sane

In a sane world he would provide answers that could facilitate greater understanding of his actions and motivations, and how he believes those actions will benefit the American people.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

A public interest firm willing to carry the case without charge, because no sane person spends airplane money in legal fees to recover an airplane.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Yet Forster maintained his equilibrium and held to his admirably sane conception of the human condition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

What kept them sane was talking among themselves about memories of their past lives, Rumyantsev recalled.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

And still you are called to struggle, not because it assures you victory but because it assures you an honorable and sane life.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

As a political reporter, I came away from Comic Con with one overriding impression: If world politics were more like the comic book world, reality would be a safer, saner and healthier place.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

Alouette’s attempts to reclaim her work result in her consignment to Salpetrière, a much-dreaded place for the mentally afflicted, where the cruel guards may or may not be saner than the inmates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

In time, I came up with a saner reply: “I’ll keep working,” I’d say, “as long as I can do my job reasonably well.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Indira, with the saner follow-up: “Dorothy, don’t get in the fight.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

They’d brought so little money that he’d gone on taking mindless jobs like this one at the warehouse, and he’d gone on writing—unreasonably, against the advice of saner people.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

“The sanest way forward — you have to learn how to split yourself up into other selves, like an earthworm,” her mentor advised her years earlier, when she was about to graduate.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

Wakefield What happens when the sanest person working in a psych ward starts to lose his grip?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021

And they remind us that sometimes the sanest means of processing sorrow and fear is to find ways to joke about them.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2021

“Having a therapist has taught me to be less cruel to myself. It’s not like therapy has made me the world’s sanest person; it’s just made me slightly less insane.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2021

He tottered across the roof tiles, spraying his fig trees like it was the safest, sanest procedure in the world.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram