Sentence examples for I rationalization from inspiring English sources

If I had different kids, my tactic could have backfired -- they might have taken my history as a license to go wild, with the "you did it so why can't I?" rationalization.

"I guess I played a rationalization game with myself that the fan interest I was generating outweighed the cost to the institution," he said.

The best way to avoid divorce, even before you get married, is to understand the power of the "R" word, i.e., rationalization.

After his dazzling display of rationalization, I finally stopped him and said, "No matter what you say, I am not impressed with your excuses, and I don't think that handing out praise makes you a phony.

I have a good rationalization for it: I'm obsessed with political issues.

Is that a rationalization?

Is there a rationalization under way where companies realize they don't need all custom applications or processes?

And that's the self-serving rationalization I'd have clung to had the cops hauled me off in handcuffs.

For further rationalization, I take careful note of the surroundings to lend the experience the air of reportorial gravity.

This is not an after-the-fact rationalization, I was explaining very early on that this wasn't going to be like the 1981-2 recession.

…So goes the theory, by which I mean, desperate rationalization.