Sentence examples for irrational attachment from inspiring English sources

What makes us anxious is our irrational attachment to stability, certainty and constancy.

Fans, sponsors and city elders often have an intense, irrational attachment to their hometown teams.

Huckabee seems to be a nice guy, but conservatives are afraid he'd break up the old evangelical-plutocrat Republican alliance and most liberals are restrained by their irrational attachment to the theory of evolution.

"Before I ever experienced Mardi Gras, I had a hand in preparing for it, and rather than embittering me, the tedious assembly-line baking somehow fostered within me a sweetness for king cakes, all of them, runny sugars included". David Guas, chef and owner of Bayou Bakery in Arlington, understands an irrational attachment to king cakes.

Theorists of self-interest are always overwhelmed, in making predictions about human behavior, by theorists of irrational attachment — nationalism and clannism, no matter how destructive, have a way of trumping not just egalitarian fantasies but apparent economic interest, and this seems to be true right out to the edge of the solar system.

My love for this beer harks back to my school days abroad, when I didn't know a Flemish sour ale from a Coors Light, and friends have suggested that my almost irrational attachment to Pelforth has much to do with its link to fond memories of youth, or simply that its unavailability makes it more alluring.

Those of us who suffer from this impulse to form irrational attachments to the things in our lives can take comfort in the fact that Orhan Pamuk shares our affliction.

"It so happens that Cornell is the other institution that I have this irrational emotional attachment to," he said.

But the nation state – especially a once dominant one like Britain (above all its English core) – is considered something old-fashioned and illiberal, an irrational group attachment that smart people have grown out of.

Thus, home bias could be rational (physical proximity facilitates information acquisition) or irrational (emotional attachment or hindrance).

As a result, dealers say, there is a lively new trade in out-of-print cookbooks that is driven not by the meteoric careers of chefs or the research needs of libraries, but mostly by people with an attachment, often irrational and sentimental, to a particular book or recipe.