Though her new husband is gentle and kind, Gertrude finds him oddly impersonal: there is something "pat and coldly expedient" about his decision to marry her, and after he succeeds her father on the throne, he grows even more remote.
Said article provided insight and factoids on everything from choosing a lane (apparently the "express lane" can be more expedient, and something to consider utilizing when only purchasing a few items) to loading the conveyor belt (items such as eggs can be fragile, while plastic bags tend to be flimsy and might need to be "double-bagged" if transporting heavier items long distances).
Fingerprinting is an expedient if you're doing something considered to be low-level, like identifying Chinese immigrants.
"This was something that was done as a politically expedient way to satisfy that group that has been harping on free college".
Surely, I'll wake up and read that Simon Cowell or Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift or someone, anyone, is organising a song, something which acts as the awareness-raising expedient by which people can gather and contribute?
That's because as a customer, when I think about banking, I am task oriented -- I'm thinking of the quickest, most expedient way I can get something done.
"But everyone finds it politically expedient to think they're doing something for the family farmer.
All the same, the intensive system now works so badly that the idea of part-time work as something normal, rather than as a slightly shameful occasional expedient, surely needs to be brought out of the shadows and developed properly.
It was these values that led him, as a newly-appointed judge in the 1940s, to devise a legal doctrine which lawyers regarded as revolutionary, but which performed the elementary moral task of holding people to their promises - something which the commercially-oriented common law had found it expedient not to do.
Whether Obama's remarks mark a shift in his policy views, a politically expedient concession to an ascendant progressive wing or something in between, it is an unmistakable indicator of the Democratic Party's return to its New Deal roots. .
