Sentence examples for is as impractical from inspiring English sources

Perrault's striking design — with its four symbolic glass towers, like four open books — is as impractical as it is uninviting.

Given the vagaries of stress, preventing it by regulation is as impractical as trying to legislate against tiredness or, for that matter, boredom.

It may be that turning introspection into a science is as impractical as "trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks," as William James wrote in 1890.

Expecting New Yorkers to cart old computers or television sets back to the store where they bought them or to some other site (as required by manufacturers who currently have recycling plans) is as impractical as suggesting that we sort our miscellaneous cans and bottles each week, returning each to the very store where it was purchased.

Statism also destroys ability and fails to fulfill anyone's needs for long, because "[t]o deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion" (1973a, p. 32).

Hicks was as impractical as he was devout.

She decorated nightclubs, designed bee-striped umbrellas and knitted swimming costumes that were as impractical as they were modish.

Blustein points out that the most popular solutions to the I.M.F.'s problems are as impractical as they are mutually contradictory.

The other system is unquestionably superior, he says, but changing now would be as impractical as changing to the metric system of measurement.

The rule seems to be, if you're going to go for the high-end look, yours must be as impractical as possible.

That strategy was as impractical as it sounds: Ghostrider toppled over in one of the event's qualifying rounds, didn't get up and was unceremoniously hauled off the course.