The idea is to make the coalition seem almost like a wartime national government, backed by all sensible opinion, while casting its opponents as just a little weird.
While you have no obligation to humor opinions that you find repugnant (like, for instance, racist or sexist prejudices), you should make a point to be polite about any sensible opinion your opponent might have.
Those of us without a degree in climatology can have no sensible opinion on the truth about climate change, except to sense that the weather does seem to have become a little weird lately.
Perhaps the most sensible opinion regarding the role of glucose control, expressed by R.D. Lawrence, the preeminent diabetologist of his time and who had type 1 diabetes himself, was as follows: "The attempt to keep the blood sugar constantly normal may be ideal in theory, but in practice it is very difficult to achieve and makes the diabetic life unnecessarily hard without adequate benefit" (7).
But now the nation can see most of us have sensible opinions".
Her sensible opinions on housekeeping, marriage, husbandry, country life, and, more rarely, on politics and patriotism were expressed in a plain style, with an occasional ecstatic flourish inspired by her love for "the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all".
Mr. Roll and Albert H. Cantril, a public opinion analyst, wrote "Polls: Their Use and Misuse in Politics" (Basic Books, 1972), which The New York Times Book Review characterized as a "sensible book about public opinion polling by two pros".
Such an experiment is a "sensible idea" in the opinion of Timothy Coulson, a population biologist at Imperial College London.
A sensible attitude, I thought.
Arnold had previously held a high opinion of Hazen, writing that he was "a sensible, judicious officer, and well acquainted with this country".
