Sentence examples for once reasonable from inspiring English sources

Thomas Bernhard's world, by comparison, is at once reasonable and insane.

What happened in Haiti is not that a leader who was once reasonable went mad with power; the truth is that a broadly consistent Aristide was never quite prepared to abandon all his principles.

If religious exemptions can be made to work for as vexed a moral issue as abortion, same-sex marriage should be manageable, once reasonable people of good will put their heads together.

The killer, showing little remorse, stands to get a short sentence for manslaughter, and Ruth and Matt, this once reasonable couple, pour their emotional energies into seeking more severe punishment.

Therefore, once reasonable production pressure difference is adopted, wellbore plastic region can be maintained and sand production would be avoided.

Klein says that Romney was once reasonable and smart, but has "fallen off".

Their once-reasonable mortgage resembled a forbidding mountain.

Again and again, they displayed a fossil-like rigidity, refusing to concede even a jot of a point to the federal judge who imposed a monitor on the Police Department, or to the many critics who warned so often that a once-reasonable stop-and-frisk program had metastasized.

How weird does that once-reasonable dream sound now?

What was once a reasonable budget situation has become nearly impossible.

He believes that people will act correctly once the reasonable course is shown to them (or imposed on them).