The critic Lester Bangs used a phrase, "imperative groin thunder," to describe the loud, raw music he loved most.
JON CARAMANICA DERRICK HODGE "Live Today" (Blue Note) The first word in the title of "Live Today," Derrick Hodge's adroitly designed debut album, is intended as a verb, which makes the phrase an imperative.
If innovation is a "strategic imperative" or some such other phrase or vision or story line, then culture change should be the path you pursue.
I think there's a difference, I call it the institutional imperative, it's a Warren Buffet phrase, but you know the institutional imperative, especially in public companies, largely is coming from the perception of institutional investors and sell-side analysts.
During an interview on the last day of Radar L.A., Mr. Russell said another imperative of a theater franchise — a phrase he neither used himself nor rejected as inappropriate — was to proceed carefully.
Whether it's Hillary Rodham Clinton's hair or a Starbucks coffee shop or a translucent American Express credit card, there's a sweeping aesthetic imperative, to use Virginia Postrel's phrase, roiling everything from politics to grocery chains to financial institutions.
He attributed it to his friend, John Buck Chapotonon, who claimed he heard the phrase appended to its obscene imperative during a poker game in Texas.
"Students' refuse to go in the garbage" versus "Students refuse to go in the garbage," for instance: Americans don't generally use the word "refuse" as a noun or the phrase "to go" as an imperative.
Nonetheless, it remains a global imperative to find the substance behind the phrase.
