In our highly-rational world of practicality and common sense, for us humans to approach similarly tightly-choreographed performances we have come to think that we must train as highly-skilled artists and athletes for many years.
His intelligence, imagination, humor, great common sense, practicality and boundless energy enabled him to excel in every area of the law he tackled, but his unique talents were most evident in complex real estate litigations.
Actors in a social theater, as we all are, they rise above the ordinary by giving sartorial performances unfettered by the bonds of convention or propriety or practicality or, often enough, common sense.
Political philosophy tends to thrive when it is the equal partner of common sense and practicality.
Instead of being constrained by ideology, it would be guided by common sense and practicality in its search for solutions.
But Baxter's lawyer Patricia Cahill argued he had not been negligent, saying any duty to prevent financial harm to Marsh needed "to be constrained by common sense and practicality".
His refusal to bend to practicality and middle-class conformity and common sense had the strong and strange effect of skyrocketing the mood of the capacity audience at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, in Durham, North Carolina.
Tuesday's election brought an overdue return of common sense to government policy in many states with voters tired of legislation driven more by ideology than practicality.
