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  • For an illogical moment, I'd thought she might mean my brother.†   (source)
  • "Illogical," Vittoria said.†   (source)
  • I never heard anything so illogical as that in my life!†   (source)
  • The sequence was illogical—the drowning scene, followed by a rescue, should have preceded the marriage proposal.†   (source)
  • It would be illogical to expect it to feel pain at this separation from another lettuce with which it had never spoken, nor established any type of communication, and which it only knew from its outer leaves, unaware that there were many others hidden inside it.†   (source)
  • It was totally illogical.†   (source)
  • He snatched it off the cradle, illogically sure it must be either Ullman or Al Shockley.†   (source)
  • She had tried to explain several times to them that they shouldn't contradict anything LuLing said: "Waipo sounds illogical because she is.†   (source)
  • Yeah, but the reasoning was illogical.†   (source)
  • When the twins asked what cuff-links were for—"To link cuffs together," Ammu told them—they were thrilled by this morsel of logic in what had so far seemed an illogical language.†   (source)
  • I gritted my teeth together to keep my illogical terror from showing.†   (source)
  • The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.†   (source)
  • The most irrational part of all was that I still didn't want to believe he would kill me, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't smother that illogical speck of trust.†   (source)
  • He was the cause of all my agony, but I was so grateful to see Mahtob that I halfway meant the illogical statement.†   (source)
  • I fight an illogical urge to explain this and continue on my way.†   (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)
  • Like Evan Walker, discordant, illogical, and just damn strange.†   (source)
  • It's illogical that women, who are the bearers and nurturers of the human race, should go all out for ill will like this.†   (source)
  • It seemed then that she had never existed That she had been some illogical, fantastical dream that, was too precious and too personal for me ever to confide in anyone.†   (source)
  • That was the most illogical Thanksgiving he could ever remember spending, and his thoughts returned wishfully to his halcyon fourteen-day quarantine in the hospital the year before; but even that idyll had ended on a tragic note; he was still in good health when the quarantine period was over, and they told him again that he had to get out and go to war.†   (source)
  • It was completely illogical.†   (source)
  • But even an inebriated Ghosh could counsel Stone that what he was about to do was not the act of an expedient surgeon but an idiotic one, and that his decision was wrong, his logic illogical.†   (source)
  • He's geometric; whatever he does is logical, even his logic seems illogical.†   (source)
  • Were they illogical in believing that theirs was only to wish, to wish with no concern for the possible-and that his was to fulfill their wishes, by means they did not have to know or name?†   (source)
  • William Labov casts a resigned eye on the process: Many older citizens… expend a great deal of effort in demonstrating to their children the illogical character of aren't I, or like as a conjunction.†   (source)
  • The mighty warrior who'd defied Thomas by turning down the general's greatest honor now spent his days wandering the forests with his apprentices, a self-appointed prophet spreading illogical ideas that turned the Great Romance on its head.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was illogical—what could she really do to him?†   (source)
  • "No," came the illogical reply.†   (source)
  • Being illogical does?†   (source)
  • It was no more logical or explicable than if, after you die, you find yet another surprise that is illogical and inexplicable.†   (source)
  • Is she illogical?†   (source)
  • A sovereignty over sovereigns, a government over governments, legislation for communities—rather than a government over individuals is illogical in theory.†   (source)
  • I will do my level best to protect the United States under those strictures despite the fact that the situation is most illogical.†   (source)
  • The second thing which was bothering me was so unusual that I must give it special emphasis, if only because it demonstrates the basic illogicality of the human mind when not under proper disciplinary control.†   (source)
  • It was so familiar to me, and despite being completely absurd and illogical, I knew in that moment that I was not just Travis Coates who died and came back from the dead.†   (source)
  • Cooper was the first one of us to sense that we might be mazed in, and he illogically followed my exact path one inch from my pants leg.†   (source)
  • As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.†   (source)
  • He thought his apprehension illogical.†   (source)
  • — nevertheless the disheveled old mystic of Das Kapital, turgid, tortured, confused, and neurotic, unscientific, illogical, this pompous fraud Karl Marx, nevertheless had a glimmering of a very important truth.†   (source)
  • A thing so triumphantly illogical, so beautifully senseless as an army can't allow a question to weaken it.†   (source)
  • We scraped the dirt off the arm and shoulder and then the head, and we looked at the dead face (and yet it was still dark, I think--a strange dream; illogical) and someone said, 'Why it's him!' and the others all looked and nodded and shook their heads the way you would at a funeral, but I looked and looked and I couldn't make out who it was.†   (source)
  • Here it was again: the utterly illogical appeal, which to these two men was clearly not illogical at all.†   (source)
  • Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered criticism.   (source)
  • Sometimes creativity seems wasteful, illogical …. unless it's done for a greater purpose.†   (source)
  • He would then find himself in the grip of illogical certainties.†   (source)
  • Because they're illogical," Will says matter-of-factly.†   (source)
  • How illogical is that, that the closer government is to home, the less we care about it?†   (source)
  • My first illogical thought was that Alice was playing some joke on us.†   (source)
  • Illogical thought processes must be challenged when they arise.†   (source)
  • The whole damn thing's full of illogical logic.'†   (source)
  • This shows how illogical the objections to the Constitution have been.†   (source)
  • The illogical logic of Carlos-I can't remember who said that, probably me.†   (source)
  • 'It's unexpected but not illogical,' answered McAllister.†   (source)
  • The illogical system of quotas and requisitions must be changed.†   (source)
  • When you haven't data, guessing is illogical.†   (source)
  • That makes them an illogical target.†   (source)
  • In addition to these three classical logical refutations there are some illogical, "rhetorical" ones.†   (source)
  • Amity would not allow a schism; no one in Abnegation would be so selfish; Candor would argue until they found a common solution; and even Erudite would never do something so illogical.†   (source)
  • He felt that the solution started with a new philosophy, or he saw it as even broader than that…a new spiritual rationality…in which the ugliness and the loneliness and the spiritual blankness of dualistic technological reason would become illogical.†   (source)
  • She knows that would be illogical.†   (source)
  • That's illogical.†   (source)
  • That would be illogical.†   (source)
  • The idea that there's just one person in the world you're meant to be with, it's illogical, she said.†   (source)
  • Completely illogical.†   (source)
  • Illogical, but ah so satisfying.†   (source)
  • If he had accepted the Equalization of Opportunity Bill, if he had accepted Directive 10-289, if he had accepted the law that those who could not equal his ability had the right to dispose of it, that those who had not earned were to profit, but he who had was to lose, that those who could not think were to command, but he who could was to obey them-then were they illogical in believing that they existed in an irrational universe?†   (source)
  • She again fell prey to illogical hopes.†   (source)
  • You're having this very clear thought, but then all at once you're on this totally other illogical, unconnected thought and you can't trace it back to the first one.†   (source)
  • Just when my thoughts were coming in illogical sequences, a prelude to sleep, I felt someone lifting up the mosquito net.†   (source)
  • Illogical or not, I brooded over the memory his peaceful face, trying to come up with some answer, some way to shelter him, while the sky slowly turned gray.†   (source)
  • I accept the logic of everything you say, but you also said everything was rife with illogical logic.†   (source)
  • Was it the illogical logic of the assassin who had eluded a hundred special branches of the international intelligence community for nearly thirty years?†   (source)
  • Facedown, from the depths of his illness, Thomas thought this reasoning was illogical: What about my oxygen, Dr. Ross?†   (source)
  • Method of the kill: suicide ruled out everything but a delayed-reaction device — an air dart, a pellet — yet the demands of accuracy made such a weapon illogical, and the loud report of a conventional gun would instantly activate the entire security force.†   (source)
  • It was completely illogical for the scholarly attorney to have any connection whatsoever to a highly questionable, indeed illegal, operation like Medusa.†   (source)
  • Tyrannical Use of Militia Illogical†   (source)
  • Isn't it illogical to make the federal government responsible for national defense, but leave the effective power of providing for defense with the State governments?†   (source)
  • Then the complication with an old man, a retired brigadier from the Royal Engineers — so illogically logical!†   (source)
  • That's not illogical," said the well-dressed attorney, once again uncrossing and crossing his legs as the resentful capo sullenly returned to the couch.†   (source)
