Books are not written primarily to be discussed.
Like many of those who see themselves as exceptional, they wish primarily to be the exception.
By these lights the soul exists primarily to be saved or lost.
His moments of extreme despair seem primarily to be conveyed in that way".
For these writers, the goal in life is not primarily to be free but to be good.
Iola Morton and Callie Shaw — Frank and Joe's "special friends" — turn up primarily to be saved from danger and to praise the boys.
Lowell and Bishop lived various, tumultuous lives, and yet sometimes it feels as if the outside world existed primarily to be fattened up for their letters.
The meeting today seemed primarily to be a chance for the Saudis to lecture the American president, to strengthen their hand and quiet the growing unrest in their streets.
This excellence is all the more remarkable since the music was created primarily to be danced to, with no pretensions (except in the case of bandleader Artie Shaw) to anything one might call art.
It was primarily to be with Kitay, his lifelong partner, that Gunn applied for a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University, California, which he was awarded in 1954 and where he worked with the great, if wayward, poet-critic Yvor Winters.
"It is hard to deny the basis for the hearing, which is that the F.B.I.'s planning to reorganize, to change its priorities primarily to be more responsive to terrorism," said Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama and a staunch administration ally.
