Sentence examples for utilitarian attitude from inspiring English sources

Ignoring the usual tourist sites, it was in Italy especially that he satisfied his utilitarian attitude searching for different kinds of pleasures.

After the death of King Charles XII (1718) and the collapse of his empire, a utilitarian attitude to life and letters gradually developed in Sweden.

A Washington area native, Thirakul believes that because D.C. is mostly celebrated as an educated city, and as the "heart of American politics," some residents have a "utilitarian" attitude towards dress.

The spirit isn't gone — check out one of Chrysler's elegiac ads appealing to patriotism and nostalgia to stir love of Detroit's signature industry — but a utilitarian attitude is becoming more pervasive.

These attributes have been intensified by the acute individualism of the American, vigorous speculation in land and other commodities, a strongly utilitarian attitude toward the land and the treasures above and below it, and government policy and law.

We hear a lot these days about drug abuse, but there is also such a thing as drug use — a utilitarian attitude to our body chemistry in which drugs are simply aids to productivity.

Cap's predictable/admirable response is that such utilitarian attitudes feel a long way from "freedom".

These views, often raised against mechanistic and utilitarian attitudes in the 19th century, were attractive because of the vague religiosity, sometimes of a pantheistic character, that they encouraged.

Utilitarian attitudes have been carefully avoided in bioethics.

So, suppose we accept this utilitarian position.

More important, product category moderates brand attitude: utilitarian products will cause low-level construal to match more strongly with rational appeals; hedonic products will cause high-level construal to match more strongly with emotional appeals.