| 单词 | rational |
| 例句 | Even the rational numbers—the set of numbers that can be written as a/b for integers a and b—were countable. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They were given an unprecedented amount of information and intelligence from every corner of the U.S. government and a methodology that was logical and systematic and rational and rigorous. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It is not obvious what the rational basis would be for limiting overt race discrimination by police to immigration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My foot grew numb and wooden from the cold, and while that worried some rational piece of me, my practical side was just glad there was one less part of me that hurt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was built upon rational numbers and implied the existence of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was no rational explanation for how I was alive at this moment. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Some distant, rational part of my mind thought: of course, to make it volatile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If we were to throw a dart at the number line, it would never hit a rational number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I tried to get in touch with my rational self. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In any and every situation, nonaction is never a sane and rational approach. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He nodded lightly and said, “Yeah, I know,” and then added, “I’m not saying it’s rational. I just don’t want to have a dog.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z 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 Unfortunately for rational Jam, the figure continued to blatantly prove her wrong, levering one arm out and reaching down to the floor for stability, the gold claws carving small strips from the hardwood. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Cantor discovered that the set of real numbers is much, much bigger than the rationals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Only for a few minutes now and then does he seem to be rational and to recognize me or even see or hear me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends to find expression not in rational symbols, but in metaphor. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z "There is certain to be a more rational explanation." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely there was a rational explanation for all the incidents at Ashley’s. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Yet even those tiny carpets, all of which can fit in the span of an atom, cover all of the rational numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I didn’t even have time for rational thought. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Some small, rational part of her brain that wasn’t screaming internally decided that none of this could actually be happening. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was suddenly old and weak—not himself anymore, but rational enough to know that several troubles had already thrown their shadows. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z So why don’t employees behave in an equally rational fashion, demanding higher wages of their employers or seeking out better-paying 7 “Companies Try Dipping Deeper into Labor Pool,” New York Times, March 26,2000. jobs? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If you didn't know that she was acting rational on the far side of crazy. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “Whether the word is ‘impulse,’ or ‘compulsion,’ or ‘addiction,’ clearly there is an overtaking of rational, logical processing of information and judgment like we see with other drugs,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z This book is perfect if you love thought-provoking literature from an objective, rational viewpoint, or if you dream about one day traveling the world yourself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Making computers work requires a particularly rational mind. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though there are rational numbers everywhere on the number line, they take up no space at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z That seating chart accounts for all the rational numbers—it assigns each of them a seat—so we can count them off one by one, in order, based on their seat number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Using a tool based on rational analysis turns our intuitions upside down. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, the black elite had always wrung concessions from the white power structure—slowly but surely—through back-channel meetings, arguing their case in a dignified, rational, and, above all, civil manner. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “But people will just move away from the coast,” Alex said, trying to sound calm and rational, trying not to think of his father. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Something outside the possibility of rational justification was taking place in front of my incredulous eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z In a rational world, things ought to go as well for the MBL as they have in the past, and it should become an even larger and more agile collective intelligence. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice came from a cool, rational region far above my head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The soul, Descartes claimed, is unique to rational human beings; animals have no soul and no capacity to reason. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I finally confessed my fears to him one night, and he gave me a lecture about “being rational” and not letting my fears limit me. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “I’m not saying it’s rational, Bast. Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things. I don’t feel that way now, but back then I did. I remember.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I sought rational explanation for what seemed the supernatural. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I would end up telling myself that the most rational thing was not to hold myself back. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Take the first rational number and imagine it on the number line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I should scream, like any rational human being would, but when I open my mouth again, I just crow with joy. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We want her to help us persuade you, Johnny said in a voice that was too calm and rational for this eerie place. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The college students made what Dr. Atchley calls a “rational” assessment of the value of the information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She moved in front of the statue and faced the giant, though the rational part of her screamed, RUN, YOU IDIOT! Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Your parents, on the other hand, are not rational at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But he and all the Gladers were far too rational and intelligent to conclude such a thing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Later Yen taught us, ‘After life, the rational soul ascends the dragon; the sentient soul descends the dragon. So in the world there can be no ghosts. This thing must have been a Fox Spirit.