What's the difference between pragmatist and theorist?

Pragmatist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is pragmatic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prime minister, ever the pragmatist, sees a flawed alliance of states that aggregates its power to “fix stuff”.
  • (2) This led some to label him a moderate, though “pragmatist” might be more accurate.
  • (3) It's a belated recognition of this verdict that has spurred a new debate on the centre-right, with pragmatists from influential skills minister Matthew Hancock to key players at the Daily Telegraph moving beyond grudging acceptance of the existence of the minimum wage to making a more full-throated case for strengthening it.
  • (4) According to ETC, there are now several groupings, including the pragmatists, such as Branson, Lomborg and the American Enterprise Institute, which argue that geo-engineering is faster and cheaper than carbon taxes and emissions reductions, so just get on with it; and the theorists, such as the Royal Society and the Carnegie Institution for Science in the US which say we must have an emergency Plan B because we are heading for a certain climate catastrophe; meanwhile, businesses such as the Ocean Fertilisation Company and the Biochar Initiative see dollars.
  • (5) Apple CEO Tim Cook has, if nothing else, demonstrated an ability to be a pragmatist.
  • (6) Some would say the Sunderland manager – whose evolving side have one point from four games – was foolish to combat Arsenal with a 4-4-2 system featuring two orthodox wingers flanking a midfield anchored by the far from heavyweight David Vaughan and the debut-making Ki Sung-yueng but the Italian is not one of life's natural pragmatists.
  • (7) Avaaz is both global and globalised and its approach is less bleeding-heart liberal than hard-headed pragmatist.
  • (8) Dercon, who met Fayadh during a trip to Saudi Arabia two years ago, said he was a victim of the power struggles among reformists, pragmatists and ultraconservatives in the Gulf state.
  • (9) "He's an extreme pragmatist, less ideological even than David Cameron."
  • (10) She’s as good as anyone just because she hasn’t come from a private school with incredible wealth.” In policy terms, she is, like Blair, a pragmatist declaring that “what matters is what works”.
  • (11) The difference now is that pragmatists in Iran have a man to represent them, and he appears to enjoy political cover.
  • (12) The twists and shifts of a cynical, and increasingly unhappy, pragmatist briefly followed the same course as a principled idiosyncrat.
  • (13) You never know whether he would do any deals with Iran behind the scenes.” Nuclear weapons: how foreign hotspots could test Trump's finger on the trigger Read more Iran’s own pragmatists, notably the current president, Hassan Rouhani , however, don’t share that view, said Hadian.
  • (14) Is he an ideologue, a pragmatist or an opportunist?
  • (15) "[He] is an arch-pragmatist who makes terrible misjudgments, but he should not be demonised," says a western diplomat.
  • (16) Downplaying independence has enabled the SNP leader to present himself as a pragmatist, while retaining a claim to lead the only party committed only to Scotland .
  • (17) To be fair to the Brexiteers, the right in Britain has always consisted of an uneasy alliance between Tory pragmatists and change-hungry libertarians.
  • (18) Is there such a thing as Mayism, or is she simply a grey, autocratic pragmatist?
  • (19) He comes across as a courteous, efficient pragmatist, a director whose experience of everything from ads (he met his partner, Ceán Chaffin, while doing one for Coca-Cola) to music videos (including Madonna's Vogue ) to films has given him remarkable financial realism.
  • (20) O’Neill is keen to play the pragmatist, insisting third place and a play-off remains his primary objective, but he also had a feeling that a big result was in the offing in Athens.

Theorist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (2) Last year's physics Nobel was for the Higgs discovery and was only given to theorists, not experimentalists.
  • (3) Both theorists described the same confusion between self and other, but they attributed different explanations to the phenomenon.
  • (4) The media theorist Nathan Jurgenson reads it as "conspicuous acquisition", after Thorstein Verblen's notion of conspicuous consumption.
  • (5) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (6) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
  • (7) By illuminating both the prejudical content of medical theories as well as the emancipatory actions of lesbian and gay communities to change stigmatizing diagnostic and treatment situations, the authors attempt to demystify ideologies about lesbians that motivate clinicians, administrators, educators, researchers, and theorists in the delivery of health services.
  • (8) Theorists have made the following predictions: (1) Where adult exceeds juvenile mortality, the organism should reproduce only once in its lifetime.
  • (9) In 2 commentaries on the theorists' answers, Hinde highlights differences among their positions and indicates issues that current theories of temperament must take into consideration, and McCall draws on common aspects to propose a synthesizing definition that draws on all 4 approaches.
  • (10) They found nothing and she says she is not a conspiracy theorist.
  • (11) Another view would propose that the restiveness of some current and past theorists to claim the mantle of "science" continues to lead to premature and awkward attempts to couple psychoanalysis with putative neighbors rather than stick to its last of shaping its own findings into a language reflecting a coherent theory capable of validation.
  • (12) Conspiracy theorists will no doubt have other explanations.
  • (13) Even at its point of greatest influence, then, there was resistance to the politically laden and overdetermining visions of utopia in which modernisation theorists like Rostow traded.
  • (14) The 50th anniversary of the shooting is coming up and the conspiracy theorists are foaming at the mouth.
  • (15) According to ETC, there are now several groupings, including the pragmatists, such as Branson, Lomborg and the American Enterprise Institute, which argue that geo-engineering is faster and cheaper than carbon taxes and emissions reductions, so just get on with it; and the theorists, such as the Royal Society and the Carnegie Institution for Science in the US which say we must have an emergency Plan B because we are heading for a certain climate catastrophe; meanwhile, businesses such as the Ocean Fertilisation Company and the Biochar Initiative see dollars.
  • (16) Developmental theorists can observe in biography representations of the life cycle that add meaning to aging.
  • (17) I was very influenced by the thinking of [the cultural theorist] Stuart Hall.
  • (18) Key has characterised both Nicky Hager, author of the book Dirty Politics, which draws on emails hacked from the venomous rightwing blogger Cameron Slater, and Greenwald, who arrived in New Zealand last week to expose contradictions in official positions on surveillance, as "conspiracy theorists".
  • (19) Quantum pioneer: Paul Dirac Moreover, there is a feeling, hard to convey to the layman but shared by many experienced theorists, that these ideas all hang together.
  • (20) Two leading sociological theorists of mental illness, Parsons and Scheff, depict the mentally ill as enacting a deviant social role which sets them apart from others.