clear-headedness

Where the Wales coaches have changed mindsets, with the players having opted to avoid alchohol last week to ensure their clear-headedness in Cardiff, England are in danger of disappearing up a familiar blind alley.

Wales 19-9 England | Rugby World Cup warm-up match report 2011

Liz Whittingham, the first archivist at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, also helped get me started on the book, but I could not have completed it without the kindness, industry, clear-headedness and generosity of her successor, Jane Branfield.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

Rubashov would occasionally become conscious of this in his rare moments of clear-headedness, and he would then have the sensation of awakening from a strange state of intoxication; Gletkin, on the other hand, seemed never to be aware of it.

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

By now I was feeling the full rush of clear-headedness and had become eerily coordinated, successfully propping the apartment door open for Cece while simultaneously holding a can of soda, and nothing spilled or was accidentally elbowed in the chest by their boyfriend.

Miles Klee: I Took a Break From All The Acid I Have Been Doing 2009

Reason has returned to the White House and not a moment too soon, because in these times clear-headedness, logic, and a lot less knee-jerk political ideology are what's needed more urgently than ever.

Op-Ed: Reason Returns to the White House 2009

Reason has returned to the White House and not a moment too soon, because in these times clear-headedness, logic, and a lot less knee-jerk political ideology are what's needed more urgently than ever.

Mary Lyon: Reason Returns to the White House 2009

And it requires organization, clear-headedness, loyalty, and work for a single goal.

McCain Hits Obama On FISA -- Vote Set For This Morning 2009

But it might be argued that to impose significant form on the chaotic materials of life lived, instead of fashioning them from the more restricted, more determined, more orthodox contents of the imagination, or from the more restrictive conventions of fictional genres, requires a superior faculty of invention, or at least the grace and clear-headedness of an inventor.

Desilu, Three Cameras 2009

After more than a decade as a regular facet of our day-to-day lives, it's time for us to start treating the Internet with the same clear-headedness.

Leslie Harris: Because "Classified Ad Killer" Doesn't Have the Same Ring 2009

Reason has returned to the White House and not a moment too soon, because in these times clear-headedness, logic, and a lot less knee-jerk political ideology are what's needed more urgently than ever.

Reason Returns to the White House 2009