Example sentences for: pragmatists

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

  • It said peace, if it comes, will be "a peace of the pragmatists" with "no outright winners--but, just possibly, a collective victory."

  • But what, after all, were the beliefs of the "pragmatists," those American heroes whose comeback in the intellectual world (through present-day scions like Richard Rorty and Donald Davidson) now makes them founts of wisdom to philosophers around the world?

  • Since Widdicombe is apparently so much less given to moral casuistry than Lee, Gorney sometimes risks leaving us with a vague impression of abortion-rights activists as tough pragmatists at a loss for loftier arguments, and anti-abortion activists as philosophers with a common touch.

  • Some conspirators, certainly, were cold-blooded pragmatists; others were disaffected front-line officers who had suffered on the Eastern front.

  • And the media's implicit conclusion is that the pragmatists would turn the GOP toward the mandate for moderation that was delivered in the elections.


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