"There's a tremendous amount of rationale for transferring the building to them," Mr. Roberts said.
"There is a lot of rationale for doing this," Mr. Winebaum said.
They settled on Peter, which left Mary with her glimmer of rationale and pleased Arnold, who liked old-fashioned names.
That sort of rationale would excuse any tyrant who thought he was right, as if ideological fanaticism or religious faith were virtues in themselves.
The article, "Epizootics," was written by Gershon Legman, the folklorist and author of "Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor".
What kind of rationale can be presented now, what explanation offered to grieving relatives in front of smashed bones, fractured skulls – a white truck driving at speed, zigzagging to kill as many people as possible over a mile-long stretch?
He had good grounds for leaving, as good as Manea's own — his father had been murdered for being a Jew, possibly by the government — but Manea felt only irritated scorn for this sort of rationale.
Legman, I noticed in my decrepit copy of "Rationale of the Dirty Joke," had dedicated the volume "To the Manes" — shade — "of Poggio Bracciolini, Lover of Books, Folk-Humor, and Women".
If, as the report says, there are weaknesses in our governance structures or a lack of rationale displayed in some of our decisions, this is something that I, as well as council staff, will be committed to rectifying.
The media's obsession with quantitative deduction overlooks the abstractness, the magic, of two superstars whose very interpretation of the art – Ronaldo, the razor-edge machine of rationale, and Messi, the aesthetic magician of chaos – is framed in classically diametric opposites.
With those coming out of prison carrying with them Bloods ideology, the concept of the Bloods was embraced by certain youths and used as a kind of rationale for crime, many of whose victims happened to be residents of the city's predominantly African-American neighborhoods.
