Sentence examples for appear rational from inspiring English sources
Tim and Alex choose their words carefully; they want to appear rational and pragmatic, rather than emotional, it seems.
The man was my boss, and I tried, at least for entree into the conversation, to appear rational.
Emotions that might appear rational – such as feeling depressed about what a catastrophe your life is – stand exposed as the result of irrational thinking.
Most horse owners, in an effort to appear rational, try to refrain from talking about how deeply they love their animals or from telling cute stories about them.
The substance of the video manages to make the comments below it appear rational and sane – a rare and spectacular reversal of the natural order on YouTube, where intelligence usually deteriorates the further down the page you scroll.
"I think this is a typical approach of Israeli Orientalists -- so-called Arab experts -- who would like to make everything appear rational, to seem like a chess game," he said by telephone from Jerusalem.
He appears "rational" and "inevitable," to use the typical language.
Stephen isn't an idiot; he appears rational, his trousers are correctly fastened and he thinks of himself as "good" or "kind".
"Since files on Gnutella are treated like a public good and the users are not charged in proportion to their use, it appears rational for people to download music files without contributing by making their own files accessible to other users," they wrote.
Critics alleged that it simply mathematized the obvious and, in searching for universal patterns, ignored important cultural contexts, which thus rendered it unable to predict much of importance; another charge was that the choices the theory sought to explain appeared "rational" only in retrospect.
Each of them appears rational in isolation.
