Word: sanely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bonds faced a tepid market for his services even before his indictment. What sane general manager would want him now? "When you look at his age and what he is facing related to the indictment, I seriously doubt that Barry Bonds will ever play again," says former Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Fred Claire. "It's a sad way for a career of great accomplishments to come...
...really fun because it plays with the line between what is considered normal and what is considered insane or abnormal,” Pastel says. “The play has four characters that are patients in the mental ward and two characters that society would deem sane or normal, and by the end of the play the two ‘sane’ characters are proven to be pretty much as crazy as the four patients, and the four patients throughout the play prove to have quite a sense of logic.” The four patients...
...know, Dumbledore had no fully realized romance in all his 115 years--just a lifetime spent around children and, for the seven years we know him, a fascination with the boy Potter. That's pathetic and frustratingly stereotypical. It's difficult to believe someone as wise and sane as Dumbledore couldn't find at least one wizard his age to take to the Three Broomsticks...
...actual choreography, which took a backseat to the bizarre costuming, sound and acting, consisted of Krolak’s character flailing wildly, gnashing her teeth and slapping herself. In the middle of the piece, three coquettish and startlingly sane-acting girls entered and performed a flirtatious sequence of steps, serving to highlight the difference between themselves and Krolak’s disheveled appearance and uncontrolled movements...
Soldiers and Marines may want a more sane deployment schedule, but they don't want pity. A rational Iraq policy, debated honestly, will do more to help them than a mud fight in Washington over who likes the troops more. Policymakers actually cannot ethically and rationally rely on sentimental "support our troops" arguments, since the reality of American politics is the opposite: The troops are bound by law and their sense of honor to support American policy - no matter how wrong-headed the decisions American citizens make through their legislators. Soldiers and Marines will march into hell for their country...