pragmatic

How To Use pragmatic In A Sentence

• Or a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem that has dogged homebuyers for decades? Times, Sunday Times
• It is politically safer – yes, even pragmatic – to describe one’s values as "commonsensical" or "middle of the road. Archive 2009-05-01
• But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for. NYT > Home Page
• The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind.
• She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities. Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
• The pragmatic differentiation between classificatory, potential and actual affines is undertaken in accordance with the proscriptive principles described above, and is framed within a consubstantial conception of relatedness.
• Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably). BEHINDLINGS
• Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections.
• It's interesting, Antonia, because brides and grooms are so much more pragmatic these days.
• Consequently it has provided a testing ground for a number of competing hypotheses concerning the relationship between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in linguistic theory.