| 单词 | wrongness |
| 例句 | My jaw clenches with the wrongness of it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Would she rail against the wrongness, would she call out for blood, or would she rise to the level of forgiveness, plead for the mercy of God? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z With every step closer, Ekon sensed it, a wrongness that implored him to turn back, but he forced his feet to move until he was within a foot of Father Olufemi. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z One’s magnetic and directional subsenses are all wrong on other planets; when the intellect won’t or can’t compensate for that wrongness, the result is a profound bewilderment, a feeling that everything, literally, has come loose. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z As soon as they stepped out the door, Aru was slammed with a sense of wrongness. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z As they moved slowly down the path the wrongness of it all swelled inside Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z All of the wrongness thunders and falls and threatens to bury her alive. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I hope I'm not about to spoil her with the wrongness that is smothering me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I sensed a wrongness around me, like an alarm clock that had gone off without being set. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That day she had felt a deep sense of foreboding, an indescribable wrongness that had nothing to do with the way the walls pressed in against the steps upward into the dark room above. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z As soon as she said, Ekon felt it too, a wrongness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Vernesha's brother has made some statements, defending Tariq's character and decrying the general wrongness of how this whole thing went down. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The words dug into me, their truth and their wrongness colliding deep in my chest. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z So even as the police officer told us these unimaginable, world-breaking things, I was still crawling around in the wrongness of what I’d just done. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But as he did so he could sense the wrongness, the dual consciousness of one of the people within. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There was something profoundly disturbing about the statue, a deep and violent wrongness. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I wake with a crushing sensation of wrongness, of shame, and I know immediately that I’ve done something stupid. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There was restlessness in her, an urgency to scream, and all this wrongness, this urgency...it only happened at night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was a nail-hard strength in her, a lack of any compromise, a rightness in the face of all opposing wrongness, which made you hold her in a kind of awe but not in warmth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And that wrongness clung to her, like a headache that she couldn’t shake. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He groped for what he knew had been there, and all he fished up was the awful word Weep, slick with wrongness, damp as bad dreams, and tinged with its residue of salt. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He would not survive the heartbreak, the wrongness of it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There is the same shame, the sick feeling in my body, the same knowledge of my own wrongness, awkwardness, weakness; the same wish to be loved; the same loneliness; the same fear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They never had been, but she still could not get over the wrongness of it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Unless people are forced to confront their lies, their brutality, their wrongness, how are they supposed to put things right? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He needed time to prepare for the race and feel out this sense of wrongness in the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he shouts, “You were WRONG, boy! And the sooner you accept your complete and overwhelming wrongness, the sooner you’ll be of use to me, and this mission.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The corset, of course, reminded Desdemona of her mother, and suddenly the wrongness of what they were doing assailed her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It becomes a symbol of the wrongness and instability of the world she lives in, where “it was all, generally, going to hell.” Well Educated, Well Employed, and a Paycheck Away From Disaster 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z “To recognize the wrongness of a thing is not the same as to experience it as wrong,” he says. Seeking the Elixir of Life Through High School Science Class 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z There is significance in the slowness, in the mistakes, even in the wrongness of the computer’s maddening interface, which is meant to be elided in the supposedly frictionless transmission of digital information. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Recognizing the wrongness of the behavior is important, but doing something to counteract the insidiousness of the bystander effect remains stubbornly difficult. Why we still look away: Kitty Genovese, Jamie Bulger and the bystander effect 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The masterfully crafted “Snowshow,” with its benevolent mischief, is evidence of the wrongness of that. Review: ‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers Flurries of Joy 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Mannequin, however, plays it purely for romance, and not even the always-welcome presence of Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship on the soundtrack changes the wrongness of this film. Times move pretty fast! Rewatching 80s favourites in the age of #metoo 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Or to process the information he receives from his girlfriend on its wrongness, right? Carolyn Hax: Grandma blushes at gift of lingerie by 17-year-old to girlfriend 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Women tend to be more forgiving about wrongness. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z It took a passerby with a camera, Imamu Baraka, to see the wrongness of the act in its fullness, and confront not just the guards but the nation’s conscience. Perspective | What did the men with Donald Trump do when he spoke of ‘shithole countries’? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z And this wrongness is not just a matter of interpretive error. SAT’s right answers are all wrong 2013-05-20T21:11:00Z The disparity between the innocence such a toy is meant to represent and the utter wrongness of his every action provides a pretty consistent source of hilarity. Review: 'Ted': So cuddly, so wrong, so hilarious 2012-06-25T21:29:09Z Laughing a lot too, though, because it is, as I said, gloriously wrongness. TV review: Hunderby; Harry's Mountain Heroes 2012-08-28T06:49:03Z Movies such as Hereditary show that if you get the architectural wrongness right from the start, the house becomes part of the terror rather than just the venue for it. Re-possessed: exploring Hereditary and Hollywood’s love of the haunted house 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Unlike so many other comics who wallow in their wrongness, Mr. Michael isn’t looking just to create unease. