saneness

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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

But this seriousness of hers was of a new kind, of the kind that bespeaks sobriety and saneness of soul.

From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham

Yet it needed some relief from the very saneness of its rationalism, and it found the antidote to its vicious court life in the crystal springs of Castaly.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

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

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