| In doing so he echoes the humanist pragmatism of Florentine practical mathematics a century before. |
| Ah, how the heady idealism of youth is dashed upon the rocks of the pragmatism of adulthood. |
| You align yourself with Whig historians, happy to see the victory of the Hanoverian regime as a necessary triumph of progress and pragmatism. |
| It promised ruthless pragmatism about means, but has become dogmatic in its advocacy of the private sector. |
| This pragmatism continues to inform Republicanism today, giving it the debt-laden, welfarist character Sullivan rails against. |
| He maintained that his position was one of pragmatism rather than principle. |
