Sentence examples for impractical person from inspiring English sources

As I was driving back down the mountain in my rental car, it occurred to me that Lovins might be the most impractical person I had ever met.

He began writing about Menachem Mendel, an overly optimistic luftmensch (an impractical person who literally lives on air) who speculated, to his wife's dismay, in all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes.

Words tossed about during the week included not just those like kvetch and kibitz, which have entered American idiom, but also fresher candidates like shreklekh (terrible or frightening), naches (prideful joy), farblondget (mixed up) and luftmensch (an impractical person with no apparent income).

"My father was a very impractical person," he said.

Due to relatively large number of companies engaged in retail analytics or information reselling, it is highly impractical for a person to track information across all these databases and exercise his or her powers.

Religion need not make a person rapt and impractical.

Hopps, a person of pathologically impractical habits, didn't know how to.

It's not that those aren't great guitars, but they render themselves impractical and unfunctional for a person like me because of their weight".

In fact, Carl Ferrer, the company's vice president, told Mayor McGinn that checking ages in person is "utterly impractical" and "highly problematic for national websites".

Telephone interviewing of cognitive function may therefore provide an economical approach to mental status screening in research studies where in-person assessment is impractical.

It attacked the problem in a way that is routinely dismissed as impractical and inefficient: by going door to door, person by person, and just talking.