Sentence examples for rationalizations for why from inspiring English sources

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.

He's not one of those all-too-common founders who puffs up his chest and gives rationalizations for why everything is great even as user numbers are sliding or a competitor is stealing momentum.

Instead they have all kinds of rationalizations for why it's not important, why they sholdn t have been asked, or why being late won't harm the project.

Customers use features as a rationalization for why they made the decision that they concluded for a complex set of other reasons that they probably don't even understand.

The main source of rationalization for why he should want to die actually comes from other people who are usually (with one exception of a guy on a message board) not disabled themselves going on about how if "they were like that, they'd want to die, too".

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).

Now in 2012, even if one is busted uttering the N-word, there is some justification for it or rationalization of why that person is in fact not racist.

In psychology this defense mechanism against self-doubt and feelings of failure and loss is known as rationalization because we come up with rational sounding explanations for why we wouldn't really want what we can't have.

Some who did not make our choices as trailblazers repeat to us the rationalizations they made to themselves for why they didn't try.

On the other hand, someone more progressive, and lacking rationalizations for injustice and inequality might question why they exist and why they persist — and keep questioning, even as the answers become more challenging — rather than simply accepting that they exist and that they persist because they ought to.

It includes at least three separate rationalizations for Trump's statements in Helsinki ― and for why, more generally, the president has been trying to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian electoral interference. .