Sentence examples for irrational manner from inspiring English sources

She said that Mr. McCoy was "a disturbed man acting in an irrational manner".

"There is something happening inside China which is making the military act in an irrational manner".

According to police, they were responding to a call from a neighbor that Danner was acting in an "irrational manner" when the shooting occurred.

It is said that art cannot behave in an irrational manner and cannot ignore logic; and certainly it is neither irrational nor illogical; but its own rationality, its own logic, is a quite different thing from the dialectical logic of the concept, and it was in order to indicate this peculiar and unique character that the name "logic of sense" or "aesthetic" was invented.

(Mark Begich, D-Alaska) "The emotion associated with all the violent events over the last 3 or 4 years tends to cause us to lose sight of some pretty commonsense principles," (Tom Coburn, R- Oklahoma) "We should not react to these tragedies in an irrational manner here in the Senate".

The Irrational Health Belief Scale IHBSS) assesses the tendency to appraise health-related information in an irrational manner.

The Good Thinking Society, a campaign group led by Singh, set up the annual Golden Duck award to recognise those "who have supported or practised pseudoscience in the most ludicrous, dangerous, irrational or irresponsible manner".

Still, the exercise of such powers to restrict the privileges or immunities of citizens in an "irrational or arbitrary" manner is beyond the just powers that a sovereign people can be presumed or supposed to have delegated to their servants in the legislature.

American shoppers act in an irrational and wild manner every day of the year.

No doubt, those who support coercive laws that require a religious rationale might do so in an insular, intransigent, irrational, or otherwise defective manner.

I traveled across the country to the Southern Baptist Convention with love as my goal, but when love is met by fear, fear causes people to take all manner of irrational and unjust actions.