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The color palette is very pared back, there's a practicalness to what they wear.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2022

He addresses the Men's Club of the Pilgrim Congregational Church on "The Basic and Fundamental Ideals of Christian American Citizenship�item: service, item: practicalness: "Service is imagination.

From Time Magazine Archive

Father Müller is a writer well-known to the Catholics: his writings have proved most acceptable for their solidity and practicalness.

From Public School Education by Müller, Michael

The interest of the workingman "finds its expression in the practicalness of the second part of the Erfurter program, and the wholly practical work of the party."

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Orth, Samuel P.

So, with a stringent practicalness worthy of Franklin, he discourses on his favorite text, “Let nothing be done without a purpose.”

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various