Sentence examples for of the illogical from inspiring English sources

For someone so scornful of the illogical fantastications of religion, he is surprisingly indulgent towards Oxford's whimsical absurdities.

The more troubling of the illogical, and to my mind insupportable, positions taken is that the action of stone-throwing could be seen as protected free speech.

Less of the brick-laying and more of the illogical spontaneity and optimism that inspired its eccentric protagonist might have rescued this humid prose from itself.

Chagall's fractured fairy tales caught the attention of the poet Blaise Cendrars, who loved Chagall's "logic of the illogical" and introduced him to his friends Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Fernand Léger and Guillaume Apollinaire.

But Kenyan and Ethiopian governments, in spite of the illogical nature of the colonial borders, have stood in the way of this ideal, leading to a low intensity warfare that occasionally flares up and inevitably leads to many Somali deaths.

Wershler-Henry, a professor of communication studies in Canada, seems particularly exercised by touch-typing, which requires that practitioners not only memorize every aspect of the illogical QWERTY keyboard but also position their bodies vis-à-vis the desk and typewriter just so.

BLIS brought a degree of sanity to the illogical world of health insurance for weight loss surgery.

"The Internet is throwing sharp relief to the illogical nature of our system," said Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian.

The more Dennis became fascinated with manufacturing and engineering, the more he seemed to turn his vision outward, but only to make allegories referential to the illogical events of human affairs at odds with the world around them.

The addition of striptease dancing, the illogical conclusion of a process that had begun with the belly dancing of Little Egypt at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893), established such stars as Ann Corio, Gypsy Rose Lee, Margie Hart, and Georgia Southern.

In this small town in the middle of the country, the illogical assumption is that the child of gay parents is naturally gay.