Scott Borchert, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2022 This is the civic philosophy that underpins all his work, his long association with PBS, his speeches and interviews and op-eds-even his public persona, which melds amiable dorkiness with a kind of old-fashioned liberal rectitude. Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2021 But this is a flattering and soothing and juvenile and puritanical and gratifyingly evangelical narrative: that only through an act of successful savagery and self-sabotage could a place or a people arrive at righteous rectitude. Kyle Smith, WSJ, 2 June 2022 He was drawn to the Nation of Islam, also known as the Black Muslims, an organization that preached Black independence and separatism and demanded stringent rectitude from its members and was embraced by its leader Elijah Muhammad, The Messenger, himself an acolyte of Garvey. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, Dismissing the rectitude for which his stepson pleads, Maurice instead draws inspiration from the goofy determination of his twin boys (ebulliently played by Christian and Jonah Lees), who are professional disco dancers during the few years when that is possible. Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023 Los Angeles needed a man on a white horse, somebody to clean things up, or at least give the place a sheen of rectitude. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023 All that black-and-white stiff-necked rectitude, the round face and level gaze, the high collar, the velvet and satin of a distant century, the hat-those hats!-flat, drab, lifeless. Recent Examples on the Web His understanding of power is not derived from the populace, but rather from a divine source, a sense of historical rectitude, and a sense of justice.
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