saneness

Example Sentences

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But in packing every other moment with something wild and anchoring it with a pointless arc about Debbie and Rusty’s marriage, “Vacation” has diverged from the simple saneness and sophisticated, of-its-time satire of the first.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2015

Taken from the logical standpoint of protection to the home, sound saneness, improvement in morals, an enhancement of citizenship, it is the second paramount issue of the age.

From Treading the Narrow Way by Barrett, R. E.

The man's optimism, his grateful personality, his saneness, too—for here is a dreamer neither idle nor morbid—are qualities no less enduring, or endearing, than his fame as "poet-naturalist."

From Letters from an American Farmer by St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector

I opened my lips, to offer a contradictory opinion; for my sense of the saneness of things, would not allow me to take the story literally; then I shut them again, without saying anything.

From The House on the Borderland by Hodgson, William Hope

Her words and touch brought saneness as well as hope.

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson