Sentence examples for try and rationalise from inspiring English sources

"We survived an avalanche and we were both very frightened," Ebba tells Tomas as they try and rationalise a situation that has no happy resolution.

Blurting out words like "freedom" and "liberty" has become an almost reflex response for too many "free market" conservatives as they try and rationalise anything that happens in and around the climate change issue.

I know I should try and rationalise the situation, weigh up the scenario, see all the angles but everything I think or say or feel is usually panicked, wrong and senseless.

I think we all have different standards at different things… You ask me to try and rationalise it, I can't, it's just my, it's just me, it's just my standard.' (Interviewee 12, non-clinical front line).

Don't try and justify or rationalise it, or make excuses.

Even Aristotle, he of the outsize brain inside a wide bulging brow ("a vessel stretched by its contents"), although he tries to question and rationalise, sees something otherworldly in his pupil: "There was a moment in which the boy and the beast seemed like initiates, who have exchanged in secret a world of power".

Across a series of experiments, Justin Friesen and colleagues looked at how individuals try to rationalise and protect their own beliefs in the face of scrutiny and criticism.

I often look back and try to rationalise that decision, because it seems so weird and I've come to a lot of different decisions, one of which was that I was just looking for something to write about.

Even though I'm not dismissive and like to think of myself as inquisitive and open, maybe the fact that I can't help but try to rationalise and explain everything is a fault somehow.

Try to rationalise and fail.

What follows is normally a substance-fuelled crisis phase while, in a panic, you try to rationalise and plan absolutely everything that's going to happen in your life over the next 60 years.