Sentence examples for pragmatic face from inspiring English sources

Under anyone other than Mr Kohl, the Berlin republic would probably set a more pragmatic face to Europe, not worrying so much about nebulous matters of war and peace as about the German interest.

As prime minister, Mr. Kiet presented to the world the pragmatic face of Vietnamese Communism, traveling widely in Asia and Europe to drum up investment and seal new relationships as the country emerged from years of isolation.

If true — and the details were not entirely clear — Mr. Morsi's shift would be a pragmatic face-saving measure.

Field commanders met today to work out further details in the kind of pragmatic, face-to-face discussion that peace negotiators hope will rebuild trust.

However, as a first-time filmmaker I had some key pragmatic decisions facing me.

On the other hand, Accommodative learning students tend to be more pragmatic when faced to the completion of a task; fact that allows them to look for concrete premises and rely on information provided by other students.

In fact, construct coverage is a major challenge that researchers in L2 pragmatics assessment face, along with issues regarding test practicality, coping with examinees with a wide range of proficiency, and linking test scores to real-world implications (Taguchi and Roever 2017).

'Iberoamerican' and 'Hispanic American' are the closest relatives of 'Latin American.' Neither of these alternatives is problem free, since they inherit the pragmatic problem facing the nouns from whence they derive, 'Iberia' and 'Hispania.' Each of these ancient proper names designates the European peninsula today divided into Spain and Portugal.

His brand of cultural critique-- the half-baked ideas of globalism" and of the "new world order"--overlooks the pragmaticritique-- theng working people.

40 Though the results represent the real-life pragmatic challenges faced by patients at the primary secondary care interface, the clinician perspective also requires consideration.

Here we examine these narratives using an analytic framework derived from communication pragmatics and face-work theory.