Sentence examples for sensible frame from inspiring English sources

MALLOY: I'm glad to find you in such a sensible frame of mind.

Moyes asked to be judged after two years and whatever your opinion, and whatever the results (within reason!), fairness dictates that's a sensible time frame given the scale of the job he's taken on".

"But no-one within the coalition doubts the need to get the deficit under control over a sensible time frame".

Such seemingly sensible questions are framed incorrectly (Williams and Nesse 1991).

Tory ministers, including the foreign secretary, William Hague, even praised the role of the Lib Dems in framing a sensible coalition foreign policy.

The members of Congress behind the House bill framed it as a sensible response to a "mushrooming epidemic" of underage gambling and a burgeoning "national-security problem" (since some Internet bookies are allegedly terrorist fronts).

They lived mostly in a green frame barrack and led, a rather sensible existence..

They lived mostly in a green frame barrack and led, a rather sensible existence.... View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By John Cassidy By Jia Tolentino.

Ask sensible questions about how and in what time frame you are expected to progress financially as well as professionally within the company.

But it's telling — and sensible — that even with this as their goal, they chose to frame their proposal as just a small excise costing only a bit more for every ounce you drink.

This usage was continued into the early 19th century by Cogan (1802), who insisted that the term "emotions" was properly applicable only to those "sensible changes and visible effects which particular passions produce upon the frame" (1802, pp. 7 8).