Sentence examples for rationalize being from inspiring English sources

A nice way, apparently, to rationalize being his own scout, traveling secretary, parent surrogate and driver of the team van, occasionally from Albany to Bangor, Me. "I used to ask Phil why he didn't make the players drive," Coyne said.

Look, if you happen to believe the church and not the government is the rightful place for charity, and that the government has no right to redistribute your tax dollars to those in need, I'm not saying you're being selfish and only trying to rationalize being relatively well-off.

That's resistance (and another way to rationalize is to believe "rational lies").

"Rationalization (or the capability of being rationalized) is a good way of putting it," Professor Shuford wrote in an e-mail message.

This, I have rationalized, is why M.M.A. is really safer than boxing.

Nobody, I rationalized, was going to be without the Extended Rollo Mix of "New York City Boy" because of my actions.

It implied a conception of man not as a rational so much as a rationalizing being (Ibid. 232).

FOIA suit) and their rambling — rationalizing isn't even the right word — on the putative reasonableness of all involved, especially the person being tortured.

Each of us, Roman rationalizes, "is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of the world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade".

But I don't think partisan rationalizing is the main basis for their arguments.

That's the cruel irony: When you're at psychological odds, the last person you can rationalize with is yourself.