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Literary notes about convenient (AI summary)

Writers employ "convenient" to signal practicality and ease, whether referring to physical layouts, advantageous circumstances, or even clever rhetorical devices. In some narratives, it designates an ideal location or arrangement that simplifies everyday tasks or strategic maneuvers, as when a system or setting is deemed “most convenient” for its inherent efficiency [1, 2, 3]. In political, military, or social contexts, the term can underscore the pragmatic yet sometimes superficial nature of decisions or groupings—consider its use to describe both the deliberate placement of cavalry [4] and the grouping of citizens for legal or administrative purposes [5]. At times, the word carries a more ironic tone, hinting at an arrangement that, while useful, might also serve as a convenient excuse for less admirable choices [6, 7]. Overall, its varied applications reveal literature’s appreciation for practicality blended with subtle critique or celebration of ease.
  1. It is their system, and if it be not absolutely the best it is certainly the most convenient.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  2. They are put on the platform, thus making it convenient for walking, sitting and spreading about of small objects.
    — from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski
  3. The car, which was some fifty feet long, was very convenient for their purpose.
    — from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  4. There are also three bodies of cavalry distributed in convenient posts.
    — from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo
  5. The number of our citizens shall be 5040—this will be a convenient number; and these shall be owners of the land and protectors of the allotment.
    — from Laws by Plato
  6. So convenient a thing it is to be a "reasonable" creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
    — from Franklin's Autobiography(Eclectic English Classics) by Benjamin Franklin
  7. she cried; for the convenient word telegram had not yet been invented.
    — from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon

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