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    reasonableness


    1. You look down at your objectives and realise that what they are asking for is way off the charts of reasonableness and reality


    2. "But," said Herr Dremmel, with the complete reasonableness of one who is indifferent and has no desire whatever to argue, "but naturally


    3. Nothing but a rather silent reasonableness, and if enunciations are unavoidable brief ones, go well with coffee and with rolls


    4. He adored her like that, so gentle, giving no trouble, accepting the situation and his comfortings and his pattings of the hand on his arm and all his further explanations and asseverations with a grown-up dear reasonableness he had not yet seen in her


    5. And Ingram, steeped in the heaviness of the first real sleep he had had for nights and only half awake, murmured, with the happy, foolish reasonableness of that condition--


    6. While a subjective, lower-qualitative perception of the emotional-mental dynamics of SVUULL-VVU-copies of INGLIMILISSA appears due to the fact that, in low-frequency Levels of joint manifestation (the 1st-12th DUU-LLI), a definite degree of their synthesis with the mentally-emotional VVU-Configurations of LUUD-VVU-copies of ARGLLAAMUNI doesn’t introduce into the dynamics of their common Creative Activity an expressed element of “rationality”, reasonableness and much less, intellectuality, — these features start to be manifested more or less perceptibly only from the dynamics of the Formo-copies that structure the 7th-8th karmic Channels of ARGLLAAMUNI and INGLIMILISSA


    7. The reasonableness of his tone immediately put everyone at ease


    8. Such a death came upon Adam and all his posterity, by his first disobedience in paradise, under which death they should have lain forever had it not been for the redemption by Jesus Christ," "Reasonableness of Christianity," Volume 6, page 3, 1695


    9. Despite early suggestions from defense attorneys about fighting every arrest, in light of the government’s reasonableness it appeared that all of those arrested would escape jail sentences and would, at most, have to pay a not-too-significant fine


    10. Such a death came upon Adam and all his posterity, by his first disobedience in paradise, under which death they should have lain forever had it not been for the redemption by Jesus Christ" John Locke, "Reasonableness of Christianity

    11. Elinor felt all the reasonableness of the idea, and it gave fresh misery to her reflections


    12. And even if there be some one who through inherent goodness or natural reasonableness has had his eyes opened a little and is humbled and taken captive by philosophy, how will his friends behave when they think that they are likely to lose the advantage which they were hoping to reap from his companionship? Will they not do and say anything to prevent him from yielding to his better nature and to render his teacher powerless, using to this end private intrigues as well as public prosecutions?


    13. And now since we have reverted to the subject of poetry, let this our defence serve to show the reasonableness of our former judgment in sending away out of our State an art having the tendencies which we have described; for reason constrained us


    14. what he longed to believe in—her reasonableness


    15. Next to him, Regan’s silence was deep, but he couldn’t see her; it was as if she’d been pushed into shadow by the glacial pallor of the man’s face, the patent reasonableness of his voice


    16. Write this, Madam, and do not fail to praise the Reasonableness of the Trade, tho’ I know you are no great Believer in Reason!”


    17. But of these two dangers, the latter may be offset in part by careful selection and chiefly by wide diversification; the former may be guarded against by unvarying insistence upon the reasonableness of the price paid for each purchase


    18. The investment trusts were new enterprises; their management and their bankers were generally identical; the compensation for financing and management had to be determined solely by the recipients, without accepted standards of reasonableness to control them


    19. You claim the privilege of reason in the highest degree, since you seek to impress us with your complete reasonableness


    20. Moreover, Speranski, either because he appreciated the other’s capacity or because he considered it necessary to win him to his side, showed off his dispassionate calm reasonableness before Prince Andrew and flattered him with that subtle flattery which goes hand in hand with self-assurance and consists in a tacit assumption that one’s companion is the only man besides oneself capable of understanding the folly of the rest of mankind and the reasonableness and profundity of

    21. Count Rostov approved of this suggestion, appreciating its reasonableness


    22. The reasonableness of the arguments of these disinterested French officers commenced to convince her against her will


    23. I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make mention of one or two other things, which to me seem important, as in printed form establishing in all respects the reasonableness of the whole story of the White Whale, more especially the catastrophe


    24. Whatever we may think of the reasonableness of these explanations, they once sufficed for a believing Christian, as similar explanations satisfied a Jew or a Mohammedan, and men were not obliged to renounce all reason for living according to a law which they recognized as divine


    25. Moreover, Speránski, either because he appreciated the other’s capacity or because he considered it necessary to win him to his side, showed off his dispassionate calm reasonableness before Prince Andrew and flattered him with that subtle flattery which goes hand in hand with self-assurance and consists in a tacit assumption that one’s companion is the only man besides oneself capable of understanding the folly of the rest of mankind and the reasonableness and profundity of one’s own ideas


    26. Count Rostóv approved of this suggestion, appreciating its reasonableness


    27. We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand)


    28. Yet, without even taking the pains to enter into their meaning, they refuse, if unfavorably disposed, to recognize any reasonableness in his doctrines; or if they want to treat them indulgently, they condescend, from the height of their superiority, to correct them, on the supposition that Christ meant to express precisely their own ideas, but did not succeed in doing so


    29. With respect to blockades, of a subsequent date or not, against France, you will press the reasonableness of leaving them, together with future blockades not warranted by public law, to be proceeded against by the United States in the manner they may choose to adopt


    30. But again: will, I had like to have said, the servile manner, in which a rescinding the blockade is coupled as a condition with the withdrawing the Orders in Council, escape notice? Immediately on instructing General Armstrong to state to the French Government that a repeal of the blockade of eighteen hundred and six would be insisted on, the Secretary adds: "You will press the reasonableness of permitting the United States to proceed in such way as they may think proper, in relation to any subsequent blockades, or any other blockades not against France," which to me reads in this way, i

    31. Besides the reasonableness of saving our manufacturers from sacrifices which a change of circumstances might bring on them, the national interest requires that, with respect to such articles at least as belong to our defence and our primary wants, we should not be left in unnecessary dependence on external supplies


    32. But the Congregational church, with the "Lewis High School" in its basement, taught by two experienced lady teachers from New York, has gained the respect of the whole community by the steadiness of its members and the "sweet reasonableness" of its doctrines as handed down from past generations


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    Synonyms for "reasonableness"

    reasonableness tenability tenableness moderateness modestness rationality reason

    "reasonableness" definitions

    the state of having good sense and sound judgment


    goodness of reason and judgment


    the property of being moderate in price or expenditures


    moderation in expectations


    the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person