“He was a realist, a pragmatist who saw little sense in advocating all-out attack if there were no players to execute it.”

“He maintained that his position was one of pragmatism rather than principle.”

“This pragmatism continues to inform Republicanism today, giving it the debt-laden, welfarist character Sullivan rails against.”

“Ah, how the heady idealism of youth is dashed upon the rocks of the pragmatism of adulthood.”

“Many components of Leibniz's system, of Descartes' rationalism, and Peirce's pragmaticism can be mentioned.”

“Particularly interesting is the comparison between Peirce's pragmaticism and intuitionism, both of the general and the Browerian varieties.”

“If Poland chooses to ignore pragmaticism over romanticism, it would be at its own peril.”

“Recent studies of the pragmatics of politeness have drawn on conversational data.”

“He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified.”

“On the contrary, syntax is indispensable for a pragmatic language and pragmatics is indispensable for a syntactic language.”

“I believe that a few of my readers will need a little light on the subject of pragmaticalness.”

“Like the other small Gulf states such as Bahrain and Qatar, the Emiratis are realists and pragmatists, both politically and economically.”

“Japan's leaders are neither doves nor hawks but pragmatists, for whom economic and military security are equally important.”

“And the heroes of these films are nearly always pragmatists, the middle ground between the emotionalists and cold rationalists around them.”