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  • Her sense of touch has sensibly increased during the year, and has gained in acuteness and delicacy. The Story of My Life
  • The researchers sensibly restricted the investigation to time travellers from the future, 'given practical verifiability concerns'. Times, Sunday Times
  • For Chilean architects, this is the challenge of a lifetime—to preserve history and to build sensibly.
  • In Camberwick Green, everyone had sensibly diversified into specialist trades that made the town work as a well-regulated organic entity.
  • The city in which you're driving is huge, and filled with people who quite sensibly run screaming when you screech around the corner.
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  • The angels said, "Who does not know that the delights of conjugial love exceed those of all other loves? and who cannot see, that into some love are collected all the blessednesses, satisfactions, and delights, which can possibly be conferred by the Lord, and that the receptacle thereof is love truly conjugial, which is capable of receiving and perceiving them fully and sensibly? The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
  • She lost about 20 pounds, very sensibly, and she feels really happy about it.
  • The pair sensibly attempted a less ambitious integration of moderate-size compositions in the more restricted space upstairs.
  • A truly wise man has the ability to see and understand what many do not see and understand, and to arrive at the most appropriate and right judgment sensibly and farsightedly. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Only St-Joseph and that paler shadow Crozes-Hermitage can sensibly be broached within their first five years.
  • A truly wise man has the ability to see and understand what many do not see and understand, and to arrive at the most appropriate and right judgment sensibly and farsightedly. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • She had fatigued herself so much, (growing sensibly weaker) that she sunk her head upon her pillows, ready to faint; and we withdrew to the window, looking upon one another; but could not tell what to say; and yet both seemed inclinable to speak: but the motion passed over in silence. Clarissa Harlowe
  • 'Tis not improbable also, but that our _taste_ may be very much improv'd either by _preparing_ our taste for the Body, as, after eating _bitter_ things, _Wine_, or other _Vinous liquors_, are more sensibly tasted; or else by _preparing_ Bodies for our tast; as the dissolving of Metals with acid Liquors, make them tastable, which were before altogether insipid; thus _Lead_ becomes _sweeter_ then Sugar, and _Silver_ more _bitter_ then Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
  • What is unfair can not sensibly be subject to different standards depending on the source of the discretion to exclude it.
  • Wherefore, such opinions and persuasions are gradually insinuated into the mind, and are admitted insensibly without opposition or reluctancy, being never accompanied at their first admission with any secular disadvantage; -- but these divine convictions by the word befall men, some when they think of nothing less and desire nothing less; some when they design other things, as the pleasing of their ears or the entertainment of their company; and some that go on purpose to deride and scoff at what should be spoken unto them from it. Pneumatologia
  • She has sensibly decided to bide her time. Times, Sunday Times
  • Beneath its wrongheaded, headline goal to slash net immigration, the government has sensibly made sure that a route remains open for entrepreneurs.
  • This savour is communicated insensibly, for our life is hid; but inseparably, for grace is a good part that shall never be taken away from those who have it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The upper mandible, which is strongly convex, exhibits upon its median line a slight ridge, which is quite wide at its origin, and then continues to decrease and becomes sensibly depressed as far as to the center of its length, and afterward rises on approaching the anterior extremity, where it terminates in a powerful hook, which seems to form Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
  • The Lake was sometimes called St. Louis, afterwards Frontenac, as well as the fort of Cataraqui, of which the Count de Frontenac was the founder, but insensibly the Lake has regained its ancient name Ontario, which is Huron or Iroquois, and the fort that of the place where it is built. Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago
  • The recency of the campaigns creates major challenges for them, of course, but both historical accounts are written as sensibly as time and space would allow.
  • Sex educators (before the abstinence only people made them stop talking about sex at all, which is a whole other story), use a technique called "desensitization" to help people get to where they can talk sensibly about previously verboten facts such as the proper names for body parts. Gloria Feldt: Memo About Hillary Clinton: Guys, Get Over It
  • The counselor has maneuvered her into a situation where she can no longer act sensibly and decently.
  • The problem is that most local authorities lack the expertise to deal sensibly in this market.
  • K-For is holding the line, sensibly reinforcing an ethnic divide that geography has decreed.
  • When we can sensibly download and store audio files at full spectrum quality, then it will be perfect.
  • Without having first made this diversion, he would have found it impracticable to leave the house with tranquillity; but, when this bewitching philtre grew into an habit, her attachment to Ferdinand was insensibly dissolved; she began to bear his neglect with indifference, and, sequestering herself from the rest of the family, used to solicit this new ally for consolation. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
  • They dream of destroying it and building a new, more sensibly designed vessel.
  • How many people can sensibly aspire to that? Times, Sunday Times
  • The adaptation sensibly goes against this telescoping technique that, like a Chinese box effect, keeps the story and characters at several removes from the reader.
  • We all took a large piece of the treasure, and some used it sensibly, and some did not.
  • Staff are chatty, well-intentioned and deliberately unstuffy which all adds to the charm and there's also an acceptable mini wine list for wine buffs (as opposed to beer fans) which is very sensibly priced.
  • ‘Well, you're not going back to school until September, so we have a while,’ Elaine said sensibly, slightly annoyed by Gabriella's uncouth laughter.
  • I hope she dresses sensibly in the future.
  • Such negation refers to nothing that is sensibly perceptible.
  • The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements. George Bernard Shaw 
  • At once, though almost insensibly, the attitude of Mr. Vanney eased; obviously there was no fear of his being "boned" for a job. Success A Novel
  • The food was perfectly acceptable and sensibly priced, but being ultra-critical I couldn't help wondering why you'd come here when there are so many other top-quality options within a couple of hundred yards.
  • He sensibly decided to lie low for a while.
  • Having sensibly cracked down on smoking, the government is now squeezing the drinker. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's a lot to be said for eating sensibly.
  • The problem is that most local authorities lack the expertise to deal sensibly in this market.
  • This is part of our natural caring attitude and concern for others and used sensibly can be to our advantage. Everything You Need to Know for Success in Business
  • Our National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE, a typically Blairite acronym has done cost-benefit analyses of drugs and procedures, often very sensibly, for years. New Efficiencies in Health Care? Not Likely
  • Most of the politicians are sensibly out of town, but the poor working stiffs hardly get away at all.
  • It came moments after the group had warned motorists to drive sensibly in the thick fog. The Sun
  • I'm not familiar enough with that subject to really talk sensibly about it.
  • If you start out sensibly, improving your performance, you'll find that just as a muscle strengthens, so will your willpower.
  • All switchgear is sensibly laid out and both main beam and indicator stalks needed only a soft flick to operate them.
  • The magnitude of the electromotive force does not depend sensibly on the temperature.
  • It came moments after the group had warned motorists to drive sensibly in the thick fog. The Sun
  • Then wait a wee, and cannie wale [sensibly choose] Country Lassie
  • Time is gradual past, insensibly angel asleep, probably very daytime work too tired.
  • The flatbread was a ritzy variant on pizza with a thin, frangible crust held together by a liberal serving of melted Brie, and sensibly strewn with cubes of smoked salmon and capers.
  • Moreover, rather than dillydally by trying to get everything perfect the first time out, the SEC sensibly created a pilot project that initially targets the all-important S&P 500 stocks and then relies upon market experience to guide the follow-on expansion to more securities. First Thing's First: Stock Circuit-Breakers In Place
  • It was with the lie that they had eaten and drunk and talked and laughed, that they had waited for their carriole rather impatiently, and had then got into the vehicle and, sensibly subsiding, driven their three or four miles through the darkening summer night. The Ambassadors
  • The accessions, which are made to land, bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, insensibly and imperceptibly; which are circumstances, that assist the imagination in the conjunction. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
  • Most were dressed sensibly for the hot weather.
  • The only expedient which could prevent their separation was boldly agitated and approved the popular resentment was insensibly moulded into a regular conspiracy; their just reasons of complaint were heightened by passion, and their passions were inflamed by wine; as, on the eve of their departure, the troops were indulged in licentious festivity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Whereas in the past, world price fluctuations among the "free nations" - were of little concern to Soviet planners, Russian politicians today very sensibly want to extract every last kopeck from trade partners. Russian-Ukrainian gas war
  • Had they played sensibly they could have cakewalked that game.
  • You're stuck with sensibly slashing calories while eating a healthy diet.
  • That is why governments of both left and right have quite sensibly rejected it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The curve is sensibly straight when there is a reduction of power from full load to lighter load.
