pragmatist

Barack Obama, running as a conciliatory pragmatist in 2008, did even better with some 50 percent.

A pragmatist and a moderate, she serves as a role model for other Blue Dog women running for election in Red states.

In a flash, the 2016 contender has seen his reputation slide from straight-talking pragmatist to partisan bully.

He's a conservative, but not a purist; he's a conviction politician—and a pragmatist too.

He was also known as a charismatic pragmatist—a “people person”—who was open to the ideas of others.

The pragmatist tells a man to think what he must think and never mind the Absolute.

Without being able to define, or spell, or even pronounce the term, Sergeant Williamson was a strict pragmatist.

Now the principle of the pragmatist is that anything that does not make any difference to anything else is not real.

The pragmatic mode of thinking is practically universal among scientific men, but Ostwald is an extreme pragmatist.

He is a firm Pragmatist—anything that is useful is all right, anything that is useless is a crime.