Sentence examples for rationalizations for doing from inspiring English sources

Of all Mr. Iverson's rationalizations for doing what he does, one says the most about the current landscape of jazz.

It's tiresome to read such rationalizations for doing nothing about the second-greatest economic crisis in our history, especially from someone like Ms. Shlaes, who is well versed in the history of the Great Depression.

The fact that we can't prevent all gun deaths with a single piece of legislation isn't a viable rationalization for doing nothing.

This past weekend the Financial Times quoted Abdalla Badriadri mouthing OPEC's now oft repeated mantra that the market was well supplied, "There is clearly no shortage of oil" he said, perpetuating a smokescreen of obfuscation behind which OPEC has chosen to hide and a rationalization for doing nothing.

Deep-voiced, self-confident opinionists in camera-friendly blue shirts will bellow at each other, wisecrack at the television monitors, and try to outdo one another with displays of political trivia... Journalists who devote themselves to punditry invent all sorts of rationalizations for why they do it.

Consider, for instance, the following philosophical hypotheses: procrastination is the product of fragmented agency; procrastination depends on rationalizations that do not capture one's genuine reasons for action; procrastination is a moral failing.

Mary recalls our several shows on her favorite book of 2012, Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind, which explained how most of us come to intuitive decisions and then search for rationalizations so we don't have to listen to people on the other side... which is a foundational premise of the need for a Both Sides Now.

The rationalizations do not end there.

Rationalizations do not create reality.

If that's not a rationalization, we don't know what is.

If that's not rationalization we don't know what is.