LOOKING at a copy of a manuscript of "A Christmas Carol, David Greethamm, a distinguished professor at the CUNY Graduate School, made a perfectly sensible observation about Charles Dickens the editor: "The strike-throughs are so bold, so opaque — they achieve their purpose of striking out.
Not an essential programme, but equally not one without moments of sensible observation.
Lee Dixon chips in with the sensible observation that we do seem some way off the very best teams at the Euros, only for know-it-all last‑word freak Alan Hansen to add, in his default setting of Eeyorish finality: "A long, long way off".
Anonymous Romney insiders fumed, as did Rupert Murdoch, but the Governor stood his ground with the sensible observation that his early support of Gov. Romney's presidential bid did not preclude his honest assessment of President Obama's help in dealing with Sandy's devastation.
"The Spooky Art" contains a number of sensible observations, including one that seems especially pertinent in the era of the creative writing course: "What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection".
David Byrne's book, although it's a self-conscious art object (backwards pagination, upholstered cover and so on) contains plenty of plain-spoken, sensible observations: a dichotomy typical of the man.
While the destination of his intellectual march is borderline Bolshevik, he makes some sensible observations about conservatism along the way.
Belgium should be poorer than France and much poorer than America, but it isn't.The authors attack this problem by making two sensible observations: that individual countries aren't completely isolated and that domestic markets aren't completely integrated.
One has the impression that Boot himself was uneasy about the connection, because he begins with some sensible observations not only about the similarities between the two categories, but also about the differences.
