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Sanely

adverb
1.
With good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner.  Synonyms: reasonably, sensibly.  "Speak more sanely about these affairs" , "Acted quite reasonably"
2.
In a sane or lucid manner.






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"Sanely" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was about to let you. And that's in the fifth place, Lancelot: if we kiss each other once, we're sure to do it again and again—and again. Now go over there and sit down, and we'll talk sanely and sensibly. ...
— King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays • Floyd Dell

... he liked best the places they had gone to when they were children—the Manor Farm fields, High Slaughter, and Hayes Mill. They were always going to the places where they had done things together. When Colin talked sanely he was back in those times. He was safe there. There, if anywhere, he could find his real ...
— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair

... difficult than he had anticipated. She was living wrong, that was the sum and substance of her malady. Her life was spent confronting theories and discounting conditions. She did not realize that it is only the interest of our investment in life that we can sanely contribute to the cause of living. Our capital strength and energy must be used for the struggle for existence itself if we are to have a world of balanced individuals. There is an arrogance involved ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley

... advice was always wise and helpful, and at points vital. Courteous to all foreign powers, and falling into no spectacular jangles with any, he was obsequious to none. No other ruler, party to intervention in China during the Boxer rebellion in 1900, acted there so sanely, or withdrew with so creditable ...
— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... computing for everybody, in time. To send ships into space for necessary but dangerous experiments with atomic energy was a purpose every man should want to help forward. To bring peace on Earth was surely an objective no man could willingly or sanely combat. And the ultimate goal of space travel was millions of other planets, circling other suns, thrown open to colonization by humanity. That prospect should surely fire every human being with enthusiasm. But something—and the more one thought about ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster


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