Sentence examples for modest pragmatic from inspiring English sources

These more modest, pragmatic goals sidestepped Mr. Gates's objections and reflect the emerging new standard for humanitarian intervention.

As the politics of the energy crisis grow more bitter, however, wholesale prices have begun moderating on their own, and there has been a trickle of modest, pragmatic, less costly ideas, unobtrusive enough to fly below the partisan radar screens.

We prefer modest proposals, pragmatic solutions, and a bit of muddle – so long as it works.

I would rather stick with gentle, modest and pragmatic Tintin than the testosterone-laden, crusading, musclemen heroes so dear to Anglo-Saxon culture.

His ambition was much more modest and pragmatic.

There is little surprise in a prevalence of modest and pragmatic aspirations among middle-aged women involved in intensive care work and in equally "sticky" moral and economic obligations towards their family members left behind (Lutz, 2011; Parrenas, 2015).

By contrast, the words most often used to describe the bespectacled Mr Eichel are pragmatic, modest, meticulous and, yes, dull.

A friction emerges between relatively richer and emotionally intense aspirations then, while leaving home; and more modest, narrow and pragmatic, but sometimes still fuzzy aspirations now, after several years spent abroad.

Even these pragmatic and modest goals may not be attainable.

It would be amusing to think that the doctor-poet, so pragmatic and modest in his daily life, meant nothing more than that.

Though having enjoyed domestic and international success despite modest resources, Herbert's pragmatic approach was apparently deemed out of step by club management in the A-League's brave new possession-based football world.