How To Use Goodness In A Sentence

  • Some people, thank goodness, take a good deal of pride and pleasure in achieving and maintaining a perfect filing system.
  • French presses don't do this, so you get full-strength coffee flavor goodness without the bitterness that makes you want cream and sugar. What is the best coffee maker, percolator, for camping?
  • Goodness of fit was assessed by diagnostic plots and the statistical significance of the Pearson chi-square of the fitted model.
  • And when they espied the duke’s daughter, that was a full fair woman, then by their false covin they made debate betwixt themself, and the duke of his goodness would have departed them, and there they slew him and his eldest son. Chapter XV. The Thirteenth Book. How Sir Galahad Fought with the Knights of the Castle, and Destroyed the Wicked Custom
  • Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
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  • And I wouldn't mind even more rubber :- But yes, thank goodness it is not too coconutty. Profumum Volo AZ 686: Perfume Review
  • Brown, a captivating and mysterious Midwesterner whose intimate slices of life are as heart-achingly beautiful as she is, will begrudgingly let listeners step into her secret hiding place filled with honest-to-goodness words and music about the human condition. Michael Bialas: Why Pieta Brown Digs the Music of Dylan, Dire Straits and her Dad
  • The symphonious pairing of syrupy goodness and buttery richness. Chez Pazienza: Rich Lowry: The William F. Buckley of F**k Talk
  • OH OH OH, one last thing: yes, I got the birthday package and it was filled with graphic novelly goodness that I didn't have and we are now fighting over the contents as to who gets to read which ones first EVEN THOUGH it's my birthday present. Greetings from the land of sunshine and wagging tails
  • But to frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure, or of goodness from everything that is good, this is what few can pretend to. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
  • So for goodness' sake say something, or a potentially good relationship could just slip away. The Sun
  • In spite of the bad things he's done I still believe in his essential goodness.
  • It has weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm, thank goodness, but Ophelia is now coming right through here. The Blame Game
  • The psst-hey-buddy guy may not be the image the new "ticket broker" industry wishes to be associated with—and, goodness knows, one needs to make sure the curbside tickets are legit—but maybe these days dealing with the low-tech scalper is one's best hope of not getting scalped. Don't Blame a Scalper When You Think You've Been Fleeced
  • Al-Marri was an honest-to-goodness Al Qaeda sleeper agent masquerading as an exchange student. David Rittgers: Domestic Military Detention Isn't Necessary
  • Yes, I know the Internet is a jungle, but as the writer above puts it, life continues to be a "ceaseless struggle to extract moments of goodness and purity from a world of tragedy. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
  • The first statement is an honest-to-goodness lie, the last a half truth.
  • Just have the goodness to accede to my request and stop meddling in the Amaury case. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • He retains a faith in human goodness.
  • ‘What is it?’ said I. ‘Why,’ said she, ‘since God is rightly believed to govern all things with the rudder of goodness, and since all things do likewise, as I have taught, haste towards good by the very aim of nature, can it be doubted that His governance is willingly accepted, and that all submit themselves to the sway of the Disposer as conformed and attempered to His rule?’ Consolation of Philosophy
  • Goodness knows what ups and downs await the world of racing in the coming 12 months but after the excitements of the year ending tonight, I'm sure none of us will complain if the tempo drops just a fraction.
  • Why, for goodness sake, should it have been our planet?
  • The most basic statement of the tradition is that there is a double mystery, the dark mystery of evil and the bright mystery of goodness.
  • You may question his characters' motivation, but never doubt their sincerity or inherent goodness.
  • ˜God is good to us™ understanding of God's goodness is ruled out on this approach: for the notion of ˜good to us™ is a normative notion. Theological Voluntarism
  • There was a benignancy, a sweetness of demeanor, which attracted them to him, and while his name may not be sounded in the trump of fame, yet the subtile power of his gentleness and goodness has permeated many lives, will shape many destinies, and will have a force in the history of the world greater than that which will be exerted by many who will succeed him here. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session
  • Indeed it is urged, that it is suitable to the goodness of God, to imprint upon the minds of men characters and notions of himself, and not to leave them in the dark and doubt in so grand a concernment; and also, by that means, to secure to himself the homage and veneration due from so intelligent a creature as man; and therefore he has done it. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity , and admits no excess, but error.
