99 examples of unpractical in sentences

They are pig-headed, exalted, unpractical to a man.

It is 'futile,' 'ill-advised,' 'intrinsically insane,' 'unpractical,' 'visionary.'

It is hardly 'unpractical,' seeing that if the people respond, every one admits that it will achieve the end.

Like many unpractical men he had rather fancied himself as a man of business and the disillusion killed him.

"You," he said, "are one of those unpractical persons, who bring to the affairs of a purely utilitarian epoch the 'fainéant' scruples of the dilettante and romanticist.

He was fitful, uncertain, and unpractical.

When Lord Melbourne succeeded Lord Grey as premier, Brougham was left out of the cabinet, being found to be irascible, mischievous, and unpractical; he retired, an embittered man, to private life, but not to idleness, He continued to write popular and scientific essays, articles for reviews, and biographical sketches, taking an interest in educational movements, and in all questions of the day.

Controversial pamphlets have been known to earn large plums; but nothing of the sort could be expected from unpractical heresies about the Magicodumbras and Zuzumotzis.

And however unpractical it may be held to consider whether we have anything to print which it is good for the world to read, or which has not been better said before, it will perhaps be allowed to be worth considering what effect the printing may have on ourselves.

Plants which have blossomed cease to be profitable in any way, by reason of the fiber becoming too weaka matter of too great nicety for the unpractical consumers on the other side of the Atlantic to decide upon, and one in which, despite inquiries and careful inspections, they might be deceived.

Unfortunately for such hopes, France had never been consulted in the matter, nor was there ever any idea of coercing France into neutrality, and even the original proposal had to be abandoned on consideration as unpractical.

The world is just now a most practical world; and these men are utterly unpractical.

Nevertheless, it is quite a mistake to suppose that mysticism is by its own nature unpractical.

The greatest and most prosperous races of antiquitythe Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindoos, Greekshad the mystic element as strong and living in them as the Germans have now; and certainly we cannot call them unpractical peoples.

They fell and came to ruinas the Germans may dowhen their mysticism became unpractical: but their thought remained, to be translated into practice by sounder-hearted races than themselves.

So much for mystics being unpractical.

If we look faithfully into the meaning of their name, we shall see why, for good or for evil, they cannot be unpractical; why they, let them be the most self- absorbed of recluses, are the very men who sow the seeds of great schools, great national and political movements, even great religions.

Ernest is too unpractical to have been able even to feed himself!"

As she expected to walk with Mrs. Whitney for an hour before lunch she was in walking costumehat, dress, gloves, shoes, stockings, sunshade, all the simplest, most expensive-looking, most unpractical-looking white.

Or do we now regard it as unpractical and irrelevant?

The word was only invented a few years ago, and was sneered at as a barbarism, worthy of the unpractical folly which it was coined to express.

MATTHEW ARNOLD Practical people talk with a smile of Plato and of his absolute ideas; and it is impossible to deny that Plato's ideas do often seem unpractical and impracticable, and especially when one views them in connection with the life of a great workaday world like the United States.

Those who, because of the defects of church organizations, would abolish the churches, are equally unpractical.

Kepler's nominal salary should have been ample for his expenses, increased though they were by his growing family, but in the depleted state of the treasury there were many who objected to any payment for such "unpractical" purposes.

He put an end to the office of "Protector of the Aborigines," the source of much well-meant but unpractical advice.

99 examples of  unpractical  in sentences