Dion and Dion (1993) found that women were more friendship orientated (or Storgic) than men and again, more likely to endorse pragmatic attitudes towards love. (interpersona.psychopen.eu)
Having attempted to wipe the slate clean, breaking free of the party's record in government but retaining pragmatic attitudes to the key issues which will face Britain in the next five years, Miliband seems to be taking his party back to the «restless and radical» mood of 1997. (politics.co.uk)
It's an unconscionable and completely inappropriate suggestion — the kind that only someone with Amanda's blunt, cold - bloodedly pragmatic attitude could make, although it's just the sort of hypothetical that attracts us to the works of «Strangers on a Train» novelist Patricia Highsmith, or more outrageously, films like «Jawbreaker» and «Heathers,» whose influence can also be found lurking beneath this movie's elegant surface. (variety.com)