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z One is confined in ways that are not immediately legible; there’s a whisper of wrongness. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z But then again, rightness and wrongness aren’t the point: The point is sheer enchantment. ‘Keeping an Eye Open’: Julian Barnes’s enchanting essays on art 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z For the right reader, though, there is pleasure in wrongness, which is one of the theories behind Christopher Miller’s new book. ‘American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny,’ by Christopher Miller 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Envelopes Another Day – Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti The sheer wrongness of much of what's going on here makes the overall effect bewildering, but beguiling. Readers recommend: discordant songs ? the results 2011-02-10T17:22:20Z In her 20s, she had been trying to turn the story into one of “empowerment,” but in her hurry not to occupy the victim role, she lost track of the “wrongness” of the relationship. Katie Roiphe Puts Her Romantic History Under a Microscope 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Where was the collective outcry against the wrongness of that act? I'm still running my heart out: Exercising in public shouldn't have to be an act of courage 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Clearly Stephen's detection of a code in her innocent telephone exchanges with the local butcher is comic, but it is not long before there are indeed signs of wrongness. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-05-25T21:54:02Z Which brings me to the basic answer to your question: Talking about wrongness in any serious way requires empathy, intellectual curiosity and humility, and those values are not exactly dominant in contemporary public life. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness 2011-03-25T16:23:32Z But despite all that wrongness, Four Weddings is still great fun. Four Weddings 2010-03-30T12:46:00Z In a society that is creeping towards social media-policed moral absolutism, it preserves fiction’s right to nuance and complexity, to portray characters who are bad, but whose humanity extends beyond their wrongness. Why Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z This is a book full of insight and heart that doesn't shy away from the possibility of wrongness in all of us. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z Yet there's something powerful and authentic about "its wrongness, its deafened bad dream feel". Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z Gold Panda's signature trick … is messing with samples; leaving them to skip and jam like a stuck CD, then knowing exactly when to stop before the feeling of slight wrongness becomes actual annoyance. Guardian First Album award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:15:01Z “When you see southern sheriffs attack Negro children, you see the wrongness of it all,” he subsequently told Richard Reeves of the New York Times. Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s weirdly the chair that haunted me for years after: the image of it spinning upside down returns to me occasionally, and the eerie wrongness of it still unsettles me. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Only the indoor swimming pool attained a memorable wrongness, adding a chlorinated echo to the laboriously grouted display of polychromatic tiles. Clive James: Lady Gaga’s Star-Spangled Banner had oomph – then she added a woo-hoo-hoo 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z I suddenly started registering wrongness, in the same surprising way that you sometimes learn a new word and then hear it twice more that afternoon. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness 2011-03-25T16:23:32Z So there’s plenty of dialogue about wrongness in the philosophical literature, but very little in contemporary public life.” ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness 2011-03-25T16:23:32Z And the rapid reaction of web tributes can interestingly register the shock and wrongness and disorientation more closely than stately print elegies. 'I never knew how much I'd write crying': Peter Bradshaw on film star deaths 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z I can’t believe that the wrongness of my body’s shape carries more weight than my ability to move it precisely and artfully through space. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z And if that were so, Wolfe and I would have to find some other argument in order to maintain our objection or else conclude that bestiality’s wrongness is a fundamental moral fact. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z You work out how your own decisions were wrong and led you to that place of revolting wrongness that has left you feeling so raw. Sophie Heawood: why I won’t condemn Chrissie Hynde 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z 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. ‘Marriage Story’: Noah Baumbach’s First Feel-Good Movie 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z “We get things wrong because we have an enduring confidence in our own minds; and we face up to that wrongness in the faith that, having learned something, we will get it right next time.” Books of The Times: ?Being Wrong,? by Kathryn Schulz; ?Wrong,? by David H. Freedman 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z He added: “It is almost as if the transgression, secrecy and wrongness must paradoxically emerge in the well-judged rightness and just-so-ness of all its period touches.” Carol named best LGBT film of all time 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z It doesn't all work, doesn't all come off; at times you're spluttering and shuddering at the wrongness. TV review: Hunderby; Harry's Mountain Heroes 2012-08-28T06:49:03Z I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in… and at certain times in my life I have felt a wrongness. Sam Shepard bares his soul 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z He favors, as an article in the journal Postmodern Culture suggested, “wrongness, ceremony and a bit of demonism.” Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “My fearfulness of the wrongness of the act soon overwhelmed the happiness it brought me,” she writes. Review | In ‘Fox & I,’ a biologist finds solace in a wild animal’s friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s a sentiment that North Carolina’s lawmakers are now trying to seize, despite its utter wrongness. Forget the theocracy, North Carolina 2013-04-03T19:57:00Z Only it turned out to be a big steaming pile of wrongness. Close up: Super-Looper blooper 2012-10-04T15:51:10Z My instinct is to yell “Run, my sweet!” but I sense the wrongness of that. Lonnae O’Neal: The (painful) birth of a basketball dad 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Facing the devastating missteps of this country can feel like admitting too much wrongness, or it can feel like absorbing too much pain. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Such laws created social tiers of existence tied to the rightness of whiteness and the wrongness of blackness. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z But you could usually just about sympathise with his wrongness and understand his arrival in a variety of hideous scrapes. