rational

01. I think we need to talk about this calmly, and try to make a [rational] decision together.

02. It's difficult to think [rationally] when everyone is so emotional about the subject.

03. In our modern age, [rationality] has become too important, and decisions are sometimes made coldly, and without regard to the feelings of others.

04. Amber was able to think more [rationally] once she had stopped crying.

05. Perico is much more [rational] than Anatole, so his co-workers value his advice a lot more.

06. The supposed [rationale] of this government's tax cut is that more money in people's pockets will help to stimulate the economy.

07. Titus [rationalizes] cheating on his income tax by saying that everyone is doing it.

08. Thales of Miletus taught that the universe is [rational], and that the human mind can understand why the universe works the way it does.

09. Poverty and oppression, however [rationalized], are endured not because people agree on their legitimacy, but because they are enforced by those who benefit from them.

10. A California judge has ruled that there appears to be no [rational] purpose for denying marriage to gay couples.

11. Although there is a limit to the extent to which a society can be guided by illusion, there is also a limit to the extent to which it can be guided by sheer [rationality].

12. The patient was behaving [irrationally] when brought in, and was found to have taken an overdose of some kind of drug.

13. Rocket developer Krafft Ehricke once said that man has no [rational] alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

14. Max Lerner once said that the so-called lessons of history are, for the most part, the [rationalizations] of the victors because history is written by the survivors.

15. Joan Curcio once observed that advances are made by those with at least a touch of [irrational] confidence in what they can do.

16. Millions of people suffer from persistent [irrational] fears called phobias.

17. Stonehenge was built according to some unknown astronomical [rationale] between 3000 and 1500 B.C.

18. Belief in religion requires a suspension of [rational] thought which I am not prepared to make.

19. He tried to [rationalise] his cheating by suggesting that the test itself was unfair.

20. He [rationalized] his firing by saying that the boss didn't like him personally, but everyone knows it was because he had a drinking problem that was interfering with his work.

21. In the seventeenth century, Bacon, Descartes, Galileo, Kepler, Liebniz and Newton established the foundations of modern science, mathematics, and [rational] thought.