Sentence examples for perfectly good idea from inspiring English sources
David had a perfectly good idea of what he was going to California for, but he didn't ask.
"It's a perfectly good idea, but the contracts don't allow for it".The more complicated a contract is, the harder it is to write.
These were pilgrims who had a perfectly good idea what their lives looked like at home; their hours were micromanaged by scriptural obligation from sunrise to sleep.
It probably seemed like a perfectly good idea to an air traffic controller at Kennedy International Airport to bring his children to work last month -- heck, this country has a whole day set aside for that sort of thing.
Currently, this is forbidden by the convention (sometimes rule) that all shareholders in publicly listed companies should be treated equally.As long as such arrangements are fully disclosed (as Mr Bébéar recommends), and freely voted upon in the first place, this seems a perfectly good idea to try.
It's a perfectly good idea, but when I hear a series of words like "I sometimes sit on public toilets," "I always eat lunch at my desk" and "I am an only child" I think: "I have been listening to these declarative performance-art sentences with their flat-voiced irony and their air of 'I speak, therefore I'm deep' for 30-something years now.
Lyrically, the songs might be too full: one had both an "I am your rag doll" metaphor through the verses and a "You are Ms. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde" pay off in the chorus — both perfectly good ideas, but not for the same song.
Now that you understand your target's mindset, you may see reasons why perfectly good ideas are falling flat right now.
David: Another perfectly good column idea down the tubes.
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, said he was happy to see debate on the "perfectly good and respectable idea" floated by the treasurer, Joe Hockey, to allow Australians to access their superannuation accounts to buy their first home.
The appeal to culture bound syndromes is also a perfectly good bet, reflecting the idea that some forms of behaviour are entirely local and not assimilable to a universal model.
