Certainly the image of conductors is changing: the ferocious, terrifying maestri of yesteryear (personified by Solti and Toscanini) are disappearing, mercifully, to be replaced by more reasonable, human, informal figures who lead, if not by consensus, then by consultation (personified, perhaps, by Rattle).
"I think that the foreign policy (of the United States) will be more reasonable, more human, less imperialist; I believe that there will be more attention to Latin America, but I don't believe there will be radical changes," he said on a television interview.
Second is a more reasonable use of human capital.
This is, of course, a more reasonable use of human capital.Third is reducing the cost to society.
Dickens didn't seem to share the idea, common among reformers in his day and our own, that there is a more reasonable and better-natured human species hidden away somewhere inside us, waiting to be let out.
Primates were used in this preclinical investigation as their metabolism and physiology are closer to those of humans than those of rodents, and hence, extrapolation to humans is more reasonable.
We decided to grow up instead and become a more reasonable, rational society that explicitly values human life and prefers to think the best of people, rather than the worst.
We all think we know what evil means, and there are many who believe - despite what we hear on the news every day - that evil is gradually diminishing in the world as human beings become more reasonable.
Locke's more modest empiricism (the view that the chief source of human knowledge is experience) led to the development of a more "reasonable" approach to religion in which reason was held to constrain any appeal to divine revelation.
They began to imagine a more reasonable Christianity — one less insistent on miracles, resurrections, and a transcendent God who directed human history from a heavenly remove.
These researchers have the goal of developing a more reasonable landslide model to predict rainfall-induced landslides in order to reduce loss of human life and property.
