Dismissive of attempts to question the rightness of his beliefs.
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They both believe firmly in the rightness of their cause.
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There's also an honest pursuit of truth and not just rightness.
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I immediately sensed a "rightness" to the interplay of art and architecture.
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The Classical ideal — balance, just-rightness — has been pumped out of existence.
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But at the pool parties Hassan and Sara felt a sense of rightness.
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Gender dysphoria is the technical term for that intense feeling of not-rightness.
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Mr. Arpaio declined to oblige, secure in the rightness of his own judgment.
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Benson, who wrote Nancy Drew books off and on for two decades, fleshed out Stratemeyer's breakneck plot while imbuing Nancy with spunk, valor and an unflagging sense of her own moral rightness — although that rightness occasionally lent itself to burglary.
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A big part of Oakman's "rightness," for Moore, had to do with the people.
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After 14 movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is actively questioning the rightness of superheroics.
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But the interpretations had a straight-ahead rightness: there was nothing wayward or eccentric.
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Longstreth articulated one element of that: Comey's emphasis on the rightness of his personal judgment.
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Of course, we're biased to preserve our sense of rightness, but we have to be.
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Or, would he rather shame them into humility through the rightness of his own conduct?
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The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.
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Trump has made no secret of his unwavering belief in the rightness of his gut.
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"With respect to the rightness or wrongness, I'm agnostic," Dr. Zivot said of capital punishment.
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We feel a huge pressure to get it right and be together in our rightness.
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And he was determined, convinced of his own rightness, intolerant of contradiction and immune to compromise.
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They need to be able to deliver these lines with absolute certainty of their own rightness.
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It was THE proof point of his rightness -- not just in that election, but in his life.
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Even moderates who acknowledged the overwhelming rightness of the Cherokee's cause refused to cross the White House.
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He's right, of course — and it is this very rightness that contradicts the spirit of his dissent.
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Another hungry law student sits there now, reading doggedly about fairness and rightness, Lady Justice keeping vigil.
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Or the weird rightness of the home's many vintage 1970s furnishings — Ms. Warren is a passionate thrifter.
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" When outrage comes too late to do anything but prove the outraged person's rightness, it's "wasted outrage.
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But it doesn't spark that ineffable sense of satisfaction and rightness that well-crafted physical objects can.
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The rightness or wrongness of capital punishment remains an open question but it's time to reject lethal injection.
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Reading through draft and then finished story, one is repeatedly stunned by the meticulous rightness of his elisions.
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Continuing not to call my wife increased my private sense of rightness, and not being injured felt wonderful.
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"There's a rightness to having that show in that building," the exhibition's organizer, James Meyer, said by phone.
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There is a rightness to the way BoJack loses the people who used to give his life meaning.
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But none of it is definitive: any rightness to this kind of interpretation must be haunted by wrongness, too.
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But most of all he was determined, convinced of his own rightness, intolerant of contradiction and immune to compromise.
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In the real world, this deep sense of moral rightness can allow people to justify committing atrocities to themselves.
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Unfortunately, her rightness took a backseat to the sense that she was running Kamala Harris's playbook, but less well.
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And when forced to defend controversial court decisions, liberals didn't always convince voters of the rightness of their cause.
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So convinced of the rightness of their views that they don't want to waste time by considering any others.
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"Even if this is wrong, I suppose you could argue that it's wrong in the service of rightness," Jared suggests.
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It aligns with the idea of rightness — even in art the very question of completeness is driven by the market.
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Jane Eyre does not function if the book does not believe wholeheartedly in the rightness of Jane and Rochester's marriage.
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I'm not sure there's a sharp distinction between wanting to get it right and wanting to preserve our sense of rightness.
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But, without debating his earlier choices or the rightness of his cause, we can focus squarely on the tactics he employed.
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Civil War isn't about the rightness of their causes, it's about the disaster of them both letting their emotions override their intellects.
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It would be helpful in this discourse if the mainstream media would drop the pretense of being guardians of truth and rightness.
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"Congress has already highlighted the Russia threat, and — guess what — Vladimir Putin today is confirming the rightness of that diagnosis," Karako added.
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Still, the rightness of Buttigieg's analysis speaks to his understanding of how voters think and the significant challenge that Trump (still) poses.
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I've watched great minds of my generation double down and entrench themselves in their belief systems, convinced of "our" rightness and "their" wrongness.
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It is a determination that has sustained them, with an unsulliable feeling of rightness, through the indignities Mr Trump has piled on them.
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Was the rightness of stopping the Rwandan genocide dependent on whether Rwanda could realistically become a stable democracy after the genocide was stopped?
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Trump, continuing a trend of late, made a slew of questionable claims, bashed the media and loudly proclaimed his rightness about, well, everything.
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You might even make a ritual, with like-minded individuals, of trashing that source's content, of reaffirming your rightness and the media's wrongness.
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These zippy avant-gardists praised Rousseau's style of innocence based, they presumed, on his inner conviction of the rightness of his private vision.
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How tempting it must be to grab it with both hands and be that person, the unimpeachable moral person of rightness and rectitude.
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This is a show that reinforces the rightness of Eurocentric narratives and justifies the established hierarchies, which dovetail with the global art market.
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Trump is concerned with doing what he perceives to be most beneficial for himself, not about rightness or wrongness in any sense beyond that.
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He fully breaks down in the episode's most resonant scene, terrified by the prospect of acting without the full assurance of his own rightness.
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You spend so much time convincing other people of the rightness of your cause that you inevitably end up convincing yourself most of all.
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I sometimes think that if my (basically nice) teacher had lacked the power of good looks, he would have been less deluded about his rightness.
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Some fathers who severely beat their misbehaving children, or some soldiers who engage in "punitive rape," are confident in the moral rightness of their acts.
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Elizabeth, as Gabriel described her earlier, has always been the stalwart, certain in the rightness of their cause if not that of every individual objective.
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It seems almost unbearable to be him, aware of the rightness of his cause but also fully alive to the humanity of the other side.
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Admittedly, it can feel like not such a great thing to watch when every American seems completely convinced in the rightness of their particular view.
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To convince us that differences in our views are nothing more than the measures of our rightness or wrongness, rather than contrasting truths, thoughtfully held.
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I couldn't bring myself to say anything that would make them reconsider the goodness of their plans, or the rightness of families that looked like mine.
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The rightness is as good a justification as any of the benefits, the necessity even, of knowing how to look through the eyes of a writer.
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And I imagine that all the people that I'm writing about, from Genie on down, must have felt a similar rightness when they found something to do.
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"Almost always, there is a feeling of rightness to Ms. Meehan's ordering of the dance's expansive microcosm," Jennifer Dunning wrote in The New York Times in 2006.
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" Nick concludes his column with this: "It should be possible both to believe deeply in the rightness of one's own cause and to hear out the other side.
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The graveyard of companies whose anthropological guesses were too wrong to pivot to rightness, or who couldn't / wouldn't do so fast enough, is full to bursting with tombstones.
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But regardless of this particular idea about longing for political power's rightness or wrongness, it holds a powerful sway over us because, on some level, it feels right.
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Trump's willingness to abide by the final legal decision, given his certainty about the rightness of his cause, would be an important test of his commitment to constitutionalism.
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It's two factions within the foreign policy wing of the Trump White House trying to convince the president of the rightness of their positions on Syria via public channels.
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It contains within it a nostalgia for a sense of editorial rightness, for a time when having taste didn't have to come with a meta-judgment of taste itself.
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But his rightness is more complicated: Rock is dead, in the sense that its "aliveness" is a subjective assertion based on whatever criteria the listener happens to care about.
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And so Mr. Trump has continued to ratchet up the fear factor with each subsequent attack abroad or at home, always using it as proof of his own rightness.
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The combination of the plaster motifs and the iron rods is suffused with an inexplicable rightness — a sense-making conjured through an intuitive leap and a spirit of play.
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Instead of accusing Trump supporters and climate denialists of irrationality, Latour argues that it is untenable to talk about scientific facts as though their rightness alone will be persuasive.
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The book is a testament to the self-confidence of the new American socialist movement, a group certain of its rightness and uninterested in compromising on its radical ends.
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" The next morning, she rhapsodized about it in her diary: "Sunlight raying ethereal through the white-net of the new formal bought splurgingly yesterday in a burst of ecstatic rightness.
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Franzen has spent so much time convincing himself of his own rightness that he doesn't examine his arguments from all of their possible angles so that he can address counterarguments.
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There's nothing strained about Bock's new play, "A Life" (at Playwrights Horizons); it has the rightness and the finality of a poem by the gay Alexandria-born master C. P. Cavafy.
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The emphasis on the things themselves suggests that the holiday's success or failure — as if a holiday could be a success or a failure — hinges on the rightness of the gifts.
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But the wrongness of that process is distinct from the rightness of its result, which will give Nicole the freedom she craves and perhaps open doors for Charlie that he never considered.
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I write this from inside of my first year of marriage, not to Erik, but to a man whose rightness felt as obvious on the surface as it did in the core.
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She argues in the exhibition catalogue that the presence of the large reflective surface in "The Awakening Conscience" is a direct inversion of the moral rightness embodied within the Arnolfini's marriage scene.
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The Good War; the narrative that crescendos with a single battle, with every piece in its exact position; a sense of rightness in who makes it back and who does not — all fictions.
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As a result of Ms. Grimaud's withdrawal, I heard it twice, and on both occasions it had a lived-in rightness from the opening bars, like an old friend or a favorite loafer.
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He has his orchestra of Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham to carry his tune of anger and outrage — a tune that mocks anyone who would question the rightness of his endless tweets, for example.
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In a culture in which so many on social media trumpet their moral rightness, Mr. Carmichael, who has an acclaimed NBC sitcom, "The Carmichael Show," invites the audience, sometimes explicitly, to judge his wrongness.
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Being both determined and right is a wonderful thing in a politician but a dangerous one in a constitutional monarch—particularly when determination shades into pigheadedness and rightness comes with a hefty dose of foolishness.
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There is clearly a group of people who believe in the rightness and efficacy of mass murder of civilians, do not fear retaliation, and would presumably use a nuclear weapon if they could get one.
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The story for "La Fille Mal Gardée" (13) goes back to pre-Christian comedy: The heroine's mother wants her daughter to marry the wrong man, but cannot prevail against the evident rightness of young love.
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It was a sincere and natural smile that transcended happiness, and in her presence I felt some sort of essential value of goodness and rightness and kindness that I couldn't quite explain, but felt deeply.
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The intuitive logic resonating from the sculpture's components convinces you of the rightness of their fusion despite the blatant incongruence of their forms and textures, an ineffable sense of the whole in defiance of the parts.
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In practice, though, the term usually means "anyone asking me to adjust my behavior for reasons I deem annoying or frivolous," a murky, subjective taxonomy that conveniently makes any man the arbiter of his own rightness.
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In their eyes, and the eyes of a police officer providing security, she did something worse -- she questioned the rightness of their decision-making and the morality of their authority to their faces, for all to see.
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Music is master, but while Mr. Alston's choreography is expertly stitched to the score, drawing out its detail, the dance doesn't have the strange, revelatory rightness of the most musical choreographers (George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris).
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That, it seems to me, is what Haley and Tillerson are up to at the moment -- hashing out their divergent views in full view of the president in hopes of convincing him of the rightness of their argument.
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What really helicopters over these books is what one might call the Causal Catastrophe: the belief that the proof of the rightness or wrongness of some way of bringing up children is in the kinds of adults it produces.
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Along comes the right debut in the right role — Russell Janzen as Phlegmatic in "The Four Temperaments," Unity Phelan as the third ballerina in "Divertimento No. 15" — and the sense of rightness is immense: the harmony of the spheres.
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It's a clear satire of the invasion of Iraq, and shows how even soldiers on the ground operating with full belief in the rightness and heroism of their actions can easily stumble into situations that can cause immeasurable harm.
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This raises the obvious question: Were those reporting a huge increase in optimism really feeling that much better about their economic prospects, or were they simply using the survey as an opportunity to affirm the rightness of their vote?
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But the point is that it takes a certain almost egocentric sense of your own rightness, that what you're doing is OK. I don't know if it's even confidence, so much as it's just that sense that you're right.
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But far from honouring the slain minister's memory, there seem to be ever more Pakistanis who agree that death is an appropriate fate not only for blasphemers but for those who dare to question the rightness of such a penalty.
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A life shared with a toothless grandad with a pair of balls for a chin, a life spent avoiding bullies, a life as oddly average in its not-quite-rightness as more of us experience than we'd like to admit.
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In their zeal to demonstrate moral rightness, or simply improve their chance to build profile in the crowded field, they've forgotten how the death penalty has proven to be a bear trap for Democrats since George H.W. Bush creamed Michael Dukakis.
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Within these four spaces, Schulte has hung 11 drawings: the first three, to the left, are arranged in a straightforward column, while the others are off-kilter but hardly random — their placement merges intuition and precision into an absolute rightness.
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WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday extolled the "essential rightness" of the United States in global affairs as he urged demoralized U.S. diplomats to act firmly and aggressively as they promote and carry out the Trump administration&aposs foreign policies.
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From efforts to depict slavery as a kind, gentle institution and secession as caused by constitutional questions, the Daughters assumed what historian Karen Cox has called a role of "vindication," which glorified the rightness of the "Lost Cause" -- and crusaded for white supremacy.
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How logical, then, that we should as grown-ups find ourselves rejecting certain candidates for marriage not because they are wrong but because they are too right — too balanced, mature, understanding and reliable — given that in our hearts, such rightness feels foreign.
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The young lawyer enters the story fully self-possessed and confident in both the rightness of his cause and the justness of insisting on his place in a society that would get rid of him, and everyone like him, if it could.
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As my colleague Jake Ross observes, the advances in our understanding because of careful formulation and critical evaluation of theories of goodness, rightness, justice and human flourishing by philosophers since 1970 compare well to the advances made by philosophers from Aristotle to 1970.
