Sentence examples for utilitarian world from inspiring English sources

What a grimly utilitarian world we are bequeathing to future undergraduates.

The genius of the old scribbler was to see how often the sheerly irrational intruded upon the material and utilitarian world of our great-grandfathers.

In our "utilitarian" world, he claims, we find it difficult to abandon "instrumental thinking," and argues, drawing on Aristotle, Plato and Moritz Schlick, that humans should always aim to engage in activities and with individuals for their intrinsic value.

We can say that Williams takes the utilitarian world-view to be absurd, because it requires agents to act on external reasons.

The point is rather that a world-view that has lost sight of the real nature of agency, as the utilitarian world-view has, simply does not make sense: as Williams puts it in the quotation above, it is "absurd".

Now, however, B&R has added a ring of beautiful jewels around the rim and made these things out of ceramic, officially tugging the brand out of the realm of "cool and utilitarian" into the world of "my Chihuahua ate my Hermes watch so no I need something big and flirty".

The Internet is perfectly suited to this overtly utilitarian and swiftly expanding world.

• The subtitle of "The George Washington Bridge Rutgers University Pressss, $22.95), by Michael Aaron Rockland, is "Poetry in Steel," which belies the utilitarian nature of the world's busiest bridge.

But it was an entirely different world from the utilitarian atmosphere of Manchester, with long-established traditions.

It's a very different world from the utilitarian-spare retail floors across the country where Sears' salespeople move more than $44 million of merchandise on an average day, $15 billion worth in a year 1% of the gross national product.

The utilitarian model of user-versus-world was challenged, or rather reorganized, by the animal rights movement, which aimed to move animals into the 'ingroup' of moral entities.