How to use sanity in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sanity? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples So, in the interest of returning some level of sanity to public discourse, I am stepping into the breach. Shaken by the horrors he saw there, he wrote this parable about the influence of political power in defining sanity. This would suggest that a degree of sanity and moderation may have come after the gruesome tragedy. If I spend too much time at home, I miss the challenges and relative sanity of work. The result is a matrix of sense without sense itself, mocking the devices of sanity. This heinous act of the murder of a little girl and the wounding of her peers go beyond the boundaries of reason and sanity. To see that sanity can for once prevail over the country's foremost fresh foods market should please all. The token bit of blandness, of sanity, of charm, of reason, of niceness, of pointlessness. Both countries need more and well-equipped troops to bring sanity in the two nations. Responses written on the boards are wide-ranging, however, most call for sanity and peace. So it is just fair that the wings of the councillors are clipped to usher sanity in the councils and for the sake of development. Luckily sanity prevailed with the manager intervening and the test went on. Is it recognizing the necessity of long-term fiscal sanity by keeping government spending from exceeding income? We have to put ecological sanity and human rights at the top of our list of priorities. This initially pushed the price beyond the limits of sanity, and finally lead to the collapse of the deal. The show is a chilling indictment of what happens when sanity is equated with conformity. Perhaps it was because there was more hope of sanity prevailing in Nigeria than in Iran. In an effort to keep my sanity, I've avoided his speeches like the plague over the last six months. Perhaps, though I scarcely dare to hope it, the hydrogen bomb will terrify mankind into sanity and tolerance. I'm in hot water, so scorching and so deep that some relatives and friends are questioning my sanity. Show More Sentences The odds are a barometer by which to measure your expertise and challenge your sanity. I think they're gonna have a great time living together even tho I'm beginning to question their sanity! Is it that the power felt by such a person when standing before people who treat him as a tin god results in a loss of sanity? Anyone with an ounce of sanity left will want to avoid dragging them into town for last-minute shopping. But it will be a small miracle if they manage to retain their collective sanity on the way. Sullivan suddenly finds himself adrift in a twilight world where his life, sanity and personal identity are all at risk. Wishing to retain our sanity we naturally hoped and believed fervently that Simon would belong to the 50 per cent curable group. They were great gleaming disks that stared unwinkingly, luminous, whitish, and without a hint of normal emotion or sanity. It was good to have somewhere to go where there appeared to be a vestige of sanity, and River never made him feel unwelcome. Jaye has no idea why these objects are talking to her and initially fears for her sanity. Having been in a room while doctors struggled to keep my child alive, I can vouch for the fact that trust is often the only lifeline to sanity. It was a central paradox of Arbus's strongest years, however, that the pursuit of the authentic did not necessarily voyage toward sanity. I finally regained my sanity and stippled gold and copper acrylic paint on the back of each piece. And heaven help the sanity of the people who listen to it longer than it takes to switch it off. It's hard to find victory or exit strategies or any other sanity in what's happening. What if, after all those years of talking to Beth to hold onto his sanity, he'd finally stripped his gears? Certainly, we'll see some Orwellian legislation enacted, but once sanity returns, it'll be something else. The next was cluttered with metal studs and necklaces that had spikes too long for my personal sanity. Her voice could reach such a high pitch, that it could actually cause a dog to lose its sanity. More to the point, a full-strength, high-test spirituality propels a seeker toward sanity and wisdom. Show More Sentences I don't think that the prosecution wants to suggest for a moment that there is any sanity issue here. Then again his sanity was a big question mark so what really happened to him probably isn't that sinister as a paranoid would have you believe. His parasitic exploitation of Ella does not stop until she is completely drained of memory, language, and finally, sanity. Marshall gives an incandescent performance vocally and dramatically as a woman desperately trying to hold on to her sanity in a world gone mad. Penhall plies his pen widely, commenting on the dilapidated National Health Service and the nature of perception, sanity, and normalcy. Booze and cocaine corroded his sanity and left him with a legacy of irrational behaviour. Anyone who values their sanity or eardrums still has time to flee the country. When Winston Churchill opposed the conventional wisdom that Hitler was tolerable, he was isolated from public life, his sanity questioned. The dexterity with which he counterfeits sanity presents, to the metaphysician, one of the most singular problems in the study of mind. I once defined sanity as the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. Joining a germinal but growing movement, the soldiers represent that war-weariness and a desired return to sanity in the country. Only the state of the sanity of the defendant's mind mattered, and that was the purview of men with education and experience. For the sake of parental and grandparental sanity, I submit the following list of videos that won't destroy sanity or insult taste. A week later, it was a functioning hospital, an island of cleanliness and sanity in a sea of decay and dirt. Are they the product of a diseased mind, a sick imagination, a temporary lapse of sanity? Patient, cogent and an exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence. I see that sanity has prevailed and this crazy and unnecessary idea has now been put into abeyance. Like the jester at a medieval court whose caperings and quips recalled the king to sanity, he aimed only to remind the world of its duty. I think for my own sanity and emotional balance, that's the best tack I can take with it, really. I think it's worth the cost because its filters have returned a ration of sanity to my mail management. Show More Sentences I doubted my own sanity at times, and was afraid for what it really meant about me and my future. It's an absolute staple of sanity and good wholesome cultural fun, and by Jove there are some fine tunes to be had into the bargain. But, for the sake of my own sanity and my place in society, I remain somewhat agnostic about it all. It was abolished hundreds of years ago as sanity and reason won the argument against those who sanctioned it. To be condemned for the colour or creed you were born with, really defies reason or sanity. This is why The King is coming along as I need to have a point of sanity and reason to refer back to. In essence, this new intense sport is windsurfing without those nasty, nonsensical items like safety or sanity. Unlike other actors, who sell fitted kitchens or serve pizzas between gigs, Duffy goes to the gym and tries to keep hold of his sanity. I have to wonder about the sanity of any person, watching people line up for food and spout this drivel. The world has gone mad, and has lost its sense of proportion along with its sanity. Once a person reaches this level of isolation, it is hard to come back to the land of sanity. The groom may simply have had a temporary lapse of sanity, and he may realize his error in a few months or years. Further, a certain measure of restraint was a condition of sanity amidst the new atmosphere of material abundance. Aware of the potential for ridicule, or for having their sanity questioned, protesters are naturally reticent about discussing these experiences. He makes the hero, who questions the sanity of citizens who allow their taxes to be spent on bombs, liberally persuasive. Lucidity, the ability to think rationally and act resolutely, is not sufficient evidence to determine sanity. For one whose obsession has been certifiable by the commissioners of lunacy, here surely instead was proof of pure sanity. Then the magick seems pretty real, and you just start to question your sanity from time to time. There is no safety or security for us unless there is worldwide social justice and ecological sanity. Up until the time he left, he felt that his sanity was compromised as the job had lost all meaning for him. Show More Sentences Olivia and Adam pray that she does not participate in it, fearing for her health and sanity. For our own sanity, if nothing else, we cannot really subscribe to such a misanthropic and nihilistic worldview. It's for this that I look at my friendship with Mona as an island of sanity in an otherwise crazy world. She was diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder and spent eight years clawing her way back to sanity. This waterfall is just the latest drop where people have questioned my sanity. On the outside, things were going well, but on the inside it was hard to maintain sanity and good personal