They were "faithful in the class-conscious sense," a sane acquaintance remarks.
Even playing bad girls and basket cases, this wonderful actress projects a brisk aura of competence, good will and empathy, leavened by an eminently sane sense of proportion.
They can sympathise with his death wish, certainly – it is an understandable response, perhaps in some Helleresque sense the only sane response, giving the finger to this losing game of Russian roulette.
When we look at it this way, we have a clearer and saner sense of where England are.
Krishna Jagannathan, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, echoes Sane's sense that the scientific community is too small.
Otherwise, there is little to jar the senses in this disappointingly sane "Cuckoo's Nest".
"Mad Cows, Sane Cats: Making Sense of the 'Species Barrier' " (June 3) is a fascinating look at the complications related to cross-breed feeding.
Now, it retained a distinct sense of itself as a sane and blissful medium between the laughable rural innocence of a one-street, one-mill town and the urban horrors of a big depressed industrial town increasingly dominated by citizens of color.
The sane have a sense that anything they want is either going to frustrate them because it isn't quite what they really want; or it is going to horrify them because it is more nearly what they want and so they will be unable to enjoy it.
In that context, the calls for Akin to get out of his senate race and get replaced by someone saner make perfect sense.
