Sentence examples for soon rationalized from inspiring English sources

Even among those guards who initially resisted the aggression, all eventually rationalized their decision to join ranks with authoritarian guards, and all soon rationalized their behavior as legitimate due to the behavior of the one being punished -- even when the one being punished had clearly done nothing wrong and the punishment was by any standard a violation of human decency.

Rational suicide -- or a rationalized one?

I was aware of how heavy I had let myself become but rationalized that I would be getting pregnant soon, so it would be pointless to try and lose the weight.

It gets excused ("she bruises so easily"), rationalized ("he was going to inherit that money soon anyway") or simply missed by good people in a position to help who didn't know what to look for, or how to intervene.

Dunbar, who is close to Jacobs, is soon accusing Underwood of "rationalizing the obscene into the palatable".

"He rationalized the portfolio".

rationalized his N.V. strategy.

Creativity, however, cannot be rationalized.

His mother, hardly pleased, rationalized.

As scientists rationalized, writers rhapsodized.

But she rationalized the pain.