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The left part of the picture seems to symbolize the realm of desire and irrational emotions.
Of the irrational, transcendental numbers, pi seems to get all the attention.
Parenting is possibly an irrational vocation, but humanity keeps breeding and procreating.
His thoughts were irrational but even so the hairs on the back of his neck had again begun to tingle and prickle with cool fear.
Benumbed fear often turns into panic, phobias, irrational prejudice, and violence.
Is it wise or even just, he asks, to expose our children to cultural viruses that are irrational and dangerous?
Does a pound sign, followed by the numeral 1 and nine consecutive noughts give rational human beings the right to turn into irrational moaners?
Crowds and mobs are not completely irrational, but they have their own logic.
Part of this irrational anxiety has come about because A is not a very cuddly kid right now.
I do not think true religion can be irrational, but it certainly can be more than rational.
Such an irrational move by the Free Staters would have inevitably dragged Britain back into Southern Ireland militarily.
The irrational fanatics might not heed to reason, but humanitarians must not become fatalistic and drop the guard of eternal vigilance.
A phobia is an irrational, uncontrollable fear of a specific object or situation.
It was held that the conduct of the Secretary of State was so unreasonable as to verge on the irrational and absurd.
It excused irrational and unreasonable behaviour, allowed people to shirk their duties.
The second issue is whether the decision was irrational or Wednesbury unreasonable.
The white slave panic of 1909-10 provoked an even more irrational and nativistic wave of government intrusiveness.
His analysis reveals numerous unscientific, irrational, and often emotional factors affecting the conduct of war and its termination.
The reality is that many people are driven by an irrational need for speed.
But if they are needy as a consequence of their criminal, irrational, or imprudent behavior, then it is not a fine thing.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To insist upon keeping a paretic all his lifetime in such an institution is highly irrational, to say the least.
I confess that I cannot ride in a motor-car that whizzes past other motor-cars without an absurd and irrational vanity.
The aleatory element still remains, and it is still irrational, but the attitude of men towards it is changed.
In the same way it is not evidently irrational, if men decided that a woman, like a priest, must not be a shedder of blood.
The widened idea is that even when a or x is an irrational number we may speak of a or x unit lengths by measure.
What he denied is a notion of freedom which seemed to him at once unverifiable, useless, and irrational.
Long ago, in the infantile days of evolutionism, I often wondered why people made collections on such an irrational plan.
But what shall I say of the power that he exercises over irrational animals, whether celestial or terrene?
In spite of his fine manner and bearing, his every word had been irrational.
The poor man wants to rationalize the irrational, and irrationalize the rational.
And he wishes, unhappy man, to rationalize the irrational and irrationalize the rational.
In that theory an irrational number was the ratio of two incommensurable geometric magnitudes.
This reply seemed to arouse an irrational anger in the Briton.
But once the irrational has been introduced and an air of likelihood imparted to it, we must accept it in spite of the absurdity.
She endured guilt, hopelessness, anxiety, ruminative thoughts, and irrational fears of impending doom.
That is not only empirically false, but intrinsically irrational.
If men cannot have a rational belief, they will have an irrational.
Such is the irrational element in the introduction of Aegeus by Euripides and the badness of Menelaus in the Orestes.
All around is the irrational, that which is not congruous with reason.
All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators.
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