But I will rationalize and assert that persuasion still requires compelling argumentation.
Out of respect to Ang Lee, who has made some terrific movies in the past, I'll rationalize that maybe this is all intentional, and that Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is some brilliant, Brechtian exercise in distancing its audience toward some higher goal.
MR. BAUCUS: Everything's on the table, because once something's off the table, then other groups will rationalize it, their provisions also should be off the table.
Instead of crippling the industry, Congress should embrace a regulation that will rationalize and redeem it.
Unless your audience has lived narcissistic abuse, they simply won't "get it". They'll rationalize each separate incident as "for your own good," a miscommunication or an idiosyncrasy on the part of the narcissist.
Many impressionable young people will rationalize: if the president can get away with it, why can't I?" The debate about Mr. Zuma's affair — and his own increasingly open comments about H.I.V. prevention — has brought the subject into the open to an unusual degree.
This year they will rationalize going south ("He would want us to, we'll come back early, it won't help him if we stay in Paris, he'll be fine soon"), but the ghost of the shattered Ludo will cause them to reveal or have revealed to them what Mr. Canet calls the "little handkerchiefs" that hide lies, losses, the grinding down of youth.
I don't mind". You will rationalize the abuse and say that you have no choice but to put up with it, because employers are mighty and you are just a lowly job-seeker.
I want to ask Mr. Bush how he will rationalize attacks on hungry, innocent people.
Museum officials are hoping that the renovation, to be completed by the end of 2009, will rationalize and simplify the experience for visitors.
The most destructive of the above conditions is the systemic brain damage wrought by playing a game, but fans will rationalize that.
