Example Sentences

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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 James, Henry