  • The film's biggest dose of reality (and arguably its biggest draw) comes from the live, honest-to-goodness sharks that surrounded Travis and Ryan for two days during shooting.
  • The GOP Smear that Obama is eltist is frankly ridiculous Barack & Michelle both came from firmly blue collar backgrounds, Michelle's dad was a dustmen for goodness sake. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
  • She had an unshakeable faith in human goodness and natural honesty.
  • Thank goodness for the debunkers like Hymes who ferret out the frauds and expose the poseurs.
  • You will find everything from honest-to-goodness illuminated manuscripts from the depths of the Middle Ages to 1950s church-design manuals. Loome Theological Booksellers, Stillwater, Minnesota
  • Not an industry study, ‘tainted’ by profit motive, but a honest-to-goodness government study, pure in heart, uninfluenced by anything but a search for truth.
  • Thank goodness we've ducked out of the dinner party thing.
  • 'Thank goodness for that!' she said with a sigh of relief.
  • Oh for goodness sake, stop pratting around and get on with your work!
  • Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
  • Thank goodness for the London fire brigade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Goodness only knew how she was going to disabuse his mind of the erroneous assumption now clearly fixed in it. ON A WILD NIGHT
  • for Christ's, God's, goodness', heaven's, pity's, etc. sake used to emphasize that it is important to do sth or when you are annoyed about sth: Do be careful, for goodness' sake.
  • I want to give up my selfish ways and follow your lead, for yours is the way of goodness and holiness.
  • Honest-to-goodness maraschino liqueur, by contrast, is subtle and elusive, and a sly way to add just a hint of sweetness to an otherwise unsugared drink. Hemingway's Daiquiri
  • Happiness is not enough; brains are not enough; goodness will get you by, but without the other two it's a shield made of straw.
  • For I question not, but God can so qualify and determine the will of a rational agent, (and that without the least diminution to its natural freedom,) that the inclination and bias of it shall wholly propend to good, and that from a mere love of goodness itself, without any consideration of a further recompence. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
  • Beyond this section, the cavern narrowed a bit and descended to a lower chamber and a crescent-shaped pool of greenish water, an honest-to-goodness underground lake. The Omega Theory
  • Oliver becomes someone to whom things happen and his innate goodness and innocence palls when he's surrounded by so many more vibrant and colourful characters.
  • I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new year’s day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
  • The pharmacy is only a couple of blocks from the house and is a "swiper" thank goodness. ATM's in Ajijic/Lake Chapala
  • In the early stage of their friendship, Anna's romance with the widow Lehntman involves their common ‘goodness’: their embodiment of Christian caritas and selfless devotion to others.
  • By all accounts the ancients experienced themselves as living within an ensouled world - one thoroughly drenched in perceptions of goodness and value.
  • And the exquisite consolation, when you have ascertained the badness of all fact, in knowing that badness is inferior to goodness, to the end -- it only rubs the pessimism in. Familiar Letters of William James III
  • Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
  • Battles occur without screen transitions, thank goodness, and enemies are always visible, wandering MMO-like (aka 'aimlessly') in their invisible stables. PCWorld
  • From the BBC Comedy show, ‘Goodness Gracious Me’, comes the word chuddies, meaning underpants.
  • It is by goodness and piety that man reaches perfect happiness: virtue is its own reward.
  • Or, if you MUST pursue your calling as cracksmen, have the goodness to try some other shutters. Roundabout Papers
  • Oh for goodness sake, let's keep is that way.
  • As he pulled the dead body from the spring the water became agitated, and from the bubbles arose a vapor that gradually assumed the form of a venerable Indian, with long white locks, in whom the murderer recognized Waukauga, father of the Shoshone and Comanche nation, and a man whose heroism and goodness made his name revered in both these tribes. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 07 : Along the Rocky Range
  • I was a deaconess in my church for goodness sakes! Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
  • As you think about Jesus' goodness to you in prayer today, try writing your own hymn or prayer of praise.
  • What moves men and women to love others is the innate goodness that they know is in each and every one of us.
  • Matthew Gilson Joseph Epstein Perhaps with this last reference he is playing off a quote from Saint-Simon: "Mme de Saint Simon, all goodness, tried in vain to check our most outrageous utterances, but the brakes were off and there ensued the most fearful struggle between the expression of sentiments that, humanly speaking, were quite natural, and the sensations that they were not altogether Christian. Boulevardier's Delight
  • The links have been dipped in buttery goodness and served to you on a platter that is made of smores. Archive 2007-11-01
  • They took furnishings, china, sofas, televisions and goodness only knows what else.
  • At the other end of this conversation is the principled position that there objective indicators of goodness in writing, that we know what they are, and that we need to help students interiorize and aspire to those standards. Archive 2006-12-01
  • When they tell me about the son of the house, however, keeping up the impressed noises can be rather an effort - goodness, a lifeguard at the swimming pool!
  • Some features of its make-up were evidences of his goodness and beneficence, while others displayed his displeasure.
  • Don't do it out of the goodness of your heart, if you don't want to.
  • Rather than stand in awe of his suppressed and frustrated creative forces I'm more inclined to tell him, sharply, to have a shower and a shave and put some clean clothes on, for goodness sake.
  • Thank goodness Dave Letterman is in my life again - the gap-toothed jokester returned to the tube this week, touting impressive guests and sharper punchlines.
  • Thank goodness our premier hockey players and elite curlers are able to maintain focus.
  • When a ham is roasting in the oven with a bit of sherry poured over it, or a trifle, for goodness' sake, has a bit of sherry in it, is sherry not a cooking condiment?
  • For goodness' sake stop whining,it's not much further to go.
  • They do this because they think one should discuss questions about goodness, justice and expediency in this place which was founded by the man who made all these subjects his business.
  • Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
  • She hated do-gooders, those she called the goody-goodies, but her own goodness surrounded her like a tangible, and visible magnetic field. The Satan Bug
  • You're right that pickiness can be a kind of malcontent rejection of the goodness God sends our way.
  • The 300 or so demonstrators were in a good mood, laughing, waving signs and banners, beating home-made drums, and, thank goodness, shouting some new chants.
  • And the £10.59 (goodness knows where you magicked that figure from!) will cover the phone calls and the 4 days service I didn't get.
  • Accident, by throwing into my hands this last letter to the uncle whose goodness you have most unwarrantably and unfeelingly abused, has given birth to an investigation, by which I have arrived at the discovery of the long course of rapacity by which you have pillaged from the same source. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • My goodness – what will "tweedle dee and tweedle dumb" say this time? Palin, Bachmann to headline Tea Party convention
  • Kennedy, like his brothers, was a believer in statism, in the goodness of large government, in the benevolent wisdom of experts and bureaucrats, in the need for Mother State to not just guard her little tax-paying chicks, but to potentially guide and shape their every step, thought, and action. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • I had curried rice for tea and Nat had some saucy, sprouty, bacony, ricey goodness. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Goodness, your hands are frozen stiff!
  • The hand of history that occasionally grips the Prime Minister's shoulder disturbs a countenance effusive with passion, belief and vision, and knocks askance a golden gloriole of goodness.
  • They have the natural goodness that is absent from processed cereals, and they can lower cholesterol and reduce constipation.
  • The man adores me for goodness sake… how can I taint the way he feels about me by making such unsavoury noises and smells in his company?
  • My goodness, this room is so interesting. However did you think to decorate it in purple and green?
  • Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none! Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with masspriest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men’s oil to his limbs. Ulysses
  • Goodness knows what horrid things he saw and I fear that there's no knowing the totality or the extent of the images that remained in his memories.
  • If we do not thank God for God's blessing, then we become like ingrates, those who presume upon the goodness of those who give them gift after gift.
  • In other words, people's positive influences remain after they have physically departed; true immortality lies in goodness, or godliness.
  • Lentils are miracle workers, packed full of goodness, grains are full of fibre and great energy boosters, and we all know what beans do for you.