  • It came moments after the group had warned motorists to drive sensibly in the thick fog. The Sun
  • The payment is to be made out of the Commissioners Chest; wherein are reposited the Treasures that are daily collected, tho' perhaps insensibly, from the Earnings and Industry of the honest Yeomen, Merchants and Tradesmen, of this continent, against their Consent; and if his friends speak the truth, against his own private judgment. Hullabaloo
  • It is not difficult to envisage that the promisee may incur a factual detriment and the promisor a factual benefit meaning that enforcement of the bargain would sensibly acknowledge commercial reality.
  • They looked merely utilitarian and sensibly designed.
  • A plate of pork belly arrived atop a smooth, creamy pile of mash, with an apple sauce that sensibly dialled down the sweetness and a gravy that spoke volubly of wine, herbs and deglazed roasting pans. Lancaster's 10 best budget restaurants, pubs and cafes
  • Little Bluewing, the dragoon's little bluewing, that is, was not like other children; she always talked very sensibly, but she often said queer things, and everybody was puzzled to know where she got them from. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
  • A truly wise man has the ability to see and understand what many do not see and understand, and to arrive at the most appropriate and right judgment sensibly and farsightedly. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • But today she looks trim in blue blouse, slacks and sensibly sporty little shoes. Times, Sunday Times
  • She says she just ate sensibly and in moderation.
  • These salaries have in recent years been sensibly reduced.
  • But today she looks trim in blue blouse, slacks and sensibly sporty little shoes. Times, Sunday Times
  • She just kept walking, one canvas-clad foot in front of the other, looking sideways at the sunlit ripple of water, gleaming Lincoln memorial in front, straggle of Canada geese strewn on the grass, and then down at Suraiya's feet, clad sensibly today in only half-inch heels, in special consideration of their lunch-time walk on the Mall. For the Sake of the Boy
  • It's the season of giving, it's the season of sharing, it's the season of tipping your mailman with checks and bottles of sensibly-priced alcohol.
  • Free access to additional borrowings can make life easy for those who manage their money sensibly, but prove a disaster for spendthrifts.
  • Change does not sensibly occur at all until a certain temperature of reaction is attained.
  • April 30th, 2008 11: 51 am ET hill billy is a lier and a thief. stop her before she steals all your money. vote sensibly. vote Obama 08, 12 Obama campaign files FEC complaint against pro-Clinton group
  • It was crammed full of good ideas which you couldn't sensibly argue with, but they had been turned upside down.
  • Ships in the night, holiday romance etcetera, he would have sensibly suggested,[Sentence dictionary] and of course he would have been right.
  • Photos from the time show a conservative 18-year-old, dressed in sober cheongsams, her hair sensibly bobbed.
  • However, it insensibly seemed to give the lie to his imputation; for his spirits rose to a more elevated pitch of mirth and good-fellowship; he sung, or rather roared, the Early Horn, so as to alarm the whole neighbourhood, and began to slabber his companions with a most bear-like affection. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
  • Furthermore, owing to the possession of property beyond the limits of Attica,50 and the exercise of magistracies which take them into regions beyond the frontier, they and their attendants have insensibly acquired the art of navigation. 51 A man who is perpetually voyaging is forced to handle the oar, he and his domestics alike, and to learn the terms familiar in seamanship. The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
  • I praised the women in the audience who sensibly refused to look.
  • It allows relatively inexpert people to communicate the gravity of the problem to others so teamwork can be handled sensibly.
  • Try to use your time sensibly.
  • Zeno used to invite those who called the haughtiness of Perikles a mere courting of popularity and affectation of grandeur, to court popularity themselves in the same fashion, since the acting of such a part might insensibly mould their dispositions until they resembled that of their model. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
  • But handwringer, you and hid habitually ignore the documentary content of my posts - beyond screeching your default mantra: ‘hate-filled – anti-semitic – lies’; you have never responded sensibly. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • The bill sensibly sets an 'invasiveness test' that triggers action according to risk. Times, Sunday Times
  • Its opening sentence, "Life is difficult", introduced a tome which argued, uncontentiously and sensibly, that human experience was trying and imperfectible, and that only self-discipline, delaying gratification, acceptance that one's actions have consequences, and a determined attempt at spiritual growth could make sense of it. BatesLine: October 2005 Archives
  • We will need to take speed and circumstance into consideration if these plans are to work sensibly.
  • She was too neatly manicured and sensibly made up to be homeless, and yet surely too young to be as intelligent as she sounded.
  • One is that a degree of regulation is needed so that we can police fisheries sensibly.
