Sentence examples for irrational power from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Paris at night has the irrational power to trigger the imaginations of even ordinary folks.

Yet she's hardly a hypocrite: the religious feeling and the social constraints are palpable, and so is the irrational power of will deep within both of them.

But the element of faith, of belief in a pseudo-religious irrational power as a crucial element of his recovery, is no less central to the film.

Mérimée also used inexplicable phenomena, as in La Vénus d'Ille (1837; "The Venus of Ille"), to hint at repressed aspects of the psyche or the irrational power of passion.

It includes previously unseen paintings from Twombly's Bacchus series, in which he finds a sensual, graffiti-like analogy for the irrational power and frenzy associated with the ancient Greek god of wine.

It is all the more strange for a spokesperson for Leave, a campaign built around the irrational power of patriotism, to assume that abstract love of country would not be motive enough.

In De proportionibus proportionum ("On Ratios of Ratios") Oresme first examined raising rational numbers to rational powers before extending his work to include irrational powers.

But it's subconscious fear we're talking about here, an unwillingness to give oneself over to the irrational powers of music.

(Anderson) Morphoses (Tuesday through Thursday, through Oct. 30) This dauntless company, now directed by Lourdes Lopez, offers the premiere of Luca Veggetti's "Bacchae," based on Euripides' fifth-century B.C. tragedy about the conflict between rational and irrational powers, still topical today.

He gets to rule over the irrational powers of both nature and women.

Where Cass thinks that there are certain irrational numbers which when raised to irrational powers are rational, Dora demurs.