Erdem Moralioglu are known for their niceness.
Most of the "niceness" on these phones is due to the glass back.
"When you have a certain niceness, people take advantage of it," he says.
Wall Street Journal book critic Sam Sacks attributes the niceness partly to compassion.
Make no mistake: Trump benefitted the most from the relative niceness on stage.
Anyone else sensing a serious shortage of niceness in the world these days?
So when is it wrong to use your niceness for your own benefit?
But NJ 11th for Change seems to know how formidable niceness can be.
In our current political moment, niceness no longer appears to be a cure-all.
Showing your niceness, on the other hand, increases your chances of getting friendly service.
" And maybe it's a relief, this erotic audacity and unwillingness to perform civility or "niceness.
Meanwhile, the stereotypes about Midwestern niceness really are true — even in a metropolis like Chicago.
Questioning a woman's niceness — as some people thought Barack Obama did when he told Mrs.
Culturally, Wisconsin, despite bitter political battles in recent years, and Minnesota pride themselves on niceness.
That struggle between niceness and harshness was evident during Mr. McCain's 2008 run for president.
On the other hand, the commitment to niceness had a tendency to muffle aggressive criticism.
This masked decorum and performative niceness poorly hides that implicit bias running through your veins.
But in 2019, Ellen's niceness is no longer playing to her audience as an unalloyed good.
Martinez asks: "Can you predict a person's success (personal, profession) on the "niceness" of their smiles?"
And I had it easy; no turban, no beard, and a tendency to overcompensate with niceness.
Niceness, in any case, has nothing to do with it, as at least one Republican knows.
And yet it is specifically Dawson whose niceness gets noticed, applauded, and shoved down our throats.
"Coolness and aloofness doesn't always come with this sense of 'niceness', vulnerability, and approachability," she wrote.
Ward reminds us of one of the most eloquent rejections of civility-as-niceness, the Rev.
To her critics, DeGeneres's uncritical niceness is a failure to hold friends and loved ones accountable.
Literary criticism has been routinely lambasted for its niceness, its lack of intellectual rigor, and its mediocrity.
Economic blog round-up Blogs on commodification and niceness: Blogs on rates of return for public investment:
In fact, recent research suggests that on a psychological level "niceness" goes beyond religion and even humanity.
American visitors go all gaga over the civility, the kindness, the seemingly automatic niceness of the place.
He just thinks of niceness as a general standard to which everyone accepts they can be held.
But did you know that tennis serves, laughter, paperwork and Midwestern niceness can also, apparently, be weaponized?
This time around, the foreign press association seemed to make a statement about a need for niceness.
But, after Mitch helps Carol through her rehab stint, Serena takes a little advantage of his niceness.
Gita: I still think that the general niceness of Animal Crossing defeats these like more cynical readings.
Ultimately the goal of that video is to suggest that meanness isn't cool, and niceness is cool.
That she did not tell one story about the niceness and decency of her husband is telling.
Hawaii is notoriously nice, and unremitting niceness is what I do not want out of a vacation.
I don't mean this to sound soft or sentimental, or to create a misleading impression of niceness.
Back then, Ellen had to insist on her own niceness and relatability to win back the mainstream; now, cushioned as she is in Cowboys box seats among the rich and famous, her appeal to niceness mostly serves to flatten criticisms levied against her and her über-wealthy peers.
Everything Morrison and Gilman and Díaz and Roberts might have been saying is subsumed into inoffensive, vague niceness.
" Another reiterated the expectation that self-driving cars will be totally law-abiding: "We'll be overwhelmed by niceness.
The whole Ellen DeGeneres thing is performative kindness — or, more specifically, niceness — that can be directed at anybody.
Is uncritical niceness to people who have made the world a worse place a good and admirable thing?
As Bee concluded, "Maybe we should all worry a little bit more about the niceness of our actions."
But niceness that crosses the line into phoniness is a major red flag in both interviewing and negotiating.
Voters are more likely to believe that sort of niceness because of the expectation that's a feminine trait.
"Try to be nice – people respond more to niceness than if they are negative or mean," she said.
Horribleness can be correlated with vision and perfectionism, just as niceness can be correlated with mediocrity and failure.
Equal parts cheery and self-deprecating, Dena brings an unusual mix of niceness and neediness to all her scenes.
The ones who voted for Trump and now back Bannon's agenda don't want to hear anything more about niceness.
Instead, its about valuing niceness — in yourself and in others — the same way you respect intelligence, beauty or talent.
Enemy of Niceness V. Putin perseveres in his campaign to shamelessly gush over naïve rookie U.S. President D. Trump.
