Sentences with phrase «triumphing over common sense»

Spec» ing a Porsche is very much an exercise in emotion triumphing over common sense.

Unfortunately political ideology triumphed over common sense.

They invented exotic financial instruments that nobody can price properly — not even them — and designed complex, misguided risk models that triumphed over common sense.

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In a time of the triumph of doubletalk, the substitution of statistics for facts, the exaltation of the medium over the message, and the erosion of a sense of the future, the role of the imagination and its uses in our common life, particularly religion, needs our continuing attention.

The system is «a heroic triumph of ideological theory over common sense,» incapable of providing an adequate account of our universe.

Fred LeBrun on Cuomo's reported about face on linking test results with teacher evaluations: «If what we're being told is true, this reversal by the governor would be a long overdue triumph of common sense over ideological idiocy.

The University of Kent's Darren Griffin called the ruling «a triumph for common sense» in a statement, and Sarah Norcross, director of Progress Educational Trust, lauded the decision as «a victory for level - headed regulation over moral panic.»

«The 2010 proposed Guidelines represent a national scandal, the triumph of industry clout over good science and common sense,» says Fallon Morell.

The popularity of partially hydrogenated margarine over butter represents a triumph of advertising duplicity over common sense.

However, one suggestion is ridiculous... Suggesting that retired individuals NOT hold onto a pot of cash is a triumph of esoteric logic over common sense.

Yes, Mao's «Great Leap Forward», which ended up costing millions of lives, is an appallingly apt example of the triumph of political delusions over common sense.

Every once in a while common sense, reason and compassion do triumph over evil laws and government oppression.