Sentence examples for practicalities by from inspiring English sources

This text was drawn from the introduction to "The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities," by Marguerite Duras, which is out November 14th from Everyman's Library.

"La Vie Matérielle" was translated as "Practicalities" by Barbara Bray, but might be more felicitously titled "Material Life," or "Everyday Life".

The Italian director and actor Nanni Moretti, who's the subject of a mini-retrospective at Metrograph Oct. 18-21, delves deeper into political ideas and practicalities by way of antic fantasy than many more heralded political filmmakers do with earnest realism.

She portrays Yael's real-life experiences as well as her melodramatic reveries, an elaborate inner theatre of romantic dreams and calmly lurid fantasies which then are harshly jolted into bitter practicalities by outside events that reflect both Seno's apocalyptic imagination and her historical consciousness.

Adam throws around wads of cash for his vintage instruments, the lovers need cash to feed their blood habit, and they travel easily on credit cards, yet the movie never comes to terms with the practicalities by which an artist of Adam's stature can live the desired lifestyle while repudiating the terms by which most artists have to make a living — namely, by appealing to the zombie masses.

The awkward arithmetic of the December vote meant that a coalition would only be possible if principles were sacrificed to practicality by one or more of the players.

At the age of ten, he constructed a working model of a sewing machine out of bits of wood and wire; while serving in the Austrian Army, he demonstrated a more dangerous practicality by improvising his own mortar in the field.

Rodarte, the surprise hit of the season (goodbye to the chola girls and Star Wars characters that blighted previous Rodarte runways), was spectacularly back on track, with gossamer-net frocks for a mermaid who is spending her shore leave on the red carpet, and utility jackets that were rescued from humdrum practicality by the lavish application of silver spangles.

Form and function handling are rough correlates of originality and practicality, by which we measure design creativity.

We also aim at practicality by employing the scheme to combine the sign definition condition (SDC) and a special QE algorithm using Sturm-Habicht sequence.

We prove the advantage of our newly proposed vector-based scheme over the existing scalar element-based approach for fault isolation and illustrate its practicality by simulated and experimental evaluation on a multivariate pilot scale, computer interfaced system.