Sentence examples for seem to rationalize from inspiring English sources

Christian logic, I guess, would not allow for an animist paradigm, but it did seem to rationalize, even glorify, the theft, rape, ruin, enslavement, and imprisonment of this land and its original inhabitants.

Not only does it seem to rationalize the considerable social pressures that kept wives from becoming writers in the first place, but it inadvertently diminishes the achievement of those women who -- against the odds and before feminism redistributed their domestic burdens somewhat -- managed to be both.

Many biologists, of course, intuit this change but few seem to rationalize it.

Jeter absolved Rodriguez for his comments of three years ago, seeming to rationalize them in an interview on the YES Network when he said that Rodriguez had been in foreign circumstances, with his status soaring after he signed his record-breaking contract with Texas and with unfamiliar kinds of questions being tossed at him.

On another level, and again, in light of Billie Joe Armstrong's personal struggle, he seems to rationalize the addiction itself, believing he can just play with it a little, just be a friend to it, but no worries, he "Don't want no suicide".

I needed more bowel surgery a terrifying prospect for me that my therapist just couldn't seem to help me rationalize.

It should not be dragged back into the muck and murk by political figures whose sole agenda seems to be to rationalize actions that cost this country dearly — in our inability to hold credible trials for very bad men and in the continued damage to our reputation.

But I wondered if his distraction at that moment, when Saddam seemed to be rationalizing what would soon be the brutal suppression of the Shia intifada, wasn't also an act of will.

A single dimensionless group that combines the yield stress of the filled PA11, the bending resistance of the nanoparticles, and the PLA-PA11 interfacial tension, seems able to rationalize our data, providing a general criterion for the optimal selection of fillers suitable to induce co-continuity in immiscible polymer blends.

RR, Minnesota, posted on nytimes.com TALK: RAY KURZWEIL In Kurzweil's future, nano-computers seem to exist to help lazy humans rationalize their poor choices.

"They tend to rationalize their aberrant behavior and seem to think that they're the exception to the rule".