  • Oh thank goodness I no longer have to worry about all the kids getting their butts "blipped" off whilst keeping the "brand" out there. Your Right Hand Thief
  • She was also taken in by people out of the goodness of their hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • I would describe his music as a kind of folky, happy, acoustic goodness. Scorpi07 Diary Entry
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness
  • This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid. Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution
  • Ah d'clar 'to goodness, Missus Brewster, is this business runnin' away?" exclaimed Sary, after the local had started from Oak Creek. Polly and Eleanor
  • Have the goodness to step this way, please.
  • Thank goodness I was an ugly kid, not very alluring in my cast-off, woolly mammoth all-in-one.
  • Love issues in patience, kindness and goodness. Christianity Today
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness
  • Which is an argument sufficient, that goodnesse is gone up to heaven, and hath quite forsaken these loathed lower Regions, where men are drowned in the mud of all abhominable vices. The Decameron
  • Let our fathers and garandfathers be valued for their goodness,ourselves for our own.
  • These last four episodes finally deliver emotional depth and honest-to-goodness conflict, which sets up even deeper (or more melodramatic, based on your viewpoint) reactions in the viewer.
  • While often being disheartened by the mistakes of our government, it is my sincere hope that its decisions in the upcoming days are wise and reflect the goodness of this nation.
  • For Kant, divine goodness is known as a postulate of pure practical reason: God must be there to reward virtue and punish evil.
  • Our bodies are temples to purity and goodness.
  • A history of the adjectival force of the term thus approximates a history of those qualities of inaccessibility, power, authority, and goodness which have attended the idea of God. HOLY (THE SACRED)
  • I’m currently in RN school; all I can say is 1) thank goodness we don’t have to wear dresses anymore, horribly impractical and 2) Not only were the hats ugly, but hats were banned because research found them un-hygienic (hats brushed up against curtains and were rarely cleaned which equaled nosocomial infection) I Can Be a Nurse « Awful Library Books
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  • 'Thank goodness I'll never have to go through [that] again', he wrote of his time at Marlborough, before entering Magdalen College as a commoner in Michaelmas term 1925.
  • I think it had something to do with the inborn goodness of these people. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
  • Humanity, which has an obvious predisposition towards goodness, has an equally strong predisposition towards evil.
  • They do not give out of the goodness of their hearts. Times, Sunday Times
  • It shall be a mishmash and a chitty chat of delightful goodness. Mommy Maria welcomes you « Bored Mommy
  • Crush three cloves of garlic in there and let the oil soak up all the garlicky goodness.
  • The theory of weighted empirical processes is an important element for(generalized) nonparametric likelihood ratio goodness of fit test.
  • In Alyosha, Dostoyevski patterns a character on the goodness and lovingness of Christ. Shaken to My Moral Foundations: Part I
  • There is a story told in his otherwise unrevealing autobiography which nicely illuminates the practical side of this pursuit of goodness.
  • The infant may be envied for the goodness and love she is receiving and the mother may be envied for being able to provide those resources. Know Your Own Mind
  • 'Have the goodness to tell that conceited girl there, that her headgear is the most miserable that ever was seen.' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
  • Meanwhile, on the subject of superstition, I'm working on a novella which involves a lady from Sheffield having visions of angels, so I've been trawling about on the net for current angelology and my goodness, it's a rum go.
  • The Reverend Andrew Geddes was somewhat stricken in years; his beard was white as snow, his thrapple loose below his chin, and the flesh had ebbed from his bones, but his mind was as alert as ever, and his goodness stood manifest in his face. Border Ghost Stories
  • But I hope to learn these soon if anybody will have the goodness to bear with me.
  • Not sharp and vivid like that of her father, but dim and nebulous was the picture she shaped of her mother — a saint's head in an aureole of sweetness and goodness and meekness, and withal, shot through with a hint of reposeful determination, of will, stubborn and unobtrusive, that in life had expressed itself mainly in resignation. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
  • That quality about him, that quality of goodness had dimmed to a candle flicker in an ocean. A DARKENING STAIN
  • So the ungauged reservoir turns out to be an inclosed basin, but Dorothea was prevented by her social lot, and perverse goodness, and puritanical The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
  • But along with my innocent childhood belief in the resurrection of rock music and the essential goodness of mankind, this myth was shattered too.
