His own home at Ramsgate of 1844 is his domestic masterpiece: an exemplary model for imitation, entirely free from Georgian tweeness, and full of butch common sense, even rationality in its floor plans, a prototype for thousands of imitations.
First of all, the law may limit the possibility of courses of action based on common sense or rationality, let alone allowing for justifiable exceptions to general rules.
The New England part of me is the best part - puritan values: feet-on-the-ground, rationality, common sense.
They're our dominant motivating factor, not reason or rationality or common sense.
"All of the evidence in this case supports the rationality, the common sense, of his belief that this adventure, this commitment of capital, would be worth it when the rebuild was complete".
By no means revolutionary in their content, they were nonetheless a distinct declaration of rationality and common sense in dance, a counterbalance to the artificialities and mannerisms of the aristocratic court dances.
That was hard on her: Mr Seehofer had often upset Ms Merkel with views that were too far left for her tastes.Putting these moments of disharmony aside, why such an emphasis on rationality and common sense?
"It's an approach that's steeped in rationality and common sense," said Timothy Murray, who developed the nation's first drug-treatment court in Miami in 1990, and is the director of program development for the Bureau of Justice Assistance at the United States Department of Justice.
The stock market plunges, people get laid off, and businesses suffer financial losses because Americans are hardcore capitalists and we allow self-interest and greed to impede our rationality and common sense.
We might refer to them as "supramental" minds, where intuitive rationality, or heightened common sense, becomes the predominant state of mind.
