The near approach of the great final catastrophe would have completely paralysed all exertion, and turned the members of Christ's Church into idle, useless, unpractical religionists.
There is nothing that strikes the undemocratic doctrinaire so sharply about direct democratic action as the vanity or mummery of the things done seriously in the daylight; they astonish him by being as unpractical as a poem or a prayer.
We may put the matter most practically by saying that it is unpractical to discuss whether Froude finds any justification for Henry's crimes in the desire to create a strong national monarchy.
Our Anglo-Saxon blood is supposed to be the practical part of us; but as a fact the Anglo-Saxons were more hopelessly unpractical than any Celt.
Unfortunately not," replied Hummel; "you are both unpractical people.
I have received him with complaisance; I have even treated his insane hopes with the greatest consideration, and yet thisunpractical dreamer mocks at me.
The quality or state of being viewy, or of havingunpractical views.
One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.
Moreover, we should not diminish even the practical efficiency of the coming generation by rejecting their unpractical side.
Then the wife, with a shawl round her shoulders, creeps outside the house and looks in at the window--angry with her unpractical husband.
The unpractical idealist may be invaluable when he is a voice only.
The unpractical statesman may deserve our sympathy and our admiration; but we may not therefore give him the full meed of applause which belongs to the benefactors of the race or nation.
Complaint is made that the organisation of Labour Insurance, in spite of all caution, has frequently proved a unpractical and costly piece of patchwork administration.
People who pay so much attention to propriety as these of course cannot and will not keep pace with the freer and less hampered initiative of less obstinate and unpractical business people.
He's so unpractical that he'd give his house away if some one wanted it," answered Grandmother, whose own good judgment could not be denied.
On her next visit, strangely enough, Grandfather's household was again talking of the beloved, unpractical dreamer, who by this time had sacrificed his life in the interests of humanity.
I began to doubt my wisdom in sending so unpractical a youth out into the battle of life, to hew his way as best he might.
He was full of new ideas, too, on politics and the social system and other unpractical topics, picturing endless potentialities of wealth and happiness for the labourer.
That is the speech of a thoroughly unpractical person.
The fact is," burst out May hotly, "it is unpractical to be poor!
It isunpractical to be left a widow, with five children, and only a miserable pittance to keep them on!
He felt that he must have seemed to her very unkind, and that in so far as a well-regulated conscience permitted the exercise of unpractical passions, she honored him with a superior detestation.
It would be easy to make a paradox by calling Bentham at once the most practical and most unpractical of men.
In this sense Bentham was unpractical in the highest degree, for at eighty he had not found out of what men are really made.
This curiously unpractical joke taught the young man that absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
Napoleon's vague and unpractical views were exposed in a conversation with Lord Lyons, which apparently took place in a crowded ball-room.
I know it is unpractical of me," he owned distressfully.
But Alex, dreading blame or disapproval, or even assurances that the scheme wasunpractical and foolish, continued to conceal it.
I don't know," Alex was forced to say, feeling all the time that Cedric must be thinking her a helpless, unpractical fool.
Alex, amongst other unpractical disabilities, was as entirely devoid as it is possible to be of any sense of direction.
Cedric, with the irritability of a practical man who finds his well-ordered and practical plans thrown out of gear by some eminently unpractical intervention on the part of Providence.
Illustration: KATZ] The talk of these Anarchists is distinguished by a high idealism, and the unpractical and devoted attitude.
Zunser and Dolitzki have shown themselves able to cope with their hard conditions, but the sad little Rosenfeld, unpractical and incapable in all but his songs, has had the hardest time of all.
He might have been a millionaire to-day, both he and his acquaintances maintain, but, with the usual unpractical nature of the Russian Jew, he was cheated by unscrupulous lawyers.
They quarrel less among themselves, and are characterized by dreamy eyes and an unpractical scheme of things.
And if he was unpractical to a point almost inconceivable, Frances herself could be called practical only in comparison with him.
Most of those, he noted, who oppose Distributism do so on the ground that the proposals are unpractical or revolutionary, which generally means that they have not examined the proposals.
The self-seeker will walk into the very abyss protesting himself a practical man, and counting him unpractical who will not with him "jump the life to come.
Most unpractical must every man appear who genuinely believes in the things that are unseen.
Some, through an ambition of understanding the unintelligible, have wasted their energies in a labyrinth of scholastic subtleties; others have surrendered themselves to a vague unpractical mysticism.