Sentence examples for ruthless pragmatism from inspiring English sources
Holbrooke hitched a ruthless pragmatism to a genuine moral imagination.
The poetry lies in its clarity, wit and ruthless pragmatism.
But Robert soon found that ruthless pragmatism got more things done.
But it's also a gamble when measured against the ruthless pragmatism of politics.
Explaining why Sharp is the newest addition to his political empire, Underwood says he admires her "ruthless pragmatism" – but as we saw in season one, his brand of ruthless pragmatism can have fatal effects.
And their shared professional ethos of ruthless, unsentimental pragmatism is precisely what gives such force to their worries about the current state of Israeli politics.
Natalie Portman gives an amazingly deft performance aged just 12, and Jean Reno gets the combination of ruthless adult pragmatism and vulnerable immaturity just right in the lead role, but it is Oldman who delivers an unforgettable performance, which most fans' minds will immediately jump to when the film is brought up.
She also believes in the reality of cuts, and on this tricky subject for anyone currently working for a big public-sector organisation seeking to protect itself, she takes a position that is a mixture of pragmatism and ruthless self-interest.
In the name of realism and pragmatism, these prefer to deal with rulers who, though authoritarian and ruthless with their masses, are pliant and willing to leave their markets wide open for Euro-American goods and squander billions in their nations' resources on weapons no one else would buy.
