Sentence examples for irrational need from inspiring English sources

Nearly every profound moneymaker let loose on the world by Hollywood has had a deep (and often irrational) need to save or change the world.

But he has that same unhealthy, irrational need to hurl himself higher onto the slopes of history, no matter what good sense would dictate, no matter what the damage to reputation or privacy.

The Desire to Appear Insightful and Creative vs. Logic Basic Reason's bid for the title is likely to come to an abrupt end when it goes head-to-head with the perennial favorite, Your Irrational Need to Be Different, which comes fresh off a First Four victory against Not Really Understanding How March Madness Even Works.

Those who are disposed to think that theism is irrational need find nothing in ontological arguments to make them change their minds (and those who are disposed to think that theism is true should take no comfort from them either).

As a first-generation Latino, I feel an irrational need to get back on the payroll quickly so I can resume being a role model for my community.

But keeping his increasingly irrational needs a secret from his wife has put such a strain on their marriage that Milo is currently living on his own.

Strong visions of the future have played a part in the irrational persistence needed to push through transformative technological change: whether that is the development of alternating current or PayPal.

Therefore, the drug use in City Y is irrational and needs urgent attention.

My first thought was that, perhaps, anything was possible in America, in terms of religious freedom and exercises of the First Amendment; it may have been slightly irrational to want or need that reassurance, but then this was the year of the "Ground Zero mosque" controversy.

Even as the monster commits his most horrifying act in "FRANKENSTEIN" -- tossing a little girl into a mountain lake, to see if she will float as prettily as the daisies she has been launching on the lake's surface -- Karloff communicates his innate gentleness, his unformed yearnings, his irrational but inescapable need to fit in with a society that has decisively rejected him.

For the colonial peoples are always the imperial male's fantasy of the perfect female, passive, receptive, intuitive, irrational, and in need of domination.