Sentence examples for profoundly practical from inspiring English sources

Although in the case of Egypt these documents are few, they are all of a type and leave little doubt that Egyptian mathematics was, on the whole, elementary and profoundly practical in its orientation.

However, Cary Grant appears to be a profoundly practical man; after the disappointing box-office returns from "None but the Lonely Heart" (he did get an Academy Award nomination for it, but the award was given to Bing Crosby for "Going My Way"), he never tried anything except Cary Grant roles.

We are not to forget, it seems, that this is a profoundly practical age a utilitarian age, pre-eminently.

Their efforts were profoundly practical but they also offered spiritual support, to their own members and far beyond.

Behind the technical constitutional question, though, lay a profoundly important practical issue.

The ability to engineer proteins with increased thermostability will profoundly broaden their practical applications.

as overwhelmingly inherited has been widely held, the evidence is growing that it is, at a practical level, profoundly wrong.

Isocrates' proposals for returning to the system in operation before the days of democracy were not practical but display profoundly conservative inclinations.

Kant's practical argument differs profoundly from the speculative arguments for God's existence popular in Kant's day i.e., ontological, cosmological, and physiotheological proofs.

It is a quest for this divine and essential truth that Traherne is said to exemplify a "playful but passionate exposition, denoting both a profoundly enlivening experience and a practical set of interrelated abstract principles".

This exercise in practical kitchen ethics touches on a profoundly important global problem.