No matter what defences we had put up, no matter how we had explained ourselves, no matter how perfectly modulated our every phrase and rational our every explanation, this was a story that was going to run and run.
Mr. Biss's phrasing is deeply rational, at times analytical.
As an absolute idealist, he held that only ideas are real (in Hegel's famous phrase, "the real is rational").
A reviewer once noted that the characters in Alison Lurie's novels engage in "the rational process of self-deception," a phrase that resonated with Steven Haft as he poked around the profiles of his Facebook friends.
This principle has it that we understand each other as speakers and agents principally and fundamentally in so far as we take each other as rational agents, as, in McDowell's phrase, responsive to norms of reason.
In arguments about the foundations of economics, this is often referred to as an aspect of rationality, as in the phrase 'rational expectations'.
The phrase is a dismissal of rational discussion and an intimation of the doom that awaits if Trump is not heeded.
Following the introduction of live vaccinations in the western world by Edward Jenner in 1798 and the coining of the phrase 'vaccine', in 1881 Pasteur developed a rational design for vaccines.
Alonzo often says, "When I have dementia"; this phrasing, she explains, is based on a rational calculation of her odds, given her family history, but it also underscores that, for most of us, mental decline is inevitable.
Do you have a friend who speaks random, ridiculous phrases that seem to defy logic and rational thought?
