Sentence examples for a man of practical from inspiring English sources

Snyder is revealed as a man of practical as much as mystical wisdom, with a knack for good accounting.

This is the person who has, through long experience, developed the moral virtues and is able to deliberate so well about all moral situations that in Aristotle's view to be moral is to do what a man of practical wisdom would do.

According to Aristotle, "Now it is thought to be the mark of a man of practical wisdom to be able to deliberate well about what is good and expedient for himself, not in some particular respect, e.g. about what sorts of thing conduce to health or to strength, but about what sorts of thing conduce to the good life in general" (Nichomachean Ethics, VI, 1140a 1140b).

Knowles also noted that he was "a man of great practical ability".

This sudden big heartache in a man of sixty, a practical, physical, healthy-minded, and experienced man, was deeply unpleasant.

A man of ideas and practical skill, he studied architecture and trained as a carpenter in his native Germany before making his name as a creative pioneer.

A man of intellectual vibrancy, practical wisdom and deep ethical commitment, Lenny was an extraordinary leader, and for more than half a century, he was dedicated to promoting Jewish scholarship, identity and culture.

He was a man of both vision and practical achievement.

Though he was essentially a man of good planning and practical action, he may also have been something of a mystic in whom contemporary legend, at any rate, saw a favourite of Jupiter as well as a spiritual descendant of Alexander the Great.

He was a man of great dignity and practical wisdom.

Schiller's distinction among the three basic human drives of Stofftrieb, Formtrieb, and Speiltrieb Peirce never forgot or renounced, and it became the basis for Peirce's distinction between the man of practical affairs, the man of scientific activity, and the man of aesthetic practice.