It was worth it to meet Joanne Rogers, Mr. Rogers's widow, who is a veritable lawn sprinkler of niceness.
The bad: Co-host Andy Samberg's opening speech, "roasting" stars with aggressive niceness, fell flat, write our TV critics.
And just like rock beats scissors, whether or not I want to strip down in front of you trumps niceness.
Indeed, the famed Canadian niceness would certainly provide a welcome respite to the relentless nastiness of the 2016 presidential election.
I would hate for their innate niceness to group them with DIY summer campers so I'll admit to their friendliness.
I just feel like niceness is a quality I can do without in a reality TV show—it's too safe.
Question: I have this new fear that my niceness is getting in the way of my team doing their best work.
And uncritical niceness may no longer be a viable brand, even for someone as good at wielding it as Ellen is.
In many ways, it feels as though niceness is no longer enough, as though it might perhaps even be slightly immoral.
And that is because our current thirst for wholesomeness is pointed in a different direction than Ellen's much-lauded niceness is.
And Soumaya Keynes and Ryan Avent round-up the best economic blogs this month - how does the sharing economy impact niceness?
It's also what gives the community its trademark niceness — a subreddit that's all about people asking for help inherently rewards vulnerability.
Or—on the other hand—you can sow doubt about your competition, by implying there's something suspect about their apparent niceness.
I'm not talking about MCs using various phrasings of "dropping shit" to denote how they're spitting some niceness into a microphone.
The majority of men who enter my office appear either flat and emotionless or superficially engaged but hiding behind impenetrable niceness.
To refer to "color" or "niceness" as our sole criterion of worth almost always indicates a failure in logic and metaphysics.
But I came away from that piece with a thought that initially seemed banal, but ended up feeling profound: niceness works.
True, some disseminate a few ideas, including niceness — a smiley-face ethos that extends to what might be called diversity lite.
So they said fuhgeddaboudit to the niceness and tried to rip each other to shreds, while a rowdy crowd cheered and hissed.
I've tried several third-party iPad keyboards in the past, but none match the niceness or features (firmware updates!) of Apple's solution.
Dating a guy who identifies as "nice" can pose some problems, especially when he expects things in return for all his niceness.
But it also marked a turning point in Theron's career when, having accumulated sufficient industrial capital, she began to refuse perfunctory PR niceness.
But Ma's unfailing generosity of spirit—everything you have heard about the niceness of the man is true—gives substance to his homilies.
There's something to the point that the bullying moral spirit of modern progressivism isn't going to be mollified by David French's niceness alone.
"Mean" contains the usual childhood confusions and adolescent humiliations, but it's also a meditation on race, class, sexuality and the limits of niceness.
It was a naughty swerve from his usual niceness, and over lunch in Houston on Thursday, he told me that he regretted it.
But lately, there's been a shift in that perception and a growing belief that DeGeneres's niceness hardly deserves so much praise and respect.
Although this gives Lohman's essays a certain sameness in rhythm, her enthusiastic charm and what you sense is genuine Midwestern niceness shine through.
I always felt like niceness, in the sense that you are following a certain social decorum, was not something that came naturally to me.
And if that's what niceness means today, then not even a celebrity as charming as Ellen can make it viable as a brand again.
Nicole Detling, a sports psychology consultant, has worked with athletes, including professional golfers, who seek treatment for the so-called malady that is niceness.
Combine niceness with newsrooms that are disproportionately white, and coverage inevitably distorts in ways that don't adequately represent the country's racial and ethnic diversity.
DeGeneres built her entire brand of comedy around being a beacon of wholesomeness and niceness in an industry often roiled by gossip and tabloids.
This nourishing Ital stew is packed with spicy pumpkin, potato, and carrots and served alongside red quinoa steamed with a likkle niceness of coconut milk.
But if you're on the cusp and I need to make a judgment call about serving or not serving you, niceness will help your cause.
Presumedly "progressive" public discourse largely conveys interracial reconciliation through romance and sex and niceness as indicative of broad social progress or at least intrapersonal goodness.
It intrudes into the scenic vistas meant to reveal just how ambitious the display is, undercutting the edge-to-edge niceness of that big bold display.
Maybe the act of saying thank you in advance is simply throwing some niceness out in the dark, hoping it gets to someone who deserves it.
Lacking even something like a "social niceness" thumbs up or thumbs down system, Project Winter just throws players into groups and gets them hunting for traitors.
The social media platform can often be described as a place filled with negativity, but Miranda managed to carve out his own special nook of niceness.
