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But in packing every other moment with something wild and anchoring it with a pointless arc about Debbie and Rusty’s marriage, “Vacation” has diverged from the simple saneness and sophisticated, of-its-time satire of the first.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2015

The real grain of saneness left in young Garron was his inborn love of a gun.

From A Village of Vagabonds by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)

That identity which is termed personal, Mr. Locke, I think, truly defines to consist in the saneness of rational being.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan

All of their pictures are conspicuous for their saneness and big feeling.

From The Galleries of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen

But this seriousness of hers was of a new kind, of the kind that bespeaks sobriety and saneness of soul.

From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham