oxygen-deprivation theory of narcosis

We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.

In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.

Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.

The other is the new theory: that the Bible is the work of many men whom God had inspired to speak or write the truth.

The evolution theory alleges that they were evolved, slowly, by natural processes out of previously existing matter.

And our surroundings at that particular moment were not the most favorable to coherent thought or plausible theory-building.