Sentence examples for basically irrational from inspiring English sources

'I tried to be rational in a system that is basically irrational,' Keret says when asked about his military service.

The short answer is that it will pose problems for the current mechanisms by which we fund social insurance programs; but it will not undermine our ability to afford those programs, and it would in fact be cruel and basically irrational to slash social insurance in response to a declining labor share.

The issue has divided authors who see nationalism as basically irrational and those who try to explain it as being in some sense rational.

Realistically, other than the basically irrational brand loyalty at the heart of all partisanship, what do the Conservatives offer that the Liberals don't?

He's an eminently rational person doing what is basically an irrational thing".

Some claim it is impossible to draw any meaningful lessons from what was basically an "irrational lust for murder" [ 8].

GENERATIONS of psychologists and philosophers have believed that babies and young children were basically defective adults — irrational, egocentric and unable to think logically.

"Basically its an irrational act," he said, explaining the right reason for starting a company.

Basically, you make up whatever irrational tosh you like, preferably tosh that activates the anger that lies dormant inside all those people who believe that their entire life is somebody else's fault.

"It's a mental health crisis it's been this way for three decades or more, and the suicide rate and the despair and the drug cocktails that fuel this irrational behavior are basically coping mechanisms that are really deadly".

One of the well-known risks of curing obsession – using hectoring treatments that basically shame patients out of their "irrational" activities – is that you then expose the person to something far worse.