Sensibleness is the quality of being sensible
Sensibility has little to do with sensible
I looked it up
signed: nob flowmanus
1.2 is incorrect, but is correct for the meaning of "sensible" having to do with judgment rather than perception.
I wasn't perfectly sure which meaning of "sensible" you were working with.
She sounds more shell-shocked than sensible. This, though, is pretty astute:
"Quite early in my career the image of a glass-bottomed boat came to me as an apt one for sex; a love-making relationship with a man offered chances to peer at what went on under his surface."
Part of what's interesting about sleeping with someone, even in a casual manner, is that you learn things about them that you never otherwise would.
2:Well, yeah. "Sense & Sensibility" = "Good judgment & accurate perception" If sensibility was good judgment you would have a simple redundancy.
If both "sense" and "sensibility" pertain to perception you have an extreme subtlety.
No, no. Elinor was the more sensible one, the one with better and more studied judgment. Marianne was the one more driven by emotion and feeling, i.e. her sensibilities. Fortunately at the end there is no conflict between the two drives, as after a period of some uncertainty both sisters ultimately find partners with whom marriage would be both a practical and an emotionally satisfying endeavor.
Your comment says no, no, but the remainder of it agrees with McManus. That's pretty much what he's saying, and you're both right.
Apparently, I've de-railed the thread by misunderstanding the title of a novel I've never read.
4.last: Cock size, for example. And O-face.
Part of what's interesting about sleeping with someone, even in a casual manner, is that you learn things about them that you never otherwise would.
But how am I better off for knowing that somebody has a tendency to fart while receiving oral sex?
She sounds more shell-shocked than sensible.
That's just the journalist being sensational. She's really incredibly even-keeled about these turns of life.
I didn't get the impression at all from that article that she was shell-shocked.
not being governed by fear of consequences.
I find that, at least with certain impulsive people, it's more blind denial that a particular consequence could happen, or happen again, rather than some kind of fearlessness.
OFE sounds shell-shocked though.
It's probably easier to be "sensible" if you were born into an upper-middle-class background and go on to have a career full of associating with other privileged, educated people. Not many people get six memoirs published.
(Not to say she isn't quite endearing and chipper in that interview.)
Poor Witt had trouble getting her fourth memoir published and has been bitter ever since.
15: I think that's right. The seriously impulsive people I've known deny highly probable consequences and observed results.
The older I get the less social fears affect me. I used to think I was sensitive to that sort of thing until I started reading Unfogged but y'all have recalibrated the scales for me. Now? I really don't give even a nanoshit if someone out there doesn't like what I'm wearing.
I find that, at least with certain impulsive people, it's more blind denial that a particular consequence could happen, or happen again, rather than some kind of fearlessness.
That may be so. I only like novel, interesting impulsivity.
Elinor had sense (i.e., judgment, prudence, etc), which made her sensible. Marianne had read too many gothic novels, which encouraged her to indulge in an excess of sensibility (passion, emotion, etc).
I really don't give even a nanoshit if someone out there doesn't like what I'm wearing.
We've noticed.
I hope nobody notices what I'm wearing. I've been trading-off between the same two pants and three shirts for a week and a half now. Excepting the sweaty parts of the summer, I'd do that all the time. My inability to drink coffee without spilling usually stops me.