Closers usually end up either heroes or goats so they tend to be emotional (let's exclude the unflappable Mariano Rivera for argument's sake) and need to release all that tension from living one pitch from the penthouse, one pitch from the outhouse.
Lawrence S. Lerner Woodside, Calif., Nov. 10, 2008 To the Editor: Your editorial is exactly right: for our sake and theirs, we need to eat fewer animals.
Recreational athletes, says David B. Coppel, a sports psychologist at the University of Washington, take pleasure in a sport for its own sake and often feel no need to train and see how well they can do.
"People don't buy technology for technology's sake, and they don't need broadband for e-mail.
"To be told that a sum must be raised for its own sake and to have to devise needs to justify that sum misunderstands the character of a cultural institution, perhaps especially one with substantial federal funding," said Milo C. Beach, the director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art, both part of the Smithsonian.
A new Leon is imminent, and for Seat's sake, it needs to be a success.
For its own sake, it needs to improve it and monetise it before someone else does.
For their party's sake and the country's sake, Republicans need to go through the same kind of civil war and fundamental rethinking that the British Labour Party went through — after successive defeats by Margaret Thatcher — to produce "New Labour" and that Democrats went through — after successive defeats by Ronald Reagan — to produce "Clinton Democrats".
For his team's sake he needs to show a little of this, to manage defeat as well as he has in the past managed victory.
He thinks that Dewey insists that aesthetic need must underlie all our interest in art, and that he fails to capture what we mean when we say that we are interested in a picture 'for its own sake.' Needs can be satisfied by many objects but one cannot substitute pictures for one another.