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Because the wrongness has many sources, the novel spreads in multiple directions. A novelist's homage to the dumb humans of Yellowstone Park 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Language like "divided" does not even begin to adequately describe the feeling of wrongness that the Age of Trump and his fascist fever dream have unleashed. The fight for progress — and why it requires reaching out to conservatives 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Such images exemplified moral suasion: showing with pathos and humanity the moral wrongness of slavery. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And their flagrant wrongness seems to draw virtually no repercussions, unless you count being mocked on Twitter. Perspective | Please, pundits, stop trying to predict the future. You’re bad at it. 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Then you have the Tucker Carlsons of the world, with their loud, whiny megaphone, stoking the hate and the paranoia and the wrongness with their chatter of being replaced. Column: I'm part of the 'Great Replacement.' It's not what believers say it is 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z “Nagaenthran was found to have clearly understood the nature of his acts, and he did not lose his sense of judgment of the rightness or wrongness of what he was doing,” the ministry said. Singapore Executes Drug Smuggler Despite Concerns Over Mental Disability 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In an earlier statement, the government said they found he "did not lose his sense of judgment of the rightness or wrongness of what he was doing". Nagaenthran: Singapore executes low IQ Malaysian man on drugs charge 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z We can’t have a world that turns on the rightness and wrongness of calls.” Escalating threats, abuse driving referees out of youth sports 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Second, however, it’s unsettling that your ex doesn’t grasp the wrongness of what he was doing. My Brother-in-Law Is Awful to His Girlfriend. Should I Break Them Up? 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The wrongness of her mother’s blindness was devastating. Review: How one writer learned to live with her deplorable ancestors 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The overwhelming sense of wrongness may partly explain some reluctance to tune in to the feats and festivities. Opinion | The Olympic horror show 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z That means he must prove not only that he was suffering from a severe mental illness but also that the mental illness made him unable to appreciate the wrongness of his actions. Attorney: Waffle House shooter believed God commanded him 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z We were in the midst of the worst wildfire season in the state’s history, and the evident wrongness traumatized us and shook us awake. This Isn’t the California I Married 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z We did not only admit the wrongness of apartheid, we took far-reaching measures to ensure negotiation and a new dispensation which could bring justice to all. Text of de Klerk's video message to South Africa 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But the Singapore government remains steadfast, saying the 33-year-old "clearly understood the nature of his acts and did not lose his sense of judgment of the rightness or wrongness of what he was doing". Last rites rights of condemned around the world 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z But the Singapore government said he was found to have "clearly understood the nature of his acts and did not lose his sense of judgment of the rightness or wrongness of what he was doing". Nagaenthran Dharmalingam: Family prays as man with IQ of 69 to be executed 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z But Singapore's government said he "clearly understood the nature of his acts and did not lose his sense of judgment of the rightness or wrongness of what he was doing". Nagaenthran Dharmalingam: Singapore halts execution of man with low IQ 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z “Nagaenthran was found to have clearly understood the nature of his acts, and he did not lose his sense of judgment of the rightness or wrongness of what he was doing.” Singapore is set to execute a mentally disabled man for trafficking 1.5 ounces of heroin 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Now much of the mainstream press, in a bout of epic wrongness, is portraying the delayed vote as a blow to Biden. Progressives play hardball — with Biden's support — and confuse the media 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z After a pandemic of epic wrongness, local Republicans, like the proverbial blind squirrel, have stumbled into a nut. The stopped clocks of the pandemic are now showing the right time — time to open up 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z “If you don’t have follow-up, it reaffirms that folks are right in their wrongness,” said Carol Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. Shock of Jan. 6 insurrection devolves into political fight 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z “The glaring wrongness of it was stunning,” she told me. Opinion | How to Make Your Small Talk Big 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The wrongness of how they were treated was obvious to them. Mac McCain, grandson of a civil rights icon, wants to take his family legacy to the NFL 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z And to not really get into the rightness or wrongness of it, to find some kernel of truth. Psychologist Joshua Coleman: How to contend with estranged family members 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z Defence lawyers say Minassian’s autism spectrum disorder impeded his ability to understand the wrongness of his actions – an argument that has prompted outrage from advocacy groups. Toronto van killer's autism defence enrages advocacy groups 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z From Trump, no judgment about the rightness and wrongness, the decency, dishonesty or viciousness of QAnon. Opinion | Trump’s QAnon dodge is a sickening reminder of the man he is 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “I’m not trying to comment on the rightness or wrongness of capital punishment,” said Dr. Joel Zivot, one of the medical professionals who signed the letter. Doctors: Execution drugs could help COVID-19 patients 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “With respect to the rightness or wrongness, I’m agnostic,” Dr. Zivot said of capital punishment. Afraid of Lethal Injection, Inmates Are Choosing the Electric Chair 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Sometimes Trump says things that are just so wrong, in so many ways, that it’s difficult to resist the urge to enumerate all the details of their wrongness. Opinion | Here are four suggested New Year’s resolutions for the media 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z It merely invites us to watch his wrongness grow out of control and swell into violence, and proposes a vague connection between that private swelling and a wider social malady. Todd Phillips’s “Joker” Is No Laughing Matter 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The rightness or wrongness of a president’s actions are all but immaterial in these matters. ‘Deserve’s got nothing to do with it’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z One flaw hugely magnified, another barely visible, all your features slightly off-kilter, a certain wrongness, a sense of alienation: no, that’s not who I am! Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian on the trouble with writing about sex 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The filmmaker may be on a mission to get everything right about 1969, down to the sounds and smells, but he’s also inviting us to smoke a little wrongness. Quentin Tarantino Tweaks History in “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z He also called the string of tweets “a burrito of wrongness” before explaining the inaccuracy of the statement in the first place. Stephen Colbert on Trump's racist attack: 'A new personal best in being the worst' 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z As a result, half of the political debate, from the local level on up, is built exclusively on wrongness — on total nonsense, invented by Trump himself along with his propaganda cable network. Trump's Chuck Todd interview: Right and wrong have come permanently unstuck in America 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z “We always have fun and we laugh and she’s got a great sense of humor. She’s very quick and sarcastic and all the qualities that I like. She’s very sharp. She catches all the wrongness.” Jerry Seinfeld and his wife Jessica reveal the secret behind their lasting marriage 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Jones did not appreciate the moral wrongness of his actions, defense lawyer Boyd Young told jurors on Monday. South Carolina man found guilty of murdering his five children 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The same narrative is also being touted on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where chronic wrongness never gets in the way of sounding really certain about the Beltway consensus on everything. Trump's 2020 strategy sounds familiar: Convince Democratic voters to stay home 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The vast wrongness of Trump’s forecasts is equaled only by his confidence in their correctness. Opinion | Trump is a prophet! 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z It’s this lurking inner wrongness, the darkness at its edges and the emptiness at its core, that speaks to me now. The Wizard of Oz is a grotesque predictor of Trump’s America | Bidisha 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z To test what had been primarily a loose suspicion of wrongness, Riis and 200 other Danes were spending the month of June roaming their country’s back roads in their outfitted cars. The Insect Apocalypse Is Here 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Ali issued a statement, too, in support of Mortensen while firmly noting the word’s wrongness. Mahershala Ali on ‘Green Book’: ‘It’s a legitimate offering’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The wrongness of this assumption is so profound that it's rattling to anyone who actually cares about preserving the Democratic Party's leftward bent. Yes, the campaign to take down Nancy Pelosi is sexist — not to mention a terrible idea 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “We need to get away from evaluations of how much harm specific individuals experience, and focus on the pure wrongness of the act.” An academic reported sexual harassment. Her university allegedly retaliated 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z His birth was not cursed, but it was laden with wrongness. Why Do Filmmakers Love van Gogh? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Predictably, this appears to be metastasizing into the dominant D.C. media analysis of our harrowing political discourse, and it’s difficult to say which is worse: the wrongness or the laziness of it. After terror comes the media BS: No, lazy pundits, “both sides” don’t do this 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The critics’ worry for Apple is understandable, even if their repeated wrongness is a little hilarious. How Apple Thrived in a Season of Tech Scandals 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Those were not entirely unreasonable views, to be fair; but they added up to a narrative of massive wrongness. I was wrong about the “blue wave”: It’s here. But where will it land and what does it mean? 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z “We need to get away from evaluations of how much harm specific individuals experience, and focus on the pure wrongness of the act.” An academic reported sexual harassment. Her university allegedly retaliated 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Cecilia had liked her own clothes when she packed them, but overnight they had transformed into a torment, their wrongness burning against her skin. “Cecilia Awakened” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Lee’s work is about wrongness: about being the wrong kind of man, woman, Asian; about saying the wrong thing; about getting other people wrong. Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z But the book has moments of laughable wrongness. Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z But the pilot suggests that this wrongness can be easily righted in a one-hour TV procedural format. NBC’s new VR thriller Reverie is a schmaltzy take on techno-dystopia 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “There is a very intentional wrongness to it,” he says. For David Henry Hwang, conflicted feelings about 'The King and I' inspire the ambitious 'Soft Power' 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Although she was never prosecuted for those alleged crimes, the commission’s chairman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, begged her to admit wrongness of her actions. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Antiapartheid Campaigner and Former Wife of Nelson Mandela, Dies at 81 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z "Bobby is a fully-fledged, responsible adult, who I think has shown true remorse for what he did, and an understanding of the wrongness of his actions." The teenager sentenced to 241 years in prison 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Something felt wrong, and this feeling of wrongness would get worse as the year wore on – summer worse than spring, autumn worse than summer. How I let drinking take over my life 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of wrongness to unpack in Trump’s tweet — so we’ll focus on that intractable myth that climate change spells the end of cold weather. Cold weather doesn't disprove climate change, Donald Trump 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z When sitting at the keyboard, it is difficult to perceive wrongness without wanting to scratch it with a caustic retort. You can log off, sure. But you can’t stop the outrage economy | Rafael Behr 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Accordingly, whiteness and wrongness have become interchangeable — the high ground is now accessible only by way of “allyship,” which is to say silence and total repentance. Opinion | How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z She won with style, unapologetically asserting the wrongness of the abuse that was perpetrated on her but on the day of her victory, there was tumbleweed on the Taylor Swift hashtag. Taylor Swift isn’t the first snake woman. She’s fighting misogyny’s favourite myth | Brian O’Flynn 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Your mind can’t grasp any of it: not the dark, nor the sunset clouds on the horizon, nor the stars; just that extraordinary wrongness, up there, that pulls the eyes toward it. How To Stay Sane During a Solar Eclipse 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z In that same paragraph, Justice Stevens made a second prediction, one that took a little longer to ripen into brilliant wrongness. Trump’s Precedent for Claiming Immunity? Clinton v. Jones 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z I felt a mounting anxiety: everything was wrong, and that wrongness was inside me; only I wasn’t sure anymore what that “me” was. What’s Wrong with Me? 2013-08-19T04:00:00Z And for him there is no debate “about the absolute wrongness” of having a religious ban. US Rep. Welch says Trump puts politics above security 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners. Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Overall, estimates of the danger facing a child closely followed subjects’ judgments of the wrongness of the parent’s actions. We’re really bad at judging risk to kids. We’re really good at judging parents. 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Like I say, it’s a fascinating theory, in its underlying insinuations and its demonstrable wrongness. ‘Don’t play identity politics!’ The primal scream of the straight white male | Hadley Freeman 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z What a great way for Cubs fans to celebrate your wrongness. The World Series Sports Page That Wasn’t 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The COJ refused to get into the rightness or wrongness of same-sex marriage, and focused on Moore’s conduct, his comments about matters before his court and, especially, his prejudicial conduct and lack of impartiality. Alabama editorial roundup 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z “I immediately thought, there’s a wrongness to this,” he says. 'Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z But it’s the right kind of wrongness, the type that leaves you feeling pleased, if a little bit guilty. Fender’s FXA7 headphones are for hardcore bassheads only 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Of course, the video raises the obvious questions: why did the dolphin choose this moment and this iPad to remind the world of its wrongness? Brave dolphin reminds world not to use an iPad as a camera 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z What a great way for Cubs fans to celebrate your wrongness. The World Series Sports Page That Wasn’t 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Of all the addresses at the Convention, Khan’s said most plainly that the wrongness of Trump is not his style or tackiness or even obliviousness to world events; it is in his clearly formulated anti-Americanism. What Donald Trump Doesn’t Get About Ghazala and Khizr Khan 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Meltzer’s wrongness is obvious and does not require explanation, unless you honestly think “Purple Rain” is awful. Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember? 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z And getting too caught up with the wrongness of people on the internet is a surefire way to never know happiness again. On the internet, you can never be quite sure who said what | Jessica Valenti 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z “It’s not about fairness. It’s about the Celtics, and the rightness and wrongness of what is being done to them.” Celtics’ Tommy Heinsohn Is Forever Green 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Who can imagine what new frontiers of wrongness lie ahead? Bernie’s endgame: No, he can’t win now — but his campaign has exposed Hillary as a “weak frontrunner” in a divided party 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z I could certainly be wrong, because wrongness is the order of the day in 2016. Stop laughing, Democrats! As the GOP goes down in flames, your post-Bernie civil war is almost here 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z The earliest moments of the 2016 campaign were marked by a conspicuous pageant of wrongness. Why Political Pundits Are Becoming More Wrong 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Part of what’s difficult is that fake or incorrect quotes come in a seemingly infinite variety of wrongness. On the internet, you can never be quite sure who said what | Jessica Valenti 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z For myself, I have become convinced of the wrongness of that privileging in the course of researching and writing my “Tales of a New Jerusalem” series of books about postwar Britain. ‘Big books by blokes about battles’: Why is history still written mainly by men? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z “In books where I deal with the topic of slavery, I pair smiles, if needed, with broader context, explaining to children about the horrors - the wrongness, the inhumanity - of slavery.” Recent controversies spark discussion about slavery books 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z His lack of success in improving the the underlying feeling of wrongness has encouraged , maybe even necessitated the rise of Trump, or someone like him. Underestimating Cruz and Trump: A Post-Mortem 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z There was wrongness about him, building connections inside me on a cellular level. Boys in the Trees: A Memoir, by Carly Simon – digested read 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z That he’s at all unsure about the rightness or wrongness of his actions — that anyone could be — is a terrifying kind of ignorance. On Jessica Jones, rape doesn’t need to be seen to be devastating 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Among so much wrongness, the punishment doled out by Watters far exceeded the apparent crime. Fox News has sunk to a new low: Bill O’Reilly’s horrible sidekick is getting his own horrible show 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z But Peace persisted, telling her wife that “it’s just this feeling of wrongness, and when you put a word on it, it only becomes worse.” JBLM transgender soldier endures wait for Army reforms 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Now, Morris Williams is looking for justice: “If someone did wrong, they should be able to give account of their wrongness,” she says. Inside the Effort to Solve Civil Rights Crimes Before It’s Too Late 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He will agitate for the wrongness of the decision, argue against its application in future rulings, and perhaps seek the appointment, if/when given the chance, of Supreme Court justices who agree with him. The right’s shameless new Lincoln lie: Dred Scott, same-sex marriage, and the honest history of Abraham Lincoln 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z “I just am rebelling against the unfairness of it all and the wrongness of it all,” he continued. The one candidate CNN refused to invite to the debate 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Without getting into the rightness/wrongness of this situation, what’s clear from the brouhaha is that this whole mess was more about soft issues and leadership styles than the quarterly P&L. Leadership Styles Are Often Why CEOs Get Fired 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The