How To Use Sane In A Sentence

Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt, insane and guilty of fraud.
With her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane.
I've had an insanely busy day here, and I was listening to the latest album but it was just making me kind of listless and spacy.
What they have "incentivized" executives to do, in countless cases, is not to perform, but to game the system, to smooth the numbers, to take insane risks with other people's money, to do whatever had to be done to ring the bell and send the dollars coursing their way into the designated bank account. Let's Move Their Cheese
For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for this people. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice

He is a slightly possessed, haunted, eccentric man; his enemies prefer to say ' insane '.
I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast. Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
What sane person would say no to that? Times, Sunday Times
'Sooner or later the young gadabouts will settle down to a more sane level of sartorial elegance. Times, Sunday Times
If at all, the Euro increases trust in sane long term policy just like the EU institutions in general for Italy, thus reducing investment risk which leads to more growth. Matthew Yglesias » What’s the Matter With Italy?
The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
He took to antiquarianism, which is a sort of philtre, driving its votaries mildly insane, and filling them with emotions which, on the whole, are probably more often happy than grievous. Hawthorne and His Circle
I know that some academics regard conferences as the one or two times a year that they're fully able to reimmerse themselves in their field and reconnect with their scholarly community--and that's probably true, to some degree, for all of us, whether we're at research institutions that support colloquia and reading groups in our field or whether we're at teaching institutions with insanely heavy teaching loads and rarely publish. Archive 2007-02-01
To return to the screen with this love and support is absolutely insane.
He later became insane and was confined to an asylum.
Anyway, according to Peig, that's where all the insane went before there was such a thing as a madhouse or an asylum.
Building her account around key verbs, which she would both act out while she spoke and express in onomatopoeic rhythms and tones that (re) produced history even as she uttered it, Cufassane gave the impression that she was an expert potter even though she had never made a pot in her life. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
If it had not been for Kennedy, Pamela, and Captain Pellew coming to play whist the last few days, he thought he would surely go insane.
But I drift from the point, which is: what is a sane, accomplished, professional clarinet player to do while stuck out in the boondocks?
I hate it when girls get all sappy and puddly too, it drives me completely insane because I would NEVER do anything like that!
Everyone is gibbering insanely, nerves frayed as showtime approaches.
We've got hay, wool and lamb buyers and sellers all lined up and the sane are beginning to recognize the fundies for what they are.
Under Kevin Sutley's direction, this production finds a queasy pace, coloured as much by the insane bingeing on stage as the emotional minefield it traverses.
Hehe there are sane people here in no. va … I think nova is one of the more moderate parts of va .. Think Progress » Virginians Buck Far-Right Policies Of McDonnell And Cuccinelli
The sane people of the world saw it purely as a piece of comic genius, and showered awards upon the badly-drawn comedy.
He was sane at the time of the murder.
Those scientific minds brave enough to point out these obvious flaws get fired, while the insane, lazy, and stupid continue to uphold a broken system that clearly doesn't work, punishes innocent citizens, overcrowds prisons, and generally increases suffering. Allison Kilkenny: Government Adviser Fired For Saying Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drugs
He seems perfectly sane to me.
Assane Dione has painted a portrait of Amadou Bamba that has been reproduced and sold as a snapshot-sized print all over Senegal for several years now.
He does some other weird stuff then like knock people over using chi, and pull a railway locomotive along by cables attached to huge piercings right through his biceps, insane but not as miraculous as the electrical stuff.
Don't call in all our bad debt, we told them, and in return we'll label as terrorists these freedom-fighters who want to escape your insane corporate fascismand you can even come to Cuba and "interrogate" them. Freedom!
A great performance by Polanski as the boring, drab office worker who slowly goes insane, and, consequently, sheds his inhibited personality.
And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship. Propeller Most Popular Stories
He had nothing to tell them regarding the preciousness of water and the apportionment of supplies... given they were in their sane minds. HAMMERFALL
By the time I got my main down they'd headed off in a circle because the wind filled their downed sail and it was like trying to catch an insane dolphin - but I did.
Oddly, it's insanely comfortable, and this kind of peripatetic lifestyle (while anathema to my wife) totally fits my A.D.D. quest for constant adventure. Lucy van pelt holds the football
A few experiences like that and no sane person will want to commit themselves to anything quoteworthy or definite. Unsolicited Advice, Part Six: Talking to the Media
I couldn't decide whether he was incredibly brave or just insane.
He seems a whole lot saner then he sounds on-air and on infowars.
Her mind told her she was insane, but her instincts were guiding her now.
This video is of an incident took place after IMPOSITION of an insane shariat in Swat, after so called Pak Tea House
You know, because only sane bitches go go-karting ... Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
Honestly, I don't see how I could make my social life dependent on just one person without going insane.
There is only one sane answer to that question. Times, Sunday Times
Alana left in a hurry, leaving Angela wondering if her Mom had any sane friends left in Fallon Creek.
I didn’t post the insane plank and chain traverse pics. More Hua Shan Mountain pics | My[confined]Space
So, I made the appt the next day … and it was insane at the pedi office. MOMS FIGHT THE FLU « Bored Mommy
I don't think a sane person would drive as dangerously as he did.
An alien force colonizes an otherwise sane and sound mind, forcing the possessed person to behave in a wicked way. Psychobabble and the Real Perps
Members of the Banu Sa'd al-Din, a prominent Sufi family in Damascus, made talismans and charms which could reportedly heal the sick and cure the insane.
Persuade me also that there's a sane reason for dropping Cadenza from National Radio.
* "Nasce la Piave nelle Alpi Taurisane sopra quel paese che per essere montuoso con greco vocabulo Cadore si chiama: si come il fiume ancora ha preso da Greci il nome di Anaxo; che vuole in quella lingua dire fiume che per il corso suo veloce non puo esser all 'indietro navigato. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
But Purnell's target constituency is now on what I call the sane left. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
Also, I have now tried all the kinds of tisane in the house and sorted them for which ones are to go find themselves new homes and which ones are to get drunk up by me. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
If you go to your local restaurant and behave like a sane person, no one cares.
At this seemingly baseless threat, Henry laughed an insane giggle which rang all throughout the courtyard.
Look at what I call the insane spending of government in America. The Relentless Conservative: If Europe Is a Bellwether for America: Economic Ruin... Comin' Right Up!
The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
You have to be mad, you have to be insane, to despair in that way.
I can cause a shaking that is called 'paralytic dementia', but used to be called 'general paresis of the insane'. Treponema pallidum
As art historians Alex Nagel and Chris Woods have argued, by faithfully depicting a Greek from the east, Pisanello may have felt he was also looking back in time at the Greece of Socrates and Praxiteles. Gopnik's Daily Pic: The first commemorative medal
Duissane threw him the briefest of wide-glances; her expression stilled the words in his mouth. Trullion: Alastor 2262
Here's the kind of insane, right wind rivel you can find here every day of the week: "Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists."
Check out some insane star trails in this time-lapse video of Death Valley.
Furfural from cellulose, oxycellulose, and hydrocellulose, 70; derivative from lævulose, 8; estimation as hydrazone and phloroglucide, 119, 121; oxidation of, 114, 118 (_refer also_ 'Pentosanes') Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
He spent a lot of his life philandering, that is to say, cheating on my mom, making her insanely miserable.
I'm sure most sane people have noticed that the same hate, anger, and racism that was shown at McCain/Palin rallies is the same being shown at these tea parties and town halls. FreedomWorks, Tea Party Patriots head for the Hill
You miss people looking at you like you're insane when you're glide stepping to French class with your French book on your head so you don't bounce while you march.
He goes through the mechanics of putting in the milk concentrate powder like an automaton, taking insane amounts of care not to spill a single drop of the powder from the bottles.
I must weave a veil of dazzling falsehood to hide my grief from vulgar eyes, smoothe my brow, and paint my lips in deceitful smiles -- even in solitude I dare not think how lost I am, lest I become insane and rave. I.9
What scares me is that many of those who voted for her in the past now think she's insane, and yet she gets a big hand abroad.
The only thing that had kept him from going insane when he was marooned was the beauty of the island.
Watching old people dodder around and go insane for long periods of time….there's nothing worse. Experiments in Madness
What sane, sensible person would throw more than a billion dollars at the overseas sharemarket at a time of major volatility?
She did not manage to get the word "insane" out, for another wave of agony hit her, far worse than the previous. Dark Allies
As a result, the papal nuncio told a group of catechists that ‘The church is in danger because of the insane behavior of this archbishop.’
This is the question that flits across the otherwise sane mind of the average woman as she flicks through glossy magazines. Times, Sunday Times
But Desdemona, she was nothing but insane, mad, crazy, and that was the thing she passed on.
A crowd soon gathered, and despite the indignant cries of the master-pavior, who declared he was never more sane, this son of The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
We landed at Gatwick, which is kind of an insanely designed airport; it's set up so most of the time you don't know your gate until 15 minutes before the flight, so everybody has to run around like crazy. WorldCon Again
My husband and I have been happily married for 27 years and are known to be certified insane.
