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The arguments were convincing on a rational level, but no one knew Moody's paradoxical personality as well as I. Moody was a loving husband and father, yet given to callous disregard for the needs and desires of his own family.†

rational = reasonable
My mind was muddled, but I forced myself to be rational.†
"I have to stay home to watch you," he said, his grumbling becoming less rational.†
Through the haze of his interrupted sleep and his questionable abilities of discernment, he attempted to consider the problem rationally.†
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Questions screamed through my mind, making sleep impossible, Was I acting rationally?†
Helen and Mr. Vincop attempted to help me think rationally.†
I fought to think rationally, to find some means of counterattack.†
In a rational moment I might have viewed these as idle threats.†

rational = reasonable
For the time being he was better, more rational, less threatening, but I could not depend upon that to last.†
Although any rational assessment would conclude that it was foolhardy, it was now necessary for him to trust in our love and devotion.†

Definitions:

(1) (rational as in: rational behavior)
reasonable, able to think clearly, or based on logic rather than emotion
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, rational numbers in mathematics are numbers that can be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, 1/3 is a rational number while pi is an irrational number.