Sentence examples for modicum of sanity from inspiring English sources

WITH his once-hopeful presidency paralysed by weeks of street protests against imports of American beef, Lee Myung-bak (pictured) is now trying to restore a modicum of sanity to domestic politics and in case that idea sounds insufficiently implausible even to his country's dealings with North Korea.A new, humbler Mr Lee, once admired as the "Bulldozer", is on display.

After almost 20 years of nonstop deadlines, I really needed a change of pace if I was going to continue with a modicum of sanity.

When Stewart announced a few weeks ago that he would be holding a Rally to Restore Sanity on the National Mall, it seemed to me that the goals of the student loan reform movement dovetailed nicely with that message since what we're really hoping to achieve is the restoration of a modicum of sanity to the student lending industry.

Similarly, Marnell is a roly-poly toy, falling down and then getting up and then falling down again — retreating to her blackout-curtained bedroom for extended, often near-lethal benders in which she gorges on whatever pill will knock her out fastest, then straightening up enough to maintain a modicum of health and sanity.

There were moments of sanity.

Thank heavens for a bit of sanity.

A couple of decades of "sanity".

This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity".

Where is the leadership on the side of sanity?

It's also a sign of sanity.

Arguably it's a sign of sanity.