And yet, so hopelessly unpractical is he, that you see they are already back in the rightful owner's hands. From Wordnik.com. [THEFT] Reference
But I wish to insist here that it is exactly what is called the unpractical part of the thing that is really the practical. From Wordnik.com. [Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays] Reference
Afrikaans-speaking homeland into the proposed Afrikaner state as being "unpractical". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And thus, from age to age coincidence was added to coincidence and the result of all this "unpractical" labor was, at long last, a calendar. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
"unpractical," as men pronounce us, when we worship. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference
'Julius Cæsar' presents the material failure of an unpractical idealist. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
It is unpractical, for so long as intoxicants are made they will be sold. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
She was irked, too, by his hopelessly unpractical attitude toward affairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
The reason is simple, but not often understood because it's "unpractical.". From Wordnik.com. [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference
He takes severe, unpractical views of his own character and of life generally. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
The tendency, you know, of the Pulpit is toward an unpractical sort of idealism. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
Bandieras, and the material results of this heroic but unpractical attempt were nil. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The abolition of drunkenness by local option is selfish, unpractical, and unscriptural. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
I shall have to look to you for the practical application of my possibly unpractical ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
Because a statement is general, it does not follow that it is either untrue or unpractical. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
Transporting cut forages long distances could prove to be both uneconomical and unpractical. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
It is remarkable how Aristotle here again shelves what he considers an unpractical question. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
She gave me a look which was as much as to say, "My poor boy, how very unpractical you are!". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Melanchthon, whose unpractical nature made him feel painfully the absence of his sturdy friend. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
She's inexperienced, and he's helplessly unpractical. Oh! "she grasped his arm;" a splendid idea!. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
"I was shy and unpractical, had no talent for sports or organization or administration," he wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Benedict XVI] Reference
He was a picturesque figure, with white flowing locks, erratic and unpractical, as poets often are. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
Yet it is only the well-meaning but utterly unpractical idealists who desire to make us all prosperous. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
“The short or no sleeve has felt a bit unpractical previous seasons with cold fall and winters,” she said. From Wordnik.com. [Globally Warmed: The Couture of Climate Change] Reference
You are just like your poor father in the way you have about money; I never saw anyone so unpractical as he was. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Don Quijote de la Mancha himself could scarcely have made a more pure-intentioned yet more unpractical President. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference
As far as the mere living goes, a practical woman can live better on a little money than an unpractical one on much. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Their learned cogitations were producing unpractical plans that found expression in a weekly batch of new regulations. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Lazy Burglar]
In many pages of characteristic, hurried, irregular writing he set forth wild and unpractical schemes for their future. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
He is a little thoughtless and unpractical sometimes, but he is sweet-tempered, honest, true, clean-living, and God-fearing. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
"So called because it is written in the most unpractical and incomprehensible style: yes, I know it," interrupted the countess. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
He was going to show a woman who sewed and embroidered beautifully and who was very poor and unpractical, how to do her washing. From Wordnik.com. [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference
I must say that for a practical people the Parliamentary procedure seemed to me the most unpractical ceremony I had ever witnessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Cathedrals are numerous and exhaustive; but either so voluminous as to be unpractical except for the specialist -- as the volumes of. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Girlish and unpractical as some of their speeches may appear, they were spoken or listened to by Janetta with the utmost seriousness. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
It would be very unpractical to say, day after day, "I cannot be expected, for this and that excellent reason, to eat my dinner to-day.". From Wordnik.com. [Stray Thoughts for Girls] Reference
Drawing is practical as it trains the eye and hand, but unpractical if it leads a girl to think her commonplace pictures are works of art. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
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