First, Chinese are good at improving existing models, a different, more practical type of creativity, he wrote, adding that this practicality was noted by the British historian of Chinese science, Joseph Needham.
Are they practical types or dreamers?
"This is the trouble with you practical types – always homing in on the details".
His parents were hardy, practical types, unflustered by war or life in the bush or, it seems, anything else.
The artist shows himself as a humble, practical type, interested in how things are made.
Yoga may stretch limbs and soothe minds, but for practical types who don't have time for that kind of focus, kettlebells could be just the tonic.
A former chief of staff for Putin, Ivanov is "passionate about the environment" and a "very hands-on, practical type of person", Pugh says.
alanaecology.com, bats.org.uk Moth traps If you're the practical type, atropos.info has instructions for making a cheap, easily transported trap.
Moreover, just as the pressure microphone is the most practical type designed by man, among ears the pressure type is the most widespread and the most highly developed.
But that's just not a very practical type of measurement when we're dealing with all the plumbers and contractors and security staff and reporters and other non-wealthy service personnel we have to give instructions to.
