There was a certain delicate practicality about her account, a sense of domesticity she found herself almost wishing were true.

And there was a certain practicality in her understanding.

And there's a certain practicality to life here in Washington.

But generations of poverty and hard times had also bred a certain hard-headed practicality, and a willingness to accept reality for what it was.

You were very clear yesterday about the regrettable necessity of certain practicalities.

Those who prefer the old ways say there is a certain practicality to it, as well as elegance.

There was a certain basic practicality to this reasoning that quieted the drow's uneasiness and sped her steps.

There was a certain wolfish practicality about that notion.

Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response - never to forgive and never to forget.

It injects a certain practicality into education, because students, in learning what specific skills must be mastered for a job, realize that some subjects - surprise!