movie makes a big deal of this, but Sherlockians will hardly be surprised, since, on the page, wrongness and regret flickered around his exploits from the start. Amy Schumer Comes Clean in “Trainwreck” 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But it’s no proof of your wrongness, just the level of delusion among others. Investing: Ride A Bull, Fend Off A Bear 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Your body is a better barometer for the rightness or wrongness of things going on around you than your conscious brain is. The Truth About Workplace Discipline 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z These include the wrongness of omission, of forgetting your original purpose and of making it all about you. A manifesto for inadequate husbands 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “By instinct and habit, I was more interested in the whatness of the war rather than in the rightness or wrongness,” he wrote in his 1995 memoir, “A Good Life.” Postscript: Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014) 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The dark wrongness now permeated everywhere in my life, and somewhere along the way I think I realized: If everything is wrong, then maybe nothing is. 30 Self-Help Books That Permanently Changed My Life 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z One of the best moments of sports broadcasting in the past few weeks was Cris Carter, also of ESPN, talking about the Adrian Peterson case and the wrongness of beating a child. What Bill Simmons Showed About ESPN 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Worse still, the wrongness of so many predictions, Silver says, tends to proliferate throughout academic journals, blogs and media reports, further misdirecting our attention and thwarting good science. Does even Nate Silver have limits? What Big Data can — and can’t — tell us 2014-04-14T16:50:00Z He was in uniform, though even at this confusing moment something in the Minister registered the wrongness of this, in terms both of this man’s particular body in a uniform and the uniform itself. Zadie Smith: “Moonlit Landscape with Bridge.” 2014-02-03T05:00:00Z More difficult than evaluating the moral rightness or wrongness of the act is the question of punishment. Surgeon's mark raises ethics issues 2013-12-27T10:55:49Z "I did not question the rightness or wrongness of using this word, because I understand that this is a political term," she says. Uzbekistan first sisters at war 2013-09-26T23:35:36Z Participants read a vignette of a date-rape and were asked to rate the “wrongness” of the offense before answering a questionnaire measuring their belief in science. Just Thinking about Science Triggers Moral Behavior 2013-08-27T12:45:00.590Z "Re Richard Beer describing the Fiver as 'technically correct' for not pandering to USA wrongness: surely that's the best kind of correct?" The Fiver 2013-05-13T15:12:46Z She was talking about female mediocrity, but the same goes for female wrongness. Thatcher: A female icon, but not a feminist one 2013-04-08T17:44:00Z Instead, despite recognizing the wrongness of his deeds, he couldn’t muster the effort not to do them. Some musings on Jonah Lehrer's $20,000 "meh culpa". 2013-02-13T20:45:00.587Z “If our rightness is not so absolute as it now seems to us, no more is Argentine wrongness,” he said. Memo From London: Argentina’s Call for Return of Falkland Islands Causes a Stir 2013-01-05T23:42:19Z Consider this, then, as both a series of cautionary tales and a rueful reflection on the wrongness of a shockingly large proportion of human activity. Worst ideas of 2012: introduction 2012-12-28T22:58:09Z For the Berkeley and Harvard astrophysicists, recognizing their wrongness was easy, as the data irrefutably pointed in a completely different direction. The Key to Science (and Life) Is Being Wrong 2012-11-13T14:45:00.407Z There is no question in my mind about the wrongness of falsification here. How we decide (to falsify). 2012-07-31T21:45:11.810Z But there are degrees of wrongness and compared to the global scale of tax avoidance this is minor. How 'morally wrong' is cash-in-hand? 2012-07-24T12:04:50Z Like lovers who embark on an affair because of, as well as despite, its wrongness, the erring bankers clearly took a special pleasure in crossing boundaries. Too much testosterone, too much confidence: the psychology of banking 2012-06-29T23:05:36Z Which, along with the lower case u, just adds to the wrongness of a black up! On the road: VW up! 1.0 litre 60 PS 5-speed manual 2012-06-15T21:59:13Z In order to recognize wrongness, scientists must maintain some level of detachment from their cherished theories and be open to the ideas of others in their respective fields. The Key to Science (and Life) Is Being Wrong 2012-11-13T14:45:00.407Z One would think that it’s harder to convince people of the wrongness of things they really think are true than things they only sort of think are true. The Science of Forgetting 2012-02-27T15:33:14Z Men act in a mass quite differently from the way they act as individuals, only unfortunately there is not any necessary divine rightness about the way they act: there is often divine wrongness. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z We shall have to inform ourselves as to the fundamental purposes of sex; we shall have to ask ourselves: What are the factors which determine rightness and wrongness in the sex relationship? The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z “A hungry child isn’t thinking about the ‘wrongness’ of his actions; he’s thinking that he’s hungry. No dinner for Max? Depends on what he?s had to eat. 2011-11-08T16:49:10Z The rightness or wrongness of an action lies in its consequences. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z But when we get to the field of religion, it is no longer a question of the legitimacy of difference, but of its wrongness. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z It is not your wrongness that they hate; it's your uncompromising quality, and that remains more unbreakable than ever. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z A few instances may be relevantly given in which rightness has been attended by disadvantages, when wrongness appeared to have none—yet wrongness was found to bring great unpleasantness in the end. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z In fact, when it comes to pure wrongness, what weren't they wrong about? We're stuck in Bush's America 2011-07-12T16:01:00Z Not by answering any specific charge, at all, but by reasserting her essential rightness about everything, and the wrongness of her awful critics. Paranoid Michelle Rhee blames her "enemies" for cheating report 2011-03-29T20:10:00Z Common observation shows that people will go on tolerating forms of brutality, year after year, without the least sense of their wrongness. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z But it got right cheery the minute I seen the wrongness of my ways. Friend Island 2011-02-28T03:00:33.693Z Pastors need to step up to the plate and speak about the wrongness of bullying, the wrongness of cruelty. Teenage Suicides Spur Reflections on Gay Harassment 2010-10-08T21:28:00Z Michael Berrington took Mollie's hand and tried to express at the same moment his gratitude for her good intent and the wrongness of deceit and eavesdropping. A Blot on the Scutcheon The wrongness, he guessed, was in his own mind. Delayed Action Mrs. Hunt's a living confession of faith in the absolute rightness of the right people, and a living rebuke to the incurable wrongness of the wrong! The Book of Susan A Novel Adapted to the rightness of right, and the wrongness of wrong, and to the moral nature and constitution of things. