All 3 Uses of
pragmatic
in
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- You're ....easily impressed ....sort of a ....pragmatic idealism.†
Act 2pragmatic = concerned with practical matters
- GEORGE: (Still deceptively bland) All right ....I want to know about your wife's money because ....well, because I'm fascinated by the methodology ....by the pragmatic accommodation by which you wave-of-the-future boys are going to take over.†
Act 2
- a pragmatic extension of the big dream
Act 2 *pragmatic = practical -- especially where results triumph over ideal theory
Definition:
concerned with practical matters -- especially where quick results and/or practical experience triumph over theory