Example sentences for: pragmatist

How can you use “pragmatist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But Fish is not an upbeat pragmatist.

  • Nichols plays Jack, a shrewd, middle-aged pragmatist.

  • His vision of society is far darker, for instance, than that of the leading American pragmatist, Richard Rorty, who holds that no idea is truly bad as long as it leads to other ideas.

  • The pragmatist's case against President Clinton--as opposed to the moralist's--is premised on the notion that he's powerless, so disgraced and mistrusted that his presidency is finished politically if not chronologically.

  • USA Today weds that impulse to the pragmatist program: If you give the people facts, if they identify an authentic problematic situation in their environment, if you permit them to hear multiple views, they'll converge on a truth that works.


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