Sentence examples for irrational ideas from inspiring English sources

Some entrepreneurs also cling to irrational ideas.

Dr. Ellis, for all his hammering away at patients' "irrational ideas," was a man of great warmth and compassion.

And that – along with a brief case history about a mother who had been easily and quickly treated, simply by being taught to label the feelings as "obsessive phenomena", "stupid, irrational ideas" and to laugh at them – was that.

Early chapters examine the general psychology of gambling, before moving on to the irrational ideas associated with compulsive wagering, from belief in luck to illusions of control.

It keeps even the most irrational ideas grounded, and enables us to turn loose and push boundaries and embrace the irrational and complex.

If you want to do things like cook naked, you've got more patience than I have, but take these irrational ideas of the perfect relationship and burn them (hey, I'm on theme).

He said it was an irrational idea, "but it is also divisive, capricious and arbitrary".

There's this irrational idea that they can win back their losses by doing more of what got them into the hole in the first place".

The current U.S. approach to missile defense is a direct outgrowth of the irrational idea that "we" can deal with the world without working with others.

(Because this period spanned the '90s, the audience is invited to experience its own dismay over any previous affection for Terence Trent D'Arby or the Cranberries.) More than any boyfriend mistake, Erica is plagued by the irrational idea that she might have been responsible for her brother's death.

But with Bitcoin, are you buying bits of computer code or somebody's wildly irrational idea of what those bits and bytes are worth?