Sentence examples for virtue of practicality from inspiring English sources

If the waspy virtue of practicality has taken a backseat to bling, then what distinguishes your average St . Pauls alum from a Real Housewife?

It's the incandescent lightbulb, which embodies the utilitarian virtues of cheapness, practicality, simplicity and so on, except when it comes to energy.

Widely credited as the first African-American personal manager in jazz, Mr. Levy entered that profession by happenstance: he was a member of the original George Shearing Quintet in the late 1940s, and by virtue of his diligent practicality, he gradually found himself entrusted with most of the group's business decisions.

These moments nicely combine theatrical practicality – making a virtue of the circumstance that a theatre such as the Kilburn Tricycle cannot afford large casts – with dramatic invention: a version of Bertolt Brecht's anti-realistic devices, but played for laughs rather than demonstration of theory.

This salad also smacks of practicality.

Modesty is an important virtue, but practicality should also be valued.

It smacked of practicality, of the outdoors.

He was a man of practicality.

There is also a matter of practicality.

It was a matter of practicality.

This was a matter of practicality.