After Tom's affair with their daughter's roommate, Delia elects to live separately but continues to meet him over the years for the occasional romantic night and weekend.
By abjuring her "rough magic," burying her magician's staff and drowning her book of spells, Prospera elects to live in a world without supernatural possibilities; having demonstrated the power of art, she accepts the limits of that power and forsakes hubris for humility, something Ms. Taymor seems unable to do.
Are more students electing to live at home?
In America more than two centuries ago, believers in God elected to live under the laws of man.
David Thomson Film critic Long before the end, Ingmar Bergman elected to live on a small island off the coast of Sweden.
Photograph: Lennart Nilsson/AFP Long before the end, Ingmar Bergman elected to live on a small island off the coast of Sweden.
Rarely seen in public since at least the 1960s, Huguette Clark had elected to live since 1991 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan rather than at her grand homes in Manhattan, Santa Barbara, Calif., and New Canaan, Conn.
In her book, Ms. Gallagher happily recounts some important countervailing trends: more young families are electing to live in cities; fewer 17-year-olds are getting driver's licenses; people are driving fewer miles; and bike sharing is on the rise.
"In a way, it's more beautiful to want to be together, to want a man in your life, because you elect to live like that rather than because you have to".
Even before he moved to Rossinière, he elected to live in preposterously grand, often dilapidated old houses, including the Villa Diodati, near Geneva, at one time the home of Byron, to whom Balthus absurdly claimed to be related.
The fact that Barney has the run of the White House amuses Mrs. Whitman's husband, John, who recognizes that as a relatively liberal Republican, Mrs. Whitman is unlikely to be elected to live there herself.
