(a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
(a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier this week, Izvestia reported that Yaroshenko had written to Trump, complaining of poor health and saying that Trump’s intervention in the case would offer his “last chance to return to Russia as a sane person.” If the two leaders do delve into more geopolitical questions, Putin will probably try to focus on issues on which Washington lawmakers could more conceivably cooperate.
(2) Is there a difference between a person who is sane and that person when he is, in some way, mad?
(3) Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said: "[Zeta-Jones's announcement] will have a huge impact on [people] recognising mental illness is a condition that everyone can suffer from.
(4) Kudos to Louise Byrne for her matter of fact courage #qanda @SANEAustralia October 6, 2014 Anthony Herbert (@AnthonyHerbert9) Deal with fear, maintain hope and believe people - Louise Byrne #qanda October 6, 2014 • Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline 13 11 14 or Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 • Sane Australia Helpline 1800 18 SANE (7263)
(5) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(6) USA 88, 5847-5851; Donoghue, M. J., Alvarez, J. D., Merlie, J. P. and Sanes, J. R. (1991).
(7) But since then it has gone ballistic, to the point where apparently sane men in suits, or at any rate employees of Goldman Sachs, say it is worth $50bn.
(8) Suicide prevention services, however, do not provide for suicide as a sane, honorable choice in such circumstances.
(9) And it's that magnificent compulsion that means we need to have a sane conversation about how to set limits for ourselves on another wonderful pleasure that has no natural limits.
(10) A divided empire: what the urban-rural split means for the future of America Read more “I hope Trump puts sane people in charge of this and says maybe they can stay on an individual basis.
(11) Other signatories include St John Ambulance, Volunteering Australia, Youth Off the Streets, Drug Arm, Sane Australia, the Myer Family Company, Hillsong Church, and the Australian Council of Social Service.
(12) That is a risk any sane person would seek to drastically reduce."
(13) "With the best engineers in the world, and the crew varying between the intensely respectable and the barely sane, ready to scorn any disaster, unless of Titanic scale."
(14) But the only sane response is total scepticism of the motives of those seeking to make us afraid.
(15) (Incidentally, this is hardly my area of expertise, but I fail to comprehend why any sane 21st-century human would refuse an epidural.
(16) For one thing, in a sane market, such double-digit rises for so long are not sustainable .
(17) Yet it wasn’t until my retirement that I had the time or the resources to fulfil some of the dreams and ambitions that had fuelled my imagination and kept me sane during my working life.
(18) Balmain’s collection had an Aladdin Sane jumpsuit, while Walter Van Beirendonck had a blazer adorned with a clever Aladdin Sane diagonal flash across the lapels, and Dries Van Noten and Alber Elbaz ’s autumn menswear shows both heavily referenced the Thin White Duke.
(19) I still find that the conversations I have with chefs are some of the most sane you'll ever have.
(20) I had dinner with him the first day he arrived in New York and he said to me his sister was in an asylum and she was the sane one in the family.
Sanity
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.
Example Sentences:
(1) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(2) As a result, gaslighting is now used to describe a particular type of mental abuse that makes the victim doubt her – and it is often a her – own sanity, memory and perception.
(3) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(4) That has been echoed by the Rally for Sanity's cheerleaders in the media.
(5) We have been in touch for several months now and, right from the start, he has always made it clear he had to do this for his own sanity.
(6) It was concluded that psychiatric cases can commit any form of crime and that where the sanity of a criminal, whatever the type, is doubted, he should be referred for psychiatric evaluation.
(7) They raised the issue of Holmes's sanity , a matter that could be key to avoiding the death penalty.
(8) Tensions have erupted in recent days, after Kentucky senator Rand Paul attributed Trump’s surprise lead in recent opinion polls to a “ temporary loss of sanity ” among Republican primary voters and former Texas governor Rick Perry claimed his impact on the race represented a “ cancer ” on conservatism.
(9) Perhaps this is the best one can hope for, that the voices of sanity prevail.
(10) Monroe, who is also a campaigner on health and poverty issues, said she was taking the decision “for my own sanity and also the safety of my seven-year-old son”.
(11) My colleagues and I do what we can to maintain safety, sanity and self-esteem in an academic environment that is still dominated by old boys’ networks, and we hope that things will improve as more women become established and take on senior roles.
(12) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(13) In its leader the Mail calls for a privacy law "fit for the 21st century" and one which will "restore freedom of the press and sanity to the law" .
(14) A factory worker of wobbly sanity (Ryan Reynolds) is implicated in the accidental death of a co-worker.
(15) For my sanity, I felt my only option was also to go "on the run".
(16) Simple but clean and well organised, the 400-bed hospital is a haven of sanity in a sick environment.
(17) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
(18) William Langewiesche’s 2014 essay on the crash is one of the best things ever written about automation, and serves as a sanity check of the idea that drivers of autonomous road vehicles could simply intervene in the event of a crash.
(19) Often, when people are creating something new, they end up straddling between sanity and insanity,” said Stefansson.
(20) Many of us are still active on climate, fracking, nuclear and social justice, and all of us know that the battle for sanity hasn’t been won yet.” This article was amended on 26 January 2016 to correct Green party candidate Pippa Pemberton’s election details.