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology The man who is right has the right kind of friends, and the man who is wrong has the kind of friends who are attracted by his wrongness. The Book of Courage Neither side was right in the struggle, although he preferred the West's brand of wrongness to the bloodier wrongness of the Reds. Way of a Rebel There's a wrongness in what we are doing here that colors my every reaction and makes me incapable of acting on my own. Turning Point He lay motionless, watching for a hint of motion, for the fitful shadow, for any wrongness in the terrain that might be the Cytha. The World That Couldn't Be There was a mixture of wrongness in his rightness that made me distrust him. The Crow's Nest He was not afraid of the wrongness that inhabited this muck of house and grove and matted bush. Wild Oranges There is no sense of rightness, or wrongness connected with it, no sense of utility, propriety, or expediency. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) And words can be taught—not merely the words themselves, but their power, their suggestiveness, their rightness or wrongness for the meaning sought. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Something was about to happen ... to him it was unmistakable, in the very atmosphere, sharpened and heightened by the four walls—a pervading sense of wrongness and a pyramiding tension. We're Friends, Now Rightness and good, wrongness and evil, these could not possibly be other than assessments of furtherance or threat to the ascendancy of me-and-mine at the center of things, and had no meaning beyond that context. Eight Keys to Eden They are equally wrong, but the second class are at any rate in a more saving way of wrongness. A History of Elizabethan Literature Then there is the alleged wrongness of permitting women to work in factories and offices. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study All this time, the dark-faced Cracker had been glooming from a corner, earnestly seeking to fathom the wrongness he sensed in the gathering. The Brown Mouse To deny a fact is easy and needs no advocate, but it is far more arduous and difficult a task to demonstrate the rightness or wrongness of a given action. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura The average burglar pursues his calling with no special sense of its wrongness, although he may have a keen sense of its dangers. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Judge them as severely as you will by their rightness or wrongness, and again judge them by their merits or defects as literature. From a Cornish Window A New Edition In some form or other every wrongdoer should be made to feel painfully the wrongness of his deed. Practical Ethics His senses jarred out of slumber with a feeling of wrongness that reacted in instant caution. Victory On the question of the abstract rightness or wrongness of this subjection of the East by the West, I do not propose to enter. The New World of Islam But it did follow that whatever treatment it received should be based on the assumption of its wrongness. A History of the United States You may have similar qualms over rent and the rightness and wrongness of it. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Landsmen may not observe the wrongness: see again No. 17, st. ix, and 39, line 10. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published There could be no question of objective rightness or wrongness. Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge The substance of that wrongness of act and relation which constitutes "sin" is the separation of the individual spirit from the whole; the ridiculous megalomania which makes each man the centre of his universe. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People The same may be said of the specific rightness or wrongness of opinion in the intellectual order. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle Furthermore, in the case of the ordinary reader there is a feeling of rightness or wrongness about the thought sequences. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale It is his hair shirt, to be worn from time to time next his soul for the wrongness in it and the mischief it did. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Paul Ruttledge, on the other hand, deliberately gives up his conventional life, and that as largely because of boredom as because of belief in its wrongness. Irish Plays and Playwrights Our universal sense of wrongness is but part of our passion for rightness. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals It is his hair-shirt, to be worn from time to time next his soul for the wrongness in it and the mischief it did. Rabbi Saunderson But it is his wrongness which makes me love him. The Tin Soldier I'm grown up now and—and I have to make decisions about the rightness and the wrongness of things. Lydia of the Pines She spelt comparatively anyhow, and with the wholehearted wrongness to which she and the typewriter, both bad spellers, often attained in conjunction, hastily finished and laid the letters before him. Dangerous Ages We have seen in the chapter on ethics that men are by no means at one in their judgments as to the rightness or wrongness of given actions. An Introduction to Philosophy He was not quite sure it was all right, but the sort of wrongness he feared was not to be confided to the man into whose care he desired to shove the objectionable burden. What Necessity Knows The minute they give up their wrongness, and fall into its line, it works for them as no working of their own could do. The Other Girls You have his wrong side ... his side of peculiar wrongness ... to you just now. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Nor could the rightness or the wrongness of the hero's views and acts affect the artistic value of the novel. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 He'll wipe out all the wrongness and meanness, and see through it to the good. Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" For two reasons: first, because it illustrates the fundamental wrongness of Unionism; secondly, because it is not dead. The Open Secret of Ireland And further, of course, it means getting behind them to the conditions that control their wrongness; and getting these right if we can. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day I am quite wrong perhaps—but you see how I do not conceal my wrongnesses where they mix themselves up with my sincere impressions. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Under these conditions the rightness or wrongness of the sexual conduct of the wife turned upon the attitude of the husband toward the act. Sex and Society The naturalistic leaders may be proved wrong without going beyond their own principles, and their wrongness is of a kind to wreck civilisation.' Aspects of Literature This essential wrongness of Unionism, so amply illustrated in every year of its working, continues. The Open Secret of Ireland To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. Hope of the Gospel If we must go through the previous acts to get to this, we forgive, for its sake, their wrongness. The Poetry Of Robert Browning It's easy to conceive wrongness in the application of it. If Winter Comes But now he expounded with admirable clearness the wrongness of carelessness about warrants and of taking things for granted. Bacon But this sense of wrongness and self-deprecation began to bring back bitterness. Oberheim (Voices) Weep—because nature had ejected me from that petty little world, with its ridiculous and conceited wrongness? The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories You may still think me wrong; but anyhow my wrongness will be towards somebody else, not towards you.