The answer that Scholasticism was "school" philosophy and, in fact, "Christian" school philosophy can be understood only by examining the historical exigencies that created the need for schools.
The truth is there are plenty of complicated, real-life exigencies that explain why the World Trade Center numbers fell and why a precise final figure may be a chimera.
And while their books are undeniably cookbooks (two James Beard Cookbook of the Year awards, for a start), they are also cultural encounters — travel journals, stories, history lessons, and photographic essays that, taken together, explore the imagination and the exigencies that produce a cuisine and, in many ways, define the people who create it.
Likewise, femininity is associated with immersion in unpredictable domestic exigencies that forever jeopardize the best-laid plans and often necessitate resorting to hasty retreats or charting new directions.
We all face deadlines, family emergencies, or other exigencies that could prevent us from giving up our seat in an overbooking situation, even in the face of substantial compensation.
The influence achieved by some HIV/AIDS advocacy groups over a number of donor governments' operations can provide explanation both of the creation of the Global Fund and the particular political exigencies that govern its contract with its funders.
"The nature of the presidency is you lay plans and you pursue them knowing that there are going to be exigencies that occur," said David Axelrod, the president's senior adviser.
"I plan to make an even stronger case for democratic governance," he says, "but with an understanding of how we must protect and guard against the flaws and exigencies that inhere in an un-watchful democratic enterprise".
I mean to say, us poets--who more often than not are so overpowered by our own exigencies that an egocentric compositional point-of-view is the only one we permit or broadcast.
He rather sentimentally contemplates moving back to, or at any rate near, the ancestral farm his father's family still owns in the sun-blasted Karoo, even though the exigencies of that life are clearly beyond him.
