| 单词 | irrational |
| 例句 | To keep these horrible numbers from ruining the Pythagorean doctrine, the irrationals were kept secret. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Indeed, over time the Greeks reluctantly admitted the irrationals to the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t leave me,” I cried, an irrational surge of panic flooding through me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I have no wish to put myself in the same category: irrational, petulant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was selfish and irrational, but she was furious with him for abandoning her, Tariq, who was like an extension of her, whose shadow sprung beside hers in every memory. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Fear of being a target of irrational violence haunted me day and night. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It was a wildly irrational, completely uninformed idea, but the fear it produced was complete enough. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a completely irrational thought, but it’s hard knowing that my life could be much better had I only been born looking a bit more like my momma. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z All other intervals are given by irrational numbers based on the twelfth root of two, not nice numbers that can be written as a ratio of two small whole numbers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z His lawyers argued that the law is arbitrary and irrational, because it imposes such vastly different penalties on two forms of the same substance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I decided that my wild and irrational desire was merely a vagrant impulse, and that it would not occur again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mathematicians to this day tell of the hapless man who revealed the secret of the irrational to the world. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But talking face-to-face with someone about the case made the irrational thinking swirling around Walter's conviction much, much harder to accept. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To add insult to injury, the Pythagoreans soon discovered that the golden ratio, the ultimate Pythagorean symbol of beauly and rationality, was an irrational number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He was deluded by obsession; his logic and reasoning became corrupted, irrational, and increasingly dangerous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to admit that I was being held hostage by my irrational mother. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z His mother, typically, had responded to Mr. Levy’s visit in the most irrational and emotional manner possible. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She never forgot her irrational rage at the other two younger children who had for some reason been spared. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I fought off the irrational worry that Denna might have wandered into the woods in a delirium, and that I should go look for her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And I knew he had done that, not out of any concern for me, but because when he wants something, he gets impatient and irrational about people who make him wait. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the Pythagoreans had tried to squelch another troublesome mathematical concept—the irrational. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If you draw the diagonal—a line from one corner to the opposite corner—the irrational appears. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Fabulous eaters arrived from everywhere to take part in the irrational tourneys of capacity and resistance that were organized in the house of Petra Cotes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The irrationals occurred and reoccurred in all sorts of geometrical constructions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z These irrational numbers were an unavoidable consequence of Greek mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Bacon read it in manuscript, but had no time for it: Gilbert’s preoccupation with magnetism seemed to him an irrational obsession, and as a result he had ‘built a ship out of a shell’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For a few seconds, Maddie, doggedly coping with her own private hell of rational or irrational fear, did not even notice Queenie’s change of direction as she headed toward the cry for help. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Ever since she was a child, she had been familiar with the irrational strength of his anger, and she was used to obeying him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some irrational part of me wanted to clutch it, hoard it for later. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s not an entirely irrational thought,” Moss admitted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And though the rationals are tiny, the irrationals aren’t, since we can’t make a seating chart and cover them one by one; there will always be uncovered irrationals left over. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dealing with irrational people takes focus, intelligence, and extreme discipline—you have to maintain a sense of true emotional stasis—as outlined in one of my favorite books, Transformative Power, by Pearce Tidwell. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Admittedly, I have some anxiety problems, but I would argue it isn’t irrational to be concerned about the fact that you are a skin-encased bacterial colony. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “You know when a man lives alone as much as I do, his mind can go olf on an irrational tangent just because his social world is out of kilter.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The secret he revealed shook the very foundations of the Pythagorean doctrine, but by considering the irrational an anomaly, the Pythagoreans could keep the irrationals from contaminating their view of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In other words, the diagonal of that square is irrational—and nowadays we recognize that number as the square root of two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In a series of transmissions over the next two hours, Rob sounded disturbingly confused and irrational. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “To stop being so irrational and take the stupid gun.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Taisin tried to school her expression into one of calm blankness; she had the irrational fear that Kaede could see right through her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Incense rising with the pungency of irrational hope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Yet, a strange feeling, as irrational as Basta's good-luck charms, had driven him out: a feeling that he could protect the book just by his presence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Because as soon as you start hoping something’s going to happen, you get irrational. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Like his father, Don was a fighter who didn’t think there was anything irrational about mixing it up with kids who were a whole lot bigger than he was. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Schopenhauer’s theories, like Wagner’s operas, could not be described as succinct, and they are consequently hard to summarise briefly, but the idea that caught Wagner’s imagination was that we humans are essentially irrational, emotional animals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They were approaching cautiously now, almost sidling, to refrain from setting off the thoroughly irrational robot. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I hate how I feel around him, the irrational panic when I touch his skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was irrational, and Colin hated thinking irrationally, but he couldn't help but wonder whether perhaps being in the presence of the Archduke might reveal something to Colin about his missing piece. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z But part of being irrational is not caring that you’re being irrational, and right now she just didn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The raids would show the Communists just how irrational and volatile he was. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They never worried about whether the diagonal of a square was rational or irrational, nor did they investigate the conic sections as Archimedes had. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The Court sent a clear message that appellate courts are largely free to accept the reasons offered by a prosecutor for excluding prospective black jurors—no matter how irrational or absurd the reasons may seem. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I end the call, but am suddenly gripped by the completely irrational fear that the phone could ring, that Tom would hear it from upstairs, so I slide the French doors open and step outside. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the yellow fever epidemic, even the doctors who disagreed with Rush on medical matters would have defended him against Cobbett’s irrational assaults. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The terrifying irrational has no place in classical mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom is irrational when she thinks you're in any way criticizing her. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The integers represented the purity of God, while the irrationals and other bizarre sets of numbers were abominations—figments of the imperfect human mind. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As befits a dialogue framed around reports from the subconscious regions, the Adams-Rush correspondence tended to emphasize the power of the irrational. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Tolerance had turned to distrust and irrational fear. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The attorney offered letters written by Guiteau that demonstrated his erratic and often irrational behavior, starting from childhood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z What I could not avoid was an irrational throbbing for my mother that came in waves. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She wanted to say that love, too, was irrational. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We agreed to stay together, but dates to fancy restaurants, thoughtful gifts, and a constant refrain of sweet nothings didn't allay what had now become my irrational fear about sex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “And why are you still together? Fear of being alone? A decision to settle? An irrational belief that he’ll change?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He said from the bench, “The Court believes that to sentence Mr. Angelos to prison for the rest of his life is unjust, cruel, and even irrational.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It wasn’t an irrational thought, for there was no profession in the state of Texas with worse job security than that of high school football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was severely criticized for this irrational belief by many people, most notably by Bishop Berkeley, a philosopher who believed that all material objects and space and time are an illusion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Kronecker hated the irrationals, but they take up all the space in the number line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z However, irrational numbers, unlike zero, could not easily be ignored by the Greeks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It would be hard to keep the secret of the irrational hidden from a people so obsessed with geometry and ratios. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me toward the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a wave of irrational guilt and fear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She had supposed this moment would come one day, but she had always had the irrational hope that somehow her grandfather’s influence would protect her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But as Pythagoras knew, the rationals aren’t everything under the sun; both the rationals and irrationals make up the so-called real numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The secret of the irrationals would cause him great misfortune. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My fear is irrational; this is just a test, it isn’t real. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The ‘sane’ murderer is thought of as acting upon rational motives that can be understood, though condemned, and the ‘insane’ one as being driven by irrational senseless motives. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason I’ve never dreamed about him was that he belonged already to the world of dreams: discontinuous, irrational, obsessive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not. I mean, I just got tickled, I guess. It’s nothing,” I said the way I do when I think the person I’m talking to is being irrational. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z She’d been acting like Beefy with a fever: irrational, angry, immature. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The lazy, empty days in the city and the irrational atmosphere in the house set my nerves on edge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I leaned forward on the table, resting my chin on my folded arms, my hidden fingers gripping the table’s edge as I fought to ignore the irrational longing that unsettled me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z To starve in order to learn about my environment was irrational, but so were my hungers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the back of his head, he knew that his reaction was irrational, unjustified, but...but he couldn’t explain to Koffi the way he felt—unmoored, off-kilter, unsettled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Walter’s case taught me that fear and anger are a threat to justice; they can infect a community, a state, or a nation and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He had the irrational desire to wrap his hands around Frank’s neck, which was stupid, since his hands wouldn’t even fit around Frank’s neck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As much as Antairis irrational resistance to the Day of Sacrifice had irritated Gherland to no end, he felt they had lost something when Antain resigned, though he couldn’t say exactly what. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “No more irrational than belief in a Christian God you cannot see.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Elowen’s words had been spoken in such a calm, measured tone of voice that it seemed almost irrational to disagree with her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The concept of the irrational was hidden like a time bomb inside Greek mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the irrational is nestled within the simplicity of the square. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As his behavior became more and more irrational, more and more delusional, the last of his friends were driven away. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “But jealousy . . . it’s a strange thing. So much more powerful than I would have thought. And irrational! Just now, when Charlie asked you about that vile Mike Newton ...” He shook his head angrily. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I know how irrational that must seem, given what I saw happening around me; but until that evening I had thought I had a special immunity, that somehow the violence wouldn't touch me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z This was not irrational worry, because dried blood was unusual, even for when the callus was cracked open. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z And second, the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Zero would clash with this doctrine, and unlike the irrational, zero could be ignored. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Whenever she wanted something, he had the irrational urge to provide it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But for the Pythagoreans it came to mean something threatening, a hint that their world view might not make sense, which is today the other meaning of “irrational.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fish swam over their heads, and Percy felt irrational panic building in his throat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Nobody’s accusing you of anything. But your behavior is a little irrational tonight, don’t you think?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even healthy people cried and said irrational things when their parents died. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I know I’m being unreasonable and irrational and probably lots of other things I shouldn’t be. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Which was somehow worse at the same time as it was more irrational. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Anything that threatens him with social shame provokes an irrational severity. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z There’s a revealing logic within her characters’ ostensibly irrational arguments and a surprising accuracy in their malapropisms. Theater Review: ‘Adult’ by Christina Masciotti, at Abrons Arts Center 2014-02-03T22:00:42Z I am hampered by the irrational desire not to spoil a novel that’s been around for nearly 150 years, so I’ll be vague. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend 2012-02-01T19:54:28Z Like “Crescendo,” they suggest an upsurge of perhaps dangerously irrational psychic energies from some dark underworld. Review: Lynda Benglis Celebrates the Fluidity of Nature at Storm King 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Partygoers dance with disturbing abandon – the power of the irrational has been released. Oiled on canvas: the art of intoxication 2012-12-31T12:05:44Z The only force standing firm against the king’s irrational hate is nonetheless a formidable one, the commanding Noma Dumezweni as Paulina, the queen’s confidante. | 'The Winter's Tale': The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy 2011-07-24T22:32:50Z And for Nick, to “man up” in this way is to fulfill perhaps the greatest and most irrational responsibility left for men. Marriage Is an Abduction 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z So resignation - defeastism - is always irrational and baseless, even when it's tempting. Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z For Adams, who came of age in the '80s, the irrational thought was: "What if I have AIDS?" 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' a rich, reasonable look at OCD 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z That’s just one of the irrational travel fears spreading faster than a Puna brush fire as the summer vacation season starts. Don’t let volcanoes, other irrational travel fears, ruin your summer vacation 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z What is the least evidence-based, most irrational area of your life?I guess bringing up children, where you're not quite sure what the rules are. Edith Heard: 'We can't undo what our parents have given us in terms of our genes' 2013-06-22T23:05:02Z Tinned Goods Pop culture obsessions including an appreciation of Karl Pilkington, an irrational hatred of Scrubs and unbridled passion for rugby league. Internet picks of the week 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z My panic, as well as my irrational anger toward every shopper in the store, was growing, but I would not let this little girl get the best of me. Perspective | How to trust your instincts to free yourself from overparenting 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Is it irrational for me to not want them to stay at our house? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fiance calls it ‘selfish’ not to welcome his family as wedding houseguests 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z I am probably being irrational, but I’d like your advice anyway. My Husband, the Hunter 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z “It is not in the best interest of Silver and its team members to behave in the same irrational manner as other airlines.” Airline Drops Cuba Flights, Latest 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It was about irrational outbursts of sound from two sopranos, players sitting at tables hitting all kinds of everyday objects, engineers operating electronic equipment and more outbursts from saxophone, horn, proper percussion and cello. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The irrational cruelty of the boys’ experiences seemingly defies narrative and, as with other stories of survival, it requires the highest realms of artistry to give them form. “Rockaway,” Reviewed: A Queens Boy’s Stark and Moving Tale of Surviving Domestic Violence 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It falls, then, to regulators to make the “irrational” decision—to be, in some sense, unreasonably cautious. The Life and Death of a Wildly Popular Baby Sleeper 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “It would usually boil down to: ‘Everyone hates me, and I’m useless,’ ” she says, which she discovered was “a totally irrational conclusion.” A new wave of comedians is exploring the anxieties of our Instagram age 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “Fetish” was the subject for the designer Marc Jacobs, an inspiration that he said backstage came from thinking about the “irrational desire” for Vuitton accessories. Special Report: Fashion: Louis Vuitton in Full Fetish 2011-03-09T18:28:22Z Charb's "Open Letter" is alive with blistering rationale, all the more piercing in the context of the cost he and his staff paid to the fundamentally irrational. A year after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, slain editor Charb makes his case in 'Open Letter' 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z "War is irrational; its only plan is to bring destruction: it seeks to grow by destroying," he said. Pope says world's many conflicts amount to piecemeal World War Three 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z And there are irrational forces that we don’t think drive our dishonest behavior — but do.” Books of The Times: ‘The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty’ by Dan Ariely 2012-06-28T19:44:45Z That bank, after a prolonged bout of irrational exuberance, went bust, along with many of the rest of Iceland’s banks and the government. Reykjavik Film Festival: Economies Crash, Volcanoes Burn 2011-09-30T23:13:09Z What are the chances that the refugees are protesting irrational writing? ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Finale: All Thumbs 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z A woman from human resources has to remind him, “You need to make the host believe in the irrational fantasy that he is the funniest person in the world.” Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Taylor was half of the directing team, with Mark Neveldine, responsible for some hilariously crass and irrational movies such as “Crank” and “Crank: High Voltage.” Review: Nicolas Cage Goes Homicidally Nuts in ‘Mom and Dad’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z It's ironic that at the very moment Portnoy is decrying irrational hatred for others he is indulging in it as well. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z It also allows me to relieve people of their irrational fears of HIV. My life in sex: ‘I used to think HIV was a curse. Now my sex life is better than ever’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But given its reflection of his career-long interests in last things and the rational roots of irrational behavior, it fits right in. | ?On Death Row?: Werner Herzog?s Documentary Series ?On Death Row? 2012-03-08T23:18:29Z But he knew when he was being irrational or unfair, voicing the darker side of his nature, and, though he disparaged Joyce, he experienced the remorse Joyce called “agenbite of inwit.” Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z They would be “irrational” if your husband was storing jelly beans in his gun cabinet, but there are rifles in there. My Husband, the Hunter 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z His real talent is to bring the irrational wildness of fandom to stories and subjects that in other hands feel exhausted, cliched or just dated. Perspective | The ugly underside of Brad Pitt’s cool car in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Often portrayed as a behavioural quirk, OCD is in fact a syndrome defined by recurring irrational thoughts. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Their pursuit of it was often sordid, and the sums they were willing to risk irrational. Reason not the need 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z I had a talk with her about tangible fears and irrational fears the other day, taking the tablet out of her hand to give her a break from obsessing over Dec. 21, 2012. Parenting through the apocalypse 2012-12-21T00:00:00Z If anything, he doubles down on the clueless, disorganized, irrational and hubristic caricatures that eventually developed in that other film. 'Fishing Without Nets' fails to catch interest 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z They offer viewers “news” in a highly emotional and often irrational framework that doesn’t let viewers draw their own conclusions. Bill O’Reilly ruined the news: 10 ways he and Fox News harassed us all 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z This shocking, irrational threat — a violinist promising to sever himself from his art — gives the story a queasy momentum. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: Giving Your Friend the Finger 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z It evokes in a single, striking image the beauty of the animal whose senseless killing remains a resonant symbol of man’s irrational destructive instincts. Theater Review: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ With Fiona Shaw 2013-12-13T03:01:00Z An impassioned Guilfoyle charged that Democrats suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” with “irrational emotional outbursts and complete mental breakdowns.” Inside the Women for Trump kickoff, where the president appears to have no problems with female voters 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z The plotting of “36 Arguments for the Existence of God” is so irrational, in fact, that one of its key events occurs almost by accident. 2010-01-21T05:11:00Z You know, it’s not an irrational response to overthrow the government if you think Satan is running it. Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger: Impeaching Trump ‘was, frankly, an easy decision’ 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z A lean and tense nerve-shredder set in the uneasy now, “KIMI” is a story of survival in the face of rational and irrational fears, those triggered by the pandemic but also by ordinary life. ‘KIMI’ Review: Sure She’s Paranoid, but Something Really Is Out There 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z But the integration of his characters’ rational intellectual positions and irrational personalities is less fluid than usual. In Tom Stoppard's 'Hard Problem,' a Search for Certainty and Order 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Maybe if we understand a little more about the instinctive, irrational quirks of our kids’ minds, we’ll be better equipped to raise kinder, less-entitled kids. How to raise kinder, less entitled kids (according to science) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Truly great cities have always been a heady mix of the planned and the unplanned, the rational and the irrational, the dreamlike and the matter-of-fact. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by PD Smith – review 2012-06-08T21:55:08Z It was a strange moment of the irrational, the inexplicable. Neil Gaiman treasures ‘strange moments of the inexplicable’ 2013-05-30T20:34:05Z “War Horse” registers the loss and horror of a gruesomely irrational episode in history, a convulsion that can still seem like an invitation to despair. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z He suffered moods that made him seem irrational, even insane. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Victor LaValle on His Novel 'The Devil in Silver' 2012-08-29T16:00:51Z “Some of these desires are almost irrational,” he added. In ‘The First,’ on Hulu, the Future Is Not That Dark 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He has violent mood swings and an irrational hatred of his mum's lurcher, Spider. TV review: My New Brain 2010-08-26T06:00:00Z But Bloom also paints him as a man with an unquenchable, irrational thirst for power. ‘Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes’ Review: Portrait of a News Exec 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z And crushes are not caused by irrational or irresponsible behaviour. Danger in numbers ? can mega-gigs ever truly be safe? 2011-07-20T20:31:00Z This amounted to nothing more than making many of the female characters even more psychopathic and irrational than the worst of the male villains. Everything that's wrong with humanity': readers on troubling TV shows, from GoT to Buffy 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z So this list is a look back at a mostly extinct phenomenon, and like any endeavor tinged with grief, it is highly subjective and slightly irrational. Swan Songs: Celebrating the Oscar Fashion Disaster 2013-02-19T14:35:41Z Indeed, to the modern mind, many of Dee's ideas could be construed as somewhat irrational. Magical mystery man 2011-06-07T07:09:40Z It has played a significant role in Western superstition and it has developed into an irrational fear for most as the date swings around every year. 13 surprising facts about Friday the 13th: Demystifying the superstitious date 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z And then in the end it turns out that everything that happened in the movie was just an almost irrational reaction. "Bodies Bodies Bodies" director: "When the Wi-Fi goes out, the demons come in" 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z I experienced a rare moment of what economists call “irrational exuberance.” I sold my soul to Ricki Lake 2013-03-18T01:00:00Z “To call a philosopher irrational, those are fighting words,” he said. Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z But when considering the connection between language and identity, it is worth distinguishing genuine concerns about dialect loss from more irrational fears about language change. Do accents disappear? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Didn’t her small, irrational gesture of collecting little pinecones in a basket mirror the irrational fantasies we construct in anticipation of our own parties? Her Party 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z He argues that atheism and even agnosticism themselves are irrational. Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z But even this seemingly rational approach stokes an irrational fantasy: that we have a certain amount of time “left” to stop global warming — just as soon as we get our heads around what’s going on. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z He’d gladly act for free, as he used to in college, but at the age of 51, with the responsibilities that come with adulthood, that would be highly irrational. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z In the play's best scene, the rational Conan Doyle confronts the wholly irrational Staffordshire chief constable, who views Edalji as a half-caste with "something vicious and barbaric in the blood". Arthur and George | Theatre review 2010-03-23T21:30:00Z To judge and appraise someone solely on the basis of arbitrary and nonmoral attributes such as skin pigmentation and so-called racial identity is not only irrational and nonsensical it is evil. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z In this view, the “limited paternalism” of the decision was justified not on moral grounds, but to protect the market from irrational behavior like Mrs. Williams’s. ArtsBeat: Thinking Cap: Legal Empathy 2011-07-26T15:36:25Z The trick to an irrational ending is speed.” film: Much Taller, Still Plastered 2010-08-27T19:23:00Z Her views on abortion were “irrational,” Scalia wrote in a concurrence in the 1980s, and “cannot be taken seriously.” ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z On the other hand, deeply nursed grievances and complex, often irrational emotions form part of our emotional make-up. I found out my friend used IVF. I feel she should tell her kids | Mariella Frostrup 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z It was as if Don’s irrational escapism suddenly became contagious — and I think everyone understands that thirst for change, especially “Mad Men” fans who’ve been clamoring for it. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: The Season Finale 2013-06-24T14:38:01Z “Valerie” has a similar power, a way of making the irrational appear sensible. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z It can be confusing when a happy-go-lucky child begins to have seemingly irrational fears. Perspective | My 3-year-old says everything is ‘scary’ — including his chores. Is he manipulating me? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Many psychologists follow a definition from Piers Steel, a leading researcher, that procrastination is “irrational” delay—in other words, we procrastinate when we know we are acting against our own best interests. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z So many irrational fears, hopes and denials come from this nowhere land. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z It is first in the eye of the beholder and second highly dependent on irrational choices of which restaurants are to be considered. The 10 Best New Restaurants of 2014 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s incoherent often, it’s narcissistic, it’s self-preoccupied, it’s irrational, it comes at you in such gusts and waves of hostility that it’s hard to manage. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s about rationalizing the irrational, an enduring task for art. Two Critics Sample the Frieze Art Fair 2014-05-09T23:47:01Z So it’s a very irrational journey, if one thinks of it as seeking intellectual or emotional comfort. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z The mentality and behaviour of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z We are very violent, irrational creatures at times. "It is always the other who is guilty, never us": Movie "R.M.N." examines what drives xenophobia 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z It was exquisitely beautiful, but the guest hut didn't have walls that met the ceiling, and I have an irrational fear of snakes. Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho 2012-08-22T18:31:01Z “It’s a lot harder to tell yourself that the urge to wash your hands is irrational when everyone on your Twitter feed or on the news is saying: ‘Wash your hands. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z “Countless publications wagged their fingers in the face of readers, and told them it was irrational, probably immoral, in fact, to worry more about the coronavirus than the annual flu,” he continued. Conservative pundits blame a grab bag of supposed villains amid the coronavirus outbreak 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z It's a completely irrational situation where everyone is a loser and it's very sad. Brought to book 2012-05-16T19:48:15Z With fear taking hold, regulations — quite possibly over-harsh and irrational — are imposed. Beware the infectious beasts of 'The Blondes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z It’s as irrational to draw a hard line between fiction and nonfiction as it is to put one between the sea and dry land—but it’s even less reasonable to deny that there’s a difference. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “Marcuse constantly advocated the ‘Great Refusal’ as the proper political response to any form of irrational repression,” Douglas Kellner, a professor at U.C.L.A. and a leading Marcuse scholar, has written. What Artists Accomplish by Saying “No” to Trump 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The golden ratio refers to the mathematical expression of "1: phi," where phi is an irrational number, roughly 1.618. The African roots of Swiss design 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Sanford left the governor’s job in 2011 and was elected to the House of Representative two years later, proving that voters are just as irrational as politicians. Review: In ‘The Speechwriter,’ Barton Swaim Shares Tales of Working for Mark Sanford 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Even when the pale man waved to an elderly woman shepherding twin boys of about ten, the fear remained, irrational now. Exclusive: An Excerpt from Valerie Plame’s Upcoming Spy Thriller 2013-05-28T19:43:55Z Those of us who suffer from this impulse to form irrational attachments to the things in our lives can take comfort in the fact that Orhan Pamuk shares our affliction. | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z “Nobody wants to be eaten. But it’s an irrational fear that doesn’t statistically exist.” New Mascot for the Hamptons: Mary Lee, the Great White Shark 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z He insults women by calling them “ugly” and implying that their menstrual cycles make them irrational. It’s all just wrestling to Donald Trump: Everything the GOP front-runner knows about politics, he learned from the WWF 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Such moments of surreal levity — like the incongruously festive throng of employees in banana-yellow underwear and cobalt-blue bathrobes — are more than welcome as we marvel at man’s rational efforts to harness the irrational. | 'Under Control': ?Under Control,? Documentary on German Nuclear Power Plants ? Review 2011-12-02T05:13:02Z Millions of us, despite knowing them to be irrational, daily abide by quirky yet soothing rituals. We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The irrational content of those thoughts is limited only by the spectrum of human imagination. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Cutting-edge science often seems to stir irrational fantasies. Art Review: ‘Gardening by the Book’ Celebrates Rare Botanical Volumes 2013-06-13T21:26:09Z You know things are getting crazy when Jeb Bush calls someone unhinged for being too extreme The shed guy displayed the sudden irrational rage that even the calmest parent understands. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z More seriously, the steadfast refusal to understand, or accept the reality of inequality, underscores all of these criticisms: they have an "irrational anger against the world", wrote Routledge. Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z “It should remain down on the ground as a memorial of the irrational rationale.” Protesters yank down angel sculpture in Athens, saying it looks like S 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Seen in this light, the Guyana massacre cannot be considered merely the eschatological flare-out of an irrational “religious cult.” The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z For a contemporary instance, there is the recent work of Coetzee, who has explored the contradictory and irrational ways in which people hold ideas and propositions. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z To succeed in the hunt, he must learn “to see, much less decipher, the opaque and irrational narrative that lies beneath what appears to be the likely story.” Marisa Silver's 'Little Nothing' is fierce, mysterious fairy tale 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “I said no 20 times, and then I gave this crazy price, one that was absolutely irrational. And she agreed! Now, I won’t even give a crazy number.” How to get a high-profile chef to cook in your kitchen 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “I’ve learned that what can appear to be really irrational thought can be beautifully rational,” he said. Lululemon’s Kumbaya Capitalism 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z I now knew his 15-year plan, his thoughts on marriage and past relationships, how he spent his summers on the farm, his poetic prowess and his irrational hatred of the movie “Frozen.” If I Expect It to End, Will It Hurt Less? 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z You can’t expect to immediately imbue your relationship with the irrational but exciting love-at-first sight elements adopted in less traditional unions. I’m unsure about the fiancee my parents found me | Mariella Frostrup 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The idea that a Scottish patriot could have a chip on his shoulder and demonstrate an irrational anti-English bias is patently absurd, after all. Irvine Welsh's Booker prize attack makes scant sense 2012-08-21T09:58:32Z In addition to the rhetoric Mack described that relentlessly and baselessly vilifies people like us, the Republican party has further emboldened these irrational sects with the canonization of these attitudes. We fill queer spaces with joy and belonging. That’s why they’re under attack 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Process art of a distinctly irrational kind, it takes a “what would happen if” approach -- pretty much just for the heck of it. Two machines with conceptual liveliness built in at Redling Fine Art 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Some irrational fears are to be . . . if not expected, then at least understood and put into perspective in long-distance relationships, because distance is difficult under the best of circumstances. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A long-distance courtship offers more one-on-one time with oneself 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z I want to be careful, because I don’t want to return to once a year sex or, worse, drive her away entirely out of irrational jealousy. Am I having too much sex? 2012-08-31T00:00:00Z The last time I checked, those “within religion” who denounce religion as untrue, unfounded on fact, irrational by its nature and praying upon our fears, would in fact be atheists. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z The sign of more optimistic times, without being irrational, has come during New York Fashion Week in subtle threads of beaded embroidery, understated sequins and tasteful, textured mosaics. Fashion industry shines in metallics for fall 2011-02-13T21:42:12Z “Despite the toxicity and challenges, and saying irrational things to employees, I wouldn’t change much,” Mr. Penske said in an interview. The Last Days of Hollywood’s Most Reviled Reporter 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z But with the Silk Road he was able to marry his business ambitions and anti-authoritarian philosophy; he envisioned it as a powerful way to defy what he perceived to be the state’s irrational drug policies. How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z It's an imperialist stance that has made it easy for U.S. officials, then and now, to dismiss Mexico's concerns as quaint or irrational, even when the fears are more concrete. Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z My mind, suddenly completely numb, resisted her suggestion with a range of semi-rational, if not utterly irrational thoughts. My heartbreaking journey to Gitmo: A widow, a military prison & the enigma of human compassion 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “So if you think of rationality as normal cognitive function, yes, there is something irrational about that kind of stance.” Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z “It is irrational to believe that the world came about without a creator.” 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z As in many of his buildings, he used the detail to violate the building’s overall system of control — the irrational cohabited with the rational. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z You can see why Ferrara was keen to keep in the final cut the idea that irrational action is a biological function. Jacqueline Bisset: 'Older women continue to want sex but men don't want to sleep with them' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z There’s certainly a poetic lineage of writers writing about the environment in a way that’s blindly reverent, almost irrational. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Building a show on a willfully irrational source risks doubling down on the weirdness, leading to “Huh?” results like Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” and Sondheim’s own “Anyone Can Whistle.” ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The two of them face plenty of irrational malevolence from the peripheral characters, including Gabriella’s sister and her coffee shop boss. The Latest Romance Novels: Firefighters, Buff Male Nannies, Astronauts and More 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The key to the country’s resilience and stability, Mr. Moore concludes, is its strong female leadership, and he goes on to suggest that testosterone drives a patriarchal society to violence and irrational risk-taking. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s going to be the irrational, emotional pull of a … something. This Is Not the End of Fashion 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z At Paramount, which will reap only an unspecified distribution fee in releasing the film for producer Marvel Studios, executives are eager to manage any irrational exuberance downward. "Iron Man 2" primed for superheroic U.S. opening 2010-05-06T03:01:00Z But these days the big clubs’ connections to their cities and nations sometimes seem like an inconvenient or irrational limitation on their market potential. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Höch and the Surrealists showed us that strange juxtapositions can produce an irrational logic that makes us understand things like war or history or consumerism in surprising ways. Art Review: ‘Alexandre Singh: The Pledge’ at the Drawing Center 2013-01-17T20:50:38Z There are issues about which we reasonable and honorable people may well be judged as irrational, irresponsible, and utterly oblivious not so many years from now. The Curiously Generic Journalists of "Spotlight" 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Prolonging bouts of bolshiness, particularly towards someone whose irrational outburst is all too recognisable as ridiculous, serves neither of you well. My mother-in-law should apologise to me | Mariella Frostrup 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Somehow I’ve always retained the irrational conviction that he’s mine alone, which is probably the true benchmark test for a fictional creation. I love Spider-Man – but would my son? How I learned a hard lesson about heroes 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z But in general, instruments anticipate the transformational work of the music they play: they take elements of the instinctive, animal, irrational world and shape it. Museum Review: The Musical Instrument Museum Opens in Phoenix 2010-04-24T00:46:00Z In Shakespeare, being influenced is linked to a kind of irrational servility. A History of the Influencer, from Shakespeare to Instagram 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z It was accessible and mysterious, beautiful and ugly, urgent yet Olympian, irrational and irresistible. Philip Guston’s About-Face, in a Bracing Show at Hauser & Wirth 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Flares of apparently unmotivated aggression — two councilmen, arguing about the Lincoln Smackdown, get into a smackdown of their own — suggest the irrational eruption of evil to come. Review: ‘The Minutes,’ an Official History of American Horror 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z But the effect is a figure animated by some irrational, spasmodic motion, like a puppet suspended in space and subjected to electrical torture. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us The actor cited a flagging economy, “an irrational and misplaced hatred of Israel” and “simple demographics” for the recent surge in European anti-Semitism. Michael Douglas Describes Anti-Semitic Attack Against His Son 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z As she sets out to make things right with her relatives, she falls in love and starts living part-time as a woman, only to fall victim to a man’s irrational jealousy. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Do not push a 3-year-old out of his irrational fears; he will get there on his own as long as we remain consistent and loving. Perspective | My 3-year-old says everything is ‘scary’ — including his chores. Is he manipulating me? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z The temptation of the exquisite shoe, Ms. Bergstein shows, is as irresistible as it is irrational: to stand apart from everyone else, as soon as your toes hit the ground. Books Of Style: Following Footprints, Down Through the Ages 2012-06-22T20:53:46Z He went on to explain the way that we got from the incident in Libya to today’s irrational amount of time and money spent only to find nothing: Trevor Noah unloads on #Benghazi farce, supervillians Trey Gowdy and Kevin McCarthy 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z More than a century after Freud abandoned his own scientific project, returning to his work may seem somehow irrational. Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z There are unmistakable gothic elements in Ewa’s tale, which is to some extent a lurid fable of wronged innocence, irrational cruelty and wild coincidence set in a landscape of betrayal, brutality and corruption. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Mathematicians argue over the utility of irrational numbers. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Care + Wear, an adaptive company founded in 2014 that creates “healthwear” — port access shirts and line covers, among other products — spent years being frustrated by the irrational nature of the automated judgment process. Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The idea that an obsessive need to solve crimes — to make sense of an irrational reality — was a way for McNamara to cope with her own traumas is more convincing, but not particularly revealing. Review: A Killer, a Writer, and the Questions Both Left Behind 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z A scruffily manicured, Ivy League-educated guy who speaks German and French, he's determined to realize his dream of becoming a writer and is as disciplined and reasonable as Holly is chaotic and irrational. In 'Bed,' a tale of wounded love, the truth of the acting is a lure 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z These are the irrational things that cars do to people, who are as much fun to look at as they look at the cars as the vehicles themselves. Lust and torque at the auto show 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Increasingly rattled by this otherworldly presence, Kev lands in the hospital after an irrational outburst during a routine search of an Iraqi household. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Rajiv Joseph?s Play at the Mark Taper Forum 2010-05-14T23:58:00Z Those fears are based on irrational judgments about the future. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z In spite of this, I’m plagued by a bizarre, irrational and retroactive jealousy of her past relationships. My Girlfriend Is Perfect Except for Everyone She Dated and I Obsessively Think About Them Hourly 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Strange bodies composed of irrational color deployed with extreme rationality, they do just fine without any skeletal bones. Lisa Williamson's shrewd 'body boards' are unsettling blasts of color 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z To co-opt Steven Weinberg, “Good men will naturally oppose bad wars and bad will naturally support them. To make a good man support a bad war, for that, you need an irrational fear of religion.” What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z Pop music has always been susceptible to fads but disco's imperial phase is the closest it has ever got to the irrational exuberance of a stock-market bubble. Long live disco 2012-05-21T17:55:01Z Ha, of course it is! The notion that sexism, i.e. an irrational belief in female inferiority, is real is but a simple hallucination generated by the notoriously hysterical female mind. Sexist Fox News loves blaming the victim: Says women disrespected at work because they suck at email 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z After an irrational amount of research, I sprang for a new down coat this season. Give the joy of a dead woman’s sweater: The case for buying secondhand holiday gifts 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z That sounds irrational, I know, since Ms. Fleming, the great soprano, is one of the most celebrated opera stars in the world. Review: Renée Fleming Plays Against Type in ‘Living on Love’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It is not irrational to treat cookie dough the same way. Is the FDA being Grinch-like in raising concerns about raw cookie dough? 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Other vast issues are at stake, to be sure, such as the irrational hatred of the other and the timeless quest for a homeland. Review | Johannes Anyuru’s latest novel is an award winner in Sweden. If there’s any justice, some of that success will cross the Atlantic. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z I was a little irrational and I asked if it was over. Letting go of the dream lover 2012-12-10T01:00:00Z Union protections were thus a rational reaction to irrational fears. ‘The Teacher Wars,’ Dana Goldstein’s History of Education 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z It’s a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z But Churchill hated the Sutherland portrait with so much irrational passion that it all turned into a tragicomic fiasco. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z People who are hopeless will do irrational things. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z “But is it irrational? You know what I mean?” he said. Kehinde Wiley’s New Exhibition Is a Chapel of Mourning 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The funny thing about irrational behaviour, which I admit isn’t amusing to the recipient of it, is that the participant is generally aware of their untenable position; they’re just not in control of their emotions. My mother-in-law should apologise to me | Mariella Frostrup 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Charles' self-loathing has sparked his irrational fear that Saz will take his new girlfriend too — mostly because he doesn't believe he deserves to be happy. The "Only Murders in the Building" stunt double gag isn't just hilarious, it's subversive justice 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z OMG another clueless snowflake liberal ignorant of firearms and hiding behind irrational xenophobia. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z They found that irrational beliefs about sex were more common in younger men and linked to lower sexual satisfaction and greater distress. “No, honey, it really is OK” 2012-09-19T00:00:00Z Even though I knew it was irrational, I had gotten stuck in a loop of self-doubt, incapable of appreciating my good fortune. I won big on "Jeopardy!" So why does it still haunt me? 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s irrational human existence in a chaotic world. A spellbinding descent into chaos: ‘The Trial’ 2013-04-11T18:36:42Z Bakkhai is described by the Almeida as an "electrifying tragedy... a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, man and god". Whishaw takes on Greek tragedy 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z This also preempts her blaming you — an irrational fear, I hope. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Coo-coo-ca-ewww, Mrs. Robinson. When a son-in-law hits on you. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Republican officials rejected the "irrational" label, but agreed that their handling of the issue had damaged their cause. House GOP leaders yield on payroll tax 2011-12-23T02:49:00Z It is a society that has evolved separately from Britain’s mainland and its Anglican beliefs, but it looks like an alternative reality of fiercely insular, irrational England. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z She presses down on the ways “our fears are dear to us,” and on how, when it comes to our health, “we are all irrational rationalists.” ‘On Immunity: An Inoculation,’ by Eula Biss 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Watching a legislative body maul, maim and paralyze itself through grotesquely irrational infighting probably doesn’t sound like your idea of summer escapism. Review: Decapitating American History in ‘King Philip’s Head’ 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Given the irrational patchwork of regulations that governs wine distribution, every state essentially offers consumers a different selection of wines. The Supreme Court May Change the Way You Buy Wine 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Philosophical absurdism argues that the universe is inherently irrational – a perspective rendered particularly apt by the unpredictable political developments of the past few years. 'Horrifyingly absurd': how did millennial comedy get so surreal? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Though dueling might look harebrained and utterly irrational, “gentlemen were not particularly interested in the promptings and pleas of reason. That is an essentially bourgeois scruple, rather like spelling correctly or counting one’s money.” The literary history of duels, those absurdly formal fights to the death 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “They create irrational fear of the mentally ill, a kind of ‘profiling,’ that leads people to expect that the mentally ill are likely to be violent and dangerous,” Spiegel said. Shyamalan takes an ax psychological atypicality in box office smash, “Split” 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Some of the items on this year’s shortlist may prove ephemeral, like “coulrophobia” — extreme or irrational fear of clowns — which surged after a rash of reports of scary clowns. ‘Post-Truth’ Defeats ‘Alt-Right’ as Oxford’s Word of the Year 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “The Leftovers” puts rational people in irrational circumstances, and lets the layers of civilization slowly unpeel. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Trying to Explain What Cannot Be Explained 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z So irrational and unfounded fears about everything from childhood vaccines to genetically modified grains abound, even while dietary supplements and ―natural‖ cures with no proven value are gaining many followers. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Rizvi clearly wants to save the world from the ravages of irrational thinking that excuses all sorts of violence and destruction. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Suffering, Ball demonstrates, is universal, and fears are often irrational. Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z But all four pieces of his own program, which opened on Saturday night, show his talent’s marvelously irrational aspect. Review: Mark Morris Is a Citizen of the World at the White Light Festival 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The violence of jihadists “is neither irrational nor whimsical”, argues Mr Maher. Men of war 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Remember when we were the irrational, out of control ones and men, with their cooler man heads, were assumed innately better suited to run the world? Scott Adams' defense of rape mentality 2011-06-20T15:30:00Z Their catfight duet, about “irrational gay hatred,” is one of the show’s funnier songs, although it doesn’t particularly advance the increasingly loose-jointed plot. Theater Review: ‘The House of Von Macramé’ at Bushwick Starr 2013-01-27T22:48:18Z It is perhaps the only irrational statement she makes—otherwise she stays stoic and logical throughout the story. Yiyun Li on Grief and Memory 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Tyler finds some people develop irrational phobias that they’ve not had before – becoming fearful, for instance, of driving on the motorway. 'You will have an emotional reboot': the ultimate guide to stress at every age 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z “It makes my blood boil in a way that I think is a bit irrational.” Rhea Seehorn Is Getting Away With It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z If there was an apt moment for hysterical, irrational acts, it was then. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 12: Your Child Is Your Child 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Skewering the international financial system, with its rampant corruption and irrational exuberance, is familiar literary fodder. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z Even the golf stories seemed desirable, and I hate golf with a passion which is almost irrational. The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z “We call our move here an irrational leap of faith,” the artist explains later. In Sebastopol, Calif., recycled junk sculptures with a Wine Country backdrop 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Fey’s impersonation was powerful because it simply exposed Palin for the inarticulate, unprepared, irrational candidate that she was. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z "The nightmares help to show what is going on inside him and the irrational elements of his feelings." Spanish thriller dredges up dark childhood secret 2012-02-11T20:08:24Z It's really like the irrational number of pi. For Ang Lee, all movies are a leap of faith 2012-11-19T22:31:05Z Archer and Jockers focus their study on fiction, and the unfriendly economics of fiction-writing generally insure that a deep, irrational passion drives most of its authors. “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z In Bernays’ view, humans were irrational and highly manipulable, making true democracy dangerous. The beautiful Airstream myth and painful RV reality of life on the road 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z I knew, then, that I was dealing with an irrational man. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z But a wall text referring to the influence on him of Salvador Dalí's "paranoiac-critical method", a process of finding meaning in irrational images, reminded me that Muschamp had a point. Interior dark: two shows reveal visions of the unhomely 2010-06-16T10:07:00Z Blunt, stupid, irrational and inexplicable love simply won out, as it so often does. "Game of Thrones": Brienne's final gift to Jaime and the things we do for love 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z In her pleasurable solo show, Wong pinpoints, in a less solemn fashion, the ironies of being an Asian American subjected to the irrational rages of her fellow citizens. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z His vow to bar Muslims from entering the country, in the face of irrational panic and an exaggerated terrorist threat, is pandering of the worst kind. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z “As soon as you say BPD, people think irrational, angry woman,” Walter says. Are sexual abuse victims being diagnosed with a mental disorder they don't have? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z He loves to think of himself as a rationalist, but holds a lot of irrational beliefs. 5 times Bill Maher has sabotaged his cause 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z It’s hard to accept that someone smart enough to be a high-powered bank executive would be so utterly irrational in matters of the heart. Review | A new, sexy thriller novel puts male depravity on full display 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z After examining the case from every angle, “Valentine Road” implies that irrational fear and loathing of the Other is built into us, and that despite the law, acceptance comes slowly, one victory at a time. Critic’s Notebook: NewFest of Gay Films Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-09-05T21:36:08Z The most cautionary of the tales describes the fortunes of theglobe.com, an early social-networking site and prominent casualty of irrational exuberance. “Valley of the Boom,” Reviewed: A Rah-Rah Reënactment of the Dot-Com Cataclysm 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z They often experience their dissatisfaction as unjustified and irrational: a moral failing. Midlife crisis? It’s a myth. Why life gets better after 50 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Color's irrational, unruly powers, which they felt were being restrained by stuffy, bourgeois proprieties, were unleashed. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Especially telling are survivors' tales of a "suicidal phase," in the late 1980s/early 1990s, when hope for a cure seemed irrational. 'How to Survive a Plague': AIDS film follows a parade of disaster 2012-10-18T20:14:12Z Yet to dismiss every such tract as populist scaremongering would be just as irrational as to believe them all. Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig – review 2013-01-25T10:00:01Z His most distinctive talent may be for tackling nominally controversial material in a way that reveals the irrational roots of the controversy. Film: The Gang That Couldn?t Bomb Straight 2010-10-23T16:08:00Z Whatever cause outrage culture serves is made secondary to the sweeping, irrational mob. Internet Mob Justice Isn't Justice At All 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z One might offer a possible interpretation: We are inclined to ornament and articulate our most destructive tendencies into elaborate forms of irrational behavior. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z "My stream of consciousness had a taut net strung across it, a net just big enough to trap one misshapen irrational thought at a time… the net was always full." 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' a rich, reasonable look at OCD 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Love is irrational, from elated beginning to bitter end, and you are not there to sit in judgment on your parents’ choices. Dad left, and my aunt told me a secret about him | Mariella Frostrup 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Yet, there is one thing that Manilow has always pined for and now inspires some irrational fears: a Broadway show. Barry Manilow Finally Gets His Wish: a Broadway Show 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Lynne paints a picture of a man suspended between his strong, rational sense of the world, and his own irrational, emotional response to stressors. 'He never even watched the news' – the Brit who tried to kill Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “All crimes have some underlying cause, however irrational,” Sarah Weinman writes, reviewing the book in her latest mystery column. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z If my response seems irrational, our middle sister, Amy, made a solemn pledge early on to never accept anyone our dad might date, no matter how wonderful she might be. My 70-Year-Old Father Joined Tinder 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z To accept these as simply symptoms of the malaise of the times is to abandon the obligations of civilization to rationally address even the most irrational and fearful events. The famous Manson true crime book, 'Helter Skelter,' reviewed in 1974 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z When the angers remain stubbornly twisted, irrational, unfair, unsubstantiated … well, the story is the better for it. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The other he compared to an Escher drawing, a “completely irrational narrative.” César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z No, it is irrational to infer an invisible omnipotent being from what we see around us. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Except he does, on a level he describes as irrational. Finally “Rick and Morty” is back with the inspiring nihilism we crave 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z There were so many stories she wanted to tell, about her kind of people, “people who fall off the frontier of our society” – the weird, the uncomfortable, the irrational. Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z This leaves, for me anyway, one option, the TV equivalent of the irrational nuclear strike. “The Killing”: Who killed Rosie Larsen? We’ll finally learn 2012-06-14T15:25:00Z Tuning in each year is irrational and crazy and absurd, but we keep going, I guess, because we need the eggs. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Annie Hall 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z It seems ironic to me that such sublime writings prompt such extreme and often irrational behaviour by so many well-educated people. I receive hate mail for questioning the authorship of Shakespeare plays 2013-04-23T07:00:02Z This time it won’t be driven by overbuilding, easy credit or irrational exuberance, but by an inevitable fact of life: the passing of the baby boomer generation. Baby boomers may put 'tidal wave' of 21M homes on market -- but who will buy them? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Opera is often called the most irrational art form. The accidental opera star: 'A lot of the purists, they don’t believe my story' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z That’s justifiable behavior for a Louisville native living far from home on what’s considered a state holiday, but it’s irrational for a graduate student who just completed a literature course on remembering slavery. West Point on Memorial Day: Race, one graduation photo, and the meaning of America 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Duke broke free of them by marrying at 18, then embarking on an irrational, rageful journey through movies, television and three marriages before she finally figured out what was wrong. Patty Duke doesn’t do auditions anymore 2014-02-26T22:17:16Z Every new parent has a few irrational fears, but I was constantly flooded with spontaneous images of collapsed awnings, toppled dressers, even cabinets pulled lose from the wall, crushing my six-pound baby. Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “Gone Girl” is especially good because it digs beneath these more-or-less legitimate concerns, exposing the irrational side of our fear of coupledom. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Humans have mapped genomes, developed lifesaving therapeutic treatments, split the atom, charted the universe — so why are conspiracy theories and other irrational beliefs still so pervasive? 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z It provides a fantasy space for listeners to indulge the notion that things used to be better — and it’s a much more suitable arena for parsing that irrational sentimentality than, say, politics. Still think today’s country music sounds fake? Get real. 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z There’s relief to be found in a life no longer spent surfing irrational emotional urges, but also regret that the pounding beat of passion plays a less emphatic tune. Women and desire: the six ages of sex 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z She risks demonising as irrational or unethical all those who support the president. A novelist and a journalist come to terms with the new Turkey 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Still, the series’ linking of irrational times and unspeakable acts resonates with today’s stories of mass shootings and a widening gyre of chaos in the headlines. Review: Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ Is More Chatter Than Splatter 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Even after all the sit-down interviews and a movie’s worth of research, Mr. Gibney can’t fully explain how a man whose life was built on coldly rational choices behaved in such irrational ways. Film: Client 9 and Other Interested Parties 2010-10-23T02:33:00Z “By overcoming the dark passions,” he told Moyers, “the hero symbolizes our ability to control the irrational savage within us.” What would Joseph Campbell say about Donald Trump? He should’ve already been exposed as Darth Vader 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Just one of a number of terms including emotional, irrational and shrill, all essentially meaning the same thing: “crazy lady” or one who may or may not be on her period. Feisty, flounce and bossy: the words used to put women down 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z The “power of the powerless,” he argued, resides in their capacity to organize themselves and resist “the irrational momentum of anonymous, impersonal, and inhuman power.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “We are uncomfortable with our irrational selves,” Crispin said. Making the Tarot Literary Again 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Re: Unwilling father: I agree, but let's also understand our society's irrational responses to unplanned pregnancies. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His girlfriend is pregnant, and it’s everybody’s fault but his 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z PG: For a long time, I put irrational hatred of Hillary down to sexism. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Just last year, Fiennes told The Telegraph that he found the ardent backlash that Rowling has faced to be both "irrational" and "disturbing." Ralph Fiennes slams criticism of J.K. Rowling as "verbal abuse" and cancel culture lacking "nuance" 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z “The hatred of a group qua group is, after all, the most debased and irrational of hatreds, the weakest, the most banal,” she writes. In ‘Intimations,’ Zadie Smith Applies Her Even Temper to Tumultuous Times 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z “If the state is going to choose to confer a benefit, can it choose to confer that benefit to a group of people on a basis that’s fundamentally irrational and discriminatory?” she asked. The Case for Redefining Infertility 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But I think an artist must also allow for the possibility of being surprised while working, and should follow what seem like irrational impulses. ArtsBeat: Drawn From Life: Sheila Heti Talks About "How Should a Person Be?" 2012-07-11T15:44:33Z But the play challenges Carmela and la Perdida to negotiate realism, fantasy and everything in between, a challenge they giddily accept, occasionally finding genuine poignancy even in the midst of the irrational and bizarre. ‘Notes on Killing’ Review: For These Puerto Ricans, Promises Never Kept 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z On Kafka, Dauber argues that his subversive comedy is distinctly Jewish because it mocks the pretensions of scientific certainty that papers over the irrational forces controlling our lives. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z This puts it in opposition to “art,” which is irrational and reactionary, an expression of that darker, impassioned world from which culture emerges. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Against the unacceptability of the void, he pits the howl of irrational humor and the keen. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z Pop’s nuclear songbook is surprisingly thick, but its tensile strength has always been tested by the weight of our fears — fears that can feel dumb and irrational until smart, rational people start feeling them, too. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Rehn was a level-headed contestant who made rational choices in a really irrational situation. Every Single Season of 'The Bachelorette,' Ranked 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The duck gets sadder, meaner and more irrational — and, like any Great Female Narcissist hopeful, more interesting. ‘Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel,’ Anya Ulinich’s Graphic Novel 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z And yet he also documents such harm: lung damage, irrational paranoia and “a level of chaos and tension that I don’t really enjoy.” Addiction isn’t “fun”: The problem with moderation manifestoes 2014-03-03T23:59:00Z “They are films that are ostensibly about race but are extended polemics where so-called progressive Whites are saying ‘I’m the only one who has a reasonable perspective on this and Blacks are irrational and unreasonable.” Dear Hollywood: Let's Stop Making Movies Like "Black or White" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Opera, that supposedly irrational art form, became a clarion voice for reason. Met Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' is a compassionate feat 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s an irrational feeling, and perhaps whoever bought this painting will donate it to a museum where it will be forever a public possession. Perspective | How record-setting art auctions are ruining the old neighborhood 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The restrictions imposed on the account came amid China’s campaign to clean up the entertainment industry and clamp down on “irrational behavior” exhibited by fans. China’s Weibo bans BTS fan account for illegal fundraising 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z In her view, the irrational is something we need. Making the Tarot Literary Again 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The end of tipping means one more irrational thing rationalized, one more odd little ritual lost. Notes on the End of Restaurant Tipping 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Stewart then went on to further examine the irrational fear of Sharia law. Jon Stewart on Fox News’ apology: “What did they say that was so much wronger than usual?” 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z This was a foolish, likely doomed endeavor, sure, but if we were to have any chance at writing anything worthwhile, our commitment to the task would have to be irrational and unrelenting. Trigger Warnings and the Novelist's Mind 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Cheng is a mathematician who believes we need to appreciate the value of alogic — emotion, that is — if we want to understand a world filled with irrational behavior. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z But the irrational in me wonders: Will there be enough young American workers around two decades from now to pay for the knee replacements to which I’m entitled? Harrowing Births on Prime-Time TV 2011-11-02T14:49:44Z Thus, religious supernatural beliefs are irrational, but emotionally plausible and satisfying. Jared Diamond: It’s irrational to be religious 2013-01-13T12:00:00Z But from the moment they first glimmered into my view on a recent Saturday, like ghostly fireworks on a cloudy night, I found myself slipping into a fugue of irrational, unadulterated joy. Review: Head Tripping the Light Fantastic in ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z "There's this crazy, almost irrational desire for these objects, these things we create," Jacobs told a scrum of journalists in a frenzied backstage interview. Vuitton gives his obsessed fans kinky look 2011-03-09T20:41:32Z Yet something odd or irrational always threatens the composure. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z I place “irrational” in quotes, though, because a big part of understanding children’s worries is accepting that the worry is real for them. My 5-year-old is scared to go to bed by himself. How can we all get some sleep? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The rational and irrational are in conflict at every level, and language and imagery are haunted by death and entropy. Journey To Italy: the Italian film that kickstarted the French New Wave 2013-05-06T05:00:00Z Jackson gives novel spin to Lear’s resonantly irrational remarks to Johnson’s Gloucester in their apocalyptic Act 4 encounter, but there’s more rhetoric than realism in the old king’s “reason in madness.” A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Then again, I also understand my friend Jennifer’s irrational fears of the phone. Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z She’s not able to make sense of this because it is unconscious and irrational. She’s afraid of sex 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z "If there were an objective truth to social and economic laws," Vattimo points out with a twinkle, "democracy would be an utterly irrational choice." Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-15T21:55:08Z It's a disgrace that the state pays for our children to be divided and indoctrinated with irrational belief. TV review: Faith Schools Menace? 2010-08-19T06:00:00Z But on his end, the marriage plummets quickly from him preening about landing someone another character calls "luscious" to displays of intense, irrational jealousy. TV film throws the book at Drew Peterson 2012-01-16T21:49:00Z Even his studio is named for π, an “irrational number” that could be calculated for infinity without coming to a finite conclusion. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z "It's something that really stirs me in an irrational way." Magical mystery man 2011-06-07T07:09:40Z The very geeks we as a culture lionize for their analytical gifts now stand at the vanguard of a plainly irrational movement that threatens to jeopardize public health. ‘NeuroTribes,’ by Steve Silberman 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z He finds most Moroccans primitive and irrational; he calls them “towel-heads.” Books of The Times: ‘The Forgiven,’ by Lawrence Osborne 2012-09-25T21:17:10Z As orderly as they are, the songs turn out to be highly controlled environments for the uncontrollable: irrational passions and compulsions that continue in self-destructive cycles, even when everyone involved knows better. Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z That’s the real drama here: Louis’s struggle to rationalize, within his politics, the irrational desire to forgive. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z I have come to admit my irrational hatred for blondes and my burning desire to exploit all white men who show any amount of weakness. John Mayer is still gross 2012-06-06T18:50:00Z The irrational exuberance of crypto currency pricing will proly correct when wall street does. Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s apparently irrational, possibly hormonal and definitely a huge fail by your mother and sister-in-law. What to do when a sister goes off over a rocker? 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z That means there will be a lot of irrational bets, creating opportunities for “positive expected value” bets—meaning that on average, your bet should turn a profit. How to Turn a Profit on Preakness Bets 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The anonymous curators said his health problems had left him unfit to manage the museum, calling his decision-making “irrational” and his programming “extremely fluctuating.” Orsay Museum President Is Reappointed, but to a Shortened Term 1460-05-26T05:00:00Z “I was ready to brush it off as irrational,” she said, “until I saw this.” Mid-year burnout: does it exist or are we all just permanently tired? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z It is not clear how his call to make more room for an understanding of the soul and its irrational impulses is to be accommodated in any other system. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Martin continued, telling the magazine’s Logan Hill, “And he’s grown up just as petulant and irrational as he was when he was thirteen in the books.” Guess who George R.R. Martin compared to “Game of Thrones'” Joffrey 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Women were often boxed into the role of the muse in Surrealist circles, worshipped as an erotic embodiment of the irrational. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Her most celebrated creations, Secrest writes, transfigured the underlying ideas of the Surrealist movement, with "its emphasis on the unconscious, the irrational, and the daring," into fanciful, astonishingly original pieces. 'Elsa Schiaparelli': Fashion designer too elusive for words 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The foreboding sense of imminent, irrational explosion — filtered through the vile declarations of satanic Tyrone — seems uncannily attuned to the incivility of the times we are living through in this country. Meet foul-mouthed Tyrone. He’ll put you off the Muppets forever. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Bolton still seems incensed at this unexpected display of caution and humanity on the part of Trump, deeming it “the most irrational thing I ever witnessed any President do.” In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His Enemies 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z And Ms. Walker artfully blurs the line between what are reactions to “the slowing” and what are the everyday irrational actions of ordinary human beings. Books of The Times: ‘The Age of Miracles,’ by Karen Thompson Walker 2012-06-18T19:58:11Z Ms. Baum seems to admit as much when she writes that even the most rational art is at its core irrational. Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In its simplest terms, just intonation means that the ratios between notes are whole numbers, rather than the irrational ratios that divide the octave in the familiar framework of equal temperament. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Most people would discover pretty rapidly that that was irrational, and they’d buy insurance. Gingrich Now Says He Was 'Wrong' to Support Individual Mandate 2011-12-28T22:59:30Z Humans waste irrational amounts of energy disparaging groups of strangers from cities they know nothing about who get paid to hit spheres with wooden clubs when they could be disparaging the Yankees. Style Invitational Week 1454: Punku 3 — haiku with a pun, duh 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But as crazy and misguided and unforgivably cruel as Andrew becomes — I really do see this as a fundamentally sad movie — I think he gets one thing right: Art is and always should be irrational. Before writing and directing 'Whiplash,' Damien Chazelle lived it 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Like stalking, this is a crime that seems utterly irrational. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z In a recent interview with Sanders, Maher began by openly confronting the irrational response to the word “socialist” in American political debate, exclaiming ““They hear socialist and they think herpes, Bernie!” Bill Maher is right about this much: We still have socialism all wrong 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z His growing preoccupation with this woman adds to tensions on the work site, fueled by Cem’s irrational jealousy of his master’s imagined involvement with her. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z For me, the story demonstrates that faith is not as didactic or irrational as my son thinks. Motherlode Blog: Going to School on Rosh Hashana 2012-09-14T15:24:52Z Some family members went over budget, and if this created an obvious and irrational imbalance, you might choose to raise this issue with the family members, at the risk of seeming petty. Ask Amy: Christmas price tag feels like holiday snub 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The consequent damages to his private life are given full weight, and the play admirably balances the heroic and irrational qualities of its central character. | 'Compulsion': The Young Girl Pulls the Strings in This Relationship 2011-02-18T03:01:01Z To accept these as simply symptoms of the malaise of the times is to abandon the obligaions of cilvilization to rationally address even the most irrational and fearful events. 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi: Read the 1974 L.A. Times book review 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z He wanted to see reason adopted more thoroughly, despite knowing that it would "diminish the incomes of clairvoyants, bookmakers, bishops, and others who live on … irrational hopes". The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr – review 2013-02-13T07:00:02Z Loud and rowdy comedy and its repetitive antics fuses with quietly transcendent tenderness, a geographical devotion to terrain meets special effects of a simple, irrational sublimity. Bruno Dumont’s Self-Surpassing Inventiveness in “Slack Bay” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “It is irrational and interferes with the business of presenting artistic events,” said Nathalie Wagner, president of the Wagner Society of New York and a longtime Opera News subscriber. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z How much irrational fear, hatred and incomprehension has been stoked by ingesting a near-steady diet of distorted reflections of our black friends, neighbors and co-workers? Perspective | ‘Black Panther’ is a revelation but also a reminder of what we’ve been missing 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z “From Harris’s point of view the Germans were culturally and institutionally handicapped when it came to deception,” he writes, “because they’d closed their minds to the irrational.” Books of The Times: ‘Double Cross’ and ‘Agent Garbo’ 2012-08-08T22:28:33Z Unfortunately, the shorts collected here are not as scary as I hoped they would be in a horror movie about irrational fear. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z These were all shows that encapsulated the teenage experience, put it in context, and let it succeed on its own irrational, moody, and heightened terms. Terrible teens on TV: the brats that need to grow up 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Many of the central tenets of Islam run contrary to Judaism and since Judaism is correct in every respect, ergo it must be irrational to be nice to Muslims. The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips 2010-06-14T20:59:00Z Mistakes have been made and irrational things have been said on both sides in a highly charged emotional environment. Michael Jackson's kids are following in his celebrity footsteps 2013-03-14T19:17:12Z And this fear makes us behave in irrational ways, like betting more money when we’re already losing it hand over fist. Cultural Studies: Adam Smith, Marriage Counselor 2011-02-11T16:50:32Z The irrational impulses that often guide human behavior are in full rein as the play begins, although the accent is on the implacable nature of ill feeling. Theater Review: ‘As You Like It,’ With Lily Rabe in Central Park 2012-06-22T02:00:14Z Although the modern-day definition does not mention psychopathy or sociopathy – which are different psychological disorders – the term is still used by some therapists and the public to imply someone irrational, inconsiderate and beyond control. Are sexual abuse victims being diagnosed with a mental disorder they don't have? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z You never grant metaphysical importance to evil or the irrational because they are impotent. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z “But sometimes when I share pictures of the things I want and he doesn’t like them, it hurts my feelings, even though it’s irrational.” Jeff Hiller Walks Toward the Light 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The album concludes gamely, clinging to the irrational optimism of love. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z In all, Jarvis’s reading of this title page is irrational in the extreme. The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Bidding at a public auction gives them access to the names they want, even if it means paying what seem to be, to outsiders, irrational prices. Basquiat Tops Phillips Contemporary Sale at $85 Million 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z "Puppet theater is intimately connected to the irrational," he said. Modern puppets take spotlight at Chicago global festival 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The contrast with the newspaper’s black-and-white columns of words invites meditation on alternate versions of reality: one sober, the other exuberantly irrational. Art Review: Picturing a Mind-Blowing World Made of Drugs 2010-10-07T21:19:00Z Somehow flying through the sky released some of my irrational anxiety and ended my night terrors. Soaring past my midlife crisis 2014-02-08T00:00:00Z In an irrational world, escapism and denial are one and the same. There is no song of the summer 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z US News & World Report defines the phobia of a food, called cibophobia, as “an irrational, excessive fear of a certain food.” Woman with lifelong 'food phobia' opens up about exclusive cheese sandwich diet 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Of course, given that pi is an irrational number, Life of Pi has not, in fact, sold exactly pi copies. The Life of Pi sells 3,141,593 copies, and counting … 2013-02-21T17:30:14Z Dr Watson proposing so quickly to the lady looking for an explanation after the case was closed, seemed a little surprising and even for the less logical Watson quite irrational. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - review 2012-06-26T08:00:00Z In other words, the authorities and the artists were at odds about an issue as old as Plato: From the ruler’s perspective, the problem with art is that it incites irrational passions. Art Review: At Japan Society, Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 2010-04-15T21:23:00Z “Mistakes are powerful — they set these irrational forces loose,” he said in an interview. A Progress Report on the National Museum of Qatar 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “Master of the Universe” attempts that explanation but offers a sobering antidote to irrational exuberance and a psychological case study in the financier’s mind-set. ‘Master of the Universe,’ a Documentary About Stock Trading 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z A recent Global Times editorial argued that while the forced termination of late-term pregnancies is wrong, it is still “irrational” to reject the one-child policy. Will China abandon its one-child policy? 2012-07-12T16:25:00Z Erotophobia is an irrational and potentially debilitating fear of some object, person or act that is related to sex. 'I love deadpan': Richard Ayoade and Craig Roberts on Submarine 2011-03-15T12:06:25Z One such display might be to espouse some irrational belief that contradicts the evidence of our senses, and that people outside our religion would never believe. Jared Diamond: It’s irrational to be religious 2013-01-13T12:00:00Z Looking around at the kindness and community on Plymouth Avenue I realized much of my hesitation to participate was due to my unconscious buy-in to media paranoia and panic that perpetuates irrational fear. Silence is no longer an option: Why the death of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis brought me off the sidelines 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The line between the rational and irrational – once clear even as I performed bizarre rituals – risks becoming blurred. I've spent years taming the OCD monster. Coronavirus has ruined everything 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z We want to feel as though our irrational universe obeys a hidden logic and that we each belong to something greater than ourselves. Do you want poptimism? Or do you want the truth? 