— it is up to Miller to keep things pragmatic and, above all, moving forward.
In all things, however, the company is pragmatic.
No one had any need for this stuff — not my mother and certainly not me — but I like unnecessary things: all the pragmatic, commercial, and manipulative meaning has disappeared from them, any usefulness has evaporated, leaving only their naked souls, their true selves, all that was heretofore hidden by the hustle and bustle of passing days.
More documents posted late Monday showed, among other things, a pragmatic approach taken by the Palestinian negotiators to the refugee issue, one of the most delicate and divisive points of contention between Palestinians and Israelis.
"I was impressed with his approach to things, very pragmatic, no emotions whatsoever," revealed Lauda, who won the world title in 1975, 1977 and 1984.
All those things we observe.
And lots of other things, very pragmatic, multifaceted and down-to-earth.
"I wanted us all to eat the same thing for pragmatic, household economy reasons, but also because that's part of being a family," Ms. Benson said.
An economic downswing (which we might or might not be crawling out of in these waning days of 2009) calls for pragmatism, and the only thing less pragmatic than buying a random book of poetry is buying, say, five of them.
"The logical, pragmatic thing, the thing that would have helped this country the most, would have been to write this loan down to a realistic number so we could have the normal buying and selling of homes," she said.
