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.
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.
There is a wonderful sequence in which people just sit in a circle in Jimmy's hall for a sort of practical criticism session: they discuss WB Yeats's poem The Song of the Wandering Aengus, and talk about what it means to them.
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.
"Lady Bird" isn't a film that is stuck in conventions; it's one that borrows them, but from within, not quoting them but treating them, too, with a sort of practical respect for a mature art that's akin to the very reconciliations that are built into the story itself.
(Nemirow 1990, 2007, Lewis 1990, Levin 1986) "Ability" theorists suggest that knowing what it's like to see red or feel pain is merely a sort of practical knowledge, a "knowing how" (to imagine, remember, or re-identify, a certain type of experience) rather than a knowledge of propositions or facts.
This is should be thought of as a sort of practical visualization.
Local Salvadorans also turn to the consulate for all sorts of practical help.
