Sentence examples for speaks common from inspiring English sources

I'm coming to favour Paddy Ashdown's term, "sensible Labour" – not because I think any of them are sensible but because the MP who speaks common sense in the eyes of Paddy Ashdown is actually very easy, at a gut level, to imagine.

He just spoke common sense, what the citizens of Connecticut believe, that officials shouldn't be taking gifts".

They've been so conditioned by Indian outrage that they've lost the ability to speak common sense.

Enough spoke common languages that, when the rum drinks came out on the trips back to shore, the boat became a very convivial place.

"Some people only use it when it is good for them, but if someone disagrees with me and they are speaking common sense, I will change my mind".

You can't not pay attention". Practically speaking, common sense and safety make it unlikely that many people will be able to completely kick their kicks.

Mental health charities say "depression is real and debilitating"; people who make it their business to speak "common sense", to disabuse the lefties of their leftiness, say "you don't look very depressed to me".

"His father is speaking from the heart … he's speaking common sense … but it has absolutely zippo influence on the son," Arum said.

Shankly summed up the essential criteria for success in football management when he said: "I could speak common sense about the game and I could spot a player".

For instance, Ford Doolittle speaks of common ancestry without a common ancestor.

"He has an emotional intelligence [and speaks] common sense," said political analyst Dimitris Kerides.