Sentence examples for sensible tone from inspiring English sources

It's also worth noting the sensible tone of Defense Secretary Robert Gates — in flagrant contrast to Netanyahu.

For a divorced dad's site, it's refreshingly upbeat and the neutral, sensible tone when discussing the more emotional side of separation is very welcome.

A frisky yet sensible tone pervades the book, from the author's dedication (to her family, "for eating all their veggies") to the Mouth-watering Cilantro Lime Martini recipe at the end.

The Clean Energy Council's chief executive, Kane Thornton, said he hoped Dyer's appointment – and appointments to a new scientific committee on wind – would "return a more sensible tone to the debate, which had entered some strange territory during the recent Senate inquiry into windfarms.

The firm and sensible tone of this statement accomplished what the international NGO's response failed to do -- place the ECCC in a position that makes success possible.

They don't have to explain, in a measured and sensible tone, why wiping out all life would probably, on balance, be a bad thing.

From the door, one could see that his home was tastefully decorated in wood and sensible earth tones.

The change in tone was sensible, in our view.

In a strict empiricist vein, what appears before the mind are sensory data or qualia: either patterns of one's own sensations (seeing red here now, feeling this ticklish feeling, hearing that resonant bass tone) or sensible patterns of worldly things, say, the looks and smells of flowers (what John Locke called secondary qualities of things).

But in a sensible, father-of-the-house tone, he also urges voters to support comprehensive background checks, "so criminals and the dangerously mentally ill can't buy guns".

Dressed in a brown vest, tan slacks, and what look like sensible brown Johnston & Murphy brogans, he sets the play's amiable, reflective tone and its aesthetic agenda.