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utilitarian
1. On the next landing we walked through another set of identical utilitarian swing doors and into a large open space, a space that covered the entire width and length of the building
2. My friend‘s utilitarian suggestion that ―hard‖ decisions would have to be made in order to accommodate the young (aren‘t we doing that already?) raises the question by what standards and under what conditions or by whose authority would such decisions be made? Would a ―suitable‖ candidate have reached the ripe old age of 120 or would age be considered among any number of factors including the individual‘s state of health, (or lack of) wealth (or lack of) political connections, (or lack of) utility (or lack of) so on and so forth
3. Bowl in hand, I sprawled on the couch—not the utilitarian couch that had come with the apartment but the puffy one with the big, pastel 1990s lilies on it that I’d taken from my Gramma’s house when I cleaned it out after she’d died
4. He selected the building on the far left of the row, where a row of vehicles of a utilitarian nature sat out front
5. She hoped that it looked only like a utilitarian offer
6. Fabianism had as one of its intellectual forebearers the utilitarian invidualism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, and it became a doctrine
7. They were taken into an area that had once been a utilitarian
8. Is the purpose utilitarian? To use another?
9. Rather than dressing in a utilitarian style, they’ll swan about in elaborate national dress
10. This space in many homes is more utilitarian than functional
11. Does that mean if the act was murder the utilitarian would deem it fine as long as it increases happiness? I thought
12. The interior was sparse and utilitarian
13. They appeared to be somewhat utilitarian in design with
14. The bed had a rather decorative but utilitarian headboard
15. Scrolling leaves and grape clusters were welded on in an attempt to soften the hard steel lines, to make it look more artistic than utilitarian
16. In a reef tank they can be considered somewhat utilitarian but the small amounts of algae they
17. It was austere, utilitarian
18. Pots and platters, decorative and utilitarian
19. But so many are content to use this wonderful faculty of vision for utilitarian purposes only
20. It could be more utilitarian in nature
21. ers were oriented on purely utilitarian targets that can be characterized
22. logical cults where the goals are of utilitarian character while meth-
23. Cargo steam vessels have reached by this time a height of utilitarian ugliness which, when one reflects that it is the product of human ingenuity, strikes hopeless awe into one
24. Orderly and efficient, elegant and artful, funky and utilitarian
25. The place had about it the same bare utilitarian look Gwenda had noted at Earlscastle
26. We need daylight and to that extent it is utilitarian, but moonlight we do not need
27. The commander of the Mighty Host of God and the Archangels sat in the small, exquisitely carved and painted gazebo outside his rather more utilitarian office with an eggshell-thin porcelain teacup steaming in his hand
28. It’s all solid wood floors and red brick, and the kitchen tops are smooth concrete, very utilitarian, very now
29. ” The economists’ interpretation, we should note, relies on a literality that many biblical scholars are careful to avoid in pursuit of less utilitarian insights
30. This struck me as odd, because up until that time, I had taken a rather utilitarian view toward my ophthalmologic needs, and had no idea my eyeglasses would become criteria by which to judge my “fashion-worthiness,” and hence worth to society, at least by the standards of retail brokers!
31. The foregoing remarks lead me to say a few words on the protest lately made by some naturalists against the utilitarian doctrine that every detail of structure has been produced for the good of its possessor
32. His own person was the exact embodiment of his utilitarian character
33. Though Jeremy Bentham's skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed utilitarian old gentleman, with all Jeremy's other leading personal characteristics; yet nothing of this kind could be inferred from any leviathan's articulated bones
34. They assert that it is so, notwithstanding the fact that nobody except themselves either understands or acknowledges their activity, and notwithstanding the fact that, according to their own definition, true science and true art should not have a utilitarian aim
35. Whatever may be the truth about the importance of the part played by the devotees of society from a purely utilitarian point of view, whatever may be said about their follies and extravagances and even immoralities, it still remains true that their doings and characters constitute a theme in fiction which is perennially active
