rationality

"These rules lack humanity and rationality, and they oppress us every day."

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

But the choice isn’t between full rationality and pure sentimentality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

We comfort the comfortable, and we look for hope in norms and in institutions and in rationality.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2025

It’s the second factor that often keeps takeover bids alive long after the proposed deals lose their economic rationality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Likewise, the celebrated rationality of the fifth century represents a retrospective bleaching of what was actually a complex and contested story.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

She was as mired in the notions of the Old World, in its rationalities, its explanations, its conventions, and its Protestantism, as my father was a product of his Catholicism and his own colonial past.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

They have to be continually reproduced, against the everyday resistances and rationalities that throw inequality into question.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2019

As an economist, I eschew the soft-headed convenience of ready-made ideologies, together with their carrying rationalities, turning upon intellectual vulgarities I haven’t the stomach to bear.

From Economist ● Nov. 26, 2013

Underlying all this confusion is the problem that we don't have a way of ranking rationalities, so that the word means something more to a moral agent than it does to an economist.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012

They seem like stray vestiges of that primordial irrationality, from which all our rationalities have been evolved.

From Memories and Studies by Henry James