Earlier this year, in a different display of that uncritical niceness, DeGeneres brought Kevin Hart on her show after he walked away from hosting the Oscars.
This month, we hear from a 38-year-old digital editor in New York City who worries that maybe her team is taking advantage of her niceness.
Driving past fields of juvenile cotton plants as we drew closer to Oxford, Laymon issued a quick note of caution about the "brutal niceness" of the town.
Centineo's personal brand is that of "niceness," and Rattigan is a very similar kind of nice, which works well—his chemistry with Lieberman is pleasant and undeniable.
A STATE synonymous with cheese, niceness and the troglodyte habits of its early European settlers, Wisconsin is being additionally celebrated, by wishful Republicans, as Donald Trump's Waterloo.
"In a scene filled with guys who swagger or rant or flamboyantly display their anxiety, Mr. Gondelman is the model of niceness and sanity," Mr. Zinoman wrote.
The evolutionary roots of our general niceness, most researchers now believe, can be found in the individual survival advantage humans experience when we cooperate as a group.
I've made fun of Canada's indiscriminate niceness for years, but I now see our friends to the north have more than thick-cut bacon going for them.
We cannot perpetuate the belief that niceness cannot coexist with violence, evil or deviance, and consequently the nice guy must not be guilty of the alleged offense.
Without descending to overt mimicry, Hanks captures Rogers's body language and vocal intonations, and his own firmly established reputation for niceness adds an important element of credibility.
However, women in particular have been intensely socialized to please—something Frank said has become abundantly clear in her efforts to curb her excessive niceness in the workplace.
The sheen of niceness among attendees exists to foster business transactions in a hobby where everyone is equal parts buyer and seller; the cattiness goes on in secret.
Though she was friendliness and niceness itself, still carrying her Englishness in her accent and in a tendency to go pink in the heat, she sharply rebutted those remarks.
"We cannot perpetuate the belief that niceness cannot coexist with violence, evil, or deviance and consequently the nice guy must not be guilty of the alleged offense," Zuker wrote.
It's a fun enough idea, but it never quite landed, and segueing from that ironic niceness to Oh's genuine earnestness just set everything off on a confusing, slippery start.
I'm baffled by the design of the company's website, aggravated by the pushy data-thirsty ways of its apps, and unimpressed by the contrived niceness of its founder and boss.
Poussey's death radicalized her, however; suddenly, she could see how her white boss's "niceness" had blinded her—in a crisis, his sympathy went to the man who killed her friend.
My memories of her from my childhood amount to a uniform haze of bland niceness punctuated with flares of incomprehensible anger or tears and almost no sense of emotional connection.
Its population of more than 300 million people includes all kinds of weirdos, assholes, and maniacs of varying political perspectives, and a generalized push toward niceness and decency would be welcome.
That was part of the trap for Gypsy and that is something we tried to dramatize in the series: this notion that her niceness was the problem [and] keeps Gypsy loyal.
It's a perfect parody of all the things that make Degrassi lovable (and mockable): its over-the-top storylines, its sappy drama, its unfailing niceness, and, of course, the Canadian accents.
Mark De Alencar, who was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan in April, described her conversation with Trump as a "moment of niceness" during an otherwise turbulent and heart-wrenching time.
So, as the political-correctness and niceness of modern pop-culture is rejected, so the age of Pharrell's "Happy" must come to an end and a new, scarier epoch must begin.
"Caroll and Big Bird are very similar in their genuine niceness and sweetness and lovingness," said Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the cofounders of Sesame Workshop, in a tribute video for Spinney.
Growing up, I discovered early on that women tended to receive compliments based on physical attractiveness and niceness, so I formed the belief that my value was dependent on those two attributes.
And while the new trailer that followed sent us into a grim, slow meltdown, "Beautiful Ghosts" is a good song that suggests niceness can still emerge from this trainwreck of a film.
The link between agreeableness (ie, niceness and friendliness) and leadership is a prime example of how societal expectations can make it harder for some people to be recognized for their leadership potential.
The Verge's Adi Robertson spoke about recently about the rise of "cybertwee" on Tumblr and other networks, an aesthetic and movement typified by its almost revolutionary niceness, its acceptance, and its social awareness.
Sam, meanwhile, possesses a unique quality known as "niceness," and Bradley's role as the sweet, gooey center of a very cold, salty donut, has made him a breakout character, and a fan favorite.
Now I'll say here what I've said before: interpersonal niceness isn't the same thing as dignity, equality and respect in policies and systems, and I would never privilege the former over the latter.
