Sentence examples for a kind of rationalization from inspiring English sources

"We call this 'guiltless gluttony,' because it's a kind of rationalization: 'It's O.K.' " ALEX MINDLIN.

"They felt like they were an exception to the rule... Our attempt [with this video] was to take out any kind of rationalization of 'That couldn't happen to me,' and really focus on the aftermath of a simple action".

("When you hit with your shoulder, that's a lot of force on an extremity," Subban told Sports Illustrated recently, offering a kind of medical rationalization. "Your butt and back are two of the strongest parts of your body").

And finally, it may be that to make comedies or any other kind of messiness out of war would be to challenge a kind of collective rationalization.

Christiansen comments that this presentation of the exceptional qualities of his mother is typical of hagiographies – such as the Virgin Mary – and forms a kind of after-the-event rationalization, in which qualities assigned to the subject are also attributed to the subject's mother.

In truth, both paths might have had equal fates, but we need this kind of rationalization.

The thing is, we're all guilty of this kind of rationalization.

It's the kind of rationalization you'd expect from Parris' personal hero, Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who both dragged China out of Maoist poverty and ordered the tanks toward Tiananmen Square.

Thresher, a former director admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described colleges' justifications for increasing selectivity as "rationalizations for a kind of insensate avarice: we want the best and only the best, we are never satisfied".

Near the end of the book, as he's leafing once more through his "hundreds of pages of typed notes," he discovers "a kind of diary" of his "doubts, vacillations and rationalizations about the work I was trying to do".

So, they conjure up all kinds of rationalizations or whirl around in a sort of denial.