"Things will change [only] when the middle class as a whole demands it," reckons the Saudi diplomat.
Or consider the boundary-pushing, medium-blurring works — performance art meeting dance meeting activism meeting song — of Solange, or the decades of provocations from Bruce Nauman, whose art demands we reckon with what our true measure of control is over our own lives.
Many mournful Afghan families demand a reckoning.
The deepest shames demand a reckoning, but not, perhaps, publication.
The scattering of bodies is almost impossible to tabulate, and many Afghan families demand a reckoning.
Before they will scare up another red cent, they demand a reckoning.
To come home would ultimately demand a reckoning, not just with my past, our country's history; but how I had changed.
Last week Republicans once again thwarted immigration reform – not because they don't think it will eventually happen, but because to concede its inevitability would demand a reckoning with a world they are loth to acknowledge exists.
Thus when Friedrich's book appeared a number of critics wondered sneeringly why the courage to demand a reckoning had been found only now that the cold war was at an end.
In her blistering, beautiful first show in New York since her now iconic "Sugar Sphinx" mammy stormed Instagram feeds, in 2014, Walker returns to her first medium, drawing, to demand a reckoning with the ugly history and ongoing repercussions of slavery.
The whole point of "Game of Thrones" is that it is not a game, that the masses sacrificed to the hubris of kings will rise and demand a reckoning.
