Sentence examples for actually pragmatic from inspiring English sources

Labour's "Red" Ken Livingstone, who ran the city until 2008, was actually pragmatic about capitalism.

That may sound more caring than the N.B.A. rule, but it's actually pragmatic: football players need those years to develop physically for the pros.

Morrison's friend Warren Ellis, another excellent comics writer, points out that Morrison's occultism is actually very pragmatic.

McCain argues that his brand of idealism is actually more pragmatic in a post-9/11 world than the hard realism of the cold war.

She explains: "In the Conservative party there are more people who are ideological about the BBC and would want to pare it back", but "I think the government and [new culture secretary] John Whittingdale are actually quite pragmatic and recognise among the people who vote for them that the BBC has great popularity.

In her view, though, "the government and John Whittingdale are actually quite pragmatic and recognise among the people who vote for them that the BBC has great popularity.

Thatcher was actually a pragmatic world leader who was deeply schooled in free-market philosophy and kept her faith largely private.

The reality of the Internet is actually more pragmatic, industrial and economic.

(Though Reagan was actually more pragmatic than his idolators imagine, having pushed through a big tax increase as governor).

He doesn't want to be seen as a gangster, but I think that you're right to question whether it's really a moral thing or whether it's actually just pragmatic.

One explanation is that our efficacy study was actually a pragmatic randomized clinical trial and a partial implementation under relatively normal circumstances, and not a "laboratory setup".