Sentences with phrase «irrationality seem»

Some Google engineer gets paid $ 3.5 million to not leave, and finally people notice: Irrationality seems to be escalating in Silicon Valley, a place that, for some odd reason, is detached from the global economic reality.

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Perceptions of proliferating irrationality are not good for morale, so it should not be surprising that constitutional discourse seems to be experiencing a kind of malaise.

Dawkins seems to take the cake with his hyperbole and irrationality in the name of rationality.

Accordingly we find «evolutionism» interpreted thus optimistically and embraced as a substitute for the religion they were born in, by a multitude of our contemporaries who have either been trained scientifically, or been fond of reading popular science, and who had already begun to be inwardly dissatisfied with what seemed to them the harshness and irrationality of the orthodox Christian scheme.

I get irritated by critics who seem to think that because psychiatry has elements of irrationality, there is essentially no such thing as mental illness.

The development of behavioral economics and its application to a variety of fields, including education, mostly seems to consist of trying to devise ways to correct the systematic irrationality of others.

And yet, much of behavioral economics seems to pay little heed to this central finding as practitioners in the field move full steam ahead in devising solutions for other people's irrationality.

Or maybe it should be put the other way round: Stubbs's imagery seems constantly on the verge of converging into some form of cultural commentary, but the fundamental abstractness and even irrationality of his overlapping poured shapes seems calculated to prevent that — to insist on the painting as an agreement to disagree between wayward materials and stubborn intentionality.

Displaying the complexity, and the irrationality, sometimes madness, and at other times beauty of architecture — these pictures in their totality seem to me a little daunting, but have always been taken with a kind eye.

The rigidity of Surrealism, its rigid dogma of irrationality, seemed unduly limiting.

But while he seems to have emphasised evidence over irrationality, something important is missing from his argument.

This is in the context, in my observation, of a simultaneous increase in the irrationality of how AGW believers seem to see the world.

Lord Phillips's comment that «[i] f the court concludes that a [fresh] claim has a realistic prospect of success when the [home secretary] has reached a contrary view, the court will necessarily conclude that the [home secretary]'s view was irrational» seems novel in equating, on the face of it, disagreement with irrationality.

In general, people seem reluctant to acknowledge irrationality in others, especially those they love and admire.