I admit that love-making is an unreasonable and impractical piece of business; but in this lies all its charm.
Falling in love is an eminently impractical piece of business, and yet Nature--who is no blunderer--generally introduces the boy and girl into active adult life by this very door.
The learned man may be familiar with many languages, and sciences, and have all the facts of history and literature at his fingers' tip, and yet be as helpless as an infant and as impractical as a fool.
Such men never win, though they may excite the admiration of the curious by their impractical versatility.
A single--er--impractical man might block the situation until it was too late.
But it seems to me that Ann and Hester are the least impractical of people--are they not?
Stedman's Bohemia reveals the fact that the artist has mostimpractical ideas about the disposal of his income.
It is pleasant to hear the naughty advice which that especially impractical poet, Emily Dickinson, gave to a child: "Be sure to live in vain, dear.
I left them for you--" Even in an hour which called for defense of every penny, Paul was still the impractical man whose open heart and affectionate nature called for expression.
Always figured somebody'd come along with the brains to not leave education to a lot of bookworms and impractical theorists but make a big thing out of it.
But they didn't imply that you were to be impractical and refuse to take twice the value of a house if a buyer was such an idiot that he didn't jew you down on the asking-price.
But his planning is often impractical and for this reason he does not succeed when working independently as does the Osseous.
He is as impractical about his affections as about all else and often nothing but hopes come of it.
It would work in the laboratory, but would be wholly impractical on a worldwide scale," Ken admitted.
Since the first method is impractical what can be used in carrying out the second?
Such a practical joke--impractical joke, I might better say, could originate only between a poet and a critic.
Nothing of which I write do I believe to be impractical or improbable.
But she was only twenty, and as hopelessly impractical as the conditions of her life and Rowan's happy-go-lucky methods could make her.
She forgave him gladly, and lay awake more than ever thinking out impractical plans for economising.
Such children come of giving them an inventor father, an 'impractical genius,' as I've heard myself in satire called.
Still, Procter, have you thought howimpractical the machine must prove to be?
In his eyes, until the hour of his death, I remained the fragile and impertinent child to whom he had stretched out his hand on the sands of Narragansett Pier,--a helpless and impractical creature in a world of scheming scoundrels.
Impractical as he was, he could not endure practical people, accepting the blunders and forgetfulness of one even less so than himself with patience and grace.
Of course such elaborate equipment as that in Gary is impractical in a building where the shops are not used by the high school as well as the grades.
It is not strange then that his readers and students should center their interest in his theories, in his general contribution to education rather than in his account of the impractical methods he used to create that exemplary prig--Émile.
The story from which we quote is "The Impractical Man.
Between these selections many experiences fall to the lot of the "impractical man.
The impractical man appeared to be able to take a very practical view of some matters, and Connorton was the more perturbed and uneasy in consequence.
If so," returned Hartley, the impractical man, "I infer from your anxiety and extraordinary generosity that I can sell it for enough to pay you and make a little margin for myself.
Connorton," he said at last, "I think I am still getting the worst of it somewhere, but animpractical fellow like me deserves to get the worst of it.
Such a very impractical man was the inventor, and so very troublesome in his impracticality!
Does that strike you as impractical and affected, too?
You are impractical visionaries; for it would be as easy for a diver to pause in mid-air as for mankind to remain at a half-way house to Equality.
If a mistake of policy on their part let in the impractical Socialists, the result would be disastrous.
And generally the "revolutionary, unprecedented discovery" has very little of itself that is new; rather it is a new combination of older, perhaps seemingly impractical knowledge.
No other government had them except in impractical imitations.
How can I talk business with you when you have such crazy, impractical ideas?
These Europeans are so impractical that first thing you know they've used the money you give them to get themselves into some fool scheme, without half seeing their way through.
There were men there who had spent their summers reaping the harvest of salty, brown kelp from the rocks at low tide, and they knew how impractical the scheme was.
Considering how thoroughly impractical Francis seemed to be in his life, it can scarcely help but be a source of ever increasing wonder that he succeeded in influencing, his generation so widely and so thoroughly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impractical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
