practical turn of mind

This box is for people with a practical turn of mind.

I would say I have a more practical turn of mind.'

"Let's drink his health and see," a farmer suggested who, apparently, had a practical turn of mind.

It is also true that students possessed of a more creative or practical turn of mind do less well than their classmates.

One reason for the desertion rate was that those people of a practical turn of mind were working out the subtle economics.

He was a man of a practical turn of mind, keen in his dealings and skilful with his hands.

Democedes had a practical turn of mind.

He does not cite Roman law sources very often, but he had a practical turn of mind and was active in curial business and administration.

One mercenary, a man with strong lungs and a practical turn of mind, shouted, "Why should we choose you over the Sphrantzai?

Being of a practical turn of mind and having hunted for the table for years, Laria did sort of wonder about food resources and distribution.

Trilby was coffee brown of skin, with straight black hair, full lips, and dark eyes that displayed a perpetually dreamy look, belying her often acutely practical turn of mind.

She must have fallen . . .' 'And pulled that plywood sheet over her, I suppose,' said Barney, who clearly had a practical turn of mind.

And so I lay awake, smoking and reflecting on many things, but, being of a practical turn of mind, chiefly on how we were to give those Masai villains the slip.

It was just that, being a Frenchman of a more practical turn of mind than the Professor, he saw at once that there were some milliards of francs involved in this laboratory toy.

He was a person with a practical turn of mind, and he hired a hall in Sydney and exhibited himself at sixpence a head till he exhausted the output of the gold fields for that year.

She picked up the pile of discarded sheets, smiled reassuringly at Madame Riveau and went to the kitchen, where, being of a practical turn of mind, she set about finding a kettle, filling it and setting it on the gas ring to boil before setting out on a tour of inspection.