The phrase "pragmatic turn" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a shift towards more practical or realistic approaches to a situation. For example, "The company has taken a pragmatic turn by focusing on streamlining its operations in order to increase profits."
This volume pushes the boundaries of cutting-edge work on the pragmatic turn.
The Pragmatic Turn promises to be a landmark in the rapidly developing science of mind and human experience.
Here Batchelor's pragmatic turn, made tightly on a sharply curving road, begins to fishtail more than a little.
His words and actions on race and deportations have erected new moral barriers to any pragmatic turn toward working with him.
The pragmatic turn is one of the major shifts in thought about the mind in recent years; The Pragmatic Turn would serve scholars at all levels, and in a wide range of fields such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy, and is sure to be read and argued about for years to come.
An early round of tariffs on tyres proved an isolated provocation in an otherwise well-managed economic relationship with China.This pragmatic turn may have come too late for Mr Obama to woo corporate America.
Mrs. Clinton has benefited because antiwar groups in Washington that have been pushing for Congress to cut off financing for the war have become more pragmatic, turning their heat on moderate Republicans who supported President Bush, and away from Democrats like Mrs. Clinton who once supported the war but have now changed.
Pragmatism turned out not to be so pragmatic after all.
Mr. Gartenfeld and Ms. Marshall, both of whom have day jobs in the art world (he's the online editor at Interview and Art in America; she's the assistant curator at the Swiss Institute), are part of a new wave of gallerists who for a grab-bag of reasons — economic, philosophical and purely pragmatic — are turning their homes into art galleries.
For both men, a pragmatic left-hand turn helped them steer their way toward a middle class desperate for hope.
Some Albanians worry that the Socialists are a bit too popular in mafia-run places like Vlore.Once in government, the populists may turn pragmatic.
