Sentence examples for instead of rationalizing from inspiring English sources

Instead of rationalizing, try to speak directly to what hurts you.

If this fact does not deter misguided parents, perhaps focusing on their victims' utter vulnerability will lead them to curb, instead of rationalize, their own aggressive impulses.

But she has found tidy ways of rationalizing both.

That becomes a sort of a convenient way of rationalizing failure.

Some of the food cutbacks are by way of "rationalizing the meal service," Ms. Skornicka said.

People are capable of rationalizing almost any action if it enriches them.

Even Cohen eventually gave up the original task of rationalizing aesthetics along with science and ethics.

I certainly did my share of rationalizing through it all.

Behind these changes lay a new conception of rationalized competition.

Instead, we rationalize the "long ago" institution of slavery as "complex," and we replace the word slavery with terms like historical pride and states' rights, and we bring up the "decent" slave owners who treated their property with kindness.

And I'd gladly pay Apple whatever it takes to get Flash off the network, instead of listening to Google rationalize their inclusion of Flash in Android as a service of openness to users.