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  • We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence.   (source)
  • I'm irrationally concerned she can see my butt through the paper robe.   (source)
    irrationally = in a manner that is not reasonable
  • But it's an irrational, stupid thought.   (source)
    irrational = unreasonable
  • And I knew he had done that, not out of any concern for me, but because when he wants something, he gets impatient and irrational about people who make him wait.   (source)
  • Her denial was so complete, so irrational, I realized there was no way I could argue with her.   (source)
    irrational = unreasonable (ignoring reason and logic)
  • All their doors remained simple doors, on/off switches in the flow between two adjacent places, binarily either open or closed, but each of their doors, regarded thus with a twinge of irrational possibility, became partially animate as well, an object with a subtle power to mock, to mock the desires of those who desired to go far away, whispering silently from its door frame that such dreams were the dreams of fools.   (source)
    irrational = not explainable through logic or reason
  • Tolerance had turned to distrust and irrational fear.   (source)
    irrational = unreasonable
  • Slowly, in mild afternoon sunshine, he walked up a dingy street in the direction of Mr Charrington's shop, keeping one eye open for the patrols, but irrationally convinced that this afternoon there was no danger of anyone interfering with him.   (source)
    irrationally = in a manner that is unreasonable
  • My head still ached and bled with the blow and fall I had received: no one had reproved John for wantonly striking me; and because I had turned against him to avert farther irrational violence, I was loaded with general opprobrium.   (source)
    irrational = unreasonable
  • Catherine caught and perused it eagerly; then she put a few questions to me concerning the inmates, rational and irrational, of her former home; and gazing towards the hills, murmured in soliloquy: 'I should like to be riding Minny down there!'   (source)
  • Indeed, even on top of Radar Peak, a place the world almost forgot, the madness and irrationality of the human race were constantly on display.†   (source)
  • The irrational fear I'd felt running back from Whole Foods flooded my veins again.†   (source)
  • This was my world: a world of truly irrational behavior.†   (source)
  • There were times when she was acting so irrationally that I felt like slapping her, just to knock her back to her senses.†   (source)
  • My fear is irrational; this is just a test, it isn't real.†   (source)
  • At that point, Hansford launched into an irrational tirade against his mother, his girlfriend Bonnie and his buddy George Hill.†   (source)
  • I know how irrational that must seem, given what I saw happening around me; but until that evening I had thought I had a special immunity, that somehow the violence wouldn't touch me.†   (source)
  • It was irrational, Celaena knew.†   (source)
  • These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness.†   (source)
  • He felt irrationally angry.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to sound irrational, Detective Fenerman," my father said.†   (source)
  • I know it's irrational, but that's how I felt.†   (source)
  • I knew that my fear was irrational—it was probably just those dumb rapper kids pulling another prank—but my heart was beating a hundred miles an hour, and some deep animal instinct commanded me to be silent.†   (source)
  • Just as Akaky's ghost haunted the final pages, so did it haunt a place deep in Ashoke's soul, shedding light on all that was irrational, all that was inevitable about the world.†   (source)
  • Even healthy people cried and said irrational things when their parents died.†   (source)
  • He didn't notice how cold it had suddenly become, he didn't notice the wind, he didn't notice the sudden irrational squall of rain.†   (source)
  • But still I felt a petty, irrational pang of disappointment—and, as I walked home (skull-cracking headache, practically seeing double) I kept looking for her, scanning the anonymous, preoccupied faces around me.†   (source)
  • There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational—or, in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.†   (source)
  • I drop my eyes, feeling a quick and irrational terror that he has managed to read my thoughts.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the shelves again in wild, irrational hope but the shelves were just as empty as before.†   (source)
  • An irrational hope that if I don't find the day then the day won't find me, that the things in the night will be nullified.†   (source)
  • My service among the Bikura seems more absurd and irrational now than ever before.†   (source)
  • I leaned forward on the table, resting my chin on my folded arms, my hidden fingers gripping the table's edge as I fought to ignore the irrational longing that unsettled me.†   (source)
  • Now Carly Powers was in her ear, saying, "Leigh Anne, you got to talk to him because he's being completely irrational:' Carly handed his cell phone to Mike.†   (source)
  • I started calling his name, irrationally, over and over.†   (source)
  • No. It's irrational, excessive, disproportionate.†   (source)
  • Everyone's irrational.†   (source)
