Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories.
Tris McCall of The Star-Ledger was more negative in his review, commenting that the song "sounds so much like Maroon 5 that it's almost embarrassing", and that "in a music industry governed by sanity, the two songwriters [Adam Levine of Maroon 5 and Bart Millard of MercyMe] would sing shoulder to shoulder and reach a common audience".
But it does provide a mass of instructions for conquering the lower slopes, by rebuilding confidence, by returning sanity, and humanity, to people who at times seem to have lost them.
Helen Mirren's splendidly executed Ida counterpoints female self-destructiveness by embodying sanity, maturity and self-knowledge.
On "Monk," the USA Network's series about an obsessive-compulsive detective played by Tony Shalhoub, sanity is the dividing line.
But we don't have to fight for justice very hard, because the fight has already been won by the sanity brigade.
They are all, to varying degrees, survivors of a radical, some would say irresponsible, moment when everything – even the definition of insanity and, by extension, sanity – seemed up for redefinition.
10 45 A.M. (IFC) CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (2006) A cruel emperor (Chow Yun-Fat) and his secretive wife (Gong Li) plot each other's annihilation: he by destroying her sanity with a rare fungus; she by planning a bloody coup during a festival and persuading one of her three sons (Jay Chou) to join her revolt.
2 15 P.M. (IFC) CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (2006) A cruel emperor (Chow Yun-Fat, below) and his secretive wife (Gong Li) plot each other's annihilation: he by destroying her sanity with a rare fungus; she by planning a bloody coup during a festival and persuading one of her three sons (Jay Chou) to join her revolt.
1 15 P.M. (IFC) CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (2006) A cruel emperor (Chow Yun-Fat) and his secretive wife (Gong Li, above with Mr. Chow) plot each other's annihilation: he, by destroying her sanity with a rare fungus; she, by planning a bloody coup during a festival and persuading one of her three sons (Jay Chou) to join her revolt.
In the past two weeks, he has shielded his sanity by re-organizing his CD collection, refiling everything by genre instead of alphabetically by composer.
