Sentences with phrase «irrational ways»

Along the way, it becomes clear that a strange force was changing people in the past, making them behave in irrational ways.

Raising tariffs is an economically irrational way to protect workers from foreign competition.

Despite the many obviously irrational ways we behave, social scientists have only just begun to systematically document and understand this central aspect of our nature.

Love can bring out powerful forces in us such as intense hatred, extreme jealousy, and gut wrenching fears of abandonment that can make us act in seemingly irrational ways.

Masculine stupidity» on that subject is a deep mystery to me, as is masculine violence and preference for irrational ways of dealing with disagreements.

Suppressed anger could surge, or people could act in knee - jerk and irrational ways over the next few days as Uranus «stations.»

What I'm trying to say is that atheists and believers should get along, because whether or not we want to admit it, we are both living in irrational ways, and we realize that absolute rationality is not all it is cracked up to be.

If mad is defined as diverging in an irrational way from normal practice then the answer to the above question is no.

As I have pointed out, conservative Evangelicals (but not liberals) are those who can be accused of «picking and choosing» in an irrational way.

Perhaps, in the eyes of God, Hauerwas» pacifism will be forgiven as an honest error: an irrational way of confronting evil but one that at least recognized without illusions that evil is real.

You are a loon, people who are supersti * tious are not «sick» in the way your are asserting, and even if they were we don't treat sickness in your irrational way, we don't steralize sick people.

Our uneasiness about living in a secular society seems to be influencing our feelings about education, often in irrational ways — stimulated, in part, by television evangelists.

The puzzles within the game are also unlikely to raise a smile, due to the irrational way they are designed.

Alternately, imagine Richard Dreyfuss in «Close Encounters of the Third Kind» without the Spielberg - softened predetermination that Dreyfuss» character is, in fact, right in his irrational ways.

The irrational way that most of industries extracts raw materials and has produced goods, just like the unaware pattern of population's consumption around the world is something noticeable.

Plans for buildings are metaphors «for systems, for rational efforts to construct the world that we exist within, even though so many things happen in a very organic or irrational way.»