1507 examples of common sense in sentences

" "We have to use common sense in these matters," he said with an effort to control his excitement.

For Angus was not only the patriarch of the clan, if such a loose confederation of followers could be called a clan; he was esteemed for his goodness and practical common sense.

One wonders that more of them did not imitate poor Paracelsus, who, unable to get a hearing for his coarse common sense, tookvain and sensualto drinking the laudanum which he himself had discovered, and vaunted as a priceless boon to men; and died as the fool dieth, in spite of all his wisdom.

Why did George Washington and the other fathers of the republic exist, if its daughters must be in bondage to common sense and expediency? Borrow Nell's habit once more, for the criticism to be undergone on the road is mild compared to that of a gallery of spectators before whom you must repeatedly pass in review, and who may select you as the object of their especial scrutiny.

I get 'most tired of talking common sense and common feeling to the Deacon.

Because the religion of the peasant is the working hypothesis taught him by life; and by his observance of it he follows what he conceives to be the dictates of common sense consecrated by immemorial custom."

Was there any common sense in imagining that people were persecuting him in that way?

The reasons that made it seem desirable to me that the discussion on this most important and far-reaching range of topics should be postponed, wereI believe the House will agree with mereasons of common sense.

She had given him power and money to help the very poorest, before she came; but her common sense told her that the evil lay too deep in the soil to be reached by a light shower of silveror even by a storm of gold rain.

The fundamental judgments or principles of common sense, which are true for us, even if [possibly] not true in themselves, are discoverable by observation (empirical rationalism).

A strange compound of learning and unworldliness, of queer simplicity, native penetration, and common sense, she had read enough books to despise human nature as it develops itself in history and theology, and she had not known enough people to love it in its personal development.

" "All a good detective needs," said Mr. Fleck, "is, let us say, three thingsobservation, addition and common sense.

What does common sense demand, if not that women should make thorough preparation for trades or professions; and, having taken up a resolution, should abide by all its consequences like men?

To argue from the meaning of the word ebedh as used in the Old Testament, that those to whom it was applied rendered service against their will, and without pay, does violence to the scripture use of the term, sets at nought all rules of interpretation, and outrages common sense.

The more foolish women will take these releases as a release into levity, but the common sense of the newer types of women will come to the help of men in recognising the intolerable nuisance of this prolongation of flirting and charming on the part of people who have had what should be a satisfying love.

Now, however, I can perceive that your scruples are founded on common sense.

Common sense in education.

Help wanted, employment philosophy and common sense.

and reason in common sense.

Common sense in education.

Teacher's answer key to Common sense English 2.

THE FAILURE OF COMMON SENSE Common sense had scarce had its laugh at Bell, and its shout of "I told you so!" at poor Langley, when lo!

Anyhow common sense and moral sense forbid differences of interests and tendencies to be set up as a principle upon which to establish general and permanent rivalry, and, by consequence, a systematic hostility and national enmity.

Those who have such experiences distinctly enough and often enough to live in the light of them remain quite unmoved by criticism, from whatever quarter it may come, be it academic or scientific, or be it merely the voice of logical common sense.

Mr. Rice, her father, was a man of honesty and integrity, while the mother was a woman of remarkable judgment and common sense.

1507 examples of  common sense  in sentences