Word: sanely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some sane art in your pages? Why must we always look at psychopathic doodles of the queer, the charlatan, the tongue-in-cheek jests of artists who can draw or paint and the childish "primitives" of those who cannot...
Psychiatrists believe that there is a large group of people in the U.S.-perhaps half a million-who are legally sane (i.e., they know the difference between right & wrong) but socially irresponsible. Many of them are brilliant and charming. Their condition is likened to a fine automobile with no brakes. At any time they may steal, maim or kill, and when they do they will feel little or no remorse...
...seems agreed that the alumni should take a more active interest in selling Harvard to prospective students (see the CRIMSON football poll). We are certain that the new club would be of assistance to us in making sane, reasonable approaches to scholar athletes...
...distraught who kill in the name of mercy? The jury's answer: "Not guilty by reason of temporary insanity at the time of the killing." Spectators in the courtroom cheered; some of the jurors wept. It seemed certain that broken, weeping Eugene Braunsdorf-who had been judged sane when he was ordered to stand trial for murder-would be quickly freed after a new sanity hearing...
...power of those last two is due to the undercutting of one's initial appraisal of the characters. The morally upright are seen to be self-righteous and destructive, while the apparently bad characters are seen to be good, simple, sane human beings, making the best...