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On the basis of deep feeling for each piece and its visual rightness in combination with others, as well as a desire to let each work receive full attention, he created a superb installation that avoided the temptations of distracting dramatic effects.
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"I think it's a moment when the public conversation favors partisans who are totally convinced in the rightness of what they're saying and doesn't favor reporters who are cautious about what they know and are trying to get things right," Mr. Smith said.
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If you think that consciousness somehow mitigates a human's ability to lie, it's because you think that the consciousness allows us to reflect on the rightness or wrongness of our actions, to feel empathy for others, or to question and assess our deceptive actions.
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When confronted with objectionable policy choices enacted by the elected government of the U.S., they have chosen obstruction and confrontation over the tried and true path to opposition in this country — convincing the electorate by deliberation and rational argument of the rightness of their position.
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With its disciplined inclusiveness, Satterlee's practice plays across the realm of "both/and" rather than "either/or" — an intellectually focused, materials-based abstraction rooted in observation, emotion, and experience — in which her images achieve a feeling a rightness that transcends closed systems and linear logic.
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It speaks to the quasi-prophetic space Coates occupies in American life that his pessimism grates so deeply on so many, that the central struggle over his work is not its rightness, or its righteousness, but whether it leaves too little space for sunbeams.
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The"just rightness" of his color choices, even the quirkier ones, as well as his withholding of just enough visual information to suspend our disbelief, mimics the gauzy subjective way we actually see, and keeps the focus on his intent: to conjure an emotionally resonant atmosphere.
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Many trans women go through a masculinization phase before coming out as trans—sometimes by joining the military, sometimes by bulking up through exercise—in the vain hope that, by embracing an extreme of masculinity, they will find relief from the pressing sense of not-rightness.
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Not about the moral rightness of the bill, which bans almost all abortions in the state, with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest — but about the bill's strategic usefulness in the long march to the Supreme Court and eventually, they hope, the end of Roe v.
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That's when I had another idea, and then found a ring that had a familiar rightness: not an engagement ring at all, but a figure-eight of diamonds, a fairy-light delicacy that exists as itself, as an infinity, but sometimes reads like a bow or a bandit mask.
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In both cases, hearing contrary opinions drove partisans not just to a deeper certainty in the rightness of their cause, but to more polarized policy positions — Republicans became more conservative rather than more liberal, and Democrats, if anything happened at all, became more liberal rather than more conservative.
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But if you learned, purely hypothetically, that someone did kill a baby after reading it, or a few people did that, or that Kermit Gosnell, the infant-killing doctor in Philadelphia, was inspired by the piece — would that change your view on the moral rightness of publishing the article?
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No one is better at convincing us of a position than, well, us, and so as we see and instantly reject the arguments made by our political opponents, we become more convinced in the rightness of what we initially believed, and we come up with more reasons to believe it.
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But these are all just guesses about a distinctive functional role for consciousness—as long as a robot has some component playing the same functional role (algorithms to assess rightness or wrongness, simulate empathy, assess or question projected actions), then it's just as safe (or scary) as a lying human.
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" It concluded, "Never before in American history have as many loyal and brave young men been as shabbily treated by the government that sent them to war; never before have so many of them questioned as much, as these veterans have, the essential rightness of what they were forced to do.
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So when we celebrate Nelson's simple own of Brünt, we're also saying that we, too, believe that all dogs are good dogs; that there are fundamental truths about the inherent goodness and rightness of all dogs, and maybe even all of earth's creatures — including humans — that transcend snarky internet criticism.
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FELICIA MASSARSKY, ATLANTIC CITY To the Editor: Re "The Village That Raised Kavanaugh," by David Brooks (column, July 10): So for the last 40 years, as the liberal establishment basked in its unquestioned rightness and superiority, the conservative movement, almost beneath the radar, moved with patience, intelligence, money and relentless purpose to completely change the political landscape.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoAfghan president vows to take revenge after Islamic State attack on wedding The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Latest pro-democracy rally draws tens of thousands in Hong Kong MORE touted "America's essential rightness" in international affairs to a group of State Department employees on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
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An intuition of the rightness and beauty and uniqueness of those I know and those I do not know but reverence from afar in my singular ecstasy of simply feeling fine, feeling good, staying in that sense that here is the genius of truth and the truth of genius because pleasure and exultation pulse now in this contingent place, inside just this illumined moment of being.
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"[E]ven when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world," he says in the book.
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One thing the justice and I did have in common, however, was this: he stumped around the country to persuade citizens of the rightness of his "originalist" approach to the Constitution; I stumped around the country (still do) to persuade citizens to abolish the death penalty, laying out my arguments through stories of personal experience, beliefs of my Catholic faith and logical, fact-infused arguments, including Constitutional analysis.
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Last year the MbS/MbZ duo seemingly convinced President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE of the rightness of their view and the culpability of Qatar and its young leader, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
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