She is an eccentric in the fashion of a good many English women who have taken to the East, i.e. a mixture of battiness and extreme practicality. |
The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality. |
And they did speak, asking for more quality, more utility and more practicality. |
I've come to cherish the hard-headed practicality of the hero's wife in Henry Handel Richardson's The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. |
They see it as overly commercial on one hand, but they appreciate its practicality on the other. |
A prestigious publication more easily establishes the value of the idea and concretely illustrates the project's practicality. |