[E]ntelechy, or the entelechial motive, is a function of language and is rooted in history, in a verbal action by a human agent in a specific sociopolitical scene. The entelechial motive is one of the most purely human motives in Burke.

A headach induced Lady Alicia to leave before the opera was half over.

His jovial, otterish, undergraduate, joshing decency was real, I decided, very country town, very West Australian.

Utterly neglectful of what he owes to the kingdom which he hopes to regain, Charles has learned but adversity's worst lesson—expediency.