Sentence examples for irrational activities from inspiring English sources

One of the well-known risks of curing obsession – using hectoring treatments that basically shame patients out of their "irrational" activities – is that you then expose the person to something far worse.

In the course of time, though, these original meanings had been lost (through, in Müller's notorious phrasing, a "disease of language"), so that the myths no longer told in a "rationally intelligible" way of phenomena in the natural world but instead appeared to describe the "irrational" activities of gods, heroes, nymphs, and others.

While The Satiety Center has many functions, we all know that the desire for sex and food rank high on the list and a craving for either can lead to spurts in irrational activities such a promiscuity and gluttony.

If the pattern of their previous work holds, expect a stream of irrational activity that touches deeper, stranger chords than the social commentary.

Worse yet, Fed panic now follows this gross neglect, with the central bank again inventing strange new economic theories to justify irrational activity.

The main causes of desertification development in the Mu Us Sandland are intensified and irrational human activities, such as over-reclaiming, over-grazing and over-cutting.

One approach to search for "invisible" microbes that influence behavior is by comparing the microbiomes of control subjects and humans that consistently engage in irrational ritualistic behavioral activities, which contribute to the spreading of parasites and infections.

One could point out that "irrational ritualistic behavioral activities" are equally or more characteristic of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) than religious observance so that microbes should therefore be expected to affect the former behaviors as well as the latter?

It is also susceptible to land degradation and desertification due to the disregard of potential land sensitivity, the intensification of rural activities, and irrational development.

However, such a prohibition need not be included in an account of morality as a universal guide that all fallible and vulnerable rational persons would put forward for governing the behavior of all moral agents because it is not irrational to favor unnatural sexual activity.

I've always known you can't get HIV through kissing (it's a simple, safe activity), but the irrational mind is powerful.