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There is certain to be a more rational explanation.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

The basic idea of science—that there was a new way to look at reality, that it was objective, that it did not depend on your beliefs or your nationality, that it was rational—that idea was fresh and exciting back then.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

I should scream, like any rational human being would, but when I open my mouth again, I just crow with joy.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

My opposition was beyond rational, it was visceral.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

We know we cannot rationally describe the kind of person we will fall in love with:  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

Our persona was opinionated to the point of absurdity, prejudiced beyond rationality, and functionally insane.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Rudolf Otto said that if you had not encountered the numinous, if you have not experienced a nonrational encounter with the mysterium tremendum, then his work was not for you.†  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

—yes, not even growing and developing, beloved by and loving light, but equipped only with that cunning, that inverted canker-growth of solitude which substitutes the omnivorous and unrational hearing-sense for all the others: so that instead of accomplishing the processional and measured milestones of the normal childhood's time I lurked, unapprehended as though, shod with the very damp and velvet silence of the womb, I displaced no air, gave off no betraying sound, from one closed forbidden door to the next and so acquired all I knew of that light and space in which people moved and breathed as I (that same child) might have gained conception of the sun from seeing it through a piece of s†  (source) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, 1936

If every action in the universe that we thought was random actually conformed to a rational pattern, Dad said, that implied the existence of a divine creator, and he was beginning to rethink his atheistic creed.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

I was so worried that I wasn't acting rationally.†  (source) Ally Condie, Matched, 2010

Or because they believed that, emotions out of the way, supreme rationality would result, utter logic, true enlightenment.†  (source) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013

Philosophical mysticism, the idea that truth is indefinable and can be apprehended only by nonrational means, has been with us since the beginning of history.†  (source) Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974

Eventually Vic and Roger had worn him down, but not with rational arguments.  (source) Stephen King, Cujo, 1981