unnecessity

UPDATE: Jen Clark, my first ever commenter, notes that the FEMA presser itself was an exercise in unnecessity, since FEMA didn't actually do much during the SoCal wildfires.

Archive 2007-10-01 Johnny Pez 2007

UPDATE: Jen Clark, my first ever commenter, notes that the FEMA presser itself was an exercise in unnecessity, since FEMA didn't actually do much during the SoCal wildfires.

Journalism Made Easy Johnny Pez 2007

Dante+ in any living face; an aruspex might have read a lecture upon him without exenteration, his flesh being so consumed, that he might, in a manner, have discerned his bowels without opening of him; so that to be carried, sexta cervice+ to the grave, was but a civil unnecessity; and the complements of the coffin might outweigh the subject of it.

Letter to a Friend 2007

Behind all these unhappy women is the same horror: their loneliness, their unnecessity.

November 2005 Jenny Davidson 2005

Behind all these unhappy women is the same horror: their loneliness, their unnecessity.

It pained me Jenny Davidson 2005

Behind all these unhappy women is the same horror: their loneliness, their unnecessity.

Archive 2005-11-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

Not to say the unnecessity of it -- the children were growing up ... it clearly could be done now.

This Freedom 1925

"That beating with great sticks," the Duc de Puysange considered, "was the height of unnecessity."

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

The fearful unnecessity of their disablement awakens no pity, no heart softens at thought of them, no politician would feel his conscience pricked by the narration of their grievances.

Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

Presently, after some more questions as to the revelations which had been conveyed through her to the King, she complained of the unnecessity of all this, and said:

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Mark Twain 1872