  • My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me toward the war.†   (source)
  • Said it was irrational mysticism.†   (source)
  • The sociologist George Ritzer has attacked the fast food industry for celebrating a narrow measure of efficiency over every other human value, calling the triumph of McDonald's "the irrationality of rationality."†   (source)
  • Yet, a strange feeling, as irrational as Basta's good-luck charms, had driven him out: a feeling that he could protect the book just by his presence.†   (source)
  • She never forgot her irrational rage at the other two younger children who had for some reason been spared.†   (source)
  • Isabelle was wiping at her eyes, and Clary felt a wave of irrational anger—Isabelle barely knew Simon.†   (source)
  • He knew in his heart that promising things to God was rather dumb and irrational, but he couldn't help it.†   (source)
  • I end the call, but am suddenly gripped by the completely irrational fear that the phone could ring, that Tom would hear it from upstairs, so I slide the French doors open and step outside.†   (source)
  • Suddenly and irrationally I am tempted to lie.†   (source)
  • And second, the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Fermina Daza, his wife, who at that time was seventy-two years old and had already lost the doe's gait of her younger days, was an irrational idolater of tropical flowers and domestic animals, and early in her marriage she had taken advantage of the novelty of love to keep many more of them in the house than good sense would allow.†   (source)
  • If he allowed his rage to break free, his father would simply accuse Wells of being too irrational, too immature to understand the law.†   (source)
  • I had what I only can label a pathological temper—a disease—and this sickness controlled me, making me totally irrational.†   (source)
  • Frivolous, irrational, erratic, untrustworthy, interested primarily in pleasure-seeking.†   (source)
  • I even tried my best to indulge her increasingly bizarre and irrational behavior.†   (source)
  • He became irrational in his behavior and spoke of purifying himself in such a manner that he would afterward be invulnerable to the Meiji rifles.†   (source)
  • But most of the Enlightenment philosophers thought it was irrational to imagine a world without God.†   (source)
  • It was a wildly irrational, completely uninformed idea, but the fear it produced was complete enough.†   (source)
  • A letter from her father had mentioned new troubles there, and she felt, irrationally and keenly, responsible for heading them off.†   (source)
  • His mistrust was both wise and irrational.†   (source)
  • I felt an irrational need to defend myself and decided right then and there I wouldn't back down until he did.†   (source)
  • The 'sane' murderer is thought of as acting upon rational motives that can be understood, though condemned, and the 'insane' one as being driven by irrational senseless motives.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't someone notice this sort of irrational fear?†   (source)
  • But I was obsessed with a notion that my friends assured me was irrational-that once Moody brought Mahtob and me to Iran, he would try to keep us there forever.†   (source)
  • No fear, no brakes, consumed by some irrational itch to cruise along shadowy thoroughfares, traveled by demons.†   (source)
  • It was irrational and illogical and it went against everything she'd promised herself when she'd moved here, but she realized that she wanted him to know her.†   (source)
  • Many of the Empire's officers behaved irrationally, giving orders that made it easier for the Varden to penetrate deeper into the army, sowing chaos as they went.†   (source)
  • "Eadlyn, you're being irrational."†   (source)
  • Teenage smoking is about being a teenager, about sharing in the emotional experience and expressive language and rituals of adolescence, which are as impenetrable and irrational to outsiders as the rituals of adolescent suicide in Micronesia.†   (source)
  • Fear of being a target of irrational violence haunted me day and night.†   (source)
  • It was totally irrational, but I was beginning to feel like the BOP would never let me go.†   (source)
  • Or fanatical and irrational and victim-wishful.†   (source)
  • And in my pain, I asked irrationally, like a child, Could I not return?†   (source)
  • The lazy, empty days in the city and the irrational atmosphere in the house set my nerves on edge.†   (source)
  • Tears were streaming in single torrents from her flashing, hate-filled eyes as she struggled against him fiercely in an irrational frenzy of maddened might, snarling and cursing savagely and screaming 'Bruto!†   (source)
  • I knew that it was irrational and crazy to blame myself, but I did.†   (source)
  • And with every sigh, every step, Vlad became more and more worried that his fears hadn't been irrational, that maybe Henry really was only friends with him because of the drudge thing.†   (source)
  • Within the boundaries of his irrational logic, this was a rational decision.†   (source)
  • "So let's hear another one of your irrational fears."†   (source)
  • He talked expressively, with grand arm movements, drawing irrational conclusions about the simplest exchanges.†   (source)
  • " I'm not sure if that's a fair assessment; it suggests that intuition is irrational.†   (source)
  • Not prone to doubts or irrational fears.†   (source)
  • I felt a wave of irrational guilt and fear.†   (source)
  • You're being irrational.†   (source)
  • The nearest she could get was a feeling, as acute as it was irrational, that in some inexorable way it wasn't only Pilgrim's fate that was to be determined today by this stranger, it was the fate of all of them.†   (source)
  • Their laughter, shouts, and squeals of delight abraded his nerves and sparked in him an irrational anger.†   (source)
  • "The King of the Gods is the ultimate limitation," he keens, "and His existence is the ultimate irrationality.†   (source)
  • They tightened, and for a moment she was irrationally frightened, caught by him, her feet dangling above the ground.†   (source)
  • It is an irrational fear, for the police have absolutely no idea who shot at Walker.†   (source)
  • If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication.†   (source)
  • That's pretty irrational.†   (source)
  • Something similar can be seen even here in a few of the more violent and irrational proposals made to combat Newark Airport Expansion.†   (source)
  • Since my father was a conservative of a particularly fevered strain, it was natural for me to study carefully every creed or doctrine to which he was irrationally and diametrically opposed.†   (source)
  • But he was also not a stupid, irrational sort of man.†   (source)
  • When her father seemed either to lose control or become irrational she reacted with the impatient anger born of fear.†   (source)
  • There is a determined set to her chin that moves him, even when she uses it against him, even when it seems irrational and dangerous, accompanied by ideas he does not agree with.†   (source)
  • It is either the result of limited information about the subject or a jealousy that produces an irrational hatred towards all things.†   (source)
  • Part of me knows I'm acting and thinking totally irrationally, insisting on things that are neurotic and paranoid, but at this point in my abnormal life, wouldn't that kind of wacky, abnormal behavior be considered normal?†   (source)
  • He knelt there unmoving while the whole camp grew slowly still and in the dark silence the voice sang the next verse, softer, with great feeling, with great beauty, very far off to Longstreet's dull ear, far off and strange, from another time, an older softer time, and Longstreet could see tears on faces around the fire, and men beginning to drop their eyes, and he dropped his own, feeling a sudden spasm of irrational love.†   (source)
  • I put on the jeans knowing how irrational my line of thinking was.†   (source)
  • Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.†   (source)
  • He was completely irrational, and I, of course, had to point that out to him.†   (source)
  • Shortly after I showed him the cyanide "wolf getters" and explained that not only were they instantly fatal, but almost impossible to detect, he began to display definite signs of irrational behavior.†   (source)
  • Cooper also sensed their coldness and wanted to get out of this irrational town.†   (source)
  • The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute….†   (source)
  • "Not the whole state!" he said, at the same time realizing his protest was completely irrational.†   (source)
  • Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational.†   (source)
  • Most of what he was saying—especially about my "responsibility"—was lopsided, irrational, smug and horrendously wrong, yet to my nearly total chagrin at that point, I found that I could not answer.†   (source)
  • Now it was sinister, bringing a fear that was none the less real for my knowing it to be irrational, to the accompaniment of sensory distortions that must have caused me to reel as I ran.†   (source)
  • He was drunken, aggrieved and threatening, and as deliberately irrational as an official who had decided to be malin.†   (source)
  • You know when a man lives alone as much as I do, his mind can go off on an irrational tangent just because his social world is out of kilter.†   (source)
  • This hatred for them, the basis of it, is irrational.†   (source)
  • LOGICIAN: Fear is an irrational thing.†   (source)
  • He was fighting irrational symbols of abandonment… desertion… shame… loathing… cowardice.†   (source)
  • She was familiar with her own storms of irrational anger, but she had never known one as devastating as this.†   (source)
  • He felt an irrational bout of claustrophobia settling in.†   (source)
  • To stop being so irrational and take the stupid gun.†   (source)
  • Will had little patience for the irrational.†   (source)
  • I have to remember that he's irrational.†   (source)
  • Some irrational part of me wanted to clutch it, hoard it for later.†   (source)
  • But it shows how irrational the Separatists can be.†   (source)
  • We hate one another; we are the victims of irrational fears.†   (source)
  • I had to get over this irrational feeling that Jacob belonged in my life.†   (source)
  • I know it's irrational and that he feels horrible, but I'm still upset.†   (source)
  • They don't have any problem with irrational mysticism as long as it makes money.†   (source)
  • Don't leave me," I cried, an irrational surge of panic flooding through me.†   (source)
  • It means I believe because it is irrational.†   (source)
  • Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten?†   (source)