relations. I tried to assure her of my sanity and my health in all other aspects before continuing my little tale. Every week we sit and work hard, with music as our only comfort, maintaining our sanity as tempers flare. There are people in there who, by some miracle, have regained their sanity. It seems a stretch that a trained group of military personnel lose all sanity after only 28 days. I would have doubted my own sanity at this point, if I were the doubting type. Both begin to doubt their sanity and their ability to stay any closer then 100 miles away from each other. The one thing that provided sanity to a whole generation growing up in the backdrop of racial tension was music. This production returns coherence, logic, and sanity to a masterpiece. When his father tells him that he thinks his son is mad, Zeno triumphantly informs him that, on the contrary, he has a certificate from the doctor attesting to his sanity. Remember, turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is reality. Yes, in all honestly she is a bit of a dingbat, but she is also a very caring person, striving to keep her dignity and sanity in a world that often times mocks her faith. A bit like tombstoning, only instead of jumping off cliffs into water, they jump into diets that are going to lose them nothing but their health and sanity. On the other hand, maybe sanity is overrated, and a decent sabbatical from fiction is just what my brain needs to come up with loads of exciting new ideas. As the millennium approaches, Andersson's characters find their world falling apart around them, with few options as their sanity begins to slip away. Show More Sentences We can split the atom and land a rocket on Mars, but sanity and civilization are a delicate edifice of reason over a maelstrom of envy, insecurity, and terror. Like a woman loosing all sanity, I began to laugh in hysterics. We were hoping that sanity will prevail upon New Delhi and Islamabad and they will take a decision on reopening of the road but it again proved a mirage. Molly may address us from a psychiatric hospital, yet the intelligence and insight of her monologues, most saliently when they describe her mental state, argue for her sanity. She gave a crazed cry, the cry of a Harpy, the cry of a madwoman who had long lost all sanity, the cries of one who faced death and would never forget. Here's a man who can shoulder a crisis, keep the show on the road, juggle two mobile phones, a walkie-talkie and a landline and still keep a semblance of sanity. When it's too hot or too rainy even to visit the park with the kids, a stash of arts and crafts supplies and a few treats extraordinaire may very well save your sanity. Despite any unpleasantness and pain, you must acknowledge the suffering you have caused and develop a concern for creating an environment of sanity. We have to pick our way to sanity through a cacophony of pressure and hassle which are not the product of any one moment in time but of the times in which we live. Many jokes centred on the relative sanity of lawyers compared to doctors. He said the protest should not be perceived as the cry of bad losers but as a legitimate move to bring sanity to the game by discouraging unsporting behaviour. Thankfully, we reached port with our innards, if not our sanity, intact. Ultimately, slowly, some sanity was restored to what was going on. However, he does admit there were times he doubted his own sanity. His sanity is slowly unraveling, like the claustrophobic narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart. Watching too much of this garbage can push you over the edge of sanity. What a capacity to maintain mental sanity in spite of pain and sadness. He listened to it late at night, huddled with earphones on and shades drawn, to hear music that brought him a whisper of sanity and took him away from the horrors of his day. At one time or another I also participated in extemporaneous speaking, poetry and prose reading, and in a particular lapse of sanity, number sense. There's a bright ray of sanity on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page. Show More Sentences Will sanity ever return to the business of cricket telecasting? After his Green Eggs and Ham soliloquy, sanity left the building and a shutdown was almost inevitable. When we don the mask of sanity and hide our true feelings from each other, we also avoid having to face up to our moral complicity in the bombings. To her further credit, she has also agreed to let sanity be our guide in the matter of whether a medium-sized family suitcase is any place for a surfboard. But so far I've managed to keep the fear from nibbling at my sanity. Deeply imbued in Ciceronian ideas, and reacting sharply