"It was like a goddam Auschwitz for birds, so the Marquis de Sade and Casanova could do their fucking on feather beds!" The stories he was telling required more space, and his paintings expanded to provide it.
Green was warehousing 25 truss dining tables enough to satisfy over six months of orders; yet other pieces, customers were told, required a seven-month wait.
All story telling requires a good edit.
Bold leadership, we are told, requires unpopular decisions in difficult times.
Gilligan says that the story as told requires "the willing suspension of disbelief".
But even they recognize that truth telling requires earnest effort, a strong conscience and a desire for knowledge.
Each of these monopoly States, we are told, requires distillers to warrant that the price charged the State is no higher than the price charged in other States.
(Counterinsurgency theory suggests that it would take more than ten times that many; would forty — or ten, or twenty thousandnd be only a first installment?) Any counterinsurgency campaign, we're told, requires a very long commitment.
Perhaps we would all be wise to remember that, while studies speak in broad generalities, love, I'm told, requires finding only the "one" (who may, in fact, deviate from the statistical norm).
By contrast, in its central uses, telling requires a speaker to intend to convey information (or alleged information) in a way that relies crucially upon taking her at her word.
And the verdict that centered on one brave woman's truth-telling required the courage of hundreds.
