Sentence examples for utilitarian mode from inspiring English sources

On the rack that phrase translates to a utilitarian mode of dress aimed at a steadily homogenizing global market.

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.

VI) Mill agreed, "it is a misapprehension of the utilitarian mode of thought to conceive it as implying that people should fix their minds upon so wide a generality as the world, or society at large".

Interestingly, his conversion to a more utilitarian mode of ethical theory had even predated his break with Anglican orthodoxy, which involved a long and painful struggle that had him studying Hebrew and German, engaging with the new biblical criticism of Strauss and Renan, and arguing with some of the most prominent theologians of his day, including Benson.

This cultural reaction against being 'lectured at' has, in succeeding decades, been supplemented by more utilitarian claims that this mode of teaching is an ineffective instrument for engaging and capturing the imagination of students.

Rolls-Royce said the zero-emission model, codenamed 103EX, showed the company "rejects the notion of anonymous, utilitarian and bland future modes of mobility".

It may also encourage active modes of transport for utilitarian purposes, reducing the use of motorised transport.

His utilitarian approach to these movies is the dominant mode of critical discourse now, because critics, seeking to justify their own public usefulness beyond matters of mere taste, tend to put politics in the foreground and take politics as the touchstone of art.

This societal change requires knowledge on the factors that influence cycling behaviour and cross-modal shifts to allow the uptake of low carbon transport modes, including electric two-wheelers for utilitarian and commuting purposes.

In such a situation, Hare advocated that one change one's mode of moral thinking to a second 'critical' level, and behave like an act utilitarian.

From fabric rations and supply shortages to the evaporation of important export markets abroad, and from the rise of utilitarian, military-inspired styles to the closing of several revered fashion houses (e.g., Chanel, which closed its doors in 1939), the grim realities of the war had, by the time of Paris's liberation, taken their toll on la mode française.