Sentence examples similar to reason with himself from inspiring English sources

My father admired Ibn Rushd for his attempt to reconcile reason with religion, though he himself was not religious; and he bequeathed that admiration to me.

He has reason to be pleased with himself; the turnaround is well-reflected in financial results and in the share price.

None of his friends could believe that Reeves, a glad-handing, straight-shooting, life-loving guy, had a plausible reason to do away with himself.

Nevertheless, any sense of complacency lingering from the summer evaporated last week as they watched a supremely confident David Cameron taunt Brown by asking: 'Is this man simply not cut out for the job?' The Tory leader had reason to be pleased with himself: Labour had fallen victim to the sort of tactics Brown deployed against the Tories with such damning results a decade ago.

Alonso has every reason to be pleased with himself after achieving what he did in a car that started the season 1.5 seconds off the pace and was never fast enough to set pole position in the dry.

You can't reason with a crack whore," he sighs to himself at one point, or to someone anyway.

But in the interview, Mr. Juhi gave another reason for identifying himself, one with which many who watched the television coverage of his tense 26-minute courtroom confrontation with Mr. Hussein would likely agree.

The English country gentleman had good reason to feel rather pleased with himself: he was master of all he surveyed, and he could be sure that his land would provide him and his children with a comfortable livelihood for many generations to come.Until now, that is.

Someone you can reason with.

My boyfriend tried to reason with me.

It is futile to reason with them.