Modifying Another Word

• eminently: Ridley also has an eminently sane attitude to the ferocity of past arguments about the relative influences of nature and nurture.

• perfectly: Seagoon: Lies, lies, all lies, I'm perfectly sane I tell you!

• reasonably: The opportunity's not going to come up twice in any reasonably sane person's lifetime.

• entirely: In fact the book has an entirely sane motivation.

• relatively: One of the reasons I stay relatively sane ( it's only my opinion!

• apparently: I shall particularly remember an apparently sane ITN news reporter who once spent 52 hours attempting a 3-way crossing of the Channel.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• keep: The former British champion Bill Hartston said that " chess doesn't drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane " .

Modifies a noun

• person: No sane person chooses these for what they know is false.

• man: Now they seem like the voice of a sane man amidst a vast faded violence.

• being: On the other hand, the feelings of sane human beings are always to some degree thoughtful.

• mind: Surely these are not the processes of a sane mind?

• voice: Read Philip Roth and be glad that there are sane voices over there.

• society: No sane society would ever allow the Lord of the Flies party a say in who runs the country.

Used with adjective complement

• stay: I was afraid of being in four walls for a long time; I couldn't imagine myself staying sane in there.

• remain: But the modern student of ethics, even if he remains sane, remains sane from an insane dread of insanity.

• seem: I read the paper in the sun and check on wiki - seems sane at the moment.

• keep: Owed to a Job I guess I'm hooked, I need you to keep sane.

• feel: Fresh Start Sally, however, never felt more sane.

• look: An orator who cannot say anything plainly or calmly will scarcely look sane.

Preposition: in

• place: On being sane in insane places Yes, we all feel like this at some time or another.