Sentence examples for for rationalizations from inspiring English sources
No such overarching climate for rationalizations exists today.
REALITY CHECK FOR RATIONALIZATIONS Professor Wing said people make up all kinds of excuses to keep eating.
"Like any human being, he has his hunches and his sense of what is going on, and he is looking around for rationalizations," Mr. Solow said.
Among the American elite — that sliver of Americans who have seen historic gains in wealth and income since the mid-1970s even as most Americans' real incomes have stagnated — many look for rationalizations and excuses.
Mary recalls our several shows on her favorite book of 2012, Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind, which explained how most of us come to intuitive decisions and then search for rationalizations so we don't have to listen to people on the other side... which is a foundational premise of the need for a Both Sides Now.
For the scripture-skeptical, such wordplay only fuels a suspicion that believers are incapable of engaging with their texts without grasping for rationalization.
The penchant for rationalization and revisionism — displayed daily in divorce courts and press offices of dictators — ran rampant during the gaper's block that was his lengthy fall.
"I don't see much scope for rationalization from combining debt and equity," said Ayo Salami, an analyst at Nomura International P.L.C. in London, who rates Credit Suisse shares a hold.
AngloGold and Barrick are talking about cooperating in Tanzania; analysts say Barrick and Newmont have interests in Nevada and northern Ontario that are ripe for rationalization.
And given our awesome capacities for rationalization and self-deception, most of us are going to measure ourselves leniently: I was honest with that blind passenger because I'm a wonderful person.
Or in his capacity for rationalization: on Wednesday morning, Trump tweeted, "The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election.
