According to Wellek and Warren, evaluation of literary work should be done based on the work's own nature, divorced from an author's practical or scientific intent.

This seeming retrogradation, however, is to all practical intents an absolute one.

The impossibility of performance must be objective or absolute: that is, for all practical intents and purposes, nobody should be able to render the performance.

Everyone knows that Emsworth has been, to all practical intents and purposes, a dashed lunatic for years.

That civilization is remarkably advanced - for all practical intents, humans are now immortal.

But, to all practical intents and purposes, particularly in matters of finance, Tristan himself had merely joined the favoured band who belonged to John-William Dallam.

Rights of pre-emption still exist (although are not as common as they once were), but rights of redemption have now been, to all practical intents and purposes, abolished.

On Magya, that condition is reached before you have gone ten miles down, to all practical intents and purposes.

You accepted 'im freely and without prejudice when the fair exchange was suggested, so for all practical intents and purposes he is your Reggie Byng.

And, for all practical intents, his own.