Sentences with phrase «purely utilitarian»

One panelist noted that Germany's highest court had rejected a purely utilitarian view in overturning a law that allowed hijacked planes to be shot down.

Instead it is purely utilitarian.

By obsessively ordering, rearranging and reassembling these apparently low - value, purely utilitarian materials, Leirner creates artworks that are both aesthetically pleasing and which tell stories about the overlooked objects that surround us.

On the other hand, each object is in the end just an ordinary bowl, spoon, knife, or some other purely utilitarian object.

Developed through a set of very demanding circumstances for a purely utilitarian purpose; he is a working guard dog without equal, with a unique ability to protect livestock.

Land Rover has come a long way from being a purely utilitarian manufacturer to a luxury car manufacturer.

This is higher than a sedan, but it gets a smoother roofline that distances itself from being purely utilitarian.

Purely utilitarian, but I actually like how it looks as well.

Thus, from a purely utilitarian perspective, you have precisely negated what would be a better self - directed outcome.

The danger here as elsewhere is that post-critical religion can become purely utilitarian.

Taking as his starting point Benedict XVI's appeal for a liturgical understanding of human existence, Caldecott shows how the rationalism that has reduced western education to something purely utilitarian will be overcome through a fresh appreciation of the transcendentals of truth and goodness, but only where the neglected transcendental, beauty, is allowed to work its influence.

Those that do not allow the seed to fall upon the fertile soil of their souls are eager to accuse him of being «a liar» and «a madman» as they would rather lead a purely utilitarian life rather than experience the grace and love that He willingly offers.

The implication is this: Though the idea for any emerging technology may be based on purely utilitarian or altruistic motivations — digitally connecting people with the world around them and furthering the enabling of their own personal values — the people and commercial entities funding innovation ultimately have a financial stake.

From a purely utilitarian standpoint, however, the failure of the state to respect the integrity of the confessional seal is a foolish blunder.

On purely utilitarian grounds, it is desirable to have a higher proportion of economic growth going to low and middle - income Canadians, so long as the policies to get us there do not reduce the growth rate of the economy.

Unless Mercedes is willing to sell the X-Class in the US as a purely utilitarian work truck alongside the Metris and Sprinter commercial vans, anything less than $ 40,000 for a mid-size product doesn't coalesce with the brand's premium pricing strategy.

Not exact matches

««Values» brought with it the assumptions that all moral ideas are subjective and relative, that they are mere customs and conventions, that they have a purely instrumental, utilitarian purpose, and that they are peculiar to specific individuals and societies.»

I can not stomach the high - waisted jean (unless it's used purely for utilitarian purposes, aka: unseen under a long shirt to control the muffin).

The Chiron, itself a Volkswagen Group product, is about far as you can get from a purely functional, utilitarian automobile like the KdF Volkswagen or a Ford Model T.

The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.

I made things that looked utilitarian, but like Oppenheim, I wanted them to be purely aesthetic objects.

Also, I understand that «Useful Articles» (items of clothing such as scarves, for example) are not subject to any copyright protections, but the patterns which I'm hoping to encorporate into my scarf pattern are for items which it could probably be argued are not utilitarian in nature, but rather purely «to portray the appearance of the article».