Sentence examples for pragmatic bent from inspiring English sources

Today's military reading lists have a more pragmatic bent.

Mr. Sperling, much like Mr. Obama, is a liberal but with a pragmatic bent.

But the leading figures in the open-source movement today, however, have a more pragmatic bent.

Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that much of Long Island's curricular emphasis has an overly pragmatic bent.

Mr. Labadie, who conducted the New York Philharmonic in "Messiah" in 2006 and made his Metropolitan Opera debut with Mozart's "Zauberflöte" in September, is an early-music specialist of a pragmatic bent.

For those of a more pragmatic bent, the ancient Harappan culture, which flourished from about 3000 to 1500 B.C. in what is now Pakistan and western India, is credited with developing wood-covered sit-down lavatories, built into the outer walls of houses and connected to a sophisticated network of municipal drainage.

Consistent with the broader software engineering community, Software Analytics also has a pragmatic bent.

Sandy showed the governor's pragmatic bent.