Sentence examples for rationalized it to from inspiring English sources

I minimized it to her and rationalized it to myself.

"And the way I rationalized it to myself was I actually thought he was just playing to the crowd.

But if you give any person or entity a colossal incentive to do something, then the overwhelming majority, including good and noble people, will eventually find some way to rationalize it to themselves.

I think, had there been even a small fee, I would have been put off, but I was able to rationalize it to myself as if I was buying the clothes next month and just getting them in advance".

Every time we choose to gloss over clergy abuse, to rationalize it, to dismiss the claims of the abused and to shelter and protect the alleged perpetrators we demean the very institution of the clergy.

(Why does everything have to go into the collective pot? Isn't it nice to be able to buy yourself a little something every once in a while without having to rationalize it to a fiscally conservative spouse?) I know it's juvenile.

In fact, he told me, "people who commit murder find it very easy to rationalize it and to come to terms with it," and this is particularly so "when it's being condoned by the state".

The way I rationalized it, that worked out to $557 a night for lodging, meals, transportation, trip insurance and taxes -- not bad for high season in Bermuda, where a nice hotel room can cost several hundred dollars.

Health workers in Mozambique and Cape Verde rationalize it: "... to help a sick neighbour" or to help patients "because there are patients that, on account of the long waiting times, do not go to the hospital, they will rather go to these persons in order to avoid wasting their time in the hospitals" [ 20].

And he was no intellectual who could rationalize it, learn somehow to accept it, to live with it.

"Suicide is an irrational action, so to try to rationalize it I don't think can really be done," his father, Joe Clementi, said to me.