Sentence examples for practical ethos from inspiring English sources

THE dominant architectural exhibition of the past year was the Museum of Modern Art's recent Bauhaus show, with its eminently utilitarian, practical ethos.

This display was often tied up with ideas of chivalry, which was evolving in this period from a practical military ethos into a more ornamental and honorific cult.

Macqueen – who has a habit of summing up the show's practical, performer-led ethos by referring to bums – points out that the characters' eyes and mouth are still operated by hand from within the costume.

Its ethos is practical, centered on tools and on evidence.

These practical decisions reflect the academic ethos of the colleges and universities where they study.

A tour of the building highlights the practical efforts to promote a multi-faith ethos.

Second, the business of ageing is not just about the practical, it is also about culture and ethos and the value we place on that which should be beyond the reach of the market.

From Arts and Crafts to the Bauhaus to the Good Design shows in the 1950's at the Museum of Modern Art, designers had aimed to distill the ethos of industrial civilization into practical tools for everyday life.

There appears to be a conceptual tie perhaps also a practical tie between the social ethic prescribed by the communitarian ethos and the ethic of duty mandated by the same ethos.

A curious admixture of Christian stewardship, white supremacy and self-interest, this paternalist ethos promised to pay moral and practical dividends for Southern society.

Pragmatic epistemology underscores the industrial-arts ethos of design.