Brown's a self-described bold progressive, but not one lacking pragmatism or common sense.
Schulz, a center-left German politician, previously criticized Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for isolating his allies and lacking pragmatism in an interview with The Guardian last week.
The lack of pragmatism, the willingness to go on doing something that visibly doesn't work, would have appalled that old fixer Jean Monnet.
Both sides display a worrying lack of pragmatism, but liberalism has remained the dominant ideology in the West precisely because it is pragmatic and able to respond to circumstances without clinging to sacred cows.
Nevertheless, assimilative students do not lack of pragmatism; they also have chosen modules such as Forum and Data view, choices that tell us something about other students' activities.
But these services clearly lack the pragmatism of Yahoo!
In private conversations though, leading figures in the Berniecrat orbit fretted about third-party advocates' lack of pragmatism, emphasizing the basic barriers third parties face in getting on the ballot in 50 states.
She was often hampered by her own ideals, her lack of pragmatism constantly inhibited her ability to make good decisions, had a quick temper with anything she perceived unfair, and she did not understand anything about the darker hues of human nature.
Given the difficulty of the project, the occupation policies were markedly lacking in pragmatism.
Brilliant though he was as a theorist, Turing lacked the pragmatism and political guile that proved indispensable to von Neumann.
