| 单词 | impracticality |
| 例句 | They discounted the boy’s protests for their impracticality and sought to rationalize expenditure. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The subsequent failure of the American Colonization Society and the combination of logistical and economic difficulties in the colony of Liberia exposed the impracticality of any mass migration back to Africa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The impracticality of the show’s role-juggling is part of the joke. Review | Constellation’s ‘39 Steps’ is a comic thriller without thrills 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z We meet the production's historical advisor, Julian Humphrys from the Battlefields Trust, who explains the physical toll of medieval combat – and the impracticalities of armour. Shakespeare on the battlefield: the Globe theatre step out 2013-07-09T19:00:00Z Its impracticality for liturgical use is just one of the mysteries surrounding the work — as well as the fact that Bach’s own family identified it as a Roman Catholic Mass. Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B minor 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The impracticality of the fragile device alone warns you that this is art. The Fever Bubbling in Contemporary Art Sales 2011-11-11T14:00:10Z But with its jumble of clichés, its blatant word-bubble declarations, and its hectically rushed impracticalities, the movie—which is based on a comic-book series—invites an air of antic exaggeration and revved-up stylization. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z All except, for obvious reasons of impracticality, the cellist stand to perform. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z The one major impracticality in these ready-to-wear looks were some headdress-helmets in silver, white, black and electric blue that came down to the eye and might have caused their wearers to walk into traffic. Dior pulls the stars in conveyor-belt menswear show in Paris 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But it's size, price tag and impracticality ultimately wheeled it out of our hearts. The damning portrayals of Peloton on our TVs and what that says about us 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z And you get the ones you can't even move in because of the impracticality of their design. Stornoway's Brian Briggs: 'We've acquired a very well-behaved crowd' 2013-06-19T14:21:02Z “You are constantly being faced with the impracticality of this pursuit.” Lupita Nyong’o on the real story behind her new film, ‘Queen of Katwe’ 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Hogarth agrees that a certain impracticality can take hold. Deep concerns: the trouble with basement conversions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Instead, he bounces from one idealistic project to the next, refusing to be steamrolled by impracticalities. Great British Food Revival 2011-03-23T08:00:02Z The shoddiness of Nash, the impracticality of Vanbrugh and the budget-busting of many great architects in history are now almost forgotten and forgiven. Stirling buildings 2011-03-20T00:01:01Z Stirling's mistake was to build sloppily in Cambridge, and then to compound things with his Florey Building at Oxford, where impracticalities were again countenanced for the sake of form. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z "It's ridiculously impractical," says Barnett, with a quiet smile that suggests ridiculous impracticality is an incentive rather than a deterrent. These New Puritans: a band like no other 2010-10-07T21:59:00Z The practicality of the tee with the wild impracticality of everything else makes sense in my world, one that requires the fluidity to bounce between both of these modes to survive. It's time to embrace the power of the morning-after uniform 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Resistance and a slew of impracticalities notwithstanding, Lincoln began his presidency in 1861 as a firm believer in Black colonization. Abraham Lincoln’s disastrous effort to get Black people to leave the U.S. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z These structures from quantum impracticality, inherent crystalline metronomes might migrate into our future time-keeping technology. Poem: ‘A Quantum Cento’ 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z I am quite aware of the political impracticalities of this suggestion; I don’t care. Opinion | Weapons of war should not be available to the public 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The attempts to build them according to a perfectly calibrated blend of aspiration and inoffensive taste mask their deeper ambitions to be whole factories for living, ones that eliminate impracticality and inefficiency. Can anything stop Rick Caruso from turning L.A. into the Cheesecake Factory? 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Among election officials and experts, the impracticality of counting ballots by hand is clear. How Trump allies are pushing to hand-count ballots around the U.S. 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Professor Thomas R. Dew of the College of William and Mary followed the vote with a pamphlet demonstrating the utter impracticality of any proposal to colonize Virginia’s slaves abroad. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z This year’s maneuvering is proving especially wild and expensive, a reflection of a sport with fan bases known for impracticality and impatience. Big Contracts, Big Buyouts, Big Pressure: College Football Coaches Hit the Jackpot 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z The new restrictions were met with skepticism, with many lamenting its impracticality. Kenya will impose widespread restrictions on the unvaccinated starting next month. 