Sentence examples for sense of utility from inspiring English sources

He has, among many other gifts, maintained that old-fashioned kind of curiosity, allied to a brisk sense of utility.

This study aims to evaluate feasibility, face validity, influence on technical factors and subjective sense of utility of patient-specific rehearsal (PsR) prior to endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR).

There was a surprising new sense of utility to the Versace woman this season, but the same old flesh-flashing tactics were employed, too – asymmetric straps on abbreviated dresses exposed the clavicles and much more besides, while itsy-bitsy bandeau tops were teamed with that most surprising of garments : the cardigan.

I figure that some of these apps are on our phones because of corporate pride (we made this great app, and you will surely love it as much as we do); some out of a misguided sense of utility (everyone's going to want a stock-price app); and some out of external and internal business goals (we signed a deal with YouTube, or we have this new Game Center we want people to join).

Without defining a sense of utility that brings a community together behind a specific purpose, most of these extensions will inevitably lack longevity.

Designing for the sense of Audience is a powerful tool to create cohesion and a sense of utility among users of a service.

A sense of diminished utility settled over me.

The economy is modeled as a collection of agents about whom we make no assumptions of rationality (in the sense of maximizing utility or profit).

As a study last year of energy efficiency in the United States by the McKinsey consulting company pointed out, alternative policies include financial incentives; better education; and labeling of homes' energy use, so that prospective purchasers have a sense of the utility bills they will be facing.

Yet Wolff's conception of perfection was broad enough to include successful adaptation to an intended purpose, and thus in his analysis of our experience of architecture he emphasized our sense of the utility of structures as well as a sensory response to the kind of abstract form that could be considered an object of cognition.

This not only explains "use value" in the sense of economic utility, but because the economic development of society over time necessarily produces forms of social reality which are independent from the economy Historical Materialism can also allow for forms of socially instituted value that are irreducible to utility (1971b: 1971b