Citations:common-sensical

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English citations of common-sensical

  • 1841, William Tait, Tait's Edinburgh magazine[1]:
    To sweeten, and to attune the minds of our readers to the themes before them, and to correct the very prosaic or common-sensical tendency of our remarks on ...
  • 1893, Russell Sturgis, Homes in City and Country[2]:
    ... extension of roof, showing how bumptious common-sensical notions about light and air will cut clean through and destroy the charms of traditionary form. ...
  • 1939, Southern Political Science Association, University of Florida, The Journal of Politics[3]:
    Shapiro's common-sensical notion of judges being "influenced" by attitudes begs the question of perception of the relevance of a criterion, and confuses ...
  • 2003, Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science[4]:
    Packed with witty anecdotes and common-sensical examples culled from ao far as sub- Saharan Africa and as near as the author's own backyard, this book is a ...