Sentences with phrase «between pragmatists»

The battle between pragmatists and crusaders could affect the outcome of this year's gubernatorial race.

By New Testament times the tension between prophecy and politics was expressed in the opposition between pragmatists like the Saduccees and Pharisees, who sought to adapt national life to the inevitable powers of the world, and visionaries like the Essene monks at Qumran or John the Baptist who anticipated the emergence of a new age of holiness after God judged this evil age.

Ideologically, we can perhaps see an eternal struggle between the pragmatist and the romantic at the heart of football, a deep - seated and universal struggle that finds expression throughout the games history, be it the Argentine struggle between the bilardistas and menottistas, or Mourinho and Guardiola's bunfights.

Conflicting views are offered as to where Osborne lies on the spectrum between pragmatist and ideologue.

Not exact matches

Between the unrealistic dreamers on the one hand, and the asinine turbo - pragmatists on the other, not enough is getting done, not enough will get done, and in another 2000 years we'll dig up the hard disks on which these articles appear and see that things might be the same then, too.

He goes on to say that «interesting philosophy» of the sort done by the pragmatists is really «a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half - formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.»

Murphy wrote that Republicans had to choose between the «purists» who offer «steadfast opposition to emerging social trends like multiculturalism and secularization» and «pragmatists» who favor a «more secular and modernizing conservatism that eschews most social issues.»

This is particularly the case with a myth which, with all its other disadvantages is outspokenly pragmatist and propagandist in character, and which ignores the question of truth to such an extent that it no longer exists even in untruth, but in a chilly no - man's - land between God and the devil.

The importance of this novel recommendation for ethics lies in its characteristic ability to moderate between extreme positions: although, against the pragmatists, values are held as eternal, they are not, against the Platonists, degraded by their relation with the finite world.

Between the rebels and the loyalists lie the rest of us: the pragmatists.

For a time, a grand bargain between idealists and pragmatists allowed the party to flourish with a simple formula: Cantor and company could strategize and dream big while organized labor underwrote the movement with cash and bodies on the ground.

In between these pessimists and optimists have been pragmatists, seeing both positives and weaknesses in Miliband, seeking to accentuate the former and minimise the latter.

Working from Burke's screenplay, the Brazilian director Jose Padilha («Narcos») cuts between the increasingly tense passengers, confined to a sweaty corner of the Entebbe airport terminal; the infighting among the terrorists; and the high - level political and military planning put into action by Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan), a no - negotiation hard - liner, and Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi), depicted here as the conflicted pragmatist.

Once Jax's loyalties were split between a father who was a feckless idealist and a stepfather who was a ruthless pragmatist, an interesting conflict.

«Bill Sterrett constructs a series of eminently readable chapters that satisfy thinkers, pragmatists, and those of us in - between.

Josef Albers: Art as Experience looks at the relationship between Albers's pragmatic (and Pragmatist) teaching and his art, presenting previously unseen works by Albers's students from the Bauhaus and elsewhere, along with little - known studies and other art by Albers himself, and reveals the vibrancy and extraordinary impact of Josef Albers's groundbreaking pedagogical methods.

The pragmatist perspective is the most compelling to me, in the similar vein to the conversations you and I have been having on this podcast about tech competence, which is, coding is a part of the future that is happening, and therefore having some minimal, reasonable understanding of it just so you know what's going on in the world, I find that moderately compelling, which, again, doesn't mean you need to build software, but it might mean you need to understand conceptually what the difference between front end, and back end, and SQL, and Ruby, and these things are, but really at a basic, bare competence level, and even then it's kind of a «maybe» in my mind.