Meanwhile, to the moreexigent among us at any rate, the flaws seem flaws, and in nowise essential.
Mavis found it a trying matter to satisfy the exigent demands of the experienced shopper.
Her mind continually dwelt on every incident of her brief acquaintance with Windebank: she found that it was as much as she could do to justify the exigent scruples which had made her repel the man's approaches.
Frequent and scathing were her lectures upon the exigent ways of women, who, she argued, should be simple automata, moved only by the will and guidance of their masters.
Marriage has taken nothing from the romance of his passion for me; and by bringing a sense of property with it, has rendered him more exigent and nervous about me than before.
In brief, as women shake off their ancient disabilities they will also shake off some of their ancient immunities, and their doings will come to be regarded with a soberer and more exigent scrutiny than now prevails.
All this to satisfy the spiritual world of the Chinese, which seems to be very exigent in such matters.
The British Army--let it be confessed with appropriate candour and shamefacedness--was much more exigent in its demands than the French.
A dream which came between the first prelude to this orchestral drumming and his awaking had advised him of a fainter disturbance, but by the time he was fairly awake the knocking had grown so exigent that it bade fair to raise the house.
She led the Lump round to the stables and there unloosed several more dogs, so that they went about the world well attended, and spent two very pleasant hours before their exigent appetites demanded their return to breakfast.
She found favour in the exigent eyes of Pollyooly, who let her take charge of the Lump without a single anxious qualm.
Without that quality of sincerity, and with a conscience less exigent and less resolute than his, Carl Schurz's political career might have compassed any end that ambition set before him.
My own editorial work was exigent at the time and there was added to it the task of finding a satisfactory person to become literary editor.
Most of the newspapers of that time held high standards, and the Evening Post, under Mr. Bryant's control, was the most exigent of all in that respect.
This time the specific demand of my exigent little masters for "an Injun story" led me to think of the Creek War in Alabama and Mississippi.
The real trouble was that too often, nowadays, that exigent heart of hers would intrude upon her sacred devotions, transforming them into day-dreams, haloed with a hope the more frankly formulated because she was of the East.
Such rigor fell in with the passion of that age for formal observance and with the exigent temper of the Puritans by whom Bownd's views were rapidly and universally accepted.
His theology was somewhat somber, his theory of Christian experience of the most exigent type.
One writes now with special reference to the illustrations of the comedies of Shakespeare--so far, the illustrative work most exigent to the intellectual powers of the artist.
He has gained the approval even of the most exigent of critics as an artist who understands drawing for process.
So exigent were the needs of the service, he could "run" with impunity.
In these circumstances the Ruling Power had no option but to resort to more exigentmeans of attaining its end.
We profited greatly by the experience of the nations which had already been engaged for nearly three years in the exigent and exacting business, their every resource and every executive proficiency taxed to the utmost.
And if anyexigent fall out, that the Presbyterie of Edinburgh give advertisement for an Assembly pro re nata.
These mothers apparently understand the sharp demand for social pleasure and do their best to respond to it, although at the same time they constantly minister to all the physical needs of an exigent family of little children.
At this exigent moment the loss of a finished man is not easily supplied.
Forward in the civic sense, because Brazil needs the unflattering testimony of its own more exigent sons and daughters,--and is Brazil alone in this need?
I am at your service without reserve to play my part in any way you may call upon me to play it in this great enterprise of exigent reform which it will dignify and distinguish us to perform and discredit us to neglect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exigent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
