She is, as she says many times, the "moderate, sensible" face of Ukip.
She has nothing but praise for Gary Lineker, "the sensible face of our country", and is a big fan of the current #stopfundinghate campaign to persuade advertisers to boycott newspapers that print xenophobic smears against immigrants.
After working its back-channel ties to the army with little obvious effect, the Obama administration sent one of its ablest diplomats, William Burns, the deputy secretary of state, to Cairo to join a European Union representative and envoys from other Arab states in presenting both sides with sensible, face-saving proposals to calm the crisis.
That is a sensible about-face, but it still leaves getting back in the black a ways off.
Even if your illness falls short of a qualifying disability under the Equality Act, most sensible employers faced with someone who is clearly suffering with ill-health should not be rushing into disciplinary action.
The concrete makes the front of the house opaque, sensible because it faces the road, while the side facing the ocean is transparent.
In our interview, he added a twist to that argument: People do not even need to believe global warming is real to see that many of the things he advocates are sensible on their face.
For possibly the first time in her life, Kathy took a parent's sensible advice at face value; she devoted herself to literacy and AIDS awareness programs and it worked.
This budget, for instance, seems particularly keen to help a working family earning less than $59,000 living in a solar-powered house in a run-down inner city and driving a fuel-efficient car.But the biggest issue is whether any extra spending was sensible in the face of the baby-boomer pension squeeze.
'It's an incredible feeling, roaring around these curved roads,' he says, his sensible scientist's face momentarily lit up with an impish grin.
In the Orange prize‑winning Bel Canto, comradeship, love and creativity bloom among terrorists and hostages; in 2011's artful State of Wonder, a sensible research scientist faces not just the snakes and other terrors of the Amazonian jungle, but the dragon of her former medical lecturer.
