Things reached such a pitch of depravity that my mother, despite her pragmatic nature, began to fear for her soul.

Unlike his literary father, Brown had a more pragmatic nature and was attracted to civil engineering.

Secular learning of a pragmatic nature was regarded as more important than the study of the Torah.

His aura seemed basically clean, with a zone suggesting a pragmatic nature.

Flint, and many oth- ers of a more pragmatic nature, saw the seekers' doctrine for the hollow bunk that it was.

Deal making like that underscores the pragmatic nature of the race today, after a general election suffused with idealism.

In design science research, as opposed to explanatory science research, academic research objectives are of a more pragmatic nature.

A review in Publishers Weekly notes: "this lively memoir reveals the author's upbeat but pragmatic nature".

Black theology is not bound to biblical liberalism, but is of a more pragmatic nature.

He wondered if it was because her heart was never truly in the work, or because she had a pragmatic, Confucian nature.