Fundamentally, Shrill is the story of Annie learning to become gentle with herself, to take the niceness she directs to the rest of the world and learn how to direct it towards herself.
The niceness, too, can be touching, as when Paul Hamilton (the dignified anchor of an appealing cast) hooks up with Darrin Wright at the end of a feel-good section in a disco.
Nice. But I'm going to tell you," she said during the talk as "niceness loses races" flashed on the screen, "that racing is an extremely difficult sport, and not everyone can do it.
Judging by the title, plus the general scruffiness of the boy dog and the relative niceness of the girl dog, it has something to do with class, like a Titanic-style romance, right?
This approach is just the opposite of the cult of "niceness," in which no stand can be taken on anything because personal "feelings" are held to be more important than argument and truth.
"I do think that niceness is a set of etiquette and while etiquette is important, I don't think that it's more important than core values," Kendrick explains to PEOPLE of her anti-nice stance.
In that context, Ellen's friendship with Bush might appear to be more of the same: more of the niceness that she is famous for performing at all of her guests, no matter who they are.
But the reality is that our incivility often reveals much more profound ruptures — and that the obvious kind of civility, the civility of niceness, is only the most superficial marker of much deeper moral obligations.
The sheer niceness of the world around him recalls Craig Gillespie's Lars And The Real Girl, another gently protective movie about people who decide to treat the oddball among them kindly as he finds his way.
And yet when women turn around and exhibit the qualities traditionally expected of women — like niceness, nurturing and warmth — they tend to be perceived as pushovers, too soft or not "tough enough" to do the job.
"If they want to know us, they need a lot more space on these forms," Uwamahoro's character says in the waiting room, and you wish the show itself ventured behind its self-imposed grid of … niceness?
Part of the experience of growing up in his era was rebelling against his influence, and Mr. Neville gives some room to the satirists who pushed back against what could seem like a limiting and tyrannical niceness.
The playwright's interest in colloquial speech and in "niceness" as a tactic are fully expressed during the first moments of the play, when Usher (the excellent Jocelyn Bioh, who also plays God and Understanding) takes the stage.
Given this, Democrats would be making a terrible mistake to de-escalate the partisan fight unilaterally, out of a naïve sense of wishful thinking — that if only they're nice enough, Republicans will rediscover niceness in the future.
Detractors will consider this record too predictable a move — she's so pat, so homiletic, so complacent in her niceness that for her to release a Christmas album after only three years as a solo artist hardly surprises.
A year ago, I defended the Kindle Oasis by calling it a cork as opposed to a screwcap bottle — it's not materially better, but it is a lot nicer, and often that niceness can be worth paying for.
Sometimes Dawson recognizes that he's messed up and delivers very sincere-sounding apologies to women he's hurt—but that doesn't stop him from feeling disadvantaged by his niceness, convinced that women actually like assholes who treat them poorly.
When it comes to expected female behavior in the conventional domains of niceness, or treating staffers well, women may suffer more when they are bucking stereotype—when they show they can be as tough, exacting, or abusive as men.
As my colleague Constance Grady wrote for Vox in October, people seem to have grown tired of what Grady labeled DeGeneres's "uncritical niceness": the idea that we should be nice to everyone regardless of whether they've done bad things.
The exact kind of stories Iowans wanted to read and share about themselves—stories emphasizing people's meekness, kneejerk niceness, or that otherwise proclaimed the state "the best in the nation"— were the ones that I felt oversimplified my own state.
If you thought Gina Rodriguez's super-sweet persona on Jane the Virgin was all just an act, the super sweet message she sent to designer Zac Posen thanking him for her Golden Globes' gown proves that niceness is actually totally authentic.
It's just sort of a friendly gesture … no one can do anything [with] what happened with Kate, but at least … you just feel like it's some niceness coming in, good vibes, instead of what's going, which is obviously very tough.
" Whether women are vying for employment or trying to be perceived as desirable to men, "there seems to be little that a woman does that cannot be used as a test of her niceness and therefore as an opportunity for control.
Like a friend who tells you she's stopped reading the news as part of her "self-care practice," the app has filtered "the world's moments" through a self-perpetuating escapist fantasy that promotes blandness, niceness, and selfishness without apology or regret.
Professional women always walk a balance beam of respect, pushed to excel without seeming ambitious, pulled by social expectations of female niceness tempered by concerns that female likability exists in opposition to perceptions of female competence, inevitably blown off-kilter.
Such is the cosmic niceness of the erstwhile Fresh Prince that you don't have to see the movie to know that no team with Smith as a member is going to be bad in a more-than-Michael Jackson quiddity.
