Word: oughtness
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...alone--my partner of 15 years has been unable, after three years of looking, to find employment in this state. Nor can I afford a bodyguard to accompany me daily between here and my office at the Semitic Museum on the many occasions when I return home after sunset. Ought I to acquire an Uzi? --James R. Russell Mashtots Professor of Armernian Studies
With such an important role in the admissions decisions of colleges around the country and the lives of generations of students, we ought to hope that the SAT fulfills its educational mission. We ought to hope that those folks over at ETS and the College Board know what they are doing. But this recent incident indicates above all things that we shouldn't count...
...adds that administrators there have reached "a robust consensus that age 70 ought to be the outside retirement-age limit for all of us here...
Based on the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, 'Happily Ever After' fails to mingle originality with entertainment value. This season's premier bodes ill for what ought to be a first rate company...
...beauty of nature does not satisfy me entirely," Mondrian once wrote. "I cannot enjoy a beautiful summer evening, for instance. Perhaps then I feel ... how everything ought to be, while at the same time I am aware of my own impotence to make it so in my life...