Sentence examples for by illogical from inspiring English sources

England faded fast on the Saturday, Boycott and Gower victims of deliveries from Lawson made unplayable by illogical bounce, the others undone by the swing of Lillee and Alderman.

Certain transfers between subway lines, passageways of almost transcendent sordidness; certain sites of torn-down buildings where parking lots have silently sprung up like fungi; certain intersections created by illogical confluences of streets — these express with particular force the city's penchant for the provisional and its resistance to permanence, order, closure.

Quite where the insane idea of playing a concerto before the annual gathering of most of the greatest living horn players came from is hard to tell, but the result is a marvellous memoir of a year's obsession that should be read by anyone gripped by illogical compulsion.What sets the horn apart?

Respondents described an implementation and regulatory process characterized by illogical rigidity in light of families' changing needs.

Emmerich, who turned down the opportunity to make Spiderman in favor of (phleh!) Stargate, claims he makes pure entertainment films which he describes as 'popcorn.' He relies on screen-filling special effects and his scripts are characterized by illogical plots, wooden dialogue, thin characters, and various other recognizable failings of large-budget genre films.

Unsettled by the "illogical" arguments presented therein, she turned to "the classic response used by frustrated people through history: I started a parody Twitter account".

I was driven bonkers by that illogical form of storytelling.

Ingeniously his songs face up to every geek's quandary: a perfectly engineered system is inevitably trumped by an illogical, unruly world.

They are still captivated by the illogical but seductive notion that every country can emulate Germany's export-driven model without the decades of public investment and artificially low exchange rates that are crucial to Germany's success.

Mr. Cope's voice was described by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a "signature irascible rasp, gentle and shrill, squeaky and yelpy, often in high emotion fueled by sometimes illogical bursts of excitability".

The "giver's greed" phenomenon of sabotaging an otherwise gracious gesture by putting illogical and constrictive earmarks on donations is all too common.