  • He believed in no God in the very idea of whose existence absolute truth, perfect goodness, and infinite wisdom, were not elements essentially necessary and everlastingly copresent. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Rather, for Numenius the demiurge is a recipient of the goodness of the highest good and in turn transmits this to the world which it brings into existence (frs. Numenius
  • Goodness invests his every action.
  • So, the deal of a car repair, the anhinga, and the jeweled sunfish when I wasn't betraying them -- those are my moments of goodness from that weekend. I DEFINE LOVE AS THINKING WELL ABOUT SOMEONE
  • This book is goodness made manifest and should be widely read. Christianity Today
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness
  • Yet the sun starved goons are still sitting out, shivering, trying to drain the last goodness from the day and avoid facing up to the fact that they have an exam in the morning.
  • Goodness[sentence dictionary], your hands are frozen stiff!
  • He will also feel at the same time that you manifest great goodness of heart in contenting yourself with your victory and renouncing vengeance. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
  • I went and looked down it and thought ‘Oh my goodness!’
  • The ultimate wisdom of the Sage is the place of primordial space - empty, vast, and devoid of inherent existence, yet imbued with and not separate from an all-pervading sense of love and compassion - your basic goodness. C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
  • I will laugh at goodness and it will thrive and abound.
  • At least, not now, with the goodness and warmth of the food spreading within him.
  • The first collection which he published, intituled PAMELA, exhibited the beauty and superiority of virtue in an innocent and unpolished mind, with the reward which often, even in this life, a protecting Providence bestows on goodness. Sir Charles Grandison
  • He and his brother Rob were inspirational and they led, spiritually, a lot of those training sessions because they would turn up covered in straw, sweat, mud and goodness knows what else, and they would flog themselves in every training session, and then go back to the farm" – Paul Cullen following the death of Garry Purdham, whom he coached at Whitehaven, in the Cumbrian shootings. My Super League awards show
  • Mother Teresa's goodness is an example to us all.
  • The wooden bins, wisp-floored and empty of mice, will soon be heaped high by the strong arms of laughing young men boasting of the height of their sheafs, the speed of their reaping, and the goodness of their grains.
  • My goodness am I off-track on today's subject, sitting here typing when I should be packing. French Word-A-Day:
  • Thank goodness I have other things to fret about, like disaffected youth and the plight of the inner cities. Times, Sunday Times
  • So far this year I've not made too many bloopers, thank goodness, and by the same token I've not revealed any personal data that I wouldn't want aired on the other 364 days of the year.
  • Calm down, for goodness sake. It's nothing to get excited about!
  • She is marrying a millionaire for goodness' sake. The Sun
  • The first statement is an honest-to-goodness lie, the last a half truth.
  • According to a different sort of theory, the agglomerative theory, goodness simpliciter is just what you get by Value Theory
  • Goodness must be praised in sonnets and lyrical monologues, pointing out that should evil prevail, badness will happen.
  • Thank goodness we had a comedian preparing for his own impending death to cheer us up. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are photos of him in trunks, for goodness sake. Times, Sunday Times
  • In goodness of heart, and in principles of piety, this exemplary couple was bound to each other by the most perfect unison of character, though in their tempers there was a contrast which had scarce the gradation of a single shade to smooth off its abrupt dissimilitude. Camilla
  • But we come now to a matter which, to most minds, will be more remote and more difficult; viz., to the fact, that God has not only a character ever lastingly perfected in right, but that, by the same law, he is held to a suffering goodness for his enemies, even to that particular work in time, which we call the vicarious sacrifice of Christ. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
  • Sin shall not go unpunished, and goodness shall not remain unrewarded. The Judge of all the earth must do right.
  • Let us therefore bless the Lord, and again bless him; think and speak of his glory and goodness. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • All that would result would be a fine dust and that'd blow away in the first wind, taking all the goodness of the soil away with it.
  • If it is the indignity of sin that offends you, you still have a standard higher than the standard of goodness - the standard of your own dignity, your own inviolable self.
