Sentence examples for old practical from inspiring English sources

The building was old, practical and impressively clean.

Bluntly described powers to switch on cameras and microphones on people's own phones starkly reveal how the tide of technology is washing away all need for the old art of installing bugs, as well as the old practical and procedural limits on their use.

Kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, dens, hallways and porches usually make the best places for fun re-designs of old practical items.

Buffett has described it as "by far the best book on investing ever written," and although the case studies it cites are now decades old, its practical advice on how to look at balance sheets and income statements is timeless.

Tibetan has, of course, the advantage of an old and practical (far more functional and efficient than Chinese) written script and a vast indigenous literature.

A current debate about higher education seems actually to be an old one: practical science training vs. general education in the liberal arts.

"He was an old-fashioned, practical musician, a conductor-slash-composer, with lots of popular influence.

For directors of big-budget action films today, elaborate C.G.I. is out and old-fashioned practical effects are in.

Even after 20 years of development, audiences still bemoan the flimsiness of CGI and the superiority of old-school practical effects, as they're known.

Glenn Grassi, in building his prototype one-room microhome — 7 by 12 feet stem-to-stern, including a wood-burning stove, an antique parlor chair that also serves as a seat for the compost toilet beneath it, and a shower under the bed — is hoping it sounds, well, like shelter in the old-fashioned practical sense.

The curriculum followed by almost ail universities in India are no were up to the world standards and students are still getting the 20-30 yrs older compounding practical exposure in labs during the graduation level.