Sentence examples for act of sanity from inspiring English sources

The telling is the madness expelled, an act of sanity that allows life to go on.

Today it is an act of sanity and realism to acknowledge that the state has failed and will continue to do so until we understand its limitations.

His madness, therefore, is like the state celebrated by RD Laing: insanity not as a state worthy of condign treatment but as a rebellion, the only possible act of sanity in a mad, mad world.

When the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled last week that three prisoners held by the United States at Bagram Air Base, in Afghanistan, could not challenge their detention in American courts, Senator Lindsey Graham and others welcomed the decision as a simple act of sanity.

Therefore, Governor Brown's act of sanity is all the more significant and should be widely known.

But such acts of sanity could soon be illegal if Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind). has his way.

Then Steve Rowe, who took over in April, said he would close 53 loss-making overseas stores in 10 countries, presenting the decision as an act of financial sanity given the size of the losses overseas.

Thank heavens for a bit of sanity.

Others put on, what experts call, "the face of sanity".

His message, which seems to be about the day-to-day high-wire act that is the maintenance of sanity, is surely meant to be timeless.

And for instance, contrary to some observers' impressions, at no point is it implied by anyone, including Mr. Woodward and Mr. Bernstein, that the already famous prayer‐session‐with‐tears in the Lincoln Sitting Room was the act of a man losing his sanity.