Sentence examples for rationalized it was from inspiring English sources

I rationalized it was O.K. because I was en route to Montauk with only a quick pit stop at the 24th Street flea market.

At least, I rationalized, it was natural.

I told my doctor of the condition and we rationalized it was from anxiety – he had never heard of these symptoms either.

"I think the way you rationalize it is we didn't do as well as we were supposed to or as well as we thought we were going to, however you want to put it," Girardi said.

Veteran gay activist Barbara Gittings chose to work in the gay rights movement, rationalizing "It's a matter of where does it hurt the most?

Perhaps, rather than placing blame on others and rationalizing it's own culpability, BP would be better served by taking the lead in innovation to develop a safer, more sustainable and certainly cleaner energy future for all of us.

I was immediately nervous (did the water shut-off have something to do with my little mistake?) but rationalized it must be a coincidence.

Reasoning and Rationalizing It's not just the content of our moral judgments that is often questionable, but the way we arrive at them.

The mental event that explains an action by rationalizing it is a cause of that action otherwise, as discussed above (§2.2), there would be no way of answering the question concerning which of the many mental events that rationalize some action are the ones that actually explain its occurrence (see further the supplement on Explanatory Epiphenomenalism).

Are you rationalizing (e.g., "maybe they will change," or, "it's bad, but something new might be worse," or "at least I know what to expect").? If you recognize you are complacent, jaded, or rationalizing, it's time to plan a change.

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