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

That identity which is termed personal, Mr. Locke, I think, truly defines to consist in the saneness of rational being.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan

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

All of their pictures are conspicuous for their saneness and big feeling.

From The Galleries of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen

The saneness and manliness were still needed, but the joy had gone, or at least was veiled.

From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith