What is "practicalities"

Usage examples of "practicalities".

His family’s geneering had concentrated purely on the practicalities of free-fall adaptation, so he was left with a face that was rather too angular, the jaw too prominent, to be classically handsome, and mouse-brown hair which he kept longer than he ought to for flying.

A long, long list of practicalities which had to be grasped, the essential and the merely convenient.

It resembled the kind of starship which might have been built if the practicalities of the ZTT drive hadn’t forced a uniform spherical hull on the astroengineering companies.

He had a choice, considered the practicalities, and decided it was time to shake things up.

The simplest practicalities of such arrangements were startling enough.

Given the practicalities of our situation, many of the colonists went around pretty much nude by now, with little more than strips of cloth or animal skin to cover their modesty.

Nebogipfel held forth on practicalities of life in the conditions of the Palaeocene, such as the manufacture of candles and cloth from the local ingredients.

She could always try to reach the Count in the mountains but, the practicalities of the journey aside, what purpose would that serve?

He drew himself up to his full height, his mind moving on to the practicalities of what lay ahead.

Lunarian, it could not well be rendered in Terrestrial words, and his knowledge of its native tongue was limited to the practicalities in which all languages are about equal.

The state of the Lodge, the commissariat, everything, is a reminder that there has been a war here in Africa and many of them are more concerned with the practicalities of the moment than with what effect their actions will have for the future.

Now today, the last full day of the Conference, we shall be concentrating on the practicalities, with a visit this afternoon to an area which I am told still has a concentration of big game that can, the Minister thinks, be preserved.

I say this again, and most urgently, we have to think in terms of practicalities, of what is possible, given the circumstances.

But worldly practicalities aside, she was the most unsettling woman he'd ever encountered, bringing forth a multitude of feelings and reactions from him such as he'd never before experienced.