Note that, for Marcel, ontological exigence is not merely a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel] Reference

Palemon, to what exigence have thy Crimes and Follies reduced thee!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen] Reference

Hinge, startled by the unusual exigence of the summons, ran to answer it.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

Sad exigence dictated the necessity of some remedy against their political evils.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

SANCHEZ: And explain to us if you would, what was the original exigence for this?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2009] Reference

RYAN: Well, given nine months from the exigence of my employers, it would be rather fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America] Reference

In this exigence, the gentleman had four sheep killed forthwith, and covered the nag with a woollen garment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829] Reference

In this person the sense of wonder and the exigence for the transcendent may slowly begin to wither and die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel] Reference

Thus the practical life may enter into the aesthetic, and that which grows out of exigence may develop into freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

However, without a feeling that something is amiss, without the feeling of dissatisfaction, ontological exigence withers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel] Reference

Marcel insists that mysteries can be found in the question of Being (e.g., my ontological exigence), the union of the body and soul, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel] Reference

He was master of himself on every trying occasion, and seemed to be the more calm and collected, the greater was the exigence of the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference

And it may be -- it may be Sean Taylor's death that serves as the exigence, the spark, if it will, that really makes something happen in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2007] Reference

Lastly, let us notice the Irish Arms 'bill; which, amongst the measures framed to meet the momentary exigence of the times, stands foremost in importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Whatever be the want or loss, it is no sooner known than supplied, and the imagination of the legislature seems to become fertile in proportion to the exigence of the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

This monstrous exigence illustrates the man's frame of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa] Reference

The laird did make haste, smiling at the exigence of his visitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference

The House of Bourbon is extremely well suited to this double exigence of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1] Reference

Not that he belittled the exigence of Truth; he did but insist on a proper separation.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Sketches 1908] Reference

The exigence of my affairs, and this reverse of fortune, continually occupied my thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist] Reference

My views were bounded to the passing moment, and commonly suggested by the momentary exigence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference

To meet the exigence, Shelburne proposed either an extension of Nova Scotia to the Penobscot, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816] Reference

These must be applied according to the exigence of the case; one is just as good as another of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.] Reference

How little did I preconceive the conduct which, in an exigence like this, I should be prone to adopt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference

In this exigence, therefore, my only resource was to order my son, with an important air, to call our coach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference

El Dorado, or Peru, from which, in all former cases of exigence, he had been able to extract some assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

I fervently hoped that no new exigence would occur compelling me to use the arms that I bore in my own defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

He will prove a more faithful friend to you in your exigence, and a better companion than one of your own species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

But in those things written here we find all things suited and proportioned to the very great exigence of the soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

In an exigence so abrupt and so little foreseen, I was again subjected to the empire of mechanical and habitual impulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference

Before I had been many months in the shop, Mr Brookes was able to leave when any exigence required his immediate attendance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japhet in Search of a Father] Reference

Their consultation was but momentary; for the door of escape which thus opened was as unexpected as the exigence was threatening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redgauntlet] Reference

The monarch, always distant and often deceived, was incapable of yielding or persisting, according to the exigence of the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference

Too soon it was apparent that the exigence of France would not be satisfied, while already her preparations for war were undisguised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duel Between France and Germany] Reference

The admiral was at Bermuda, and the frigate which we were to relieve had, from the exigence of the service, been despatched down to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob Faithful] Reference