As for the meteorological elements, I handled them in true pragmatic American fashion.

The Elder Person, ignoring the by-play, went directly to the heart of the matter in her usual pragmatic fashion.

In typically pragmatic fashion, Mr. Codey said that he regarded the unusual influence of some of the power brokers as a fact of life.

Brianna listened with fascination as the girls discussed the situation, with perfect matter-of-factness-and wondered whether Ronnie Sinclair had the slightest idea that his fate was being decided in this pragmatic fashion.

There was the lighthouse, a round stone tower built in the same pragmatic fashion as Ata's towers but with a stone platform and metal roof.

In pragmatic American fashion, I was making myself "better."

But Shalkan settled the matter in his usual pragmatic fashion.

Despite these reforms it is uncertain if Henry had a grand vision for his new legal system and the reforms seem to have proceeded in a steady, pragmatic fashion.

Democracy, having been implemented in largely pragmatic fashion, has been lauded on the grounds that "it works."

The computational world did begin to evolve quite rapidly however, tangentially skirting the field of architecture in a much more pragmatic and market-driven fashion.