(adjective) requiring immediate aid or action / (adjective) requiring or calling for much; demanding
Machine production follows directly from, maximally effects, and enters into synergy with capital's exigency to reduce the need for human labour and to continually increase levels of production.
in accordance with the exigencies of the moment
put under pressure by the exigencies of its most powerful social groups
Thinking back on those exigent weeks, on the ferocity of the climate and the work load
If it's a little money, the dream must not be fervently felt. If it's a lot of money, the dream is exigent.
the contradictory exigencies of those Palestinians who remained within Israeli jurisdiction after the nakba
preferential technics blends the technical exigencies of circulation
some form of 'creative' escape from the exigencies of high-powered theory
What she’s saying is that manifestos, as a genre, aspire to an impossible kind of exigence. They conjure feelings of immediacy that cannot be borne out since, by nature, any published manifesto is doomed to make a delayed entrance
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As couples spend more time in employment, they have less time for children. This means they must externalize childcare, either to the market or to the state. Of course many have no children at all, devoting their time entirely to the exigencies and attractions, as the case may be, of work and consumption.
a romantic reaction against the sterile exigencies of urban life
it is not their softening hearts that drives this. It is anxiety at waves of peasant riots and rebellions, and it is the exigencies of development
on Alexander II emancipating serfs in 1861
Is there no surplus beyond this surplus? A level of repression, including sadism, excessive even for the exigencies of the class rule which has thrown it up?
I was always ready to sacrifice purity of form to the exigencies of fantastic content, causing form to bulge and burst like a sponge-bag containing a small furious devil
Any narrative that moves from scene to scene and episode to episode not according to the exigencies of cause and effect but according to some abstract scheme
commodities shaped by business exigencies and corporate strategies
As the exigencies of climate change begin to bear down on the West, the story of Butte becomes particularly important. A place that had so much wealth, whose land and people gave so much of themselves to the world, was left to clean up an impossible mess.
In the meantime people deal with history as a compound mixture of exigencies, obligations, and potentialities that have to be worked through in practice, on their own terms, collectively and immanently.
we can repossess what the exigencies of living in a high-speed information age are denying us
I wanted to write a story that created just that mood—a pink hotel, Albinoni, ashes, and being unable to leave—in an exigent and dignified fashion.
a university system ever more attuned to the exigencies of the market
the freedom of man and the coming of the classless society are likewise absolute goals, unconditioned exigencies which literature can reflect in its own exigency
they differed from their white counterparts only to the extent that their domestic aspirations were thwarted by the exigencies of the slave system
A former pornographer, he would transform himself into a Marxist saboteur and an AIDS activist, made and remade by the exigencies of each successive decade.