Sentence examples for elementary sense from inspiring English sources

Considering that Intel is one of the driving forces behind the digital revolution, the company has an elementary sense of fun.

What we face is terrorism in the most elementary sense: actions whose hoped-for impact is paralysis of the target rather than direct damage from the action itself.

"Second, the systematic and long-continued receipt of bribes by a public official, coupled with active efforts to conceal the bribe-taking from the public and the authorities... is fraud (again in its elementary sense of deceit, and quite possibly in other senses as well), even if it is the public rather than counsel that is being kept in the dark.

A construction is here to be understood in the elementary sense of producing drawings or diagrams, using certain instruments, such as a ruler and/or a compass, and not in the modern sense in foundational terms, i.e., a constructive, axiomatic foundation for geometry.

Writer Herbert Steinhouse, who interviewed him in 1948, wrote that "Schindler's exceptional deeds stemmed from just that elementary sense of decency and humanity that our sophisticated age seldom sincerely believes in.

The existence of objects is thus of a conceptual nature, and the meaning of the concepts of objects depends wholly on their being connected (intuitively) with groups of elementary sense-experiences.

Ricoeur's conception of historical time unites two more elementary senses of time.

If you believe that the Syrians and the Russians read our newspapers and Web sites, and have elementary political sense, doubtful.

"As a matter of elementary common sense," the statement added, "no rational person who thinks his broker might be a fraud would leave such a substantial sum with him".

Even though it would seem elementary good sense for Britain to do something now about correcting these gaps in its industrial relations structure, the battle Commons is likely to be a stormy one.

Before his half-accidental transformation into the Green Hornet, Britt is the underappreciated son of a newspaper publisher (Tom Wilkinson), and the principal joke of the movie is that even when endowed with a mask, a pimped-out car and a catchy moniker, Britt still lacks both basic crime-fighting skills and elementary common sense.