Sentence examples for difficult to rationalize from inspiring English sources

Over time, that accommodation became more difficult to rationalize.

It is, even today, difficult to rationalize why Miami's players immediately revert to their 2011 selves during these waning moments: their screens are sloppier; they somehow lose control of the limbs necessary for rebounding; they commit uncharacteristic turnovers.

Thus, the Reformation community found it difficult to rationalize the plight of the poor as a peculiar form of blessedness, and no salvific value either in being poor or in giving alms could be identified.

A private library of good size is an insolent form of riches, and the desire to have more books is difficult to rationalize, especially in view of the fact that you do not or cannot read them all but, as Bonnet makes clear, still you might.

I am not sure if we are "tiring of stories about the war" or if we are discovering that it has become increasingly difficult to rationalize the loss of so many loved ones without having to face the truth about our involvement with Iraq and our tendency to deny the losses to avoid mourning them.

The free-energy landscape of a protein is a high-dimensional hypersurface, difficult to rationalize.

Ginny Mayer Dana Point, Calif., Feb. 6, 2008 • To the Editor: Re "With Issues of War and Peace on Their Minds, Voters Make Choices" (news article, Feb. 6): It's difficult for me to rationalize the fact that most voters believed that the economy was the most important issue in this primary election.

'Rational selection' proposes to rationalize therapeutic choices.

However, the complex three-dimensional cascading nanoslit-like structure embedded in the membrane makes it difficult to interpret and rationalize experimental results, quantitatively compare with the traditional membrane systems, and quantitatively design new membrane structures.

All of these observations show that, although sequence analyses are sometimes very useful to predict biochemical and functional properties of proteins, such properties are often very difficult to predict and rationalize from the sequences alone.

Being brought up in Harlem gave me the gift to rationalize right from wrong and excuse myself from difficult situations".