What must it be like to be judged and found wanting with a single nonchalant swipe?
To her credit, Ducornet understands, as novelists must, that people are capable not only of wanting, with equal ardor, more than one thing at the same time, but of wanting things that directly contradict each other.
Although he says he holds the tenets of journalism in high regard — the pursuit of truth and the music of fact — he finds two of its practitioners highly wanting with respect to the MacDonald case.
A treaty between the EU and African states allows the EU to suspend budgetary aid to any country that is found to be wanting with respect to human rights, democratic values and the rule of law.
That general revenue now goes to other needs, like public safety, and the roads go wanting, with flat revenue from gas taxes and other declines leaving about $1.2 million to maintain roads each year.
If to "get" more is to stay awake, and vice versa, it becomes a feedback loop: you are awake, you talk yourself into wanting, with no room to question how you came to be here.