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Put things in perspective: separate irrational responses from rational fears and most importantly start thinking about a relationship of your own. I’m 26, a virgin and attracted to a woman twice my age 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z “This is about starting a conversation about the illiberal and irrational nature of drug laws in this country.” Nitrous oxide campaigners take drug outside UK parliament in protest at bill 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z They’re propaganda shots, designed to move an audience in a purely irrational way. The “liberal media” lie: “The Washington press corps is much closer to Wall Street than it is to Main Street” 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “I’m more focused on trying to stay open to people and stop myself from rushing to judgment even if they’re being irrational,” she said. K.D. Lang Doesn’t Have to Indulge Your Constant Cravings 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z In the late afternoon, I returned to the boardwalk, surrendering to the irrational urge to play arcade games. In Wildwood, my final summertime fling The challenge isn't merely to wager on a contestant's mathematical prowess but to figure out their behaviors and propensity for irrational risks. Why some see this "Alice in Borderland" breakout as a role model for survival 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Even her delusional thinking was, in a sense, normal, because romantic love is often very irrational – love at first sight and ascribing chance meetings to destiny are commonplace. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Prosecutions were based on wild, irrational and unsubstantiated accusations. Review: Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches,’ a Reign of Terror in 17th-Century Salem 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Harwicz’s narrator is, if not mad, at least maddening: irritable, irrational, impatient. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z He wants to throw off the dutiful restraint on which he’s staked his life — as the injured son of an angry father, and as the patient, put-upon husband of a demanding, irrational woman. Books of The Times: Scott Turow?s ?Innocent? Catches Up With Rusty Sabich 2010-04-29T20:51:00Z Anthony Calf's Victor is a precise study of a determined, clean-cut rationalist who finds himself hopelessly at sea in a violently irrational situation. Private Lives – review 2012-09-30T16:45:01Z His primary subject, the irrationality of evil, may need the irrational magic of film to be truly effective. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z The surrealists understood the labyrinth as an image of the human mind at whose centre resides the Minotaur, symbol of irrational impulses. Comfort zones 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Before you crumple this paper into a ball, or click away, I admit that my antipathy is irrational. Just Say ‘Cats,’ and Watch the Fur Fly 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The underlying logic is fundamentally irrational: Because they’ve financially supported these industries their whole lives and received an embarrassing social stigma for doing so, these industries owe them. Toxic white male nerd avengers: What’s really behind the “Suicide Squad” super-fan freak-out 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z When I frame suicidal feelings as a passing storm, an illness to be treated, an irrational conviction to be reasoned away, it is buttressed with the memory of those recoveries. What I have learned from my suicidal patients 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z As “earthly” implies, Bosch seems to depict a world where God is absent and humans, subject to irrational forces within and without, are left to their own devices. Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z We know that love is an irrational collision of pheromones and feelings, an arbitrary emotional reaction to another human being. I can’t come to terms with my boyfriend’s female friendships | Dear Mariella 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z So powerful was Spielberg’s film four decades ago that it has made galeophobia – an irrational fear of sharks – the norm even today. Diving with the shark attack survivor who filmed Jaws 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z But not as irrational as customers who are charged for something they didn’t do. Travel industry to smokers: Puff at your own risk Similarly, the heart keeps breaking in throughout the pages of this wise, sprawling novel; its characters struggle with both rational and irrational responses to what they want. 'The Heart Broke In': interlocking stories of contemporary London 2012-10-03T22:00:06Z Good taste is erratic, irrational, passionate, wrong-headed, determined, loyal, unfaithful, grumpy and pleased with itself. Then and now: Granta's best young British novelists 2013-04-06T07:00:20Z While for some people religion may be associated with the irrational, it is also associated with what religion scholar Doug Cowan calls "the good, moral and decent fallacy." Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z A fear of watching this tiny child I carried worry and fret with terror over some irrational, unfounded cause. Motherlode: Please, Go to Sleep 2011-07-06T20:29:25Z “I totally felt I was being irrational in my purchases,” she said. Why a looming storm makes us think we can eat all the junk food we want 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Put them in groups and they become villains — conformist, irrational, prone to violence. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Brabner was long accustomed to her husband’s irrational fears, screaming nightmares and bouts of sleepwalking and depression, and to accommodating his neuroses. The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero 2010-09-01T19:09:00Z Along with his fellow Surrealists, Man Ray believed that women have a profound connection to the irrational and the primal, qualities that he associated with African art. John Edmonds and the Allure of Africa 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z They float, stand or sit about — occasionally sprouting wings, mouths, eyes or extravagant headwear — in lavishly colored landscapes that have the irrational, shapeshifting quality of dreams. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z We now seem to be living in an irrational and unhinged world of chaos and derangement in which institutions are useless and frothing craziness reigns. Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z “It now served as an explanation of the fearsome trouble Western globalists might encounter in the East, where an irrational, violent hatred of all outsiders might take hold.” Is Stranger Hatred Hard-Wired Into Humans? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s a nice explanation for the rational and irrational behavior that she exhibits with her need for control and her episodes of self-doubt after her life changes upon Paul’s disappearance. “Breaking Bad” star Betsy Brandt on carrying the indie film “Claire in Motion” 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Many of the pictures in “Civilized” depict slums or shantytowns, and even the most orderly scenes in the Flashpoint Gallery show include an irrational human element. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Soderbergh: We are clearly, history tells us, a deeply irrational species. Q&A: Soderbergh on his ‘boat movie’ & the blockbuster’s fate 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “The thing about a lot of libertarians,” James O’Beirne, a software engineer living in New York City, says coming out of the paleo seminar, “is that we are often analytical to an irrational extent.” Inside the libertarian version of Burning Man: Guns, booze and bitcoin But the technique of subtly diminishing minority voices as speaking from raw emotion and implicitly framing their white counterparts as unbiased parties is a deeply familiar, and itself irrational, one. Dear white Hollywood: Here are 3 things you need to hear about your defensiveness on race 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z “You’re actually leading a religion. It’s an irrational love. We can always stay home and watch the game on TV. Why do we go? Because it’s religion. Because it’s Michigan.” Hail! To the Marketers Valiant: The Trouble With Michigan Football 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z What you get are weirdly irrational experiences — you say, that was really strange. Neil Gaiman treasures ‘strange moments of the inexplicable’ 2013-05-30T20:34:05Z In her view, Beyoncé is merely regurgitating patriarchal ideas about the irrational emotion of women, and masquerading that as healing. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The popular purveyors of reincarnation belief these days are not monks or theologians, but therapists — intermediaries between science and religion who authenticate irrational belief. Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z Besides the irrational plotting, the movie also suffers from the fact that Mitchell Kummen, the young actor playing Holly’s son, looks far too old for the part as written. Television Review: Elizabeth Berkley in ?Lucky Christmas,? on Hallmark -Review 2011-11-11T23:06:25Z She is, now that I think about it, the perfect feminazi caricature: fat, loud, irrational, violent, overbearing, constantly hitting a hedgehog with a flamingo. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s a math term for irrational numbers with no square root. Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z There always was a surfeit of available explanations for Emma’s irrational conduct. My granddaughter, the girl who refused to let joy into her life 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Or why people felt that being upset or angry is an irrational response to living, forever, with no answers. Please don’t tell me I was lucky to be adopted 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “What Belongs to You,” Mr. Greenwell’s debut novel, is a lyrical look at the frustrating, irrational and obsessive love between an American teacher in Bulgaria and a local hustler. Around Town for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z He liked to experiment with multiple or very long exposures, lending his photographs a dreamy, irrational quality that stood in contrast to the lucidity of his lens-fitting profession. Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s Sweetly Southern-Gothic Family Album 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The pivotal moments Pinter zooms in on in each scene come with their own emotional backdrops and irrational set of feelings. A week in radio: Harold Pinter's Betrayal 2012-07-19T20:30:02Z It actually made more sympathetic to him in realizing how irrational and mentally ill he was. Alan Cumming on digging deep for new memoir 'Not His Father's Son' 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z A Wreck: Throw facts at your anxiety, because it is in fact irrational. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Apply the empirical method to your school-shooting anxieties 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Loyalty to older ways of doing things looks at best quaint, at worst reactionary and in any case irrational. Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z "We have left the tweet up in hopes that others will see how cruel and irrational people can be," she continued. Canadian politician's tweet about wife shoveling snow after 12-hour hospital shift takes unexpected turn 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z “Totally irrational,” Mr. Nouvel, who was in town for the museum’s opening, called the formation — and, by extension, his design. What’s New in Doha? Basically Everything 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Deploying broad historical knowledge and a keen comparative eye, he does an enormous amount of discoursing around the premise that “the clothes we wear today are anachronistic, irrational and harmful.” The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Confronted with its imminence, the membrane that separates the rational from the irrational ruptures, and we enter the same space we occupy when we surrender to fable and myth. Kissing the Dead 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z In the book he refers to Ms. Lakshmi as his “Illusion,” and he describes her as irrational, vapid and vain. Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Rushdie in Memoir 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z “I think there was a deep, irrational, part of me that felt like I was looking like a loser — that feeling of still being in the same place a year later,” Sherman said. These Drama Students Trained for Years. Then Theater Vanished. 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z There is a fascinating tension at work in Crouwel's prolific output: between the rational and the irrational, the logical and the illogical, the scientific and the waywardly artistic. Wim Crouwel's extraordinary alphabets 2011-04-07T16:32:06Z “It should remain down on the ground as a memorial of the irrational rationale.” Protesters yank down angel sculpture in Athens, saying it looks like S 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Reason itself is among them—the effort to advance constructively while gripped by the irrational force of tradition, of unexpressed assumptions and unexamined mythologies, repressed desires and frustrated aspirations, undiscussed history and unacknowledged grief. The Front Row: “Losing Ground” 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z “This was the most irrational thing I ever witnessed any president do,” Bolton wrote. John Bolton’s been a political brawler for decades, but his rumble with Donald Trump is extreme — even for him. 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Also, better to vent our irrational jealousies in private, with friends who return the favor, and not with the national media — even if it’s just an advice columnist. Social Qs: When a Finder’s Fee Is M.I.A. 2013-07-11T19:45:42Z To put it in terms more consistent with the exalted language of the proceedings, the court seeks to comprehend what seems to be a profoundly irrational crime within the rigorous light of reason. ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Many human beings evidently share with the magpie a gene causing an irrational attraction to bright and shiny objects. Art Review: When Enamel Wares Adorned China?s Imperial Courts 2011-02-17T21:29:31Z The lines between subjective and objective blur into that spiked vagueness that descends when you’re so unhappy that you know you shouldn’t trust your own mind, but still believe in its most irrational conjectures. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Baker’s signature hyper-realism makes room for an irrational dimension that lightly evokes the supernatural enigmas of Maurice Maeterlinck and August Strindberg. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z On the other hand, it's the vindication of a great principle: if the irrational action moves fast enough, no audience will ever have breath to question it. North By Northwest: No 2 2010-10-19T10:53:00Z I knew this was irrational, and I’d try to make light of it. My fear of flying 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z Constructed from apparently unrelated, often surreal vignettes, in which the performers appear as the vehicles of strange rituals and obsessions, their bodies are transformed into repositories of deep irrational fears and hopes, memories and instincts. Pina Bausch Series ‘World Cities’ in London 2012 Festival 2012-05-31T22:30:57Z Strevens, who has a background in mathematics, traces the origins of modern sciences and argues that our obsession with empirical data is both irrational and inhuman. New in Paperback: ‘The Fabric of Civilization’ and ‘The National Road’ 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Satirical films also help us think through moments when society was caught up in habits and behaviors that were profoundly irrational, destructive or delusional. Why Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" matters now more than ever 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z West Africans, it seemed to some, were stuck in the fatal grip of irrational superstition. Best practice 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps inspired by Portnoy’s catastrophe of a personality, Don drinks his way through booze-filled cans of Coke — risking everything like a true alcoholic, giving into the irrational id that Roth celebrated. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: This Symbolism Does Not Compute 2014-05-05T15:16:14Z As Lewis brilliantly shows, no other places in the modern world are more unnervingly revealing of the bewildering blend in our natures of the rational and irrational, the sophisticated and the primal. A Hospital Odyssey by Gwyneth Lewis 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z Any of us who experience irrational fluctuations of feeling from time to time will see a heightened mirror of ourselves in her, and we start to question what defines mental illness. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Method to Their Madness 2011-07-07T15:40:01Z The political theorist Iris Marion Young wrote that the pregnant body undermines Cartesian dualism, which constructed the male body as rational, ordered and active, and the female body as irrational, unruly and passive. Baby love: how pop stars embraced pregnancy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z But like his friend, he is increasingly engulfed by irrational fears and memories of the past. Spanish thriller dredges up dark childhood secret 2012-02-11T20:08:24Z “For me the landscape is the irrational. Nature is the woman. Nature is the black, the brown, the other.” Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z His instructor takes the form of a sickly, ugly woman named Fosca, who teaches him that love is a blinding, irrational force — “as pure as breath, as permanent as death, as implacable as stone.” Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Your 6-year-old may flip-flop between rational and irrational behavior, depending on the child’s fatigue and state of mind. With four kids, a one-size-fits-all approach to discipline won’t work 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z I was instantly overcome with an irrational urge to collect all the clogs. My pandemic epiphany: an obsession with clogs signaled unresolved issues 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z His irrational fear of computers has made him wildly out of touch with my generation and generations to come. My Chuck Close problem 2012-07-10T14:03:00Z He made sideways references to “irrational exuberance” in the markets by the late 1990s, but backed off acting when they appeared to stabilize. A New Look at Greenspan Shows the Economic Perils of Trusting Oracles 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Check it out: Everyone knows pi day is March 14th, but any true nerd realizes pi is not 3.14, but rather an irrational constant which continues infinitely in decimal expansion. Pi Day threatened by tau protestors 2011-03-14T22:15:00Z As unwieldy and irrational my plea is I ask you to remember it. Motherlode: Letter to My Son's College 2011-02-25T20:19:49Z “Bits and pieces of a city are splattered across the landscape. By this irrational process, non-communities are born — formless places without order, beauty or reason, places with no visible respect for people or the land.” Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z “There has been a major shift so the culture of policing is now split and there is a huge component acting in an irrational manner and viewing themselves in this more militaristic way.” Do Not Resist: new film shows how US police have become an occupying army 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z If you saw it in a theater at an impressionable age you may still be seized by irrational, mortal fear every time you experience a touch of indigestion. Movie Review: ‘Prometheus,’ by Ridley Scott, With Noomi Rapace 2012-06-07T12:44:28Z Like Rand, she’s traded one form of totalitarian dogma for another—openly contending that reason must be shunted when confronting an irrational enemy. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z It was as if the two halves of his brain — the rational and the irrational — were at war with each other, or, if not yet engaged, then rattling their sabers. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z One group observes how common it is, and asks—using the standard classical economics move—how something can be irrational if it is so widespread. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z My mam is a Catholic but my dad is an atheist academic, a sort of angry sociologist, so I had the two, the rational versus the irrational. Q&A: Lauren Laverne 2011-02-27T00:04:05Z Compulsive tail chasers mimic the self-soothing flapping of people on the spectrum, while pets who are terrified by things like puddles of water suggest an autistic person’s seemingly irrational fears. New Self-Help Books for Pet Parents 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Rosebiani's irrational characterizations are better suited to the screwball comedy "One Candle, Two Candles," the superior of the two films. Jano Rosebiani's pedestrian explorations of Kurdish culture 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Weibo also said in a separate statement on Sunday that it banned 21 other fan accounts for 30 days for posting “irrational star-chasing” content. China’s Weibo bans BTS fan account for illegal fundraising 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Portrayed by Michael Gould, Alfieri becomes our conduit into a world where irrational passions trump even the instinct to survive. Review: ‘A View From the Bridge’ Bears Witness to the Pain of Fate 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Weighing the global picture up against your personal ambitions, the luxury of choice, irrational hormonal influence and simply being grateful for the good fortune of three healthy children seems a good place to start. I want to have a fourth child, but my husband has put his foot down 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Having been born in Nicaragua, I’ve witnessed the irrational exploitation of natural resources and the destruction of the environment. Bianca Jagger: ‘I believe marriage is for life. We failed’ 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z So they decided to play the long game instead: to adapt to their father’s irrational behaviour, keep their heads down and save money. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z She was investigating herself, both the researcher and the rat — determined, I think, to assert some scientific rationality over what had been an entirely irrational chapter in her life. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Jealousy is also irrational, but deserves inclusion as envy’s cousin on the list of seven deadly sins. I can’t come to terms with my boyfriend’s female friendships | Dear Mariella 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Such irrational exuberance can’t buy a spot on the bestseller list, but it can guarantee coverage. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z He is attacking the position that people reject the science of climate change because they are too stupid and too irrational. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z Dimitri Diagne, 5, Pennsylvania: In the days after 9/11, I got this irrational fear that Osama bin Laden would come into my room at night with a bunch of al-Qaeda guys. This was 9/11 if you were a kid 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z That’s because whatever its flaws, “Act One,” which Mr. Lapine also directed, brims contagiously with the ineffable, irrational and irrefutable passion for that endangered religion called the Theater. Theater Review: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center 2014-04-18T02:00:15Z But he too winds up in Lulu’s fatal embrace, as her third husband, whom she shoots and kills impulsively during an irrational argument. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Fears, worries, and apprehensions are painful and ubiquitous aspects of human existence, whether they are common or idiosyncratic, specific or diffuse, rational or irrational. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z It is easy to see how the expression "old wives' tale" could come to mean a superstitious, irrational and untrue statement, which is to be rejected out of hand. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z In some cases, it is just a way to find comfort, to ease the mental burden of irrational obsessions that a loved one might die, or that something dreadful will happen to them. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But when you start slinging accusations and insinuations around about someone who can’t defend her own reputation, you tip the balance and seem irrational and even cruel. Perspective | Ask Amy: Partners ponder angles on infidelity 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z I know that none of this is my friend’s fault, and that I am being irrational and unfair, but I can’t help feeling like she has everything I want. I’m jealous of my best friend’s romance 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The British public are irrational and deluded about their NHS, attached sentimentally to it as if it were our darling child. God Bless the NHS by Roger Taylor – review 2013-03-15T10:00:01Z She continued, “I love the way she follows these irrational ideas rather rationally, all the way to the end.” For This Show, the Artist Went Overboard 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Examining themes of sacrifice, the piece appears to contrast bourgeois 19th-century culture, embodied by a woman in a crinoline, with the irrational culture of traditional societies. Raven Girl/Symphony in C; iTMOi – review 2013-06-01T23:05:33Z However, anyone suffering from coulrophobia – an irrational fear of clowns – will be reassured to know that while the media often refer to these pranksters as “killer clowns”, no deaths have been attributed to them. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z It is fundamentally irrational for musicians to play the same passel of pieces over and over. The Berlin Philharmonic Searches for a Messiah 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Stronger still is “Black Parts,” a seemingly irrational mosaic of black tones cut mostly from photographs and held together with tape. Art in Review: ‘I Am the Magic Hand’ and Antony: ‘The Cut’ 2013-06-27T20:04:50Z “What I am is an Islamismophobe. Or better say an anti-Islamist, because a ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear, and there is nothing irrational about fearing people who say they want to kill you.” Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z They accept their fear, no matter how irrational it is. Fear of flying? Use these tools to stay grounded when your anxiety is sky high. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z It took very little to trigger an irrational reaction. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The timing shakes up the irrational idea of gardens being for the spring. How a soybean field in middle-of-nowhere Delaware became a buzzy botanic garden 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Jacobi does this, he explained, by establishing Lear in that pivotal opening scene as petulant, temperamental, capricious, irrational. For Derek Jacobi, Now Is the Time for a Certain Role 2011-04-22T23:30:23Z She also offered, I told him, a systematic way of living a rational life in an irrational world. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Most conservative attacks on the women's team, in fact, have relied heavily on sexist stereotypes that paint women as irrational, hysterical and unintelligent. Women's World Cup was a triumph — and totally triggered the right-wing snowflakes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Simon was persisting in his irrational promotion of Lee, for what reason I have no idea. "American Idol" recap: Final performances 2010-05-26T13:27:00Z "That sales figure – it's so irrational!" said Martel of the news. The Life of Pi sells 3,141,593 copies, and counting … 2013-02-21T17:30:14Z This behavior may seem petty and irrational but should come as no surprise for observers of conservative media. How the Republicans wound up with Trump: E.J. Dionne explains in 'Why the Right Went Wrong' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Taking your own life is an irrational, desperate, tragic act, but it’s also an extremely selfish choice. My husband recently killed himself and I can’t face being on my own | Dear Mariella 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z “Just like it’s irrational that they’d believe an election is fraudulent because of a political party line. It’s a very interesting phenomenon.” A Kraken is loose in America 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Rather, they hint at a capacity for irrational and anarchic invention in children that the adult world tends to ignore, preferring to tell itself more sentimental stories about childhood. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “Waste” is a word that he uses ruefully and frequently, as befits a man who lives in irrational fear of the poor house. Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Is a Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Most aneurysms are not hereditary and arise spontaneously, which I did know, so to me, this wasn’t an irrational fear. Loving Him More When He Walks Out the Door 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z We also move forward through the inevitable media circus and court battle, the abdication of responsibility by everyone except the girl’s mother, who sags beneath the weight of an irrational yet inexpiable guilt. A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z In one, she criticized Betty Friedan for conducting a “thoroughly irrational” feud with Gloria Steinem; in another, she discharged a withering assessment of Women’s Wear Daily. | 1941-2012: Nora Ephron, Essayist, Screenwriter and Director, Dies at 71 2012-06-27T02:01:02Z A bunch of strangers on the internet also agree that you're being irrational. Reddit user slammed for giving girlfriend 'panic attack' over fate of planet 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z It may help to explain why, throughout his career, he risked the radical depersonalization and self-effacement of his art, why he pursued unconscious resonances, irrational wonders, metaphysical mysteries of life and death. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z A call for a round of strike action sparked on your part what sounded like an irrational fear of trade unions and "old" Labour. Letters: How to fight back against austerity cuts 2010-12-21T00:05:02Z She never fully accepted that, “believing on some deep irrational level she would be the one exception to mortality.” Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z I felt more like myself talking to his friends than I did alone with him, feeling so irrational. Asymmetric love, part three: what happened after I stepped off the plane 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z I think that what I have, though, is more along the lines of what is called, clinically, emetophobia: "an intense, irrational fear or anxiety pertaining to vomiting." Motherlode Blog: Emetophobia, Vomiting Children and Me 2013-01-14T19:31:55Z I also have an irrational aversion to shopping carts but didn’t think this was worth sharing. The Curious Tale of Mr. Kale 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z |
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