common-sensible

This completely innocuous common-sensible statement of intellectual responsibility is not as outré as you think it is.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Alito Event (Pepperdine, Tuesday) on C-Span: 2007

Whang also delivered several very sensible, almost common-sensible statements, which keep being forgotten in the gaming culture debate.

Beyond the United State of Play Torill 2004

Whang also delivered several very sensible, almost common-sensible statements, which keep being forgotten in the gaming culture debate.

Archive 2004-11-01 Torill 2004

Mohammed was a tubby, vulgar little man of fifty-five, common-sensible and energetic.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

As the author himself says of John Brown, (and, so applied, we thought it an atrociously cold-blooded _dictum_,) "any common-sensible man would feel an intellectual satisfaction in seeing them hanged, were it only for their preposterous miscalculation of possibilities."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

One's outlook upon the whole universe is and must be an individual matter; science and evolution are of overwhelming value, not by directing the mind to adopt this or that attitude toward the unseen, but by providing the seeker after the truth with definite knowledge about the things of the world, so that his position may be taken on the sound basis of reasonable and common-sensible principles.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

Northern soldiers in the cotton country of the South, is other than judicious and common-sensible.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

On the other hand, any common-sensible man, looking at the matter unsentimentally, must have felt a certain intellectual satisfaction in seeing him hanged, if it were only in requital of his preposterous miscalculation of possibilities.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

If mother weren't there that Nancy would have been at the telephone an hour ago in spite of young people's pride and old people's self-respect and all the thousand and one knife-faced fetishes that all the correct and common-sensible people hug close and worship because they hurt.

Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

But while John felt sorry for himself in this matter, yet was far too sane and common-sensible to resent it, another wondrous thing fell out, and

The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911