How to Use philosophical in a Sentence

philosophical

adjective

• He's trying to be philosophical about their decision since he knows he can't change it.
• Ivan Perez, 53, is philosophical about what caused his life to go off the rails.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• And at the core of this is a philosophical disagreement that hasn’t gone away.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
• And the way it self-corrects is by rule changes and philosophical changes.
  — Faith Salie, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
• Ann Dowd has also joined the cast as The Prophet, the philosophical guide for the resistance.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 July 2024
• Those are some of the broader philosophical questions that the book starts to explore.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Dutcher was philosophical about what may or may not lie ahead for his team that has lost two straight for the first time in 64 games.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• Chance is philosophical when asked if his 3-year-old son may one day run the business.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
• When that is the philosophical approach of the head coach, that starters are involved from Day 1, that gets across the sense of urgency.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
• In her place was the fun aunt who laughed, talked about hip-hop, and waxed philosophical about space and a future unburdened by the past.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 July 2024
• The dispute is, in some ways, a philosophical question about fair pay among the workforce.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2022
• As for not being able to complete the deal, Cowens is philosophical.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Many of the changes have been philosophical and are difficult to measure.
  — Jamiles Lartey, NBC News, 6 July 2022
• McCoy, who started all this in the first place, is more philosophical about the future of his creation.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
• The move to excise those planks from the platform is both pragmatic and philosophical.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Part of him wanted to make a clean, philosophical break and throw out the pocket concepts the linemen had been working under.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Artem was more direct, always in a rush, while Dmytro and Roman were more philosophical.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• With an open mind, Kestner embarks on a philosophical voyage around the world to look for answers to his questions.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• Dowd will be the voice of the Prophet, who is the philosophical guide for the human resistance in the future, acting as a light that shepherds survivors in the darkness of the unknown the lies ahead.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 June 2024
• The resulting tone is philosophical with a hint of the curmudgeon.
  — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
• They were found to contain philosophical texts written in Greek.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2024
• This should be accompanied by a philosophical smile and a shrug.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• And this prompted my thoughts to take a fleeting philosophical detour.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Others take a more philosophical approach to the color of Jesus.
  — John Blake, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• That’s likely less of a philosophical shift than a practical one.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• Our idea was to start the film by going back before the crash, to figure our what happened and who these people were who crashed in the mountains, trying to touch the philosophical aspect of the book.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
• The moral, philosophical question comes down to what, exactly, a person is.
  — Amy Pedulla, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
• This is a good day to study and explore religious or philosophical ideas that are a bit unusual.
  — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 31 May 2024
• Yet philosophical reckonings with morality have long failed to acknowledge this.
  — Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024
• Another statement to consider: The fact that a man who is at once hard-working, clever and thrifty will sooner or later make money seems to me to be so obvious as to require no particular philosophical meditation .
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024