  • Maybe his fear of thunder had not been so irrational after all.†   (source)
  • It doesn't mean that it is actually irrational, but it surely is not rational.†   (source)
  • In time, however, he wondered why it worked, especially when he already knew it was irrational.†   (source)
  • Irrational impulses often determine what we think, what we dream, and what we do.†   (source)
  • But there have been several efforts to deliver us from the hands of primitive, irrational religion.†   (source)
  • Just going on pure, irrational bias, I'm guessing L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • Such irrational impulses can be an expression of basic drives or needs.†   (source)
  • Isn't it something that is meaningless or irrational?†   (source)
  • "Because love is irrational," I tell Vosch.†   (source)
  • I had an irrational fear that I might be decaying from frostbite, becoming like Hel.†   (source)
  • I thought, irrationally, that he looked taller on television.†   (source)
  • There was too much to see, too many colors, the shapes irrational.†   (source)
  • Fish swam over their heads, and Percy felt irrational panic building in his throat.†   (source)
  • I shook my head at the memory of the irrational tears, the crushing grief.†   (source)
  • He had been able to bring himself back from a world gone irrational, back from militiamen to cows.†   (source)
  • There wasn't any reason to be irrational about the whole thing.†   (source)
  • I have no wish to put myself in the same category: irrational, petulant.†   (source)
  • He loved Bethany, the kind of love that made men do irrational things.†   (source)
  • She was suddenly, irrationally afraid that she would not recognize Holly.†   (source)
  • She'd been completely irrational yesterday.†   (source)
  • Whenever she wanted something, he had the irrational urge to provide it.†   (source)
  • However irrational it might seem, she put the blame for BoneMan on Ryan as much as on Burt.†   (source)
  • I never understood it before because it's irrational.†   (source)
  • He was as irrationally angry with her as he had briefly been angry with Barbara Christman.†   (source)
  • You start out in pursuit of the irrational, then damn existence for making no sense.†   (source)
  • Instead an irrational rage possessed me.†   (source)
  • As he lay down he glanced at the telephone and felt a sudden irrational urge to call home.†   (source)
  • Annabeth realized that her jealousy was irrational.†   (source)
  • I hated myself for experiencing irrational pangs of jealousy.†   (source)
  • I saw in his brooding eyes the growing tinge of irrationality.†   (source)
  • In the completeness of her loneliness, she was growing more petulant and irrational.†   (source)
  • Doesn't she hear? as she stood before me in bewilderment, as though I were acting irrationally.†   (source)
  • I whispered something, a swift irrational negation.†   (source)
  • It was dangerous, irrational, the fence was far too high.†   (source)
  • She was as irrational and mad as a mother tiger.†   (source)
  • I knew I was being irrational, but the image of Sofia with Ben was burning away all reason.†   (source)
  • An irrational man, an insane man, is a panicked man.†   (source)
  • A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not.†   (source)
  • And it's something else, which is irrational and unexplainable and which satisfies only me….†   (source)
  • Donna felt that irrational lift in her spirits that almost always comes with daybreak.†   (source)
  • Ghosh's wish had seemed irrational to me at the time.†   (source)
  • These desperate mother dogs were irrational when it came to feeding their starving broods.†   (source)
  • It was the last irrational act, insanity the order of that date.†   (source)
  • Hearing Jules talk about Patch's love filled me with irrational hope.†   (source)
  • My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them.†   (source)
  • To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.†   (source)
  • His world is not the unknown, but that irrational horror: the unknowable.†   (source)
  • No one has ever believed in the irrational; what they do believe in is the unjust.†   (source)
  • But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.†   (source)
  • There's no way to make the irrational work.†   (source)
  • That much irrationality is not possible to any man or any looter.†   (source)
  • And she knew that this, too, was irrational but beyond remedy.†   (source)
  • From what we know of the Hangman, the last we heard of it, it had become irrational.†   (source)
  • She tried to resolve the conflict irrationally.†   (source)
  • The mind grows large and irrational, one suddenly knows things impossible to know.†   (source)
  • I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable.†   (source)
  • I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.†   (source)
  • The irrational sorrow was now out of all control.†   (source)
  • Her anxiety was excruciating, and it was somehow irrationally mixed up with hunger.†   (source)
  • He became irrationally frightened, almost terrified.†   (source)
  • At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.†   (source)
  • That schedule was irrational; no one, not even Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, could complete the work on that timetable.†   (source)
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