Though most of her characters are somewhat older now -- in the increasingly "vanity-free zone" of encroaching middle age, as opposed to their "decorative early 20's" -- they seem to be grappling with many of the same issues, trying to reconcile today's imperatives of self-fulfillment with more old-fashioned notions of femininity and motherhood.
It is common knowledge that the demands of morality are often enough overridden by other persuasive demands, such as imperatives of self-interest, careerism, political advantage and friendship.
This shift in the tectonic plates of statecraft -- brought about by the imperative of self-preservation -- did not begin on Sept. 11 and has not ended with the Taliban's collapse.
What was once recognized, for instance, as the slightly shameful and exclusively male imperative of self-pleasuring is now not only out in the open but has also crossed over to the girls' side.
When cancer is viewed within this frame, selection still pertains but its exact role and scope can be understood as secondary to a greater imperative of self-referential cells encountering stresses and reacting to them according to their limits.
It was Norman Mailer who attempted to define hipsters in his essay The White Negro as postwar American white generation of rebels, disillusioned by war, who chose to "divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self".
It was always allied with connotations of superiority in terms of cultural capital, evolving until the word was immortalized by Norman Mailer, who described it as an "American existentialist" bent on "setting out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self".
It was always allied with connotations of superiority in terms of cultural capital, evolving until the word was immortalised by Norman Mailer, who described it as an "American existentialist" bent on "setting out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self".
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There is an ongoing imperative to self-monitor for bias and especially to be mindful of faulty decision making at vulnerable times, and for the risk of excessive reliance on intuitive judgements when further reflection is required.
With this background, CBE can be understood as a consequence of cellular imperatives in which self-referential cells sustain homeostatic preferences in the face of a stream of stresses as biological ambiguities.
