Mercifully, however, she had little leisure to reflect on that tragedy, else her own sanity might have been endangered.
Why, then, in the name of that happiness, of the peace and sanity and pleasurable effort it had brought him, had he allowed and even encouraged the advent of a new element that threatened to destroy the equilibrium achieved?
An avalanche of derisive remarks concerning his sanity roared down on Titus but he ignored them and continued.
After only two weeks of basic training his company shunned him, his noncoms hated him and his officers, in order to reduce the wear and tear on their sanity often pretended he did not exist.
There is an immeasurable distance between entire overthrow and the sanity of the creature who, though sorely wounded, has lost no jot of faith in divine medicaments.
Those who knew her soon enough to play with her the duplex game of bodily delight and mental inebriety, remember hours so near the wild sanity of natural life that only old Arcadian names are spacious enough to bound them.
But his mother remained silent in her deep misgiving concerning the sanityof the simpler sex, when mentally upset by love.
Originally, when Cresswell was sane and splendid, his splendour of sanity guarded Julian from all that was dangerous.
Yet sanity seemed to become abruptly commonplace, a sort of whining crossing-sweeper, chattering untimely, meaningless phrases to him.
Back to peace and sanity in the shade of the elms!
I will not let the love of sanity and natural conditions die out of me!
They were to him his future life--all of a future life that his fundamental pagan sanityperhaps admitted.
He had the marvellous instinctive sanity of the middle class.
Mrs. Bacon's The Miracle, for instance, has its setting in an insane asylum, but the uncanny happenings almost convince us of the sanity of the patients and the paranoia of the outsiders.
By sanity I mean freedom from the morbid and the diseased; and the quality is one especially to be prized in these days of morbid tendencies and diseased eccentricities.
We miss much of the beauty by losing the wonderful form, and no translation ever approached the original, but we get always the mood of sanity and reality.
We see that the gist of the whole matter is simply this: That sanity and refinement are pressing needs; that good art makes for these things and in so doing makes indirectly for progress in right living and right thinking.
The man in the street thinks madness is a fixed and definite thing, as distinct from sanity as black is from white.
Of course all this sort of thing may be done cheaply, stupidly, dishonestly, and vulgarly, and one imagines the shy and exquisite type of mind recoiling from the rude sanity of these suggestions.
Raised on a big cattle ranch that his father had owned in New Mexico, riding broncos on the plains had given him his abounding health of body, nerve and spirit, his steadiness and sanity in all this feverish city life.
For he had forever lost his faith in the sanity and steadiness of the great mind of humanity.
There is, you know, with regard to number, the phase when man can barely count at all, or counts in perfect good faith and sanity upon his fingers.
For the greater promotion of calm and of sanity he welcomed the young girl's change of dress.
Not vulgarly, in a spirit of self-aggrandizement; but in the simple interests of self-preservation, as a means of keeping endangered sanity afloat.
It will be supposed necessary to establish in what sanity of intellect consists, and to mark distinctly some fixed point, the aberrations from which are to constitute disease.
She sang the praises of Athenian literature and art and life; there was sanity and clarity, there was balance and serenity!
What you need is something to get you out of yourself," the critic was saying--"something to restore your sanity and balance.
The centuries are conspirators against the sanityand authority of the soul.
Order is the sanityof the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.
Her sanity is shown in her never trying to do things for which she is not fitted.
Louis, on the other hand, talked as he painted--with the same breeze and verve and the same wholesome cheer and sanity which have made both himself and his brush so beloved.
That argument ignores the liberating and harmonising influences, giving wholesome balance and sanity to the whole organism, imparted by a sexual union which is the outcome of the psychic as well as physical needs.
To despise the petty arts of womanliness, to trust to the sanity of man.
How can the world grow better, when sane, educated people use their sanity and enlightenment to darken others?
Yet the gratitude remained; she fought for Lady Meg--for her sanity and some return of sanity in her proceedings.
The reversion to a vast sum of money depended upon the testator's sanity or insanity.
Come, Carriston, be reasonable, and prove your sanityby setting about this search for Miss Rowan in a proper way.
But as at present there was no doubt about my friend's sanity I promised my aid readily.
You must sometimes find it hard to say where sanity ends and insanity begins," he said thoughtfully.
There ought to be some other word that doesn't accuse his sanity in that degree.
The landlord looked at my dirty collar and bosom as if he doubted either my sanity or my decency, and remarked that perhaps I knew his rules compelled him to present the bills of strangers semi-weekly.
The sanity of the man only strengthened his insanity.
