Sentence examples for rationalizing to from inspiring English sources

But Charles Rangel, the Democratic representative from Harlem, said he found such political rationalizing to be sad -- and classic Giuliani.

Resistance and flight were made possible by Peter's failure, despite all his modernizing and rationalizing, to endow the government with effective means of control on the local level.

In an interview with the world music magazine fRoots in 2004, he said he chose the topic "as a way of rationalizing to myself that I hadn't misspent my entire youth listening to records to no purpose".

On the other, $95 is a lot to pay for a chocolate shoe, and, much like a luxury store that is turning over an entire floor to knickknacks inspired by a pop star, it may take some rationalizing to swallow.

I remember rationalizing to a friend that boys chose their dancing partners the way they chose their colleges: first choice was a reach, second was a chance with a possible rejection, third was a 90percentt yes, and finally, fourth choice was an assured acceptance.

"Many see him as ignorant, while others also see him as rationalizing to meet his personal needs.

He wanted to rant and to plead, to rationalize and to predict.

The ability to compartmentalize and rationalize to an amazing degree.

"The place is but $1,000, and not much sought," Lincoln rationalized to Seward, "and I must relieve myself of Canisius".

These things are sometimes impossible to rationalize to sane people.

After a while, I couldn't even rationalize to myself why I was staying sober anymore.