Reason itself is among them — the effort to advance constructively while gripped by the irrational force of tradition, of unexpressed assumptions and unexamined mythologies, repressed desires and frustrated aspirations, undiscussed history and unacknowledged grief.
They speak to a fixed idea that folks involved in the industry have over what games are supposed to be, and "supposed to be" is a very powerful and irrational force.
In this paper, a simple harmonic balance method (HBM) is proposed to obtain higher-order approximate periodic solutions of strongly nonlinear oscillator systems having a rational and an irrational force.
Duchamp's objects, however, evoke the same irrational forces that were to loom large in surrealism.
One of the curiosities of American capitalism, that religion of rational expectation, is that its most fundamentalist expression, the hostile takeover, gives irrational forces such play.
The solo's title included Greek words referring to both sex (eros) and death (thanatos), and the frenetic choreography emphasized the way irrational forces can possess the body.
By Nicholas Lemann November 3, 2017 It's easy to interpret the last election as a sign that the G.O.P. has organized irrational forces into a smoothly operating political machine.
Ehud Barak made them a generous offer, and they betrayed him with an outburst of violence -- because they, by their nature, are motivated solely by destructive, irrational forces that make impossible any future compromise with them.
Both Mailer and Mick Jagger had loudly proclaimed their sympathy for the Devil, fancying themselves masters of the revels, but they were undone by the irrational forces they had unleashed.
Having experienced, as they had seen it, the worst consequences of irrational forces on the loose - romantic nationalism, group hysteria, charismatic dictators - during the second world war, they had naturally sought a more sceptical, commonsensical mode of expression.
Only in the guise of children's literature, the homily went, could Carroll attack the horrors of Victorian respectability, and introduce his dream child, and himself, to the stranger, stronger world of irrational forces.
