You just have a practical streak about a yard wide, that's all.

The practical streak was at a loss to know how to stop him.

Nobel laureates in science, particularly ones with that practical streak, went fast.

It struck him that she had a decidedly practical streak.

He has a rare combination of visionary intensity with a strong practical streak.

Like Edison, he had a practical and experimental streak.

But though much of his music is romantic, he has a strong practical streak.

Lena had a practical streak in her, maybe that's why she didn't want to hook up with me permanent.

For she, too, had her practical streak though now she tried to bury it.

In truth, he had always had a practical streak.