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But I'm talking about practical, nonabstract, nontheoretical stuff over here.

Even a roster full of mathematicians would have trouble with this nontheoretical problem: how to make $1.32 billion fit into $280 million.

But its particulars are nontheoretical enough to be distracting.

Literary theory soon combined with a broader academic disinclination to talk about value: there have also been plenty of traditional, nontheoretical academics dead to beauty.

Yet Longo was also frequently grouped with the more accessible, decidedly nontheoretical Neo-Expressionists, known for their tortured figures, jarring juxtapositions and frequent machismo.

According to institutional protocol, non-skills, or "theoretical," professors were compensated at a higher rate and given more political power than were their peers teaching nontheoretical and pragmatically oriented courses.

Readers will notice a tendency on the part of this avowedly nontheoretical critic to anticipate the discoveries of later theorists - here, for instance, and in his remarks on the "premature modernity" of Hawthorne.

But his book is also a rare, detailed, nontheoretical survey that exposes the veins of invention that run through Western culture, creating an astonishing picture of achievement through its careful accumulation of small details.