Although the tisane has not proven its health benefits on heart health and cancer prevention, it is still a plant-based drink and is better than soda!
But there are much saner and sounder reasons for punting on the Andre Fabre-trained colt in the greatest all-aged race in Europe.
With its insane mix of loves-me-loves-me-nots, switcheroos, flawed motives, crooked laughs and crying babies, it is one of cinema's most buoyant genres.
He looked west, towards where the upper landing window had been, and was looking into the sunset, over an insane sea of waters, bristling with uptorn trees and refuse. The Virgin and the Gypsy
But since this is the final film in a seedy sexploitation shocker trilogy, you know it has to end badly for our insane slayer.
Last year, when my parents decided it would be a good idea to call community mental health and the cops due to my insane behaviour Plato still got fed.
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Later she was described as the only sane person in the whole saga.
My crazy sister and sane brother attended one of these meetings in a Church and my brother asked her why she talking politics in Church and not talking about the corruptness and greed warned about in the Bible and crazy Shelly just blew him off and kept on with her right wing political agenda while reminding everyone how ‘Godly’ she was … … Puke! Think Progress » Despite His Stimulus Bashing, Almost A Third Of Pawlenty’s Budget Relies On Stimulus Money
Insanity is both a legal and a medical word, specifically referring to diagnosable illness; one can do wicked things and still be sane. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Another could make insane laughter bubble up from the ground.
We have no idea of Joe's medical history, but were we to see his files, they would be stamped in bold, red letters: SANE.
Everyone's got their noisemakers ready; Jo was insane enough to get them for everyone, including her younger brother and his girlfriend, who are also with us.
So does his reaction make him the only sane one of us? The Times Literary Supplement
If they choose to press the subject, that won't explain why I looked like a fullblood from the beginning, but if she pretends to go insane, all they'll do is lock her up in Lord Tylar's keeping. Elvenblood
He was muttering unconnected phrases, like ‘make you love me’ ‘dog… no, mine’ it was insane jabber.
It goes without saying that Miss Thing at the Opera will do anything to get Rysanek back.
Sane crossed and he headed goalwards. The Sun
If Mailer's more sane than he used to be, then he used to be "certifiable". Old age is cool.
They were only serving omelets and sausage today, for some insane reason.
Despite its insane budget, it wasn't a badly made movie.
My sane sensible side reasserted itself quickly, but just for one second after seeing a room for let in Brighton, I was about to just up and leave.
• Herbal: Also referred to as a tisane, herbal teas incorporate flowers, roots, herbs, and spices, but contain no actual tea. KansasCity.com: Front Page
As you may guess installing toolbars on peoples machines by sneaking them in somehow is insanely profitable. Google’s Secret billion dollar revenue stream. « The Paradigm Shift
Popcorn ? Sure, Would you like huge, mega super - duper huge, or gigundazillion insanely huge?
When Hassane and his age-mates first arrived in Niamey, they were content with their pickup games on the street.
insane laughter
Thus the average user concludes that the techie is insane. Dave Winer totally misses the point with Apple TV — Meandering Passage
How many of you, as kids, read these insane stories and believed them to be true?
As individual health-insurance policy premiums approach $30,000 annually, self-insurance—meaning no insurance in New York because the law prevents me from buying the catastrophic-only coverage policy I'd prefer—becomes an economically viable and sane option. The Other Side of Insurance Mandates
She got insanely jealous and there was a terrible fight.
That last call made me maddest, I think I waxed wode, because she had worked a whole week to fill in the gaps caused by two-otherwise-sane people who could not get their act together. Gillpolack: I'm kinda looking forward to the end of
Jodi Cleghorn is glad of her ability to gestate this column at the 11th hour, while cooking dinner, bathing her son and attempting to remain sane in the domestic maelstrom. Unsent Letter « Write Anything
Any sane and workable approach to life obviously has to contain both an attitude to individuals and an attitude towards the whole.
The combination of the flood of people hitting the pit, and the absence of a barrier, resulted in an insane dance floor, replete with gratuitous crowd surfing and lost brain cells aplenty.
He must be insane to drive his car so fast.
I'm insanely proud even though I've had absolutely nothing to do with it - by all rights he should be zombified and silent the amount of TV he's watched throughout my pregnancy.
They'll replant the hedges and grow insanely expensive vegetables for fun.
No one actually accuses me of being insane, at least not to my face.
