Sentence examples for irrational character from inspiring English sources

The real weakness of this report is that, just like its predecessors, it tries to impose a rational analysis on practices and processes, which have an irrational character.

Yet another objection would focus on the fundamentally irrational character of robust patriotism: its insistence that "larger interests" of the patria must be beyond questioning.

Friedman's belief that the markets would somehow regulate themselves didn't take into account the predictably irrational character of human nature.

You may always choose a reckless and irrational character, but if you were reckless enough to choose to do that, it still reflects your personality, so you still have to choose carefully.

Confounding bureaucratic structures and irrational characters, like those in the novels of Franz Kafka, appear in the film, but the Coens insist the connection was not intended.

Of the vocal soloists the clear star was the mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, whose dark-hued portrayal of Sesto was so direct and evocative that you nearly forgot how confused and irrational the character is.

It's in the small, changing, irrational cartoon characters that offer a familiar glimpse into the viewer's reality.

Prokofiev and his colleagues found themselves wriggling free from the weight of 19th-century highmindedness, and what better way than a return to commedia dell'arte, with its stylized characters, irrational plots and rejections of subtlety.

Therein lies the allure of the irrational Mr. Market, a character invented in the 1930s by the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham (whose disciples include Warren E. Buffett).

There's a revealing logic within her characters' ostensibly irrational arguments and a surprising accuracy in their malapropisms.

As Graham Greene wrote of Highsmith: "Her characters are irrational and they leap to life in the very lack of reason; suddenly we realise how unbelievably rational most fictional characters are".