  • Not only did he come to help in the theatricals, but insensibly, and as CHAPTER 13
  • The English then sensibly carried out a conservative counter-revolution, restoring the monarchy and ushering in three centuries of gradual and prosperous transition to democratic liberty.
  • I also found it very comfortable, thought it handled well, was sensibly geared, and was even light enough for the average "wuss" to carry up and down a few flights of stairs. BSNYC Product Review: Electra Ticino 8D
  • He decided, very sensibly, not to drive when he was so tired.
  • Everything is sensibly on track until he wakes up in bed with Becky - a dancer at his bachelor party, and also, whoops, Karen's cousin.
  • On our featured deal, South sensibly realised his collection was fast becoming a bad good hand. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rather the first sentence can only sensibly read "I am the kylix of Cupe Althrna". Archive 2007-03-01
  • A truly wise man has the ability to see and understand what many do not see and understand, and to arrive at the most appropriate and right judgment sensibly and farsightedly. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • There are civilians in black cape-coats of the military pattern, topped off with cold, uncomfortable, but fashionable chimneypot hats, or, more sensibly, with high caps of beaver. Russian Rambles
  • A shoal of surgeonfish sensibly moves out of harm's way.
  • If sensibly cut, at knee length, shorts are perfectly acceptable for all men.
  • We still like to play expansive rugby but we are playing more sensibly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Assuming licensees and magistrates act sensibly in seeking and granting approval, I can not see any strong objection to this.
  • In fact, he abdicated, offered the throne to his brother (who sensibly refused it [I think]) and Lenin seized power.
  • This arises from the possible appulse of the comet to the planet Pallas, whose mass, being so small, would more sensibly be disturbed by such an appulse than the earth. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
  • This should serve as a grim warning to those poised to embark on their university careers of the need to manage their money sensibly.
  • he acted sensibly in the crisis
  • Requests for adaptations to classroom lighting or for individual lamps can not sensibly be made until the principles are understood.
  • Rather than forming the usual, sensibly crafted program, these pieces allowed musicians to show their personalities through music that is special to them.
  • He sensibly ignored it, mentally filing it as either some kind of tasteless joke or more "crass meddling' from offshore. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • I hate the ones who pretend they haven't seen you when you try to flag them down while dressed frumpily, but sensibly, for the cold.
  • You see, I am one of those people who live prophylactically and sanely and sensibly.
  • Having sensibly cracked down on smoking, the government is now squeezing the drinker. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Earth can get along quite nicely without the Masters of the Universe and their idolatrized global economy; but I do not think anyone can sensibly argue with the point that the economy cannot exist without a planet to provide for its viability. EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • First of all men of his breed was he to enter this lone Northland village, and at the thought an exultancy came upon him, an exaltation, and his followers noted that his leg-weariness fell from him and that he insensibly quickened the pace. IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH
  • my memory tells me Lichtenwald was driving; Knapp, myself and maybe another were in the car. we were running from an irate father (Jack Hartsell I think) who quite sensibly wanted his daughter to have nothing to do with Knapp, or any of us. quite unsensibly, he was in his pickup chasing a bunch of teenagers. it was night, beer was involved. The Aristocrats
  • Having sensibly cracked down on smoking, the government is now squeezing the drinker. Times, Sunday Times
  • How many people can sensibly aspire to that? Times, Sunday Times
  • They were sensibly dressed from top to toe in rain gear.
  • Despite her tender letters to her guru, he sensibly scouts the idea that the two were lovers.
  • Sadly some customers don't consume their products sensibly and drink-driving is a prime example.
  • A serious, sensibly dressed 33-year-old, he is an unlikely exponent of civil disobedience.
  • One way of persuading people to drink sensibly is to provide good - tasting alternatives with less alcohol.
  • He sensibly ignored it, mentally filing it as either some kind of tasteless joke or more "crass meddling' from offshore. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • He thinks about matters from his perspective sensibly and clearly, and articulates them well.
  • Yet the mob somehow aborts the landing and pulls the plane up sensibly.
  • Owner and Co-Founder of Bambu Jeff Delkin describes, “We felt that bambu KIDS gives parents a conscientious alternative; a product that was sensibly designed and priced and made from a renewable resource.” BAMBU Kids Line of Bamboo Utensils | Inhabitat
  • What is unfair can not sensibly be subject to different standards depending on the source of the discretion to exclude it.
  • Beatrice in the [5056] comedy, and in whom they find many faults, by this living together in a house, conference, kissing, colling, and such like allurements, begin at last to dote insensibly one upon another. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Sensibly, they migrate south in winter.
  • No, sensibly and sensationally, they float about in beautiful saris, djellabahs and caftans, looking very stylishly dressed.
  • He couldn't figure how sensibly clothed, satirical, sarcastic, sassy Jo had come from this hippy woman standing in front of him.
  • The girls looked like they were freezing in their halter tops and reckless skirts but were probably blindly sensibly insulated from it all by means of a dozen Bacardi Breezers.
  • Sensibly, however, Young is careful not to adopt the moral tone so typical of many modern anthropological wowsers and he takes this complex issue - like others - in his stride with honesty and understanding.
  • And as you would expect in a town of enterprise, some of these buildings have been sensibly adapted to modern use.
  • Icon Make-It goes one step further towards mayhem - it's an integrated package for the sensibly challenged.
  • The Supreme Court interpreted this quite sensibly in Employment Division v. Smith to say that members of certain religions do not get exempted from the requirements of secular law if their religion mandates or strongly suggests they break thelaw. The Volokh Conspiracy » Court Rejects Muslim Police Officer’s Demand for Accommodation of His Religious Practice of Wearing a Full Beard
  • Sensibly, Collina was unmoved and the Aston Villa defender had only served to add a further scar to his already blemished reputation.
  • The chances are, if you select your utilization sensibly, you inclination earn subvene its cost in a less shortened period of time. Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
  • The Jurassic or first part of the reptilian time shades insensibly into the second part, called the Cretaceous, which immediately follows it. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
  • Sensibly, So has stayed publicly away from criticising Sheppard over the past few days.
  • Kruger urged motorists to use their cars sensibly, have their vehicles serviced regularly and form lift clubs where possible.
  • In the eightieth year of her age she was seized with an inward burning fever, which wasted her insensibly by its intense heat; at the same time an imposthume was formed in her lungs; and a violent and most tormenting scurvy, attended with a corroding hideous stinking ulcer, ate away her jaws and mouth, and deprived her of her speech. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • Consciousness or "interiority" is posited (sensibly enough) as intrinsically heteronomousits own other, so to speak. Reply to Theresa Kelley
  • I must admit that the wee beasties were really trying to be helpful, as their housecleaning instincts struggled to emerge sensibly into a world whose method of organization fell far short of their stringent standards.
  • We have been in the present house for 35 years, and as an inveterate and incurable hoarder I have been faced with the need to sort things out, and decide quickly what must be kept, and what can sensibly be thrown out at last.
  • K-For is holding the line, sensibly reinforcing an ethnic divide that geography has decreed.
  • Even most forms of neorealism don't put much emphasis on plot -- writers having sensibly concluded there's no point in competing with movies for the slam-bang scenario -- and what would be the point of laboriously describing in a synopsis the details of character and setting that the reader simply has to encounter in the finished work? Principles of Literary Criticism
  • In that dreary climate, instead of the animated picture of a Tartar camp, the smoke that issues from the earth, or rather from the snow, betrays the subterraneous dwellings of the Tongouses, and the Samoides: the want of horses and oxen is imperfectly supplied by the use of reindeer, and of large dogs; and the conquerors of the earth insensibly degenerate into a race of deformed and diminutive savages, who tremble at the sound of arms. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Very sensibly, Sasha carries a pocket notebook with her wherever she goes, to record anything which tickles her fancy.
  • Sensibly dressed Gwen, with her long-wearing nightclothes, flannel for winter, dimity for summer. THE GOLDEN LION
  • But Jimmy manages to convince Ron to think more sensibly.
  • Yet the mob somehow aborts the landing and pulls the plane up sensibly.
  • The whole topic of temperament and tuning is sensibly presented, and there are even hints on the purchase and care of instruments.
  • The accessions, which are made to lands bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, Insensibly and Imperceptibly; which are circumstances that mightily assist the imagination in the conjunction. A Treatise of Human Nature
  • So much money is poured into the Games that, sensibly used, cash from what is essentially a leisure activity can transform the host city.