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Schulman pulled out her laptop and scrolled through the files to demonstrate their impracticality — pages of tiny, unsearchable font blurred across the screen. From novelist to climate crusader: How one woman is working to put a stop to natural gas While a Green Pass can also be obtained with a negative coronavirus test, workers who go that route would need to be retested every 48 hours — a daunting impracticality. Italy begins enforcing one of the world’s strictest workplace vaccine mandates, risking blowback 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The impracticalities, though, would mount: In Italy, an unvaccinated gymgoer, for instance, would need to get tested every two days to do regular workouts. Europe has caught up to the U.S. on coronavirus vaccinations — and is deploying near-mandates to get further 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z They’re also forced to acknowledge the impracticality of giving up material desire altogether. PEN/Faulkner winner Joan Silber strings together ‘Secrets of Happiness’ in new book 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The epilogue recalls an episode in which Madison, late in life, acknowledged the impracticality of a plan to which he nonetheless bequeathed a sizable amount of money: recolonizing emancipated enslaved people in Liberia. Review | Four presidents who put Virginia’s stamp on early America 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Once you have 19 justices sitting there, the shear impracticality of them all hearing every single case and debating it in such a large forum casts the question in a very different light. "Pack" the Supreme Court? Absolutely 100% yes — it's the only way to save democracy 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z This leads to an over-emphasis on performance, which might appeal to some buyers despite the day-to-day impracticalities of city driving. Lucid Motors says its electric sedan can hit a quarter-mile in under 10 seconds, smashing Tesla’s record 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Ostensibly, the anger stems from the impracticality of the tiny purses women carry down the red carpet. Jennifer Aniston: Why 'The Morning Show' felt like 20 years of therapy 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z We agree with all of that, but we’re a bit skeptical that people will heed the recommendation, and not just because of its potential impracticalities. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z World leaders will recognize the impracticality, and immorality, of military spending. Optimism in a Dark Time 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z When the projects were first proposed, some medical and biodefense specialists warned about the expense and impracticality of rapidly producing such medicines at federally sponsored facilities. Federal vaccine development sites ill-suited to counter covid-19 epidemic 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z How rich of us to complain about the lack of specifics in the Sanders health plan, or the impracticality of Trump’s border wall. Opinion | Why so many people think the world is rigged 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z That is due mainly to their widespread distribution and the impracticality of treating an entire river with chemicals. Shell shock: Giant invasive mussels eradicated from US ponds 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z He also noted the impracticality of another judge taking over the sprawling lawsuit just weeks before the first trial begins. Judge in landmark opioid trial declines to step aside 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Other executives at the company later acknowledged the impracticality of building it, given simpler methods of tracking Uber’s competitors. How Uber Got Lost 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Several candidates, while favoring "Medicare-for-all," also noted the impracticality of jumping to such a plan right away. Kellyanne Conway: Dem nominee will ‘have to defend socialism’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a valid point this week about the political impracticality, and likely impossibility of impeaching President Trump. Pelosi is right, kind of: Pointless for Dems to impeach Trump 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But stem-cell transplants from these rare donors are unlikely to be used for the average H.I.V.-positive patient without cancer, because of the risks involved and the impracticality and costs of these procedures. Opinion | This is Not A Cure for My H.I.V. 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z A year ago, Aston Martin wowed attendees of the Geneva Motor Show with the audacious impracticality of its Lagonda limousine concept. Aston Martin stretches the concept of an SUV with its latest Lagonda 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z There’s also the physical and legal impracticality of building a 2,000-mile wall along the southern border, where rough terrain makes construction challenging. Opinion | If we’re going to waste billions on a wall, let those billions be Trump’s 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z To be sure, there were impracticalities in the paper ballots that Congo used in past elections. Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: The U.S. is warning Congo that using electronic voting machines could backfire 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z McCain pursued compromise believing that it was good policy — consistent with both the impracticality of mass deportation and with this country’s history as a land of opportunity and haven for the oppressed. Opinion | John McCain and the tragic transformation of the Republican Party 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The carnival traveled to several cities, but in 2015, the impracticality of moving such an elaborate production turned their focus toward creating a more permanent installation that would eventually become the new park. How Two Bit Circus is turning its 21st century carnival into one giant game 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z “And at that time society afforded that impracticality,” because the cost of living was so much cheaper. For the struggling middle class, Alissa Quart has a message: you're not alone 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z However, quite apart from the impracticality of merging two already huge events, there appears little enthusiasm among Para-athletes for emulating the process at the Olympic Games. Valued and included, Para integration a big hit on Gold Coast 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z I made the straps a little too long and when things are a little bit too much to me, there’s a subtle note of extravagance and impracticality. Rick Owens on collaborating with Birkenstock, Joseph Beuys and why he's taking his label with him when he goes 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z For a long time, the high price and obvious impracticalities of this bag kept me away. My new bag is awful, and I love it 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The impracticality of the ban should be reason enough to revisit this issue. Banning guns in Senate gallery is symbolism over substance 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The relaxed enforcement of a women’s dress code in Iran may be partly rooted in the impracticality of prosecuting, fining and imprisoning violators. Iran and Saudis’ Latest Power Struggle: Expanding Rights for Women 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z This impracticality aside, there was also the task of locating a gene whose sequence was not known, in a genome that was, at the time, a no-man’s land. Dreaming of a cure: the battle to beat narcolepsy 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z The impracticality of keeping it with Kowloon in Chinese hands was impressed upon her by civil servants. The handover of Hong Kong revisited 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z But this is what cities do, no matter the expense or impracticality. L.A. now has a new tallest building. How it will fit into the fabric of the city is still open to debate 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z She listened to my ideas, and instead of criticizing their impracticality, she subtlety highlighted the benefits of an undergraduate degree. Weird, wonderful, or both? We asked the newsroom which teachers they’ve changed their minds about 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Still, it’s worth examining the impracticalities and impossibilities, because political debate is meaningless if it has no connection to the real world. Opinion | Trump’s border-wall fantasy is crumbling 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z It was a vote in which anger overrode optimism, a corrosive sense of failure overrode hope and in which the very impracticality of a Donald Trump presidency proved one of his strongest drawing cards. Liberals risk becoming a permanent minority in America | Daniel T Rodgers 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z In postwar Europe, the impracticality of the twin restrictions of corseted waist and full skirt indicated wealth and idleness. Can a Corset Be Feminist? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z But these third-party options are bad candidates not simply because of their impracticality, or their underdog status, or their lack of exposure, or some nonsense about a rigged political system. Both third-party candidates would be terrible presidents 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But people are ordering Saint’s Customs outfits to wear around conventions and charity events, sometimes for hours at a time, despite their utter impracticality. Kansas City designers create galaxy of high-end costumes 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z In its day, the keyboard pants idea was entertaining, but mostly found itself the victim of jokes about its impracticality and self-evident social awkwardness. Is it time to reconsider the keyboard pants? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The idea of turning one of your rooms into a holodeck is more appealing before you consider the impracticality of it all. Does virtual reality fit in your home? 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z But agriculture sector executives say fences and guards are not feasible, due to the high cost and impracticality of guarding hundreds of thousands of acres. In Iowa corn fields, Chinese national's seed theft exposes vulnerability 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Never mind the questionable legality and unquestionable impracticality of what he proposes. Protesters should let Trump air his hate 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Outbreaks of hope and determined impracticality provide an important rebuttal to the politics of accommodation, to the idea that the minor tweaking of the status quo is the best we can expect in our lifetimes. Bernie’s idealism is his greatest virtue: America needs dreamers — and now more than ever 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Many understandably believe that “utopian” is shorthand for dreamy impracticality. Free love or genocide? The trouble with Utopias 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z For many, the wince was about simple impracticality. North Carolina Editorial Roundup 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z "From a law enforcement perspective, the bill presents us with an impracticality and impossibility," Lynch said. FBI director says no credible threat to US after Paris attacks, no ties between attackers, US 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The problem with this isn't just its impracticality as outlined above. 3 Ways Being Irreplaceable Kills Your Career 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “I imagined myself, with some impracticality, as dancing my way out of Toledo,” she told me. Gloria Steinem’s Life on the Feminist Frontier 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z That is why human beings continue to have children, even by choice, despite its deep impracticality in free-market American society. Children don’t live in a vacuum: why US education is not the 'great equalizer' 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z He could see the impracticality of traditional bits of organizational advice, like the old rule about never touching a piece of paper more than once— fine in theory, impossible in practice. How To Calm Your Monkey Mind and Get Things Done 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s partly about the impracticality of running an urban subway system through less densely populated parts of the region. Metro board shows that even a transit system can experience gridlock 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Sensitive to the financial impracticality of bundling a novel controller with an indie game, Nygren left his ideas in embryonic form. ‘Affordable Space Adventures': Where innovative design meets an elegant universe 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Besides their impracticality, Satterberg said a DOC card unnecessarily marks those who were formerly incarcerated. Free state ID cards proposed for newly released prisoners 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Missouri's Public Service Commission focused heavily on the impracticality of the rule's interim goals and its timeline for meeting final targets in comments to EPA. Revised Clean Power Plan Could Win Coal Utility's