There is a British resilience and pragmatism that kicks in when something like this happens. |
He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification. |
It can not be guaranteed by either rhetoric or philosophy, by rhetorical pragmatism or foundationalist theory. |
In doing so he echoes the humanist pragmatism of Florentine practical mathematics a century before. |
You align yourself with Whig historians, happy to see the victory of the Hanoverian regime as a necessary triumph of progress and pragmatism. |
Ah, how the heady idealism of youth is dashed upon the rocks of the pragmatism of adulthood. |