right mind

"Who in their right mind would do such a thing? There is no justification for it."

No one in their right mind could have foreseen a United States president replicating the most famous journalistic error in this country’s history as a political tactic.

“No one is in their right mind anymore,” he says.

“No one in their right mind would design the system we have,” said Kathryn Anne Edwards, a labor economist and policy consultant who studies the child-care market.

“No one in their right mind was studying placentas,” said Harvey Kliman, director of the Yale School of Medicine’s Reproductive and Placental Research Unit, when recalling the early years of his pathology training in the 1980s when the organ was particularly understudied.