Sentence examples for utilitarian about from inspiring English sources

There's something grimly utilitarian about the protein drink.

I thought that in the shop they'd be all utilitarian about the choice of colour, but the assistants spent more time agonising with me over the shade and hue of frame-matching handlebar tape than they did helping me choose the pedals or a saddle.

Even if it hadn't helped solve the problems of my intractable novel, it would have shown me things — about life as well as writing — that I could have made much more use of at that formative age (to be crudely utilitarian about it) than I can now.

There's something utilitarian about the design of the Xperia S. The angular lines are only broken apart by two elements - the slight curvature on the back panel that helps the handset sit in the palm of your hand, and the clear perspex strip at the base of the device.

There is nothing utilitarian about that.

Let's get brutally utilitarian about all this.

The VMPC patients, on the other hand, made the utilitarian choice about twice as often, the researchers report online today in Nature.

Meanwhile, a younger person has more years ahead of him, and has lived only a short time; there are utilitarian concerns about a life's potential and principled concerns about fairness.

These decision makers were thinking in a utilitarian mode about maximizing the number of relatively healthy lives they could save, although there is little if any research to suggest these types of triage decisions improve overall survival.

Utilitarian arguments about the benefits that could come from embryonic research or from preventing the birth of an unwanted child are no more valid than the social improvements promised by a eugenicist.

Nick Williams Auchenblae, Aberdeenshire  Perhaps the most depressing thing about the rapidly advancing crisis is not the attitude of the government, which has long had a drearily utilitarian view about higher education, but the inevitable Balkanisation of the sector.