Sentence examples for pragmatic existence from inspiring English sources

Now Ms. Brown, 40, and her four children, ages 4 to 23, are clustered in an apartment in Brooklyn, patching together a pragmatic existence while holding fast to their dreams, musical and otherwise.

"With these kinetic installations, Humans since 1982 present clocks as objects unleashed from a solely pragmatic existence.

The Los Angeles of the present, of course, is now a pale ghost of the Los Angeles of her youth, but she's pragmatic about the existence of change.

Shankara, however, did distinguish between three senses of being: the merely illusory (pratibhasika), the empirical (vyavaharika; which has unperceived existence and pragmatic efficacy), and transcendental being of one, indeterminate brahman.

Instead Dmowski argued that Poland was merely a physical entity that needed to be brought into existence through pragmatic bargaining and negotiating, not via what Dmowski considered to be pointless revolts – doomed to failure before they even began – against the partitioning powers.

Can existence not exist?

The four drivers which emerged as central for fostering collaboration are i) a pragmatic environmental mindset, ii) the existence of opportunities to explore possibilities, iii) mutually beneficial initiatives and iv) the presence of dominant needs which stimulate a proactive search for solutions.

They're being pragmatic.

Hamas, though rejecting Israel's existence, follows a more pragmatic Islamist approach than the Salafists do, and it has been trying to stop rocket fire into Israel by the more radical groups.

At a time when pragmatic medical educators believed in the existence of generic problem-solving skills, diagnostic reasoning research reestablished the primacy of content specific knowledge [ 4].

8. Stalnaker explicitly notes that the notion of pragmatic presupposition is not inconsistent with the existence of Strawson-Frege type semantic presuppositions.