superrational
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"People have not gotten a real sense of what Star Trek fandom is really all about," says Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock, the superrational, pointy- eared Vulcan on the original series.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strung between the poles of the superrational and the occult, it suffers from disuse and neglect.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aldous Huxley suggested that the world resembled a head on its side, with the superrational Old World occupying a different sphere from the vacant, dreamy spaces of the collective subconscious of the West.
From Time Magazine Archive
For humanism makes an inhuman demand upon the will; it minimizes the force of the subrational and it largely ignores the superrational elements in human experience; it does not answer enough questions.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
His brain is filled with superrational sanctions and obsessions.
From John Barleycorn by Jack London
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