Sentence examples for ordinary utilitarian from inspiring English sources
De Roos, like Morris a utopian Socialist, was an industrial designer who hoped to create a better society by improving the appearance of ordinary utilitarian objects.
The Cunningham solo with the chair and the duet that follows are perfect exercises along lines set out by Marcel Duchamp: divorcing ordinary objects from their utilitarian associations.
In other words, the relevant question is whether the design of a useful article, however intertwined with the article's utilitarian aspects, causes an ordinary reasonable observer to perceive an aesthetic concept not related to the article's use.
The results offer glimpses of the utilitarian lives of millions of ordinary Chinese who, at first glance, appear not to have been swept up by the same modernisation that has seen hundreds of millions of others leave for the cities.
An alternative utilitarian response to the claim that utilitarianism conflicts with certain ordinary moral judgments is to dismiss these judgments as pre-theoretical "intuitions" that probably result from cultural indoctrination and thus reflect superstition, bias, and mere historical accident.
But Smart unabashedly proposed a revision of our ordinary concept of moral responsibility along the lines of utilitarian considerations of influenceability.
To borrow girl group-era song structures, adopt a utilitarian name, seek out a small label and wear ordinary duds was almost revolutionary.
J. JS Lee went for a post-Celine pleat: think navy blue utilitarian silk pieces, with the addition of pleats to lift them out of the ordinary.
Because Nozick was no utilitarian, he did not dwell on the powerful efficiency features of this system, which shine through for ordinary real estate transactions.
An assumption behind the project was that the present development of bicycles and accessories was an interesting entry point to increase utilitarian bicycling with potential to replace car use to a higher degree for a wider target group than ordinary bicycles.