against the trends of his own century, his great book is a storehouse of sanity, humane scholarship and good sense. I have to wonder that when a brief flicker of sanity hits me. Probiotics are the beneficial bacteria that help regulate our digestion, strengthen our immune system and maintain sanity. What is in dispute is the sanity of the judge who sentenced Boardman's husband to only eight years of house arrest. But if only we could think less selfishly about the present and more about the far future then we may just save our sanity. His most powerful aria is his prayer to the Hebrew God from his jail cell, after which he regains his strength and sanity. During her tour of European courts, she lost and never regained her sanity. I tried to reinject some sanity to the conversation, but it was too late and conspiracy theory reigned for the rest of the night. I hallucinated by the third day, and I was completely insane, and by that time I was just trying to get my sanity back. A lone voice of snarling sanity in a right-on world gone mad, DCI Hunt remains smoulderingly bad and dangerous to know. You still have to take care of your sanity, your piece of mind. If you want a ditherer for PM then vote Tory, if you want a Margaret Thatcher for PM then vote UKIP, but if you want sanity then vote Labour. She is the mother of six children but somehow keeps her sanity. I realized I wasn't in line with the new antifamily, antistrong national defense, antifiscal sanity Democratic Party. I had a brain-cramp there for a minute, the smile said, but now sanity has reasserted itself. Show More Sentences Sorry, your demonstration does not in fact demonstrate gafia, only sanity. You'll have to do something else to demonstrate gafia. Whereas the brain definitely functions within constraints, the mind might be considered a compulsive overreacher, to a degree that can imperil sanity. It was the high-heartedness of people which had won the war. It would be the high-heartedness of men and women which would bring sanity and serenity to a troubled world. When Henry's sanity returned, the court party reasserted its authority, but Richard of York and the Nevilles defeated them at a skirmish called the First Battle of St Albans. When Henry's sanity returned, the court party reasserted its authority but York and his relatives, the Nevilles, defeated them at the First Battle of St Albans. Restore Sanity Austin is urging ralliers to leave hurtful signs at home and to proofread their signs before waving them about. In his polymathic text called Science and Sanity, Korzybski introduced the world to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics. Examples from Classical Literature But his father was a Slav, and what is madness in an Englishwoman is sanity in a Russian. But if they had, one of them at least would have doubted the young man's sanity. The blow of the parang upon the professor's skull had shocked his overwrought mind back into the path of sanity. It was Pfeiffer who drew her out of the room and tried to talk reason and sanity to her. The glory of his temperament was its splendid sanity, balance, and normality. There ought to be some other word that doesn't accuse his sanity in that degree. Do you not see, senor, that the gain by Don Quixote's sanity can never equal the enjoyment his crazes give? And Ralph's doubts in regard to the moonlighter's sanity increased each moment. Five or six had already hatched and the grotesque caricatures which sat blinking in the sunlight were enough to cause me to doubt my sanity. His inborn sanity could not defend him from a misty creeping jealousy. The commutation of his death sentence had been due to some doubts as to his complete sanity, so atrocious was his conduct. It was the complete lack of order and sanity and that let me get topside. There seemed none of the unity of purpose between the parts of the body which marks even lethargic sanity. There was something of women's highly practical sanity and also of their irrelevancy in the conduct of Miss de Barral's amazing governess. Fyne assured me with some resentment, as though I had aspersed little Fyne's sanity. Kris Kringle's claim to be the real Santa Claus leads some to question his sanity, prompting the famous courtroom scenes. Then you regained your sanity and put him in his rightful place. Nowhere do we find such a combination of emotionalism with sanity. How could the presence of these articles in my house affect either the honour, the sanity, or the life of my flighty colleague? I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island. Show More Sentences But sanity asserting its sway at once I left the verandah after giving him a mirthless smile. I was again astonished, for he addressed himself to the question with the impartiality of the completest sanity. They relieve and recommend each other, and the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. That you are a princess does not abash me, but that you are you is enough to make me doubt my sanity as I ask you, my princess, to be mine. Vanstone, if your opinion of your housekeeper's sanity is well founded. Our love of the real draws us to permanence, but health of body consists in circulation, and sanity of mind in variety or facility of association. But his intellect, though it had lost its pristine vivacity in the benumbing years of sedentary exposure to the weather, lacked not independence or sanity. Find more words! Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword / Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find conjugations Find names From Afrikaans From Albanian From Amharic From Arabic From Armenian From Azerbaijani From Basque From Belarusian From Bengali From Bosnian From Bulgarian From Catalan From Cebuano From Chichewa From Chinese From Corsican From Croatian From Czech From Danish From Dutch From Esperanto From Estonian From Farsi From Filipino From Finnish From French From Frisian From Galician From Georgian From German From Greek From Gujarati From Haitian Creole From Hausa From Hebrew From Hindi From Hmong From Hungarian From Icelandic From Igbo From Indonesian From Irish From Italian From Japanese From Javanese From Kannada From Kazakh From Khmer From Korean From Kurdish From Kyrgyz From Lao From Latin From Latvian From Lithuanian From Luxembourgish From Macedonian From Malagasy From Malay From Malayalam From Maltese From Maori From Marathi From Mongolian From Burmese From Nepali From Norwegian From Polish From Portuguese From Punjabi From Romanian From Russian From Samoan From Scots Gaelic From Serbian From Sesotho From Shona From Sinhala From Slovak From Slovenian From Somali From Spanish From Sundanese From Swahili From Swedish From Tajik From Tamil From Telugu From Thai From Turkish From Ukrainian From Urdu From Uzbek From Vietnamese From Welsh From Xhosa From Yiddish From Yoruba From Zulu To Afrikaans To Albanian To Amharic To Arabic To Armenian To Azerbaijani To Basque To Belarusian To Bengali To Bosnian To Bulgarian To Catalan To Cebuano To Chichewa To Chinese To Corsican To Croatian To Czech To Danish To Dutch To Esperanto To Estonian To Farsi To Filipino To Finnish To French To Frisian To Galician To Georgian To German To Greek To Gujarati To Haitian Creole To Hausa To Hebrew To Hindi To Hmong To Hungarian To Icelandic To Igbo To Indonesian To Irish To Italian To Japanese To Javanese To Kannada To Kazakh To Khmer To Korean To Kurdish To Kyrgyz To Lao To Latin To Latvian To Lithuanian To Luxembourgish To Macedonian To Malagasy To Malay To Malayalam To Maltese To Maori To Marathi To Mongolian To Burmese To Nepali To Norwegian To Polish To Portuguese To Punjabi To Romanian To Russian To Samoan To Scots Gaelic To Serbian To Sesotho To Shona To Sinhala To Slovak To Slovenian To Somali To Spanish To Sundanese To Swahili To Swedish To Tajik To Tamil To Telugu To Thai To Turkish To Ukrainian To Urdu To Uzbek To Vietnamese To Welsh To Xhosa To Yiddish To Yoruba To Zulu English French Afrikaans Word Albanian Word Arabic Word Bengali Word Chinese Word Croatian Word Czech Word Danish Word Dutch Word English Word Finnish Word French Word German Word Greek Word Hindi Word Hungarian Word Icelandic Word Indonesian Word Italian Word Japanese Word Korean Word Latin Word Malay Word Malayalam Word Marathi Word Nepali Word Norwegian Word Polish Word Portuguese Word Romanian Word Russian Word Serbian Word Slovak Word Spanish Word Swahili Word Swedish Word Tamil Word Telugu Word Thai Word Turkish Word Ukrainian Word Uzbek Word Vietnamese Word Welsh Word All words 2-letter words 3-letter words 4-letter words 5-letter words 6-letter words 7-letter words 8-letter words 9-letter words 10-letter words 11-letter words 12-letter words 13-letter words 14-letter words Plural of Singular of Past tense of Present tense of Verb for Adjective for Adverb for Noun for Meaning of name Origin of name Names meaning Names starting with Names of origin sanity Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search Advanced Word Finder See Also What is another word for sanity? What is the opposite of sanity? Words that rhyme with sanity What is the plural of sanity? What is the adverb for sanity? What is the adjective for sanity? What is the noun for sanity? Translations for sanity Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sanitorium sanitizing sanitizer sanitized sanitize sanitization sanjak Sanjay sank Sankara sankey Sankey 6-letter Words Starting With s sa san sani sanit