Sentence examples for utilitarian sense from inspiring English sources

Cultural expression, however, whilst being a powerful factor in the definition and development of the human species, is not always vital in the utilitarian sense.

"Friendship in the utilitarian sense – let's see what advantage I can gain by getting close to this person and becoming friends – that pains me," he told the Argentine journalist Marcelo Gallardo, who is indeed an old friend of his.

In a utilitarian sense, Williamson's stand is probably a wash: immensely satisfying to performers and theatre-lovers, distracting to whoever was at the show that night, and irrelevant to tonight's performance of "Once," when, at approximately 8 37 P.M., someone's cell phone will start ringing to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw" during a plaintive rendition of "Falling Slowly".

But in that case the resulting imagery is enhanced only in a utilitarian sense — i.e. to help identify targets.

He was what we now refer to as a liberal utilitarian first who traded heavily in evolutionary theory in order to explain how our liberal utilitarian sense of justice emerges.

Through a series of experiments, Keysar and his colleagues explore whether the decision people make in the train dilemma is due to a reduction in the emotional aversion to breaking an ingrained taboo, an increase in deliberation thought to be associated with a utilitarian sense of maximizing the greater good or some combination of the two.

He has consistently protected basketball's integrity, spread basketball's image and reputation around the world, and managed to make every owner he served wealthier in both financial and utilitarian senses.

Almost everything here is in some sense utilitarian, beginning with the extraordinary "power figure," or nkisi, just inside the first gallery.

"From the beginning I didn't like it much," said Mr. Rückriegel, 39. "It was utilitarian in the sense that it was close to work and had an elevator," but it was still small.

"They're fairly utilitarian, in a sense, because they were used frequently, but at the same time, they're very ritualistic".

College was meant to be purely utilitarian in this sense: become just employable enough that you can you support a family while your future husband is likely to spend his days hunched over the Talmud.