  • No reason why you should be treated like bone chine just because you've had a baby, for goodness sake.
  • The term barbaric seem to have goodness of fit for the situation described above. DaddyBlogger.com
  • Let the light of the Spirit fill your heart today with the goodness and glory of God.
  • Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of every man. Mehmet Murat ildan 
  • If you personify the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, and self-control—everything you do will have a positive impact for God as well as for everyone in your life. Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • Goodness me, are Kitty and Aunt Patience still abed at this hour?
  • Rousseau offered no programme for changing society wholesale to restore mankind in general to its primal innocence and goodness.
  • There's no need to shout, for goodness' sake! Just calm down.
  • Thank goodness for a return to quality comedy entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
  • For goodness sake, Peter, why don't you just let yourself go for once?
  • The value of open dialog outweighs the hits one take for "flubs" and goodness knows nb, the current President people can get beyond minor missteps -- if they are minor. The Revolution Has Already Been Blogged - Swampland - TIME.com
  • For anyone who has been unlucky enough to befall the horrors of my handwriting, firstly I say I’m sorry – but secondly – if I did that, I would have no idea what I have just written – much less the scrawl from a day ago. thank goodness for spellchecker as my typing is just as bad – but at least the letters are uniformly shaped. Don’t panic « Write Anything
  • The baptist is the guy who supports the policy out of the goodness of his heart - he genuinely wants to help out those on low incomes. NZ On Screen
  • He represents the best things in life - hope, faith, goodness, charity, kindness and love.
  • Oh my goodness never seen the finger tash before! it looks great. An afternoon of OUCH!
  • You may have packed them off with boxes and bags full of nutritious goodness but can you ensure they weren't swapped for two bars of chocolate and a packet of bubblegum?
  • Oh for goodness sake, stop pratting around and get on with your work!
  • Keep your voice down, for goodness sake.
  • He went on to talk about one of the strengths of America being its tolerance for dissent, and his enormous respect for and faith in the goodness and fairness of the American people.
  • The snoring is not constant, thank goodness, but man is it an adjustment to go from blissful silence to occasional abrupt loud ass log sawing right next to you. #52 Comic of the Day « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
  • Her advice was often comfort and solace in itself and her ways were the ways of goodness and serenity.
  • Men in the mode of goodness worship the demigods; those in the mode of passion worship the demons; and those in the mode of ignorance worship ghosts and spirits.
  • It's also nice to meet a promotions director who acts like an honest-to-goodness human being rather than an annoying sales representative.
  • The cereal is said to have a combination of real blueberries, sliced strawberries and whole raspberries that were picked at their peak plus the whole grain goodness of toasted oats and wheat flakes.
  • Byelorussian people remember vividly the dark days of 1991-94 under the catastrophic misrule of Shushkevich and the contrast it with the goodness of Lukashenko's government. Belarus: That's enough democracy | Editorial
  • It isn't just goji berries that are packed with goodness. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no such beautifier as thoughtful goodness; and the amiable character, and clear understanding of Grace Darling, shone through her hazel eyes, and added to her loveliness. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands
  • Cut out very clearly you can read it. ‘Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name’, goodness.
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  • Relatedly, writers on explanation have not always paid adequate attention to how explanation itself is connected to or interacts with (or is distinct from) other goals of inquiry ” for example, what the connection is between explanatory goodness and other frequently proposed goals for inqury such as evidential support, prediction, control of nature, simplicity, and so on. Scientific Explanation
  • We could adopt, I suppose, a privative theory of goodness, according to which every good consists in the absence of some corresponding evil.
  • And thank goodness the poll worker had functioning knees and could stay down there for the half an hour it took to "unstuff" the ballot box. Even the freaking electronic ballot boxes didn't work!
  • There was a serene and tranquil quality about Dermot, a gentle aura of goodness and kindness that radiated from his heart.
  • So while the origins of the artery-clogging goodness we call cheeseburgers is shrouded in mystery, the fact remains that people, pretty much everywhere, love them (this reporter ... burp ... included). Victoria Advocate stories: Latest News
  • Thank goodness we had a comedian preparing for his own impending death to cheer us up. Times, Sunday Times

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