exigence

That we aren’t fully initiated into the Vision, that we are outsiders to the exclusive club, isn’t as dismaying as the novel’s lack of moral exigence and, well, vision.

His only duty in the household was to issue orders and to marshal the energies of his wife and children to tasks that he would assign with a sense of exigence.

No, highbrow TV doesn’t avoid breasts because it wants to avoid objectification, but because of the exigence that it must be the opposite of car advertising.

French leaders demand that  inhabitants of those areas adapt to and integrate into French society and culture to enjoy its benefits–a rather revealing exigence given that most project residents are French-born and raised.

But whenever I go there, I feel this fierce sense of American exigence just relent.