Gatto said he questions the need to hire a firm to come up with "rather common-sense names".
Indeed, by hiring a geek rather than experienced baseball scouts, and trusting computer-generated algorithms rather than common sense, Pitt's character demonstrates that sporting success does not depend on common sense or intuition, but robust scientific principles and maths.
Politics and ambition rather than common sense drove the policy.
(Again and again, bishops relied on psychiatrists rather than common sense in deciding how to handle abusive clerics).
Mr. Warren replied that he was not suggesting "econometrics" but rather "a common sense way" of evaluating "competing considerations in a systematic way".
After suggesting that false balance is some lefty concept rather than common sense, the Gray Lady feels compelled to interview the editor of the "left-leaning" Talking Points Memo as well as the creator of the "conservative" Power Line.
It is without question a reflection of the tenacity and commitment of thousands upon thousands of supporters and campaigners that we have got here – but it is also a reflection of the ingenuity, or rather, the common sense approach, of Stonewall when it has come to lobbying that has helped achieve legal equality.
"It's time to take a step back," he said, "and ask ourselves, 'When did success become a bad word in America?' " But Mr. Bloomberg reserved his sharpest words for elected officials in Washington, who he said have indulged in partisanship rather than common sense when it comes to the economy.
Rather, systematizing common sense continues indefinitely in order to keep pace with the vicissitudes of our social circumstances.
It's something like uncontrolled jealousy and hysterics rather than common sense.
