why and wherefore
Example Sentences
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The musicians, especially but not exclusively Jerry Garcia, whose death in 1995 only technically ended the Dead, prove remarkably articulate about the why and wherefore of their music and the group mind that created it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024
In addition to gleaning the why and wherefore behind America’s foundational document, teenage listeners will meet up with the Declaration of Independence and a roster of seminal Supreme Court decisions.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2018
The program attempts to outline the why and wherefore of moon shots, deep space probes, weather satellites and astronauts.
From Time Magazine Archive
How could I—I appeal to any reasonable being—how could I stand stock-still, and, under the eyes of all that company, cross-examine my host as to the why and wherefore of his hospitality?
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
It is instances like this that make one hesitate to dogmatise too much as to the why and wherefore of bird-ways.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
