Sentence examples for personal rationalization from inspiring English sources

I would provide substantial responses based on my personal rationalization of the "standard" liberal position, and I was surprised whenever Mrs. Vrba would agree with my opinion.

In the context of this study, meditation, by playing a stewardship role, encourages personal rationalization about writing a last will, signing a power of attorney, adding beneficiaries on personal savings accounts, having joint tenancy, and appointing a trustee.

It shows itself in the limiting, negative mental script we write and re-write for ourselves - a script that disconnects and isolates us, bars contentment, nullifies compassion and tells us we aren't good enough and it doesn't matter anyway because... (everyone gets to fill in the blank here with their own personal rationalization for why the world is F****d and we can't do anything about it).

Instead, structural impediments prevent people from acting on their egalitarian values, forcing men and women into personal accommodations and rationalizations that do not reflect their preferences.

But a true amateur sleuth has a rationalization -- a personal connection to the victim or the accused, however tenuous -- for solving crimes.

He added, "I never intended to disclose my actual medical records or details about my private and personal medical history, thus the rationalization of presenting documents that weren't true simply for a 'storyline' for the show".

Either they are illegitimately helping themselves to Aristotle's discredited natural teleology (Williams 1985) or producing mere rationalizations of their own personal or culturally inculcated values.

Some of Mr. Klein's arguments sound a lot like rationalizations of Mr. Clinton's personal and political failings.

Weber emphasized the fundamental drift toward rationalization and formalization in social organization; personal relations became fewer, and impersonal bureaucracy became larger.

It's the kind of rationalization you'd expect from Parris' personal hero, Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who both dragged China out of Maoist poverty and ordered the tanks toward Tiananmen Square.

The harsh reality of his choices, and the personal losses he suffered, led him to reflect on how it is honest people can construct very sophisticated rationalizations for doing bad things.