  • Opposition Arguments Illogical†   (source)
  • And to say this would be enough to purchase the guardians of the people, elected by the people, is to renounce every rule by which events are forecast and substitute an indiscriminate, illogical jealousy.†   (source)
  • Illogical Fear of Militia†   (source)
  • It's quite illogical and impossible and wonderful.†   (source)
  • It was as if he said, illogical and desperately calm, All right.†   (source)
  • He found his room in a state of weird and illogical con— fusion.†   (source)
  • That's why I drink," he finished up illogically.†   (source)
  • By God, you lie!" he thundered magnificently but illogically.†   (source)
  • Then, his boiling fury unappeased, and baffled by fear of inflicting some crippling punishment on the boy, he added illogically: "Stand up!" and jerked him to his feet again.†   (source)
  • When there was a slight lull, he said briefly to his companion: That it's illogical for a priest to call in a doctor.†   (source)
  • You would almost believe that Sutpen's trip to New Orleans was just sheer chance, just a little more of the illogical machinations of a fatality which had chosen that family in preference to any other in the country or the land exactly as a small boy chooses one ant-hill to pour boiling water into in preference to any other, not even himself knowing why.†   (source)
  • "Don't you fuss at him!" cried Scarlett illogically, raising her head abruptly from Melanie's shoulder, her coarse black hair tumbling out from its net and her face streaked with tears.†   (source)
  • Keating realized that there had been art and skill and its own kind of illogical energy in the career of Guy Francon, even if the art consisted only of his social charm and the energy was directed at snaring bewildered millionaires.†   (source)
  • Indeed, they had a natural if illogical feeling that they should have been permitted to move out to these happier places.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, she was scrupulous in her public avoidance of the girl and, illogically, in a moment of unreasoning annoyance she would attack Eliza: "Why do you keep such people in your house, mama?†   (source)
  • This may appear illogical, but I dare say it is not so illogical as it looks.†   (source)
  • She doesn't think; her real depths are Irish and romantic and illogical.†   (source)
  • "I don't know," returned Carrie, still illogically drifting and finding nothing at which to catch.†   (source)
  • You reproach us women with being illogical.†   (source)
  • "Well, so long as I haven't—" said Catherine illogically.†   (source)
  • Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom.†   (source)
  • What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?†   (source)
  • But here he was now upon the same platform with her as the result of her persistent and illogical demands, and he must be thinking how, and boldly, he must carry out the plans which, for four days, or ever since he had telephoned her, and in a dimmer way for the ten preceding those, he had been planning.†   (source)
  • It was, however illogically, the good, the beautiful, the true, as opposed to the respectable, the pretty, the adequate.†   (source)
  • The white snow, stained with the blood of his fellow-mortal, wore an illogical look to him as a lover of justice, not to say a Christian; but he could not see how the matter was to be mended.†   (source)
  • Selden knew that Bertha would fight to the last round of powder: the rashness of her conduct was illogically combined with a cold determination to escape its consequences.†   (source)
  • Not only was he carried away by possession of gold and assurance of more, but he had become masterful, obstinate, and illogical.†   (source)
  • Whenever Hayward said something which was illogical, Weeks in a few words would show the falseness of his reasoning, pause for a moment to enjoy his triumph, and then hurry on to another subject as though Christian charity impelled him to spare the vanquished foe.†   (source)
  • Mr. Beebe, sitting unnoticed in the window, pondered this illogical element in Miss Honeychurch, and recalled the occasion at Tunbridge Wells when he had discovered it.†   (source)
  • His words without his voice might have impressed her, but when she heard the self-satisfied lilt of them, when she saw the mouth moving so complacently and competently beneath the little red nose, she felt, quite illogically, that this was not the last word on India.†   (source)
  • He did not like to be illogical, but here was simple goodness, natural and without effort, and he thought it beautiful.†   (source)
  • But, as I say, this took a little thinking, and--so illogical are girls--the event remained rather greater and rather more dreadful than it should have done.†   (source)
  • Yet such was his obstinate and illogical disregard of opinion, and of the principles in which he had been trained, that his convictions on the rightness of his course with his wife had not been disturbed.†   (source)
  • Which was illogical but interesting.†   (source)
  • Illogical poems—like their writer.†   (source)
