Sentences with phrase «more irrational»

In a study of 118 male and female college students, people who had either the anxious - ambivalent or avoidant attachment styles also had more irrational beliefs about their relationship than those with a secure adult attachment style.

The Economist theory implies staying the course of dramatic and urgent action, a pessimistic view that just promotes more irrational behavior and a less dramatic course with optimism would tend to calm the masses.

Expect the Team and its sycophants, including those in Australia, to become more irrational as dragnet of evidence entraps them.

But, to insist on logic being the overriding principle in an exhibition set to explore the more irrational and impulsive aspects of the creative mind would be to miss the point.

Perhaps I do in my more irrational moments, but it's a vast leap of faith to believe you've had past lives.

That said, despite the substantial price supplement likely to be asked for it, the Paceman will still look like a bargain when compared with a Range Rover Evoque three - door, and in the grand scheme of things it's no more irrational a choice.

Below are some of the more irrational results of those evaluations.

(Given that the scores would be withheld anyway, I suppose the only thing more irrational would be to go to the great expense of scoring all the tests and then withholding the scores.)

And the more successfully Creepy rationalizes itself, the more irrational it becomes, until it descends into one of those decrepit subterranean spaces that have stood in for the recesses of the psyche in Kurosawa's movies.

People who already care about what they eat — and probably don't need this advice anyway — come up with more irrational reasons to avoid certain foods.

We should meet sometime, I haven't got horns, I don't worship anything, I rekon I'm not any more irrational than you, and I'm actually friendly:).

On the other hand, if you spend most of your time focused on reacting to what the rest of the marketplace is doing, you'll probably make more irrational decisions based in emotion.

Wenger's decision making in recent seasons is progressively becoming more irrational, proving how far this once great manager has fallen from the limelight.

More irrational jibber jabber.

@G there are beliefs a lot more irrational than «the fridge keeps cool» in everyone.

It's far more irrational to think there is an all powerful being behind the creation of the universe.

The notion that dragons create the winds is no more irrational than any other imaginary creature creating anything.

Trust me, it takes much more faith, and many more irrational thought processes, to believe in the fairy tale of the blob than to believe in an Almighty, all - loving, creating God.

If you think that pink unicorns are more irrational than your god, there may be little hope for a rational discussion.

For example, there are more irrational numbers than rational numbers.

@ CM; Actually, the more facts you learn about Christianity, the more irrational Christian belief becomes.

The more irrational and off - base someone is, the easier it should be for you to remove yourself from their traps.

Not exact matches

I believe that raising rates would be an irrational move and nothing more than an attempt to prop up a weakening economy.

As a financial advisor for more than 20 years, I've seen that newly found wealth can make us irrational.

«These are all things that people have bought in the past, and driven to completely irrational prices, not because they did anything useful or produced any money and value to society, but solely because they thought they would be able to sell them to someone else for more in the future,» he writes.

Strange as it may seem and irrational as it would be in a more logical system of world diplomacy the dollar glut is what finances Americas global military build - up.

Following a period of irrational confidence in progress and human abilities, some sectors of society are now adopting a more critical approach.

We don't want to call people irrational just because they like peanut butter more than jelly, or if they like jelly more than peanut butter.

Greenspan originated the popular use of «irrational exuberance,» though, in 2016, the term is more commonly associated with Yale economist Robert J. Shiller.

Twenty years later, many pundits worry that irrational exuberance is driving more asset bubbles.

Put in more general terms, behavioral finance is about separating the irrational mind from the rational mind.

Atheism is left as nothing more than a tiny irrational cult.

The course of the students» revolution in Europe, especially the unexpected susceptibility to Marxism on the part of many educated youth, made me more keenly aware of the unpredictability of irrational factors still shaping the course of history.

aaahhh... more egotistical and irrational rantings from John (the one who is so devoid of logic he makes stupid statements like the one above.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

More evidence that the lowest common denominator gravitates toward delusion and irrational thinking.

Folks, note that Chad's statement, «it's irrational to call belief in something irrational, if you yourself arent prepared to say that belief is incorrect» is either stupidity or just more of him being intentionally obtuse (insufficient evidence = no belief = rational position).

Even within finance, however, longer - term investors tend to have more complex goals and short - term investors tend to fall prey to irrational mob psychology.

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

There is no reason to accept the truth of the Bible any more than the truth of the Iliad or the Epic of Gilgamesh, other than the ongoing irrational conditioning that gets passed from generation to generation.

An age that aspires to total autonomy finds it more difficult to acknowledge in the mainstream of its life the dependent, the defective and the irrational.

The more familiar a person is with religion, the greater the chance of their seeing how irrational it is.

On the other hand, using that as a basis to say authorities should be «protecting» us from bad life decisions and taxing us simply because we have more than our neighbor is irrational and self - destructive.

It is public and it is entrenched in practice, there to be exploited by others who view our abhorrence as no more than irrational squeamishness.

You are welcome to disagree, and you are free to do so in whatever manner you choose; if your response is some type of irrational, hate - driven attack on someone else's way of life, though, you really are contributing more to my point then your own.

It is beside the point to argue that Sankara's treatment of these questions is irrational, since from Sankara's standpoint the very putting of the questions reflects an even more profound expression of irrationality.

Reason, after all, is nothing more than an irrational expression of the will to power.

The solution, particularly in an increasingly Godless, postmodern, secular, ignorant and irrational Western «culture, is certainly NOT to throw more gas on the fire by joining the pagans in their ignorance and rebellion and nihilism.

More likely than not, many of them assumed that, having lived through some difficult years, I was turning to faith for some form of irrational consolation.

Soon after, we find Christians heartily mocking other, irrational gods of the time which, being so hopelessly capricious, were to them no more than the work of human hands or, as we would say, the figments of men's imaginations.