- be a victory for common sense idiom
- cannily
- canny
- clear-headed
- clear-headedly
- it doesn't hurt/never hurts to do something idiom
- judicious
- judiciously
- level-headed
- longsighted
- reasonableness
- reasoned
- responsibility
- responsible
- responsibly
- thinking
- to be wise after the event idiom
- victory
- well advised
- wily
Meaning of pragmatism in English
pragmatism | Intermediate English
Examples of pragmatism
pragmatism
The ideological warfare in other cities is replaced by a cold pragmatism here.
From NJ.com
His recompense for this pragmatism was fierce attacks from his own caucus for abandoning the base.
From Huffington Post
In cases where the couple has had children, that sense of cold pragmatism, combined with the one-child policy, results in custody disputes.
From NPR
When it comes to donations of all kinds, purity and pragmatism make uneasy bedfellows.
From TIME
But pragmatism doesn't always prevail, and reactionism tends to be radical.
From TIME
Having promised his followers "a revolution," he now fed them bitter pragmatism.
From The Atlantic
I see energy and pragmatism and an affirmative vision stemming from the core of that city.
From NPR
There's more of a fatalism here, more of a pragmatism.
From New York Post
He's - the heroic quality he's been given by history helps -sometimes blinds us to the kind of wonderful pragmatism that was actually in operation.
From NPR
That's not cynicism, but a gross acknowledgment of the pragmatism that drives these kinds of photo ops.
From Business Insider
Pace, on the other hand, exuded smarts and sincerity, genuinely being himself and displaying the right balance of passion and pragmatism.
From Chicago Tribune
But what does the record show, and what do leadership and pragmatism really mean?
From The Atlantic
Pragmatism: realize there are some things you have to deal with to fulfill this type of product or service.
From CNN
He sees the lure of both approaches -- the pragmatism of the former, the radicalism of the latter.
From Slate Magazine
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