Nothing outside the dictates of poetry could be manufactured; nothing purely utilitarian.

Such knowing is depreciated, if not despised, as purely utilitarian, lacking in cultural significance.

But throughout these are purely utilitarian, an unhappy necessity for the preservation of human welfare.

The corridors in which he had first found himself were drab and undecorated, purely utilitarian.

Two or three baseboard outlets are desirable for attaching decorative or even purely utilitarian lamps.

Personally, I'm turned off by the idea of transforming means into a hyper-rational, purely utilitarian experience.

Ana chose to put on a simple blouse and skirt, not elaborate, but not purely utilitarian either.

Each family's abiding place was purely utilitarian.

But the motive was purely utilitarian.

So far for purely utilitarian considerations.

Bonnie's kitchen was purely utilitarian, with a Formica dining set and cheap discount-store cubbies for the twins' schoolbags.

But its central point was Max's detached insistence that we make marriage over into a purely utilitarian affair.

Before passing to the other rooms of the house, we will pause to consider a more purely utilitarian group.

It is also true that "rights" are not primitive and transcendent; their existence rests upon purely utilitarian grounds.

It serves: first, purely utilitarian ends, and is a means; secondly, the purposes of culture, and is an end in itself.

He is afraid, too, that the neglect of philosophy by science may cause the latter to develop along purely utilitarian lines.