Yet for all his pre-electoral posturing, there are signs that his pragmatic self may come back.

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It was pragmatic and self-deterministic, not reliant on outside help.

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Thus far, Mr Neumann's tale seems unexceptional: pragmatic party elders must suffer self-righteous backbenchers in any parliament.

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An unheroic and pragmatic age might readily divest itself of over-sentimental notions about Pitt as the self-sacrificing pilot who weathered the biggest international storm which Britain had encountered since the 15th century.

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