Sentence examples for Lack of pragmatism from inspiring English sources

The lack of pragmatism, the willingness to go on doing something that visibly doesn't work, would have appalled that old fixer Jean Monnet.

Both sides display a worrying lack of pragmatism, but liberalism has remained the dominant ideology in the West precisely because it is pragmatic and able to respond to circumstances without clinging to sacred cows.

"My take on the revolution is that it was filled with naïveté, hopeless idealism (that even I initially subscribed to) and revolutionary zeal that led to stupid mistakes and lack of focus and lack of pragmatism leading to the terrible takeover by medieval Islamists, an economy in a death spiral and a lawless anarchy.

Nevertheless, assimilative students do not lack of pragmatism; they also have chosen modules such as Forum and Data view, choices that tell us something about other students' activities.

In private conversations though, leading figures in the Berniecrat orbit fretted about third-party advocates' lack of pragmatism, emphasizing the basic barriers third parties face in getting on the ballot in 50 states.

She was often hampered by her own ideals, her lack of pragmatism constantly inhibited her ability to make good decisions, had a quick temper with anything she perceived unfair, and she did not understand anything about the darker hues of human nature.

There have been numerous occasions when we could have caved in under the lack of interest, political pragmatism or sheer ignorance of those in authority.

But these services clearly lack the pragmatism of Yahoo!

When he eventually caved, it was in the way of a Clinton/Blair/Brown, through an excess of pragmatism and lack of principle, rather than any dogmatic attachment to Rand or anyone else.

But whether or not you choose to enjoy the games, the puns and the romance, it is fair to say that many authors could do with a slice of his pragmatism and lack of vanity.

And although the recovered document shows signs of pragmatism among the leadership, it also reveals the lack of it at lower levels.