On BBC Radio 4's Womens' Hour, they discussed the idea of "Generation Sensible", asking whether "the current crop of twenty-somethings" is "cleaner-living than previous generations".
Just as they're about to be dropped by their label, Captain Sensible asks them to sing backing vocals on his cover of Happy Talk.
He wasn't entirely sensible: asked about Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, he told Chuck Todd, on "Meet the Press," "I never thought the President should have sent it up" — adopting the position that, somehow, Obama, twice elected and with a year left in his term, had shown unwarranted audacity by doing his job.
However, now that the cold war is over, Americans would be entirely sensible to ask themselves whether taking on the job of being the biggest power in an ungrateful world is worth the effort.
It had recently acquired a coherent theoretical framework, the periodic table, which may not have answered all the questions but at least suggested which of them it was sensible to ask.
It is no more sensible to ask "What is the analytical method?" There is not one "analytic philosophy".
As a general principle, it seems more sensible to ask an elected government to regulate companies than to ask unelected companies to regulate such a government".
(Ibid., 301) {§6.1} It is not sensible to ask for the method of making one's fortune (or of ruining oneself); there are many.
Occasionally accidents happen where no one is legally at fault and it would be sensible to ask your broker for advice about a policy where you can protect your maximum no claims bonus.
"The philosophical question that's sensible to ask is 'what came before the Big Bang?'; and what they're striving for here is to do away with that 'there's nothing before' answer by making it cyclical".
