sound-thinking

It's not the mark of a sound-thinking intellectial, that's for sure.

Now, Obama has the Special Olympians taunting him: "That's not very good. It wouldn't beat us. He needs to practice." Ann Althouse 2009

If any one finds that he never reads serious literature, if all his reading is frothy and trashy, he would do well to try to train himself to like books that the general agreement of cultivated and sound-thinking persons has placed among the classics.

Morning meditation: What I live for M-mv 2005

If any one finds that he never reads serious literature, if all his reading is frothy and trashy, he would do well to try to train himself to like books that the general agreement of cultivated and sound-thinking persons has placed among the classics.

Archive 2005-08-01 M-mv 2005

Garrett, you are, for the most part, an unusually sound-thinking representative of your species.

Bitter Gold Hearts Cook, Glen 1988

All sound-thinking and unprejudiced-minded persons will agree that this institution is a very able instrument to assist in carrying forward the work so necessary to be done for the race.

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child. Various

Of course, if any one finds that he never reads serious literature, if all his reading is frothy and trashy, he would do well to try to train himself to like books that the general agreement of cultivated and sound-thinking persons has placed among the classics.

IX. Books for Holidays in the Open 1916

And you, being a straight, sound-thinking man in the main, but with a heap of notions that aren't always sound, but which you can't just help, would say: 'See, right here, Doc, I don't approve boosting my burdens on other folks' shoulders.

The Heart of Unaga Ridgwell Cullum 1905

The device succeeded; David traced its origin to Joab; and, secretly pleased at obtaining the judgment of that rough, but generally sound-thinking soldier, he commissioned him to repair to Geshur and bring home his exiled son.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Every sound-thinking man has promised not to refuse any office tendered to him so as to keep out the Jacobins .....

The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

"High Churchism"; between his desire to show that Mr. Robertson estimated the High Church leaders as much as an intelligent man ought, and disliked their system as much as a sound-thinking Christian ought.

Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852