—So please read this, and don't skip, because every word helps to explain. Deadham Hard If at any time he should find thee in fault, be the matter seemingly beneath notice, acknowledge thy wrongness, for he hath a temper and might goad thee to greater blunder. Mistress Penwick I believe that this shrinking from expressions which seem unnatural, is rightly intensified a hundredfold when the sense of wrongness or "unnaturalness" is due not to the individual but to the relationship itself. Sex and Common-Sense Surely the rightness or wrongness of saving a man from drowning does depend very much upon the motive with which it is done. Utilitarianism The positive value of this conception lies in the forcible way in which it calls attention to the wrongness of aims which do not have regard to the natural endowment of those educated. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education The feet were all wrong ... with a sort of wrongness that he felt rather than knew.... This Side of Paradise Now with most of us the sense of our present wrongness is a far more distinct piece of our consciousness than is the imagination of any positive ideal we can aim at. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature She realized more and more the quality of the brink upon which she stood—the dreadful readiness with which in certain moods she might plunge, the unmitigated wrongness and recklessness of such a self-abandonment. Ann Veronica, a modern love story Now if one has that sense and suffers consciously under the wrongness of the conditions in question—why, then one becomes, necessarily, just what I am. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I It was somehow at this point that the first wrongness in the case asserted itself. The Beautiful and Damned She came down the steps listlessly, overborne by her knowledge of the world's wrongness. The Fortune Hunter In those more developed minds which alone we are studying, the wrongness takes a moral character, and the salvation takes a mystical tinge. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature He felt a peculiar sense of guilt, of wrongness, in thus having jumped out of bed. The Trespasser I think that we are constrained to it by the essential wrongness of the conditions of life. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I He was discriminative to a degree altogether admirable as to the brightness or wrongness of a proposition with regard to conduct, but owed his respectability to good impulses without any effort of the will. The Elect Lady Often a sense of the terribleness and wrongness of his disaster would rush over her, crowding her heart with the old rebellion and bitterness. The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love But though not right in itself, it may become right by the greater wrongness of the only alternative—the remaining in neediness and uncertainty. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Or rather, apart from God we shall prove certain acts wrong, and other acts obligatory as duties, philosophically speaking, with an initial and fundamental wrongness and obligation. Moral Philosophy Of course, one must have a sense for that wrongness. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I She did not care for him enough; and she was wrong, and she was fantastic in her wrongness. A Fountain Sealed All acts of all other men were sins or "wrongnesses." Guide to Stoicism He wants almost to persuade himself that it was not wrong, and entirely to hide the wrongness from others. Friends in Council — First Series Whatever is wrong—and we all know that much is wrong—can be righted by a clear definition of the wrongness. My Life and Work Still there was one element mingling with his wrongness whose very triviality increased the difficulty of long delaying repentance: he had been not a little proud at finding himself the friend of a marquis. The Marquis of Lossie The reality of moral distinctions, the essential wrongness of the sin, is obscured by a mist of sophistication. Expositions of Holy Scripture Social life plainly would become impossible if all rigidly insisted on the absolute rightness of their own beliefs and the absolute wrongness of all others. Pragmatism If we discuss the rightness or wrongness of the drink habit we try to show its social consequences. Sociology and Modern Social Problems The man who takes the time to reflect upon his feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action can often discover some, perhaps rather vague, reason for his feeling proper. A Handbook of Ethical Theory It offended all his sense of economy and purpose; it was something done, and at the same time undone—and so it had in it the essence of all futility and wrongness. Love's Pilgrimage The problem of Conscientious Objection has, therefore, only arisen in the case of those Christians who hold the abstract doctrine of the absolute wrongness, in whatever circumstances, of all war as such. Religious Reality And oh, you who frightened me so about my wrongness and told me how hard it was to be right—do you know how easy it is for me to say those words? King Midas: a Romance This view of morality, which, for the most part, is indorsed by modern thought, makes ethics dependent upon sociology for its criteria of rightness or wrongness. Sociology and Modern Social Problems Even so, I may maintain that, in specific situations, the rightness or wrongness of given courses of action may be perceived immediately. A Handbook of Ethical Theory At first he simply admitted that his wrongness had made him powerless—as it had made him powerless against Gilly—but eventually his mistake about the workman influenced his entire attitude. Flappers and Philosophers For in all these, rightness or wrongness of form is inherent. Plato and Platonism You must knew, Mr. Howard," said Helen, "that it is you who have shown me the wrongness of all that I was doing in my life, and stirred me with a desire to do better. King Midas: a Romance So, too, if we discuss the rightness or wrongness of such an institution as polygamy we find ourselves forced to do so mainly in social terms. Sociology and Modern Social Problems To him there was no being in the sky so righteous as to be more displeased than pitiful over the wrongness of the children whom he had not yet got taught their childhood. Sir Gibbie The wrongness had a character all its own. And Even Now The man that broke through the sky and came to me said that it must be very dull, but I showed him the wrongness of his thought. Manalive It never seems to strike these people that the lesson of lice in the slums is the wrongness of slums, not the wrongness of hair. What's Wrong with the World What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously. Jerry of the Islands She was pretty, but hers was not the kind of prettiness to be loaded with too sumptuous accessories, and jeweled head-dresses are dangerous—they may emphasize the wrongness of the wearer. The Turmoil, a novel The wrongness was right—at any rate after Mary had hit on it for William. And Even Now |
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