The phrase "a sort of practical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that has a practical nature or function, often in a vague or non-specific way.
Example: "The workshop offered a sort of practical approach to problem-solving that appealed to many participants."
Alternatives: "a kind of practical" or "a type of practical".
The Dardennes, however, are not "neoliberals" — the French term of contempt for free-marketeers, especially for former socialists who've undergone a sort of practical conversion.
Jason seeks to improve the world through a sort of practical, quasi-political action; Sophie (played by July) is a dancer, whose path is that of art.
The Dardennes, however, are not "neoliberals"—the French term of contempt for free-marketeers, especially for former socialists who've undergone a sort of practical conversion.
SoraNews24 speculated that while some people were snapping up the Putin calendars as a "sort of practical joke," others were genuinely interested in the his life and persona away from the Kremlin.
In the last month, galleys of "The Power of Karma," a book by Mary T. Browne, a psychic, have been circulating in the style world, serving as a sort of practical handbook for the karmically deprived.
Here, you can ask, 'What did you think of the burning obstacle?' " There is a sort of practical irreverence about Tough Mudder, the race and the company, which sublets half of an office nearly under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood.
(How many times has he taken the A train?) In this case, his desire that everything look and sound lovely overcomes any sort of practical sense of how to make the material work dramatically.
That seems to be the key to any sort of practical colony: plants that grow their own greenhouses.
As much as anything else, though, it is a sort of dramatic practical joke: a playscript conceived for "open" use by those who don't believe in the viability of plays anymore, as well as a metaphorical examination of the crisis of the Marxist intellectual written by an intellectual who wishes it known that he may be neither Marxist nor in crisis.
Icing began as a sort of nationwide practical joke: the object was to fool a friend into catching a glance of a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, which, if accomplished, would impel said friend into consuming the bottle on the spot in its entirety.
Of course, reporting on the business side of movies is important, and so, for that matter, is celebrity journalism — both offer behind-the-scenes stories that converge on the process of filmmaking and inflect the act of viewing, and both offer a sort of popular and practical reflexivity that's akin to the artistic reflexivity of modernist cinema.