Her formidable ability to reflect her own niceness and good reputation onto a problematic celebrity and rehabilitate them through her endorsement had failed — just as her ability to smooth over a controversy with calls for kindness seems to be failing this week.
Though white women and women of other races and ethnicities also suffer to varying degrees under the weight of obligatory feminine niceness, certainly Black women are the most affected by this gendered double standard — whether on the court or in the corner office.
After all, Saturday's game was added proof that no matter how hard women work — how successful we become, how unmatched we are in our achievements, how famous and powerful our names are in the world — if we forego our niceness, we risk losing it all.
Thanks to the school's kindly headmaster, Mr. Tushman (Mandy Patinkin), Auggie has already met three of his classmates: chatty Charlotte (Elle McKinnon); quiet Jack Will (Noah Jupe); and two-faced Julian (Bryce Gheisar), who performs niceness around adults but harbors a serious mean streak.
But the rising sense that niceness might at times be immoral stands in sharp opposition to all the things that Ellen has traditionally been very good at: the ability to be charming and likable and kind to everyone, no matter who they are or what they've done.
Maybe this is a surreal extreme of the unthinking, vacuous new-niceness that occupies a large amount of YouTube territory, content creators so determined to deliver an upbeat, brand-friendly message that the uncomfortable truths of the world—personal and political—go mind-bogglingly, witlessly ignored.
But while Headfort may offer an aspirational model for schools, such pervasive niceness can come across as repetitive on screen, especially when a film concerns a topic as popular as education, which was explored in documentaries like Frederick Wiseman's "High School," Davis Guggenheim's "Waiting for Superman" and many others.
While it does appear in David Foster Wallace's essay, "Consider the Lobster," it is a passing reference, and I do not believe I would have really thought about the niceness of the term—or the verb "to lobster," for that matter—for some time had Facebook's trending algorithm not existed.
In what Gretchen Gonzales-Davidson alluded to as consistent with larger midwestern niceness, the openers of the festival were one of it's largest draws, a super-group reunion of sorts by Universal Indians, a 90s experimental concern who always managed to maintain a deeply weird drugginess to their sound without being aimless.
Ellison and Jones use that "Downunder" town to mock America's worst nostalgic and self-mythologizing impulses: it's a world of enforced 22054s niceness, where the residents wear ghastly whiteface, dress like vintage farmers or homesteaders, and try to play out a fantasy of Midwestern conviviality, with the inevitable hilariously ugly dark streak hiding underneath.
In fact, the grade is essentially meaningless—it does nothing to distinguish the hundreds of books being "graded" because nearly 99 percent of the grades are Bs or As. One could look at this as grade inflation, as an epidemic of niceness, of good reviews being participation trophies—as long as you write a good enough novel, you get a good enough review.
" Twenty years after its release, Cruel-style Mean Teen movies have again become rather rare, replaced by a rebooted era of Niceness: There are wholesome teen rom-coms (To All the Boys I've Loved Before; Love, Simon) and tearjerker dramas about kids with life-ruining illnesses (The Fault in Our Stars; Everything, Everything; Five Feet Apart), including the subgenre Jezebel dubbed "Sad Teen Death Movies.
In the piece, Ahmari writes that if the aim of the "culture war" is "defeating the enemy and enjoying the spoils in the form of a public square re-ordered to the common good and ultimately the Highest Good," French's focus on individual liberty and autonomy, and seemingly his niceness, is a problem for social conservatives who have watched their religious viewpoints on marriage equality, for example, go from being the law of the land to markedly unpopular.
The debate over Ellen's niceness as an entertainer and celebrity is a close cousin to the "civility" debate that periodically roils the political world: the question of whether it is politically more effective for the left to "be civil" to members of the Trump administration, or whether publicly confronting some of those members — like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was denied service at a restaurant in an act of political protest in 2018 — might perhaps be the morally correct and politically viable way to go.
For a combined $31,470,20183, the Blazers got plus defense across three positions and slightly above league average three-point shooting from Al-Farouq Aminu; space-eating defense and hard-as-hell rim-rolls from Ed Davis; solid two-way versatility from Gerald Henderson; 30 or so games of pick and pop niceness from Meyers Leonard (he wasn't that great for half the season and missed 21 games due to injury); all-court versatility and a pre-playoff jolt from Moe Harkless; there-every-night solidity as a screener, roller, and playmaker from Mason Plumlee; a third high-level three-point threat in Allen Crabbe; and, well... 56 mostly meh starts from Noah Vonleh, who at least doesn't turn 22017 until late August.

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