Police are also investigating the gang's possible links to three hijackings and another murder, all in Mdantsane.
He rebels by breaking free of the role by doing senseless, insane things despite his obvious talent.
Given what we know about hypnosis and the power of suggestion, this simply isn't a sane question.
One good reason: running keeps a person sane. Times, Sunday Times
After an unusually ferocious verbal assault on a member of parliament, he was pronounced insane and shipped off to an asylum in Chiswick.
The way that Gondry goes for broke with insanely inventive special effects and gripping caprices is actually inspiring. Another 10 Movies to Watch Stoned/High » Scene-Stealers
Having now spent 5 days living by myself while the fam have gone to visit the sis who's on work experience in Adelaide all I can say is that I think I am going insane.
Any sane and workable approach to life obviously has to contain both an attitude to individuals and an attitude towards the whole.
Prices are rock-bottom, and our accountant sez we're certifiably insane.
In his portrait of Leonello, Pisanello places the young princeling in profile before a rosebush, the spines of its leaves as if beaten from gold.
A partially disorganized -- or as we prefer to say "denuded" -- brain may be fully capable of sane thought, except on some one topic, and able to exercise every intellectual function except of a particular order. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
I tend to think trading virtual futility for spiritual futility is a step no sane person would take.
In these circumstances it is insane and illogical that we persist with youth football in darkest winter.
Elvin: Crazy is too kind .5 Insane is more like it. Nuts! Wacko! Psycho!
All expectations were exceeded - the action and resolution is insane at this scale.
I find that we're so tame, that nothing really insane happens on the road.
It drives you insane because, halfway through, you switch to the night shift.
These images unflinchingly confronted the gore, the naked terror, the arrogant incompetence, the pointless cruelty, the insane devastation of the military nightmare.
The term insane is outdated parlance in the mental health community. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Never before, or afterward, not even when the luckless Butch fell in love, and T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., assisted Cupid, did the pachydermic Butch act so insanely as on this occasion. T. Haviland Hicks Senior
Our symbol of freedom becomes an emblem of our slavery to an insane idea.
Consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm
Right now it has more than 50 followers and 6 forks on github which is insane if you keep in mind that Jinja2 and Werkzeug have less than 30 on bitbucket. Planet Python
I debated whether to ring for a tisane but decided that I could bear another hour rather than disturb her hard earned rest.
What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
John was an almost insanely egotistical individualist.
Mr Loughner may be politically motivated, but he is also clearly insane—a textbook case of paranoid schizophrenia in the view of a psychologist, and one who had already attracted police attention.
He bellowed a loud, insane laugh that sounded more like a cackle than a laugh and lifted his goblet, spilling wine down the front of his long, untamed beard.
He was a sane, rational, bright young man with no history of mental illness. Times, Sunday Times
I feel insanely lucky even, that a friend of mine who works at the US Embassy drove across town this morning to pick me up a pair of crutches from the Embassy medical unit. Archive 2008-04-01
When the demons realized that the Slayer had entered into some sort of insane frenzy, they quickly turned and charged the other one.
For whatever reason, hot chocolate does not appeal with this kind of sick, so I go through a lot of tisane. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
He even goes as far as to proclaim that we are foolish, imbeciles, insane and lunatics, if that what his term ‘idiocy’ translates as.
The ultimate R2-D2 astromech droid 1: 6 scale polystone hand painted statue with ‘insane level of detail’. Gentle Kenobi | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
An 'ye claver sic' nonsense when ye're daft, what would ye say when ye're sane? Lords of the North
Clearly, these kinds of images of the miserable at play will evoke horror in the minds of every sane person.
They were only serving omelets and sausage today, for some insane reason.
Plus, when you're as insanely rich as Matt is there's really no reason to be peeing in public.
But one thing it is not given enough credit for is the insane idea that hot chicks with ample cleavage, decked out in body-hugging unitards and go-go boots, can defeat any mob syndicate with just a flip of their Farrah Fawcett hair.
But any sane person knows the force of strike is far more important than the number. The Sun
I have to say, if the idea was to persuade any of us that her followers are sane and rational people, the plan backfired in spectacular fashion.
A singer, a percussionist, a bass player, a pianist and some insanely talented tap dancers collaborate in this fresh, fun experiment that will challenge your preconceived ideas about tap.
The GOP will go back to the old plan and nominate someone who is relatively sane, but not too much of a fuddy-duddy or a novice. Think Progress » Romney Says He Solved Health Crisis ‘At The State Level,’ But Admits ‘The Feds Fund Half Of It’
Put these people back in jail for life, and put these incompetent law enforcers UNDER the jail. fascinating, the story of issei sagawa is absolutely insane Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
Before that, is a torturous trek down the three-kilometre stretch before you reach the saner parts of Bangalore.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
Evelyn's body writhed, trying to escape her sister's insane tickling motions.
Unfortunately, as the years wore on, he became more despotic and appeared to go insane, venting his wrath against monks and thereby alienating the powerful sangha.
Sales have been insane and we have stepped up development to suit.
Meanwhile, back in the ‘real’ world, feast your eyes on these canine accessories, including this insane dog divan.
The insane legal costs of fighting Government intrusion is not worth it financially.
Although a far from usual setting for a comedy series, the inmates were not too problematic or insane but merely a ragtag of eccentrics who had opted out of life.
With all that happened last night, I am quite content (actually) that Tennessee has proven itself sane, from the vote for president to the state house and senate, which the Republicans now control. MooreThoughts
On crisp spring days I often make a tisane or a rose tea, take it into the garden and wrap myself in a big warm blanket.
The barrister added another issue the defence could well raise was that of non-insane automatism, a condition brought about ‘as a result of the combination of drink and drugs he consumed.’
So I think you are simply an irrational bigot, who hates, hates, hates, without any particular distinctions or variation all those who, in your deranged mind, dare to “oppose” your ideologies by not pliantly following the self-serving, hypocrtical, insane creeds of the members of your “in” group of your social circle. Think Progress » POLL: Active Duty U.S. Soldiers Disapprove Of Bush Handling Of War, Do Not Support Escalation
A more sane approach would be to measure student learning with a pretest at the beginning of the year and a posttest at the end of the year. Archive 2007-09-01
Unsane and Savage on a:comparison between the verticality of the Neoplatonic metaphysics and the Seyn of the Ereignis as immediate horizontal ground Archive 2009-04-01
Ivory Coast President-elect Alassane Ouattara cordoned off the Abidjan residence of his rival Laurent Gbagbo on Friday as his government moved to restore water service in the war-ravaged city of Abidjan and prepare for the resumption of cocoa exports, the African country's main foreign-currency earner. Ivorian Opposition Strives for Normalcy
From the gentle questioning of the First Sonata's introduction to the insanely entertaining Follia variations at the end, this is a recording that will open ears and minds.
Rear guard line Chief Saneidi with Damocles , Heinze will compose three guards the partners.
Umm Hassane strongly recommends that you serve batata wa bayd with salad. Day of Honey
In her case there was a reversal of the usual facts of nature -- (_I say facts_, not _laws_): the dreams of most people are more or less insane; those of Lady Alice were sound; thus, with her, restoring the balance of sane life. The Portent & Other Stories
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
Instead of thinking he is insane, she thinks he is exasperating.
No sane person can say that this is all right because he was good at football. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway, helpful soul that I am, I thought I'd offer some pointers on getting through this holiday season in one reasonably sane piece.
In two places at once but only doing the one thing, or else fall behind the building's faces which discontinue trying to appear at all textured and sane about it but still whisper the brick and mortar details in both ears at once, twice. After Tom Phillips
On hearing our lament for a country gone frankly insane, she simply suggested, ‘Well, dears, why don't you move here?
The movie is a fabulously funny exploration of fetishism, a look at the ever-more-insane ways people find to "get off."
I am just going to take a month off to give him time to cool off a little and think twice about his insane plan.
The decision reopens a longstanding debate about whether mentally ill inmates can be executed if they are sane only while taking drugs.
The vendor's insane ravings do not throw any light on the matter.
I have suffered to the limit of my endurance, but I will never in my sane senses surrender to the evil power that has fixed its roots like a cancer on the world.
A second witness, onsetter Chris du Plooy, was also asked to stand down minutes after taking the witness stand, when mine counsel Chris Loxton pointed out that du Plooy would be cross-examined on incomplete evidence by Potsane. ANC Daily News Briefing
As for the figure at the center of the story, Mr. Horwitz sees him too often as the grim Old Man of long-ago histories: bold, arrogant, sly, fanatical, murderous, muddle-headed and possibly insane. An Angry Prophet
Maybe the brief was in opposition to a motion to dismiss, and maybe the brief in support of the motion to dismiss included a sentence saying that the case *was* an “insane lawsuit brought in ignorance” blah blah blah. The Volokh Conspiracy » Never a Good Way to Start Your Argument
With insane fury, the giant men broke down the doors of the monastery.
It was absurd, insane, and downright dangerous, but it was an idea.

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