Word: functional
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Hollander's argument for why fashion matters is the same argument people sometimes still make about literature; in her excellent Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (1994), she writes, "The important imaginative function, the spiritually enlarging character of fashion, is often blindly ignored so as to paint fashion as wicked, just as novels were once forbidden for being mere falsehoods." Spiritually enlarging or not, Hollander's close study of clothing yields surprising and insightful analyses. By this she demonstrates what she overstates elsewhere, the sharp illumination offered by passionate attention to the details of dress...
...function of a professional association is to set voluntary standards of ethical behavior," he says...
Pinker conceded that although change in the English language and the function of words is inevitable, he said that some degenerative transformations "ought to be resisted on aesthetic grounds...
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, through their Innocence Project, are working to free the wrongly imprisoned, and I am disturbed that "even many prosecutors" concede that this is an important function. Are the other prosecutors more interested in convictions than in justice...
...think one function of courses that are essentially non-quantitative is to give people practice in 'using' books," May says. "That is, going through them with questions in mind rather than reading page after page at a standard pace...