Sentence examples for the practical in from inspiring English sources

Then, pushing her black knit ski cap up on her forehead and fidgeting with the rosary that hangs around her neck under her bright yellow T-shirt, she hints at an animism lurking beneath the practical in Haitian cooking.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

The questions, prepared by Pascal Balthrop, 40, included the arcane (What's the official name of the McDonald's training facility in Oak Brook, Ill.?), and the practical (In modern North American homes, how far apart are wall studs?).

It is hard to data-mine the torrent – some estimates suggested there were three and a half million tweets with the hashtag #Sandy — but my feed quickly moved from the prankish to the practical in a matter of hours as landfall approached.

The emphasis on the "primacy of the practical" in James was clearly anticipated by earlier ethicists of belief.

The students should be asked to form back into the groups they were in at stage 1c of the practical (in a class of 32 students, this is the stage at which there were four groups containing eight students).

In some of the practical applications, in-plane properties of textile composites were treated as homogeneous.

TK analyzed clinical data and the practical analysis in San-in Labor Welfare Hospital.

It sets out the practical issues in collaboration and in achieving randomisation.

So I gave him the spiel about law school in the morning, learning the practical part in the afternoon.

All the practical work in the course is geared in that direction (whereas the old course has more diversity and choice in practical subjects).