unreason

Example Sentences

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It emerges, historically, when a sufficient mass of the populace has become terrified into unreason and ceded control into the hands of the evil but assured.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

They are the voices of reason against implacable unreason.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

So my question is not “Is divorce reasonable?” but rather, “Are we susceptible to the unreason that triggered war once before?”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2023

But people who are willfully ignorant, or who embrace unreason because it serves their immediate advantage, are stupid in a way worth deploring with all the available tools of discourse, including humor.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2018

“The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,” he said, “was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws—this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, chaos.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt