Vocabulary Word
Word: pragmatist
Definition: practical person; N. pragmatism: pragmatic way of dealing with things
Definition: practical person; N. pragmatism: pragmatic way of dealing with things
Sentences Containing 'pragmatist'
According to Stoessinger, George W. Bush made the transition from pragmatist to crusader during his terms as President, developing misperceptions of himself in the process that have proven detrimental to finding peace in the Middle East. The second level is misperceptions of the adversary.
According to Green, whereas pragmatist and interactionist sociological approaches to the self typically focus on how a given actor shores up the gap between "doing" and "being" in the performative interval, queer theory focuses on the inability of the self to ever realize a social category as an ontological property of the self.
Sarkozy rejects this label of "libéral" and prefers to call himself a pragmatist.
Sarkozy opened another avenue of controversy by declaring that he wanted a reform of the immigration system, with quotas designed to admit the skilled workers needed by the French economy.