Sentence examples for rationalizing with from inspiring English sources

Simply put, YOU'RE ADDICTED and you are rationalizing with drawings and words.

How marvellous it can be to let go of one's self-conscious rationalizing, with its fear of the uncontrollable, like joy, and sink helplessly into the theatre of feelings — tender and coarse, confused and projected, authentic and invented — that drives "Twelfth Night".

I can't rationalize with the anxiety, because it's not rational.

Then Hillary tried to capitalize on Bill's peace efforts in Northern Ireland, and rationalize with them.

I tried to rationalize with him, to convince him he was mistaken.

"But you cannot rationalize with body parts that might be breaking down.

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

Perhaps a more apt metaphor is colonialism: college sports, as overseen by the N.C.A.A., is a system imposed by well-meaning paternalists and rationalized with hoary sentiments about caring for the well-being of the colonized.

Antisocial individuals harbor secret reactions of rage and revenge, which they rationalize with the help of ideologies of hatred, and are discovered only after their heinous crimes have taken their toll on society.

Clinton told John McCain during a private Q. and A. on Tuesday in New York that Obama should be more forceful on Syria and should not rationalize with opinion polls that reflect Americans' reluctance to tangle in foreign crises.

He added, "College sports, as overseen by the N.C.A.A., is a system imposed by well-meaning paternalists and rationalized with hoary sentiments about caring for the well-being of the colonized".