Sentence examples for pragmatic to a fault from inspiring English sources
New Labour was always pragmatic - pragmatic to a fault.
Always pragmatic to a fault, I learned over those 18 months to not think about the future, to resolve to take each day as it came.
Not only did the boys in blue hoist a trophy aloft at the end but they also played like England in disguise: unyielding up front, swift to punish mistakes in opposing territory, pragmatic to a fault.
Now, 12 months since his victory and some nine months into his presidency, I think we know what we've got: a pragmatic and thoughtful liberal, sometimes cautious to a fault, struggling to overcome the media-enabled perception that he's a radical leftwinger simply because he responded to the worst economic crisis since the 1930s with the alacrity that it deserved.
On other occasions, Osborne seemed partisan to a fault, opposing the nationalisation of Northern Rock, for example, as a "back to the 1970s" leftwing Labour policy, when commentators of all persuasions supported it as a pragmatic emergency measure.
"To a fault, to my detriment.
"Falling Overnight" is authentic to a fault.
