If history can be understood "only by admitting the most infinitesimal units for observation," as Tolstoy believed, then rationality proves inadequate; it cannot keep track of all the minute, multitudinous interactions of human motivation, or make them sensible; and the essays are a waste of time.
In March, six months before the Flight 93 piece began circulating, Anton published a longer and lesser-noticed essay, "Toward a Sensible, Coherent Trumpism," in the Unz Review, a website that hosts both far-right and far-left commentary.
But many of Russell's recommendations in his essays on education seem sensible enough.
Although his sub-Nabokovian alliteration can be intolerable and his worshipful tone inadvertently Kinbotian, there is plenty of sensible and revealing stuff here, including essays on Nabokov and the afterlife, Nabokov and Lepidoptera, and — why not? — Nabokov and Machado de Assis.
RL Stevenson's essays on fiction are wonderful, passionate, sensible and humane.
The essay is devastating even if you think you have a sensible (or lazy) person's ambivalence about regimented exercise.
Who would imagine, for instance, that as late as 1984, The Times could publish an essay titled "Drinking and Driving Can Mix," supporting the rights of the "sensible" drinker who chooses to drive anyway.
The essay argued that preventive detention, overseen by a congressionally authorized national-security court, was necessary to insure the "sensible" treatment of classified evidence, and to protect secret "sources and methods" of gathering intelligence.
