But friends, let's pause for a second, and ask: When did performance anxiety and guilt become prerequisites for offering family and friends nourishment hospitality?
Subtle forays into the lives of ordinary people, his stories lack the verbal pyrotechnics, formal gimmicks and overweening social ambition that have lately become prerequisites for buzz and the stock in trade of hot novelists like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Per Kirkeby's striking visual designs for Peter Martins's "Romeo + Juliet" are neither pretty nor opulent, two things that sadly seem to have become prerequisites for big narrative ballets.
As complexity and unpredictability exist in nature, careful observations and interpretations of what can be measured in the field become prerequisites for geotechnical engineers to conduct safe and economical construction works.
In the future, a priori registration, open access to trial data, and open access publications have to become prerequisites for receiving grant money funded by tax payers.
To maintain a highly efficient and mutual metabolic support network, a spectrum of microbial species in appropriate proportions becomes prerequisite.
The American work force is becoming increasingly black and Hispanic, and a two-year or four-year college credential has become a prerequisite to a middle-class standard of living.
If anything, piety has become a prerequisite in politics.
This, along with reverse swing, has almost become a prerequisite for bowling in these parts.
We put our heart and soul into the game, as has become a prerequisite for us, but we played too.
Mr. Ishak's résumé didn't include loyalty to the S.N.C., which has practically become a prerequisite for membership.
