Word: sane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mack, who conducts highly controversial alien abduction research, was investigated in 1995 by his colleagues. The Medical School questioned the nature of his research, in which he interviewed people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens, and assumed they were sane and telling the truth...
...Alienist. True, he affronts received opinion by postulating that a woman, because of her treatment in childhood, may be quite capable of murdering her own children and those of others. He helps trap the woman he has described. But for the trial to go forward he must declare her sane, a judgment that would have seemed as mushy at the beginning of the Freudian era as it does now. For a long stretch of chapters, the trial seizes the story, and Kreizler, who is not a lawyer, can't take it back. A good courtroom drama, always welcome...
...Sane, well-balanced celebrities accept their fame as part of their working life, but also an irrelevance and an intrusion and a pain in the neck. It is true that people live more comfortably with fame when they are confident that it is something they have earned by their own merit and hard work over a period of time...
...princess had gone completely by the board, as the street value of a grainy shot of Diana with Al Fayed reached six figures. The stalking had become so bad that two weeks ago Diana disclosed that the idea of leaving Britain and its paparazzi had crossed her mind. "Any sane person would have left long ago," she told the French newspaper Le Monde. "But I cannot. I have my sons...
...owned. You started to believe her. Instead of adoring Diana, or pitying Diana, or disdaining Diana, you could be happy for her. She was in love with Dodi, happy, unnatural no longer. She was running from the cameras at full speed. You believed her when she said that "any sane person would have left (England) long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons...