Sentence examples for rationalization said from inspiring English sources

"It cries out for some rationalization," said Sylvester J. Schieber, a former chairman of the Social Security Advisory Board.

"Right from the beginning, Wagner's is an after-the-fact rationalization," said the Suffolk District attorney, James M. Catterson Jr.

"Anyone who claims that they're not giving because of Nasdaq dips is using that as a poor excuse and rationalization," said Harry J. Saal, a longtime philanthropist and the president of Cultural Initiatives, a nonprofit organization in Silicon Valley.

"It's the rationalization," Kristol said.

"Like any human being, he has his hunches and his sense of what is going on, and he is looking around for rationalizations," Mr. Solow said.

"I haven't heard him try to make any rationalization," Mr. Weber said.

Kristol said, "Rationalization turns out to be a stronger psychological force than I realized".

"In his mind, he was an angel for saving these boys; that was his rationalization," Professor Kennedy said.

Professed goals of punishment, norms constraining the use of power in the pursuit of these goals, the aspiration for justice in punishment all these, if Foucault is right, turn out to mask other (not necessarily conscious) intentions among reformers that belie the ostensible rationality (not to say rationalization) of their aims since the Enlightenment.

Over the years, I've developed some theories about repairs around the house, although they might sound more like rationalizations to, say, a skeptical spouse.

Agents restricted to naive rationalizations will say "I'm Bing because I'm Aing," when Bing is an action that is a part of Aing, and they are Aing.