But the pretense is flimsy: this is a fancy food court, and it fulfills its function with gusto.
But what accounts for its power and beauty is that, like the lawn mower, it may require some labor to set up and maintain, but it fulfills its function with simplicity and clarity, offering hints of sensual pleasure.
The analogy with the sun's maintenance of all that is alive suggests that the Good is the intelligent inner principle that determines the nature of every object capable of goodness so that it fulfills its function in an appropriate way.
Speaking is in essence the by-product of a necessary bodily process, the expulsion from the lungs of air charged with carbon dioxide after it has fulfilled its function in respiration.
As the entry point at the crossing of all the human flux moving in and our of the venue, this allegoric gateway perfectly fulfilled its function.
But when that verdict is given, it should be recalled that, after a shaky start, parliament gave the matter due and dutiful consideration; that it fulfilled its constitutional function properly and, for the most part, with civil propriety.
Just as a heart valve may be defective if it has properties that make it fail to fulfill its function in the life of such organisms, so too a person's will might be defective if it has properties (i.e., 'vices') that make it fail to fulfill its function in the life of human beings.
If it doesn't challenge, provoke or illuminate, it is not fulfilling its function.
If it is to fulfill its function of guaranteeing to the lender preferential satisfaction of his claim, the charged goods must be immunized as much as possible against the rights of other persons.
If someone someone built a chair with just one leg, it couldn't fulfill its function as a chair.
