He emphasizes the moral conflict between Ahab and the first mate, Starbuck (an oddly well-groomed Lee E. Ernst) whose practicality and rectitude stand in opposition to the mad captain's self-justifying monomania.
Since the time of the introduction of the O(n) dynamic-programming solution to the basic RNA-folding problem, there have been several practical heuristic speedups [ 5, 6]; and a complex, worst-case speedup of O(n(loglogn)/(logn 1/2) time [ 7] whose practicality is unlikely and unestablished.
And considering the Passat's mission — a family car whose roomy practicality would impress Ward and June Cleaver — the fuel-saving diesel only heightens that appeal.
And from the very beginning, the moving spirit of that collaboration has been James R. Vivian, the Director of the Institute, without whose vision, practicality, persistence, and in my opinion at least, organizational genius, the Institute wouldn't have come into being and wouldn't hardly have survived to this date.
Pot-smoking hippies who drifted into the commune found themselves at odds with work-ethic missionaries like Ms. Kinkade, whose blunt practicality and executive talent — rare qualities in the counterculture — helped the stumbling colony achieve not just self-sufficiency but something resembling prosperity.
If your top knuckles are smooth and your middle ones are internally rough, then you are a person whose intellect and practicality work well together.
Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.
Practicality points to Baron Davis, whose balky back is nearly ready for contact, and in whose hands the Knicks' season — and D'Antoni's fate — now rest.
The magazines, whose blended recipe of romance and practicality provide the source material, date from the early 1960s, before The Beatles' first LP and all that special icon of phrases has come to imply.
The desire to cede authority even if it is only rhetorical authority to these young representatives whose passions are not compromised by practicalities, is understandable: "Naomi Wadler is my President," tweeted the actress Tessa Thompson, giving voice to the feelings of many.
The desire to cede authority — even if it is only rhetorical authority — to these young representatives whose passions are not compromised by practicalities, is understandable: "Naomi Wadler is my President," tweeted the actress Tessa Thompson, giving voice to the feelings of many.
