Sentences with phrase «pragmatists like»

She listened to lectures by American pragmatists like John Dewey at The Cooper Union and other great thinkers at The New School for Social Research.

But they mostly talked Staten Island — because pragmatists like Oddo know you can't waste a mayoral visit to the so - called «forgotten borough.»

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.

All of it, except the pragmatists like Dewey.»

Back then, even for a pragmatist like James, Christianity was the kind of thing you had to take a stand on.

Not exact matches

Ever the pragmatists, women entrepreneurs (like their male counterparts) are eager to see a loosening of corporate taxes, which could open up increased venture spending.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

Reflection or meditatio does not naturally recommend itself to us; as a matter of fact, since most of us are energetic «doers» and high pragmatists, reflection seems like a most unproductive pastime.

Whether we like to admit it or not, many of us pastors are pragmatists at heart.

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.»

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

Like the pragmatists, who also thought they were attacking the Enlightenment, they in practice need to presume a more universal moral standard in order to operate.

Voters at a polling place on West 58th Street said they cast their ballot for Quinn because they liked her «record of being a pragmatist.»

Comparing her to his own father, Cuomo said that Clinton is a «progressive pragmatist» like Mario was.

Shum said Cuomo is a pragmatist, like most politicians.

Like Gibson, Faso found electoral success by running as a moderate pragmatist with a firm grip on bread - and - butter issues — like the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideolLike Gibson, Faso found electoral success by running as a moderate pragmatist with a firm grip on bread - and - butter issues — like the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideollike the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideology.

My inner pragmatist would pick something sensible like the Eletta but golly damn if that Calla boot isn't making me feel all quivery inside... then again, the Quince stacked heel boot is pretty cowgirl... Pretty, pretty boots.

This reality has transformed PE scholars like Lorenzo into budgetary pragmatists who urge their students to «sell» PE to parents, PTOs, and particularly fellow teachers.

For the Lunaticks were not only scientists, but also pragmatists and humanists who believed in and spoke out for concepts like equality and justice.

The pragmatist in me (the part repulsed by confusing literature and nebulous dialectical philosophies) knows that we still need places like Cooper, imperfect means of strengthening the bonds that keep the art world from floating away into space.

The line about not giving up fossil fuels tomorrow is rhetorically appealing because it makes the speaker seem like a level - headed pragmatist and suggests that anyone who disagrees is out of touch with reality.

You can assemble mashed spam into something that looks like a lamb roast, but that doesn't make one a pragmatist.

It seems improbable that our American colleagues will ever again see the likes of the trio of great legal pragmatists, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand.