Of necessity her first priority became infrastructure repair, Ms. Spera maintained.
Miina's change is a practical necessity, her mother said, a way for the entire family to survive.
By necessity, her narrative crosses over into novelistic terrain, but, in her rendering, Hellé's life is so extraordinary that one doesn't mind.
I was interested in the way that Lahti was able to use her body to show how Hester Smith's slow manner was born out of necessity: her gruesome instruments are heavy in more ways than one, as is her letter "A".
When she was reminded of these necessities, her lips would set, and then, switching on her twin high beams one of charm, one of acute distress she would bulldoze the architects into making it all work.
A few weeks before Christmas each year, she would oversee arrangements to close Oakholm for the season, which involved preparing the house for the winter, packing all their clothes, living necessities, her writing materials, and the carpets in the house and shipping everything to Florida.
Dowd only began writing Bog Child in January 2007, and what might be considered undue haste to finish her third novel was necessity in her case.
She worked full time at a time when women didn't and in the '60s, when in this city women needed their husband's signature to get a credit card, my mother talked the bank manager into allowing her one, for the necessity of her children.
The necessity of her genius, reinforced by reading her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights, modified this restrictive self-discipline, and, though there is plenty of satire and dry, direct phrasing in Jane Eyre, its success was the fiery conviction with which it presented a thinking, feeling woman, craving love but able to renounce it at the call of impassioned self-respect and moral conviction.
The idea in her case grew out of necessity, with her children quickly growing out of clothing, as kids tend to do.
My mother talked the bank manager into allowing her a card, for the necessity of her children, she explained.
