Sentence examples for obligatory thing from inspiring English sources

Its neighbourhoods mostly date from the 1890s to the 1930s, all pastels and gin slings, though the long-lost recent economic boom has left its mark, too, with a new art gallery and public square by architects Herzog & De Meuron, and the obligatory "thing" (Is it a bird? Is it a plane?) by Santiago Calatrava.

OD asserts that no single logical contradiction can be obligatory, whereas NC asserts that there can never be two things that are each separately obligatory, where the one obligatory thing is the negation of the other.

You know, smiling with big checks, obligatory things, not having things come from a place of passion.

Here's where the obligatory "keep things in perspective" commentary goes.

Before I begin the obligatory list-of-things for blogs these days, I want to make one thing perfectly clear: my campus was amazing.

First, there was the mild hyping of hazard that is often obligatory in these things.

Do expect a lot of bare breasts and obscenity, as is obligatory in these things, so obligatory that the cutting edge, if that's what this is, begins to seem somehow dull.

It's a great life in a band; it's like being a pirate in a van doing all the obligatory rock'n'roll things – drinking and, er, the whole business.

OB-NEC tells us that if anything is a theorem, then the claim that that thing is obligatory is also a theorem.

The only thing more obligatory than a Moscow mule is avocado toast".

People tend to throw you a few weird looks and the obligatory, "Oh you poor thing," when they hear that you grew up without a dad.