Sentence examples for state of sanity from inspiring English sources

Burkhardt performed his operation on six patients, with the specific purpose not of returning the patients to a state of sanity but of putting them into a state of calm.

New York's lieutenant governor, Richard Ravitch, has been trying to bring a measure of sanity to the state's budget process.

The state of Israel is an island of sanity in this difficult neighbourhood and we certainly won't accept lessons in morality from someone so self-righteous and detached".

When she drew away from him, he blamed her for the loss of his sanity, the state of the world, the condition of humanity.

Today it is an act of sanity and realism to acknowledge that the state has failed and will continue to do so until we understand its limitations.

His madness, therefore, is like the state celebrated by RD Laing: insanity not as a state worthy of condign treatment but as a rebellion, the only possible act of sanity in a mad, mad world.

One drop of sanity: Hiram Monserrate, the Democrat who lost his State Senate seat after a domestic-violence conviction, will not be returning to Albany.

Across the nation, the newswires hummed with forlorn tales of sanity and good behaviour.

Along with Defense Secretary James Mattis, national-security adviser H. R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and several others, Kelly and Cohn seem like pillars of sanity in a time of chaos, a growing contrast to an unmoored President.

What they miss doing, but for reasons of sanity had to shelve, is a sort of Thompson State Fair that was held for three consecutive years, culminating in October 2001.

They sought a return not to mere sanity, but to a state of being that had scarcely yet existed.