Sentence examples for slightly irrational from inspiring English sources

Nowadays, buyers tend to be real collectors, with the "slightly irrational desire to own the item".

"I don't think that math drives people crazy, but those with edgy or slightly irrational personalities are drawn to it".

My first thought was that, perhaps, anything was possible in America, in terms of religious freedom and exercises of the First Amendment; it may have been slightly irrational to want or need that reassurance, but then this was the year of the "Ground Zero mosque" controversy.

I'm slightly irrational.

Rocket Mortgage's slick but slightly irrational exuberance would re-collapse the American housing market.

Slightly irrational people should never be tempted with an opportunity to live somewhere exotic.

Thus, the door of the ivory tower opened, at first only slightly, to theories that included irrational behaviour.

Akerlof and Shiller extrapolate from this an idea of animal spirits encompassing "noneconomic motives and irrational behaviors," a slightly broader idea than Keynes's usage, but one that allows them to study a range of negative impulses as well as the basic urge to optimism about which Keynes was talking.

An excerpt, slightly condensed, from Mr. Wei's essay: The inmates' lives are governed by all sorts of irrational regulations.

Amnesty: irrational?

Irrational fear.