Sentence examples for more than necessity from inspiring English sources

"I reminded them of how and why to be passionate about bread, once a matter of life and death and a powerful social and political marker, now an object of pleasure more than necessity but still highly charged symbolically," Mr. Kaplan wrote in a recent e-mail exchange.

Even with money in their hands, he said, consumers were not willing to spend on anything more than necessities.

Patients' NCD scores are positive if the Necessity beliefs are rated more highly than Concerns and negative if Concerns are rated more highly than Necessity beliefs.

The reason will be more politics than necessity.

You realize that most of what we do is more luxury than necessity.

It was clear to me, even as a teenager, that the sewing and growing were more ideology than necessity: they were Communists, like many of their peer group.

On the plus side, the black-and-white liquid crystal display is crisp and easy to read, and the software so intuitive that reading the manual is more luxury than necessity.

It found that overtime at the jail was "more than a necessity, more of an unspoken perk".

The genuinely imaginative attempts to impose some kind of shape on the dramatic structure seem to come from desperation more than artistic necessity.

So the unorthodox presentation of a budget in the middle of June is an act of political theatre more than economic necessity.

His view was that the formation of the Caliphate was based on nothing more than political necessity and not on Ijma, thus denying its juridical basis and the notion of the Caliphate as an article of Muslim faith.