The ekkyklēma, like the periaktoi, was an expedient for open-air theatre, in which the possibilities for creating realistic illusions were severely limited.
The solution to write Barr out of the show by having the Roseanne character die offscreen from an opioid overdose was not just expedient — it created a space for her colleagues to process the shock of her departure and the circumstances that required it.
We developed a modular and expedient way to create the aromatic ring system with an aliphatic ring in between.
But power-sharing deals, while expedient, can create incentives among warlords, their political patrons and profiteers to sustain lawlessness.
But just as often a border is a political expedient — irrational yet unremarkable — creating a seamless no man's land, just a width of earth, bounded by fences.
Was it merely expedient for the drama?
That would be politically expedient for the Obama administration.
What is politically expedient for them may not be in your best interest.
"My criticism of career politicians is that they always do what's expedient for their career.
I mean, of course, considerations of what is expedient for the community concerned.
And it happens to be extremely expedient for any politician with the will to use it.
