The basis of monastic life is a set of spiritual precepts that either articulate the supreme value or provide support for the body and the mind on their journey toward whatever supreme consummation may be envisioned.
This is a misogynistic world where "the real criminals end up running the country" and ordinary people are made unlovable and freakish by their desperation and inability to either articulate or achieve their desires.
In an interview in December, Rotenberg acknowledged that even if FDA and criminal inquiries "didn't find any malfeasance,... it may be that we need to review our ethical standards here and either articulate them in a different way or revise them".
The way this debate played out made me half-suspect that Mitt Romney's stumbling campaign strategy since he locked up the Republican nomination has just been an extended feint, designed to persuade President Obama that he would be facing a Republican candidate incapable of either articulating a clear message or reaching out effectively to the center.
And she deploys newly conceived film sequences either to articulate the characters' hidden emotions or to create a mood of parodic nostalgia.
I mention Alinsky because he seems to crystallise many of the failings, not just of the Climate Camp, but of significant sectors of the wider anti-war and anti-globalisation movement which have struggled either to articulate precisely what is their message or who have chosen, literally at times, to pitch their tent at the margins of the political debate.
The primary challenge for future functionalists, therefore, will be to meet these objections to the doctrine, either by articulating a functionalist theory in increasingly convincing detail, or by showing how the intuitions that fuel these objections can be explained away.
Having modified our basic LOT system to incorporate either the articulating arm or the fiber bundle, we then sought to characterize the performance of each configuration using tissue-like phantoms as described below.
But I ain't posh and, while I've got a fast mouth, I ain't so articulate either.
"On a sum-of-the-parts basis, BP is ludicrously undervalued," said Clive Beagles of JO Hambro Capital Management Group, adding that they either need to articulate a better strategy or, indeed, follow the ConocoPhillips route.
"He did not articulate either to the Republicans that he was negotiating with or to the American people a strong stance for what we feel the Democrats believe in," Theodore Weiss, 77, a retired federal employee in Florida, said of the debt negotiations.
