Sentence examples for a practical man of from inspiring English sources

Isaac, like Tom, grew up to be a practical man of business.

He is hyperactive like Harold Bloom, audacious like Christopher Hitchens and a practical man of the world like Alan Greenspan.

Denis Healey, who has died at the remarkable age of 98, was a practical man of power and of paradox.

The avuncular Alaton told me that he came to see Erdogan as a "practical man of good will" who represents "the forces of change" in Turkey.

The creator of last summer's "Ring" at the Bayreuth Festival is once again a practical man of the theater, not a maker of manifestoes.

In different ways, with the softwood deal and the budget, he is doing his best to give a rather different impression to the voters, as a practical man of the middle ground.

In that work, the former Prime Minister paid an extended tribute to her father, alderman Alfred Roberts, a Grantham shopkeeper, "both a practical man and a man of theory", who opened his daughter's eyes to the importance and complexity of the free market and world trade.

He is no mere mystic but a highly practical man of the theatre whose fingerprints can be discerned wherever one looks.

Mr. Larkin must have known his later visions were unlikely; perhaps he was a dreamer trapped inside the body of a practical man.

I am a practical man, and for the life of me I cannot possibly understand why you should wish to speak Greek.

There's an instructive example for both Brooks and Obama's supporters to bear in mind: Herbert Hoover became President with the sterling reputation of a practical man, an engineer and businessman who had succeeded at everything in his life.