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The color palette is very pared back, there's a practicalness to what they wear.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2022

He addresses the Men's Club of the Pilgrim Congregational Church on "The Basic and Fundamental Ideals of Christian American Citizenship�item: service, item: practicalness: "Service is imagination.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the unsympathetic student of Scottish history will not get very far with his subject by keeping steadily in mind our practicalness and our logic.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)

"I have known such cases," cried the lawyer, with his dry practicalness, if there is such a word.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Although he admired practicalness, he realized that it was possible to be too practical, and he sighed sometimes for the tone that his unknown admirers took when they wrote to him about his work.

From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton