Sentence examples for practical ingenuity from inspiring English sources

By imagination, Goethe meant something more than practical ingenuity or empirical creativity.

There's much to be taken from its briskly told story about how interlocked causes can still advance each other with a bit of practical ingenuity.

Makers are engaged in activities that embody the Engineer of 2020 (e.g., lifelong learning, creativity, and practical ingenuity).

The attributes that engineers must possess to do their work are practical ingenuity, strong analytical skills, discovery and design, creativity, communication, accountability, mastery of principles of business and management, professionalism, and life-long learning (ABET 2014; NAE 2005).

The identified qualities include the ability to engage in lifelong learning, function creatively, work across disciplines, practical ingenuity, and the ability to communicate with broader audiences in addition to maintaining technical expertise in engineering fields.

If adults are finding interdisciplinary projects framed by personal interest as a way of learning practical ingenuity, creativity, and some analytic skills, perhaps there is a way educators can harness student passions (interests and motivations?) in a similar manner to achieve similar results.

While formal education in many Confucian societies is a rote-work nightmare — and while Chinese families complain about their country's dysfunctional school system at least as bitterly as Americans do about ours — the practical-minded ingenuity of average people is one of China's most striking traits.

A parallelism emerges: in caring for their pets, the boys are creating their own little family, which they will protect with the same practical and rhetorical ingenuity their parents use to protect them.

From Porto Alegre's participatory budgeting and the literally destratifying cable cars of Caracas, to Nairobi's "digital matatus" and the repurposed bus-ferries of Manila, the communities of the south are responsible for an ever-lengthening parade of social and technical innovations that rival anything the developed world has to offer for ingenuity and practical utility.

The ingenuity and practical get-to-it-iveness of Americans is an old cliché that happens to be true.

To support himself during the search for Destry-Scholes, Nanson takes a "dogsbody" job with Puck's Girdle, a travel agency specializing in exotic customized holiday trips and managed by two harmonious homosexuals, Erik and Christophe, Danish and French respectively; it suggests one of those airy enterprises in Anne Tyler novels, more redolent of authorial ingenuity than of practical viability.