What is "commonsense"

Usage examples of "commonsense".

Paine, lead singer of the Seventies group Commonsense, has been called The First Goth.

Singer Tom Paine of the San Francisco cult band Commonsense was hospitalized at University of California Medical Center with severe anemia, on the same day his group was to audition for the Fillmore.

Scapellini: Even now, in the days of holograms and digital sound and computer effects, nothing can equal the final show of Commonsense for sheer kitsch bravura and bad taste.

Her solutions of the problems presented to her seemed, and indeed mostly were, the plainest commonsense, and their revelation to her by her Voices was to her a simple matter of fact.

How could plain commonsense and simple fact seem to her to be that hideous thing, heresy?

If we had any commonsense we should join the Duke of Burgundy and the English king.

If you will not believe in them: even if they are only the echoes of my own commonsense, are they not always right?

The writer of these records of dreams and hopes and guesses, all cemented with stern commonsense, has our profound reverence and regard.

Confucius combined the learning and graces of Plato with the sturdy, practical commonsense of Socrates.

Pythagorean philosophy, and include so much practical commonsense that they are still quoted.

I want is a man who is a Christian and a gentleman, an active man, and one who has commonsense, and understands boys.

Yankee shrewdness, great commonsense, all flavored with a dash of mysticism and indifference to physical scientific accuracy.

Christian Science is a modern adaptation of all that is best in the simplicity and asceticism of Jesus, the commonsense philosophy of Benjamin Franklin, the mysticism of Swedenborg, and the bold pronunciamento of Robert Ingersoll.

After it has lived its day, another religion will follow, and that is the Religion of Commonsense, the esoteric religion which Mrs.

Sir Charles Grandison it had not been long before commonsense banished such optimism.