7 sentences with 'irrational'
Example sentences and phrases with the word irrational and other words derived from it.
• « Her best-known work was the Book of the City of Ladies, in which she attacked the then-universal idea that women were naturally unintelligent, sinful and irrational; it was a key text in the women's quarrels mentioned above. »
• « The element to note is not only the seemingly irrational nature of the boom, but also the mentality: the Dutch moneyed classes were already embracing speculative market economies, in which the value of a given commodity has almost nothing to do with what it does, but with what people are willing to spend on it. »
• « Just as torture came to be seen by almost all Enlightenment thinkers as not only cruel, but archaic and irrational, so slavery went from being an unquestioned economic necessity to a repugnant form of continuing injustice. »
• « Many of Freud's theories were influenced by his own experience as a brilliant scholar who happened to be Jewish, living in a society plagued by anti-Semitism - he sought to understand the inner psychological drives that led people to engage in irrational behaviour. »
• « According to Freud, there are three basic areas or states that exist simultaneously in the human mind. First, part of the unconscious is the "Id" (it): the seat of pleasure drives (sexual lust, power, security, food, alcohol and other drugs, etc.) and of what might be considered "obsession": seemingly irrational desires that have nothing to do with pleasure per se (pyromania, kleptomania, or seemingly self-destructive political activity). »
• « The most elementary laws of supply and demand in the economy were ignored in favour of irrational, indeed arbitrary, production systems. The result was a chronic shortage of goods and services that people actually needed (or wanted) and an equally huge surplus of useless and shoddy junk, from ill-fitting shoes to unreliable machinery. »