Sentence examples for barely rational from inspiring English sources

At a pared-down, barely rational 100 minutes, "The Avengers" is short but not short enough.

But more than a dozen eighth graders interviewed Friday unanimously disputed Mr. King's assessment, saying that two of the six questions were barely rational.

It seems barely rational to be evaluating a colossal novel such as Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies alongside Levy's – they are not meant for the same conversation.

Anonymous, Los Angeles It may be that your friend has an expense budget she's free to spend as she likes; companies compensate their high-level employees in all sorts of nonsalaried -- and barely rational -- ways.

Worse still it might appear on first reading to be a whitewash with frankly some of the chairman's assertions seemingly barely rational.

Paul Scofield enters with grey crew-cut and peering gait: one notes at once the old man's trick of dwelling on unexpected vowels and lurching through phrases as if his voice were barely under rational control.

Even with all of the construction that has taken place so far, they have only barely begun to figure out rational pricing mechanisms to produce sustainable growth.

And the woman on the receiving end, who typically should be utterly unprepared for the whole thing, has barely any time to make a rational decision without looking heartless in front of many people.

Aristotle, and later the Stoics, believed the world was populated by an infinity of beings arranged hierarchically according to their complexity and perfection, from the barely living to the merely sentient, the rational, and the wholly spiritual.

Mr. Dennehy said: "If you listen to the tape or read the transcript, you see that even though he is barely in control, literally foaming, he is completely rational.

Only a small handful of dying people are calm and rational enough to say, this $100,000 drug barely works and has loads of nasty side effects, so I am going to skip it.