Sentences with phrase «practical man»

Like other notable Whig imperialists such as Stanley Baldwin and Edward Heath, Cameron sees himself as one of the «practical men of the world, genially tolerant rather than self - righteously shrill.

But Helfand is a brusquely practical man who has learned, in one year, that the boxing jungle observes no ethic but the old law of the claw.

A very practical Man, Jesus.

Kind, practical men provided medical attention, hospitality and genuine sympathy, and Luther was talked round.

Yogi Bhajan, the master of Kundalini yoga, was a hugely practical man.

``... Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man, that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practice in himself.

It is not too much to say that if this handful of devoted and practical men had not faced and carried through their almost hopeless task the world would never have seen three of the most potent factors in all subsequent history (potent whether for good or ill): international Judaism, the Christian Church, and Islam.

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

The surprising faith of E.F. Schumacher, who as a practical man is led to the abstract side of economics — its metaphisical and religious underpinnings — through more «practical» concepts like Intermediate Technology and Buddhist Economics.

I'm a practical man: I run things and get them going.»

The Holy Roman Empire persisted, and to the Emperors remained something of the prestige attached to their office, but it did not command as much as formerly the imagination of the dreamers and of the practical men of affairs.

While all of this is very true in logic and in theory the event of its practical realization in any state or country is so remote in time and in probability that no practical man will let it disturb his equanimity or affect his attitude toward those who differ from him in religious faith.

The author of this story is a practical man — he accepts automobiles and airplanes — but he also is a sentimentalist who insists that passenger ships represent the last truly civilized method of travel.

Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Asiwaju of the Universe, the Jargaban of Borgu, the outstanding Yoruba politician of his generation, Tinubu is a great mobiliser, a practical man of action.»

It would be odd — even sacrilegious — to light the hubble - bubble without his old companion, but under his bloated exterior, beneath his butterfly mind, Vladimir had always been a practical man.

A practical man, your husband.

But even if everyone thinks it's great, remember that he is a practical man.

I'm a romantic but obviously by getting on this site I am also a practical man.

The best of the chases arrives fairly early, and involves a speeding train, a mountainous pass, various blasters and Thandie Newton (as freedom fighter Val), working with Woody Harrelson (as Beckett, Han's mentor, a practical man to the core).

John is a practical man; he plays by the rules and knows the importance of his job.

But Westinghouse is a practical man; he decides that if he can't beat Edison, why not join him?

But Edison is not a practical man.

I'm a practical man also, but I try to understand where I can go wrong.

«Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist»

To a logician this is irritating; to a practical man, it is proof of sound judgement.

Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man is a unique examination of women and relationships in an era of material equality between the sexes.