  • The trees overhead deepened the gloom of the hour, and they dripped sadly upon him, impressing him with forebodings—illogical forebodings; for though he knew that he loved her he also knew that he could not be more to her than he was.†   (source)
  • Wilcox is so illogical," she explained to Leonard, who had put his wife to bed, and was sitting with her in the empty coffee-room.†   (source)
  • "It's her wish, and I am willing," said Phillotson with grave reserve, opposition making him illogically tenacious now.†   (source)
  • He was firm and determined and went blindly and obstinately for his object, if once he had been brought by any reasons (and they were often very illogical ones) to believe that it was immutably right.†   (source)
  • Now, though his conviction that jealousy was a shameful feeling and that one ought to feel confidence, had not broken down, he felt that he was standing face to face with something illogical and irrational, and did not know what was to be done.†   (source)
  • And, in brief, his illogical opinion was, that if you couldn't do nothing for him, you had better take nothing from him for doing of it; so far as he could make out, that was about what it come to.†   (source)
  • The fact is, gentlemen, it seems there must really exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his greatest advantages, or (not to be illogical) there is a most advantageous advantage (the very one omitted of which we spoke just now) which is more important and more advantageous than all other advantages, for the sake of which a man if necessary is ready to act in opposition to all laws; that is, in opposition to reason, honour, peace, prosperity--in fact, in opposition to…†   (source)
  • The result of this conflict is tragic in Mrs Warren's case, and comic in the clergyman's case (at least we are savage enough to laugh at it); but in both cases it is illogical, and in both cases natural.†   (source)
  • The line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are continually moving in front of each other.†   (source)
  • He was still comparatively young, he was surrounded by the loving care of a devoted family, but he had convinced himself by a course of reasoning, illogical perhaps, yet certainly plausible, that he must separate himself from all he held dear in the world, even life itself.†   (source)
  • The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been corrected.†   (source)
  • That is what follows from the fact that it is cold; and not that a child who needs fresh air should remain at home," he would add with extreme logic, as if punishing someone for those secret illogical emotions that stirred within him.†   (source)
  • An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix represent?†   (source)
  • Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements and scars on its walls, terrible,—such was, retrospectively viewed, the antique sewer of Paris.†   (source)
  • There was, in fact, something surprising in the illogicality and incoherence of some of his desires, accidentally betrayed and always vaguely expressed.†   (source)
  • Despite my earlier despair, I began to feel a faint flicker of illogical hope.†   (source)
  • This is illogical, Madame.†   (source)
  • /Drug/ is wholly illogical, and so are /clum/ and /friz/.†   (source)
  • But the American, as usual, inclines against these illogical exceptions to the rule set by /myself/.†   (source)
  • The English themselves have many more such illogical forms to account for.†   (source)
  • The latter, according to Webster, were unduly responsive to illogical fashions set by the exquisites of the court and by popular actors.†   (source)
  • Gould, in the 50's, noted its appearance at the end of such words as /somewhere/ and /anyway/, and denounced it as vulgar and illogical.†   (source)
  • Here the pedagogues, seeking to impose an inelastic and illogical grammar upon a living speech, succeed only in corrupting it still more.†   (source)
  • What it actually encounters here is a formalism that is artificial, illogical and almost unintelligible—a formalism borrowed from English grammarians, and by them brought into English, against all fact and reason, from the Latin.†   (source)
  • It was in these surroundings and at this time that the thorough-going American of tradition was born: blatant, illogical, elate, "greeting the embarrassed gods" uproariously and matching "with Destiny for beers."†   (source)
  • After all, the verb of being is fundamentally transitive, and, in some ways, the most transitive of all verbs, and so it is not illogical to bring its powers over the pronoun into accord with the powers exerted by the others.†   (source)
  • It being therefore evident that the supposition of a want of power to require the aid of the POSSE COMITATUS is entirely destitute of color, it will follow, that the conclusion which has been drawn from it, in its application to the authority of the federal government over the militia, is as uncandid as it is illogical.†   (source)
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