Backing 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z But we should design policies that account for the distortion that inevitably arises from the impracticality of taxing the home. Stay-at-Home Parents Already Get a Tax Preference 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The Modulares Interface B.A is a charming idea, despite the obvious impracticalities. Man turns iPad into tactile interface for whatever he wants 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In November 2009 they started a Web site called Strong Towns to start raising questions about America’s approach to land use and the financial impracticalities suburban sprawl encourages. Crisis in the Suburbs: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z What none seem to recognize is either the impracticality of such an objective or its repulsiveness to Hamas. There Is No Hope For "Peace" In Gaza 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Flying Robots over Mars Traditional spacecraft would need to fly extremely fast to stay aloft in Mars's thin atmosphere, an impracticality if scientists want to survey Martian terrain in detail. Giant Pterosaurs Serve as Aircraft Inspiration 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z He’s therefore aware that an accounting of reparations’ impracticalities would be largely irrelevant to Coates’ call for “a national reckoning… an airing of family secrets… a settling with old ghosts.” How the conversation about reparations reveals the right’s twisted morality 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Alas, Piketty’s global wealth tax and George’s single tax suffer from the same defect, and it’s not political impracticality — after all, George nearly got himself elected mayor of New York City in 1886. Before there was Piketty While that wouldn’t affect our son until he is of age, the question remains whether the impracticality outweighs the opportunities afforded him. Motherlode Blog: One Baby, Five Nationalities 2014-04-11T13:59:29Z "The Heart of Wales Line survey also highlighted the impracticality of commuting with the current timetable, particularly southwards into Swansea." New rail services for mid Wales 2014-04-08T07:19:05Z Despite the impracticalities - glass was heavy, fragile and liable to explode under internal pressure - Appert has gone down in history as the "father of canning", despite not being the first to use tin plate. The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't 2013-04-21T15:03:28Z "This is extremely frustrating, there is the considerable cost and the impracticality of staying in Delhi for weeks at a time while waiting for paperwork to be rubberstamped." Female Afghan boxers could miss UK bout 2013-03-05T17:54:54Z Meaning it is technically possible — yes, technically, theoretically, improbably and impracticality possible — that every team in a single division could have a 0-10-6 record. Expanded NFL playoffs? Why not? 2012-12-23T23:10:24Z The impracticality of these people’s dreams is just another example of their disenfranchisement. India Ink: Book Review: 'A Free Man,' by Aman Sethi 2012-11-22T05:37:49Z The first is abstract and well ingrained in the American psyche: the negative association of “green” technologies with inefficiency and idealistic, hippie-fueled impracticality. The Secret to Solar Power 2012-08-10T12:37:36Z This thing is a koan to impracticality, a paean to muscle. Nissan $98,000 ‘Godzilla’ GT-R Supercar Stomps Ferrari, Porsche 2012-02-09T01:20:42Z Nowhere is the impracticality of MBA programs clearer than in the way they generally ignore sales–the single most important function of every business. Don't Go to Business School 2012-02-06T11:42:45Z My foolishness, I suppose, is typical of the scholar's abstraction and impracticality. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z The impracticality of such frivolity became apparent at once. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z The only thing that kept books off limits to advertisers in the past was the impracticality of them. Heresy: Ads For eBooks 2010-12-13T10:00:00Z That episode shows the impracticality of companies acting alone, as they run the risk of being punished for their prudence. Invasion of the booty snatchers: how greed is spreading out from the City 2010-04-17T23:05:00Z Many of those who will first join us in this Olympic year will wonder what the skaters are thinking, devoting their lives to a sport with a foundation built on sheer impracticality. 2010-02-14T17:50:00Z If you are dealing with him as a tradesman, resist the temptation to take advantage of his impracticality and don't treat him as if you thought money was everything. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types With such a reputation for impracticality the printer's influence was negligible during his lifetime although, of course, it was widely felt later. Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving I do not condemn him for this: the organization of the army is such as to encourage impracticality and inadvertence, but the consequences were unfortunate for me. Greener Than You Think The Russian character seems, superficially, with its lack of restraint, its idealism, its impracticality, its mysticism, its material simplicities, to be so readily grasped that the surprise that finally remains is the more dumbfounding. The Dark Forest Historic Spirit! we cried that day, impracticality of literary men for petty, mundane details, here hast thou still thy habitat, a temple in Mr. Page! Walking-Stick Papers The impracticality which so seriously handicaps him, since the husband is supposed to support the family, is not quite so much of a handicap to her. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types There has been some effort of late to depreciate the book—to insist on its inadequacy and on the impracticality of the knowledge that it conveys. A Librarian's Open Shelf Gloucester resumed; and, after narrating some particulars concerning the conference between the king and the embassadors, he suggested the impracticality of secretly retaining Lady Helen, for any length of time, in the state dungeon. The Scottish Chiefs "It might be explained by our inveterate impracticality." Crime and Punishment Realising the impracticality of an immediate withdrawal, they were nevertheless determined to remain in Egypt not a moment longer than was necessary, and, in the meantime, to interfere as little as possible in Egyptian affairs. 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