Sentence examples for defy rationality from inspiring English sources
What seem to be rigged poll numbers defy rationality.
For there were some cases where a straightforward application of probability mathematics led to results that seemed to defy rationality.
It is becoming increasingly fashionable for economists, especially the younger, more ambitious ones, to borrow insights from psychologists (and sometimes even biologists) to try to explain drug addiction, the working habits of New York taxi-drivers, current sky-high American share prices and other types of behaviour which seem to defy rationality.
Burroughs and his friends likened them to the strange soup of inexplicable shapes and images that characterize dreams, which defy rationality and logic.
There have been earlier signs of an unsustainable real estate bubble and a flood tide of debt by municipal governments and economic enterprises that defy rationality.
Negative bond yields today "do seem to defy rationality," said Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at UCLA who has written extensively on the Great Depression and government economic policies.
It is not just that they believe much of what their parents and the surrounding societies tell them: they show a preference for remembering and transmitting stories that defy scientific rationality.
Brand identity defies the mathematical rationality of probability because it becomes part of our self-narrative.
Bond's sociopathic tendencies have softened of late, but only in the face of great loss – not just Lynd, but Judi Dench's matriarchal M. The choice to fall in love, a process that defies clear logic and rationality, is still one that seems counter-intuitive for someone so maniacally focused on their job.