  • For such entertainments altogether enervate the minds of people, insensibly leading them into effeminacy, and unfitting them to endure those hardships, and fatigues, which must necessarily be undergone, to bring any province to perfection. A Renegade History of the United States
  • He came on to the ball beautifully and with two to beat and a couple of yards of wing space to do it in he sped off on an uncatchable 60 metre dash to run round and under the posts, sensibly laying on the conversion for Cadman.
  • The rooms are all of a good size, sensibly laid out and have first class furniture.
  • Other people are sensibly heading to work and you feel like a lowlife reprobate skulking home after a debauch.
  • In Camberwick Green, everyone had sensibly diversified into specialist trades that made the town work as a well-regulated organic entity.
  • Do you two go at it like hammer and tongs or do you sit and discuss problems quietly and sensibly while you take notes? The Sun
  • Having sensibly cracked down on smoking, the government is now squeezing the drinker. Times, Sunday Times
  • After taking account of all the disturbing influences exerted on Mercury by the remaining planets, it was found (Leverrier—1859—and Newcomb—1895) that an unexplained perihelial movement of the orbit of Mercury remained over, the amount of which does not differ sensibly from the above-mentioned + 43 seconds of arc per century. Appendix 3. The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity
  • The Barcelona Wotan of Struckmann, with dark glasses and pigtail (sensibly tucked away for the aerial galop to the Valkyries' perch), looks hardly more divine than anyone on a well-earned break at the seaside.
  • They were sensibly dressed from top to toe in rain gear.
  • The English then sensibly carried out a conservative counter-revolution, restoring the monarchy and ushering in three centuries of gradual and prosperous transition to democratic liberty.
  • There is no human arithmetic that can sensibly make a life less prized than the price of a ransom. Times, Sunday Times
  • Afterall, Latin Tages can't sensibly be a word loaned into Etruscan as Tarχies. Pava and the 'boy' hoax
  • They are sometimes - sensibly - called rear - dump trucks.
  • He decided, very sensibly, not to drive when he was so tired.
  • No one can sensibly argue that entirely to dismantle is more fluent and idiomatic than to entirely dismantle. Times, Sunday Times
  • The system becomes sensibly permanent in a transformed phase.
  • We are a disputatious and ingenious species and have a pretty good track record of solving problems sensibly.
  • It was sensibly decided not to publish the draft White Paper they prepared.
  • I sheepishly looked round for Ray and Fred, but they had very sensibly legged it.
  • Rick muttered obscenities and threats to kill them all, which she sensibly ignored.
  • There's a huge amount of regulation in the financial services world and the vast majority of it is sensibly based.
  • What we have not done is ask whether self-help can sensibly be relied upon to deal with all the problems that limited liability causes for creditors.
  • The twin myths of civilizational clash and convivencia are sensibly rejected. The Times Literary Supplement
  • They sensibly invested their prize money rather than spending it.
  • We still like to play expansive rugby but we are playing more sensibly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Parking is sensibly relegated to two subterranean levels below.
  • This term nominates the infant's image of its own body as it is sensibly lived through.
  • More to the point, while the food was never likely to send either of us into raptures, it was certainly well above average, and very sensibly priced.
  • Where these duties of observing sacrifices do sensibly intrench upon duties of mercy, God doth not require it; which hath a great regard even unto our outward occasions. Sacramental Discourses
  • They were sensibly dressed from top to toe in rain gear.
  • But then his stamina gave out after two and a half miles, and rather than dent his confidence by slogging it out for another half mile, tired and drained, he very sensibly pulled him up.
  • His aspie traits are well defined and sensibly portrayed, adding to Max's rich personality rather than reducing the character to a disability or a stereotype.
  • It would help to know who is talking fancifully and who is talking sensibly.
  • Do you two go at it like hammer and tongs or do you sit and discuss problems quietly and sensibly while you take notes? The Sun
  • When out and about, most people tend to behave sensibly enough not to put themselves at huge risk.
  • After the initial tub-thumping, the author settles down to offer a sensibly inclusive, broad-church definition of jazz.
  • This also thou must consider, that many things there be, which oftentimes unsensibly trouble and vex thee, as not armed against them with patience, because they go not ordinarily under the name of pains, which in very deed are of the same nature as pain; as to slumber unquietly, to suffer heat, to want appetite: when therefore any of these things make thee discontented, check thyself with these words: Now hath pain given thee the foil; thy courage hath failed thee. Meditations
  • Requests for adaptations to classroom lighting or for individual lamps can not sensibly be made until the principles are understood.

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