| Our minds are ingenious in concocting self-serving rationalizations. |
| Their individual rationalizations for the thousands of murders they committed, with or without theatrical flourish, are both queasily believable and morally incomprehensible. |
| We have an innate tendency to avoid pain, and therefore we are apt to conjure up rationalizations that justify our behavior. |
| These rationalizations are resorted to by true believers, to maintain their belief despite the failures and paradoxes that they constantly encounter. |
| They'll bounce right back with excuses, rationalizations, and inane explanations of powers that weren't there in the first place. |
| The outcome was to reduce the number of universities and technical institutes through a series of mergers and rationalizations. |
