Sentence examples for straightforward and sensible from inspiring English sources
I do feel like the ending is a "happy" one, but I also find it straightforward and sensible, almost like something a storybook mother would say.
Yet "The Sisters" keeps track of everyone with a minimum of confusion; things are revealed in a straightforward and sensible order, so that we always know where we are.
I've mentioned this admirable volume before: it has 50 recipes from around the world, and seems to me straightforward and sensible, although some feel it's a bit idiosyncratic for the neophyte baker.
These range from the straightforward and sensible, such as material concerning national security or defence, to the more vague and controversial, such as matters likely to jeopardise the economic interests of the country and material relating to the formulation of government policy.
The breathtaking "idiocy", as one senior woman put it, of the recent decision by the Women Bishops Revision Committee wilfully to ignore the request by General Synod for straightforward and sensible legislation and announce instead its decision to proceed with convoluted discriminatory plans, has angered not just the ordained women, but many bishops, male clergy and laity as well.
That is one of the pillars of the venerable tradition of moral reasoning known as just-war theory, now being cited on every side of the debate about invading Iraq; and however straightforward and sensible the notion of going to war only as a last resort may sound in principle, the world is demonstrating how difficult it is to apply in practice.
But this is more than made up for by its considerable substantive virtues: it is straightforward, accessible and sensible, free of the ideological cant and posturing that often mar even serious academic studies of racial issues.
I don't believe it is because I believe the British public's view is very straightforward and very sensible, which is they want to know that, taken as a whole, our immigration and asylum system and our arrangements for allowing people to come to our country are under good control".
The request, however, is straightforward and reasonable.
WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE AIRLINES Senator Ron Wyden (DemocratOregon) and Senator John McCain (RepublicanArizona) have introduced a bill, the Airline Passenger Fairness Act, that would strike most weary passengers as eminently sensible, straightforward and long overdue.
Knowledgeable about the past, well read in the scholarly literature, Merry is given to moderate and sensible judgments, patiently argued in straightforward prose.
