All 3 Uses of
pragmatic
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
- And it suited Farmer temperamentally because, for all his scholarship and interest in theories, his strongest impulses were pragmatic.
Chpt 2.8 *pragmatic = concerned with practical matters
- They called this "pragmatic solidarity," a goofy term perhaps, but the great thing about it was that, if you really practiced it, you didn't have to define it, you could simply point at what had been accomplished.†
Chpt 2.10
- A generous thought, but his habit of disregarding his health hardly seemed like a way of expressing "pragmatic solidarity."†
Chpt 3.17
Definition:
concerned with practical matters -- especially where quick results and/or practical experience triumph over theory