Sentence examples for superficially rational from inspiring English sources

The current debate over capital punishment is no longer focused on contested moral visions about taking a life but rather on the effectiveness, accuracy and cost of the agonizingly detailed, superficially rational, regulatory universe the Court has brought into being.

Taken superficially, the idiosyncrasies and humor can obscure the clear rational force underneath, the ways in which the author, even as he indulges his reputation as an oddball, is often sharply framing some matter anew.

Superficially, yes.

Superficially quite impressive.

Superficially, they are alike.

But only superficially.

"Superficially fame's attractive.

Perhaps, but only superficially.

Superficially very little.

Superficially that sounds reasonable.

Superficially, the society works.