No man or woman of sane mind can now never doubt what went on.
"No sane mind can believe that all this was possible in 10 days".
When one partier inquires as to the whereabouts of Frosty the dog, it would seem there's no sane mind left.
Perfectly sane minds possess an incredible capacity for developing narratives, and even some of the wildest conspiracy theories can be grounded in rational thinking, which makes them that much more pernicious.
There can't be someone of sane mind and body out there who actually covets my ageing Fiat Multipla with its distinct yet unattributable odour and its partially eaten rice cakes wedged irretrievably between the back seats, can there?
This was the Eighties, when you had to go to the US embassy and be presented with a contract, which you signed but not before holding up your hand and swearing allegiance: "I henceforth give up the film rights to my characters, throughout the universe and for all eternity", before answering the question, "Are you of right and sane mind?".
No-one of sane mind is going to pay £50m for the club.
He makes this clear from the beginning of his reply, when he introduces two premisses that "no one of sane mind ought to doubt" (p. 317).
Who, of sane mind and adequate financial muscle, would pick up that debt - the magnitude of which could hardly be cleared in a lifetime?
Thus "no one of sane mind will believe that something could be the truth which so sharply puts an end to all good things and brings on so many bad things" (p. 338).
A sane mind, therefore, is one "maintained in a continual round of the production and dissolution" — in, that is, a dynamic balance of connection and detachment, memory and forgetting, that holds out the possibility of change and transformation.
