The phrase "acting sensibly" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing behavior that is reasonable, practical, or wise in a given situation.
Example: "In times of crisis, it is crucial for leaders to be acting sensibly to guide their teams effectively."
Alternatives: "behaving rationally" or "acting wisely."
This is particularly puzzling because Banks doesn't capture the mad and maddening atmosphere of the 60's, when it was easy to believe that to act radically was merely to be acting sensibly.
Give lenders a nudge to start acting sensibly, and you can stop foreclosures at a relatively small cost.
Among other things, the rise in long-term unemployment will reduce future government revenues, so we're not even acting sensibly in purely fiscal terms.
The likelihood is that most people are acting sensibly but that a significant minority will end up regretting taking too much too soon".
The old line in the sand was between two ideologies, each held by people the other believed to be capable of acting sensibly.
According to self-affirmation theory (Steele, 1988), these responses are elicited because our overarching desire for positive self-perception is threatened when we are told we are not acting sensibly or taking care of ourselves (cf. Harris & Epton, 2009).
On the main matter today – the order to assess the impact on borrowers of sharp rises in interest rates – the FPC is acting very sensibly given the surge in gilt yields in the past month.
Because it's illegal to act sensibly.
She speaks very sensibly about "success" and about the job of acting, which in general attracts a great deal of Western Seaboard nonsense from sophisticates warning of the dangers of fame-chasing in the midst of chasing it themselves.
"I don't think you can sensibly design an education system for the future for 23,500 schools that relies either on all the schools acting autonomously or some minister taking responsibility for 23,500 schools," he said.