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Me: Besides our standing as rational human beings? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Fischer was growing more self-assured, but his style was strikingly different: lucid, crystal-clear, economical, concrete, rational. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell me to act rational,” Immie said, her voice steely. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And to that, as a further explanation of her feelings, she added: “Love is not rational.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts,” she wrote, “and...as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more and more happy.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The very best and most successful basketball teams—like the best and most successful organizations of any kind—are the ones that understand how to combine rational analysis with instinctive judgment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Somewhere between these positions is where I want us to end up: staunch because we understand the advantages of being staunch; flexible because we understand the rational and historical necessity to be flexible. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Studies have shown that racial schemas operate not only as part of conscious, rational deliberations, but also automatically—without conscious awareness or intent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So we can cover the infinite cohorts of rational numbers in the number line with a set of carpets, and the total size of the carpets is 2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Cantor’s theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers—and even the rational numbers—were nothing at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like a ball.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Yossarian bounded up with a one-syllable cry that crackled with anxiety and provided the only rational explanation for the whole mysterious phenomenon of the flak at Bologna: Orr! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The left hemisphere presides over rational, analytical and critical thinking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If we start with a carpet the size of half an atom, we can cover all the rational numbers on the number line with carpets that, in total, take up less room than an atom. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Although by any rational standard I was still at high altitude— 21,300 feet—this place felt manifestly different from the South Col. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Let’s do the same thing with the rational numbers—but this time our carpets are sets of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Mrs. Huckaby, the woman I considered to be somewhat near fair and rational about the whole situation, had lapsed back into her attitude of trying to convince me there was nothing going on. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The rational part of my brain finally kicked in, stomping down the chaos of panic and terror that had overtaken me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Seriously—a completely rational man turned to raging Hulk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Scott was a nice guy, and it’s sad that he died, but nobody killed him. Act rational.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There, he learned the same rational, scientific approach to testing and experimenting that had proven that the sugar that comes from beets is the same as that which comes from cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They were about anger and hurt so extreme that rational thought was thrown out the window—these were people so deranged by frustration that they were burning down their own neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Aristotle thought about the natural world in exactly the same way: that is to say, he saw it as the product of rational, purposive activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My opposition was beyond rational, it was visceral. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The fact that most of the evidence in support of any disparity had since been discredited was deemed irrelevant; what mattered was whether the law had seemed rational at the time it was adopted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So Felix did the only rational thing that would give him a chance of sinking a basket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z By that age, surely any rational person knows not to go around setting people’s clothing on fire. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It’s been a feeling more than a rational thing, but it’s true. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Just as we did with the stain, let’s make the carpet sizes even smaller to get a better approximation of the size of the rationals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The real numbers are a bigger infinity than the rational numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “She was out of control. We are not out of control. We are intelligent, rational people.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “The White House Plumbers,” he recalled, “were not the most rational group of people.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was too strange; he couldn’t bring his rational mind to accept what was happening. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z How can the old and the new, the past and the future, rational science and superstition, live side by side here without any sign of discomfort? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The older boys agreed; but here and there among the little ones was the doubt that required more than rational assurance. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I’m at the moment you hear the landing gear of a plane grind loudly into place, in that instant before your rational mind tells you it’s just the landing gear. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z For some time she had measured the extent of her pridefulness, but she could not find any way to remedy it because the more she thought of solutions the less rational they seemed to her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I don’t know how these things work. To me, at least, it seems more rational than prom does.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I took a breath to calm myself, and tried to sound rational. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I suppose he did; he was supposed to be rational.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z How do you estimate the total need, per patient per year, for doctors, nurses, drugs, laboratory tests, hospital beds, x-rays, and so forth, in the best of rational worlds? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was as rational as you and I, more so perhaps, and we burned her.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z There has to be a rational explanation, I tell myself again. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z There was nothing rational about Holmes, but his behavior seemed to follow a pattern. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jam knew that her mother would want answers, explanations, things unraveled into a pattern that she could accept as rational. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Even today the artist remains a magician whose work can mystify and move us—an embarrassing fact to civilized people, who do not readily relinquish their veneer of rational control. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that Van Riper hated all rational analysis. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z This caused him to mistrust all purely rational descriptions of human behavior as incompatible with the more passionate stirrings he felt within his own personality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In a more rational society, an ability to write would be of great help to her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “In North Korea, paranoia was a rational response to real conditions and it helped these people survive,” said Kim Hee-kyung, a clinical psychologist who spoke to me in her office at Hanawon. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There are an infinite number of rationals, and between any two numbers you choose, no matter how close together, there are still an infinite number of rationals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, one being perfectly rational and reasonable and ten being absurd and certifiable.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They showed me how to be precise in notation, acute in investigation, and rational in inference. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We can cover the rationals with carpets that, summed together, fit in the size of half an atom—or a neutron—or a quark—or as small as we can possibly imagine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom... Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Because you were strong and rational, and anyone could see that Shawn was not. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The moral law applies to rational, language-using creatures, and the law of nature binds all human beings by virtue of their capacity to recognize that there are moral obligations that are common to them all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was quite unlike the brutal, rational way roads in Will’s world sliced through hillsides and leapt across valleys on bridges of concrete. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But he knew it to be true—it was the only explanation his rational mind could accept. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Before the altar of this most rational of churches. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Those whose attitude toward the war is most nearly rational are the subject peoples of the disputed territories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Mark had never known such hatred for anyone, and in some faint part of his psyche he knew it wasn’t quite rational. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Because they couldn’t be upset about something rational like Frank’s constant smoking or the fact that the three of us have to share a room together. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z To other cultures, like the Mayan people of Mexico and Central America, starting with one didn’t seem like the rational thing to do. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Anyone who reads them with attention discovers that even the most nonsensical take place in a world which is essentially rational and matter-of-fact. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d be getting phone calls all through the night. It was obvious that there was no standardized, rational way of making this decision.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But that same touch of the childish also gave it an air of something not quite rational, faintly threatening and mocking. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But Cantor’s hierarchy of infinities would tell a different tale: it would show just how little space the rational numbers take up on the number line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If I had seemed rational, why had Mother believed Shawn when he’d told her I was picking fights? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Merely rational thought—forgive me for preaching, but I must, I must!—merely rational thought leaves the mind incurably crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then we work something out between the two of us. Like rational people. Maybe you work for me. Tell me secrets. Do me favors.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I dug my fingertips into the little variations in the bark and, fully outside of my rational mind, pulled myself up high before I knew how. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In evading and warding off wage increases, employers are of course behaving in an economically rational fashion; their business isn’t to make their employees more comfortable and secure but to maximize the bottom line. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The ideas about scientific theories outlined above assume we are rational beings who are free to observe the universe as we want and to draw logical deductions from what we see. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I am my lawyer father’s son, a journalist, rational. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I have no idea what I was going to say to her—nothing rational, I’m sure. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the outer doors open, and once more I am a proud member of the rational world. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z This translation is even more rational than the traditional one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Tara was always the rational, sensible one,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He arrived at this conclusion, not on so-to- speak rational or sceptical grounds, but entirely on the interpretation of ancient authority. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We need to think this through and talk it through with more rational minds. At least, I’d like to.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But sometimes I ignore the whole truth, because it's easier to pretend I'm making decisions for rational reasons. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It would take all my strength to quiet my heart, to be rational. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z By tomorrow, she'll be rational —I can explain why I didn't want to turn the girls in. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z This means that the rational numbers take up less than two units of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What do I care about simplifying rational expressions? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z That is a rational response, Dr. Atchley thought, not the response of an addict. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Some brows creased as rational minds grappled with this proof of the impossible—or at least the hitherto inconceivable. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Using this sort of carpet to cover the rational numbers has some very odd consequences, as Cantor soon showed, thanks to his seating chart. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was the most rational Thanksgiving he had ever spent, and he took a sacred oath to spend every future Thanksgiving Day in the cloistered shelter of a hospital. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Some small rational part of me realized I was in deep shock. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 And I could think of no rational or practical reason why my father should try to find out who his father’s father was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I swung wildly, a berserker bloodlust overriding my rational mind. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She tried to sound calm, rational—not defensive or combative. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If you’re an entrepreneur gambling on a new product, how do you weigh the intelligence you get from rational analysis of the existing marketplace against your own instincts about the potential of your new idea? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His best chance of doing so is to engage the public’s emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And when madness overtakes him, he's not rational. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Accounting thus became the basis for rational investment choices and made it possible to decide how to divide up the profits of a partnership. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I call, but I know he won’t turn back and wait for me to give a rational explanation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m not in a very rational mood.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Go on and on to infinity; since every rational number is on the seating chart, every rational number will eventually be covered by a carpet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “There must be some rational explanation to the wholie thing. As soon as I have enough money I’ll go to the clinic and have doctors check me.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 After a minute’s rational thought, and with strength that she later couldn’t explain, she loaded the shell. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The more time I spent in jail, the more I realized that the law isn’t rational at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The infinity of the rationals is nothing more than a zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They did not look at these things as good or bad, exciting, rational or terrible. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It sits better with their rational and mathematical methods. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It implies the existence of states, of state interests and of rational calculation about how they may be achieved. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At least that’s how he came to terms with all of this later on, in a rational way. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I let her out was the first rational thought I had. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The rational part of her knew this was hopeless. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 The rational explanation laid blame on the forces of change that during this time had convulsed Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "It shuts down all rational decision-making, and they just buy it." Coming to Disney Stores: 30-minute Playmation demos 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z There’s nothing in your letter to suggest these fears are rational, but they are real. My Colleague Had an Affair. Now She’s Having a Baby. Do I Have to Act Happy? 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But the voter implied by "The Candidate" is not entirely rational. Political adviser/historian tells why campaigns, voters matter 2012-06-14T20:42:03Z And you could hardly call William Blake "rational". William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z She writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence, and for the narrator’s opaque understanding of herself. With Sensuality and Coolness, a Debut Novel Considers the (Partial) Truths We Tell About Ourselves 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z 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 I would not fight for what was rationally mine to do with as I pleased in as rational a manner as my nature as a human being required. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Like any rational person, I enter even the most posh lodgings aware of the limits of room spray, alert to the fact that I am in a biosphere rich in other people’s DNA. My Life in Hotels 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z On the issue of Sanders being expelled from a restaurant, mixed emotions are the only ones a rational person can have. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z I've watched otherwise rational friends sign off on loans far beyond their expected incomes. That Wall Street Journal op-ed about Dr. Jill Biden isn't just sexist — it's classist, too 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z He's never a saint and far from rational. Holocaust drama 'In Darkness': An unlikely hero rises from sewers 2012-03-08T21:59:06Z "But these are just superficial and I believe the new generation of more rational audience members would like to see the real historical truth." China takes no chances on starry propaganda movie 2011-06-09T13:16:05Z Once, I even spent four consecutive Sunday nights in Geneva — in midwinter — an ordeal to which no rational adventurer would willingly submit. Lost in Jerusalem 2012-01-13T15:42:55Z The first two episodes elide rational explanations — like, say, military aircraft or wonky camera angles — in favor of more extraordinary ones. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z She is played with a beautifully calibrated, level conviction by Juliet Stevenson: you believe each of her rational taps on the laptop. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z Describing himself as "a rational pessimist", Emmott says there are two solutions. Ten Billion – review 2012-07-19T19:38:51Z “A child may be rational in some respects and not all respects,” he said. First Person: Whose Picture Is It, Anyway? 2014-04-11T22:48:49Z There were rational things to consider and then there was the surprising passion of life. Abortion, a love story 2012-08-25T01:00:00Z "We realised that dancers in a 'rational' space were blocked in their movements; they seemed to bang their heads on ceilings and bounce off the walls." Can Foster and Acosta rescue Cuba's lost temple to ballet? 2012-11-25T00:05:43Z Q. Without getting deep into spoilers, White, after listening carefully to Black for most of the movie, becomes a kind of evangelist for the darkness, arguing very forcefully that suicide is a rational choice. A Word With: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and Cormac Mccarthy: ?Tis Nobler to Dive in Front of a Train? Discuss 2011-02-10T20:11:24Z In addition, his rational and grid-based approach to design is cleverly presented through various pieces of multimedia, helping to bring the words to life. In Transit: At London Museum, Fonts and Other Designs 2011-04-25T10:01:04Z When defending, we stop listening and our rational brains disengage. I’ve fallen out with my mother over her racist views. Should I reach out? 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Miller is, above all, a rational filmmaker—a supremely rational one, whose mighty set pieces have the intricately interlocked construction of a Rube Goldberg contraption set to the speed of a Road Runner cartoon. Ridin’ Dirty: “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Harry remarks at one point that crime movies and novels strike him as fake: They rely on the premise that criminals are rational, and that their behavior always adds up. Michael Connelly’s ‘The Burning Room’ Revisits Harry Bosch 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z “It is not rational to be obsessed, but it is a part of me. I am not always happy about it.” Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z And that would be a perfectly rational point of view. The head of National Museum of the American Indian on what we should all know 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z A 9-year-old is prone to big emotions and outbursts as well as rational thought and patience, and this is maddening for both the child and the parent. Perspective | When a 9-year-old back-talks 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 But Poveromo-Joly sees her continuing efforts to keep the virus out of their home as totally rational. For those still trying to duck covid, the isolation is worse than ever 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z He’s fighting against cultural Marxism and the Islamization of Norway and he found that the most rational way to accomplish that was through terrorist actions on Utøya and in Oslo.” Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work 2012-05-21T20:16:00Z Clearly, the other girls have starved themselves to the point of collapse simply because they want to look pretty; I, meanwhile, have perfectly rational, intellectual reasons for doing exactly the same. 'Being a perfect girl can kill you' – extract from Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z In 1943, after Peenemünde was bombarded by Allied forces, German architects began work on an even more extreme version of rational planning: a network of underground factories in central Germany. Exhibition Review: Architects in World War II: Construction Amid Destruction 2011-06-01T15:27:34Z How the rational brain might counter the barrage of cultural string-pulling that we experience on a daily basis, and how the world of culture might save itself from becoming a mere tool, Thompson doesn’t say. Curator Nato Thompson shines a light on art and the culture wars in 'Culture as Weapon' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Your husband himself might not be as coldly rational as he thinks. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: After a losing an unborn child, is it too soon to try again? 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z At every juncture, Don is sorrowful, rational, gentlemanly, concerned about not hurting her feelings, and reflexively condescending, in a tiptoeing, please-don’t-hurt-me way. “The Newsroom” ’s Crazy-Making Campus-Rape Episode 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The space that she evokes most vividly lies between our rational minds and our preoccupations. A haunting story by one of the best young Spanish-language writers 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Ready for some escape into a rational universe? Review | Summer escapes: Five new thrillers and mystery novels offer welcome distraction 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z His preference is to mull over issues, do the research, and then give a measured, rational response. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Since their actions are consistently directed to an end, an economist could call them rational. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z Mark Green reviews it with two other books on political topics, calling it an “interdisciplinary masterpiece” that “urges rational leaders to better deploy ‘imagery, sound and speech’ to elevate reason over emotion, democracy over reaction.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z “If you are a rational human being with some degree of care for your fellow man,” Jones writes, “then you have to dislike Mitch McConnell and everything he represents.” ‘Mitch, Please!’ Tours Kentucky and Roasts a Senator 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Gauguin was the first who had the idea to go to the primitive cultures because the power of creativity is there, rational civilisation has completely castrated the creative spirit. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z Most viewers will look for a rational explanation, but that’s not the point. YouTube ‘found footage’ docs: urban legends in their own words 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z 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 The mechanism by which people support a political program “largely incompatible with their own rational self-interest,” as Adorno wrote, requires many kinds of deception. The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The title refers to the demonic side of flamenco music, the dark spirit that can overtake rational control. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z In a sense, Mr. Sacchi’s luck charm, rooted as it is in an unlikely tale of survival, is more rational than most. We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Music: He Can Sing It, if Not Speak It 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z In other words, Stacie has been planted here to play the rational observer. "Real Housewives of D.C.": Meet the new frenemies 2010-07-31T23:01:00Z Her first approach is rational: learn the odds. 18 Ways to Navigate Stress at the Airport 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z That way the farmer knows he will always have a customer and can make rational decisions about what to invest in. Can companies be held accountable for problematic supply chains in chocolate, coffee and more? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Being right doesn’t mean being entirely rational, though. Review: ‘Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned,’ an Infidelity Drama From Lifetime 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Kelly, 56, is a curious mix – she crackles with a feral kind of energy, yet also seems completely rational and thoroughly in control. Jude Kelly: the ideal host for the first Women of the World festival 2011-03-04T07:00:03Z Darkside is something entirely distinct, a surreal form of magic at war with the rational. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Worldly shrugs are the movie’s central dramatic gestures; they take the place of emotional honesty, rational discussion, candor, and—above all—the mental labor of introspection and confrontation. “Non-Fiction,” Reviewed: A Vacuum-Sealed View of France’s Culturati 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Intelligent, rational viewers of art acknowledge that while a work may sometimes challenge us or we may not agree with the artist’s point of view, a different perspective might be equally valid. Censorship is stifling Australia's artistic freedom of expression 2013-06-13T23:39:31Z Dr. Lucas said: “I think most people are merely seeking ‘rational amusement.’ 139 Years Ago: American Museum of Natural History Opens Its Permanent Home 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “He relied on, and trusted, both his rational mind and his instincts,” Penny says of her avuncular detective, who is surely one of the most endearing specimens of his kind. Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Knowing that no duck was actually slaughtered was sufficient to persuade the rational side of my brain, but my visceral reaction was still intense. Eat it without the guilt? The story of the world’s first 'clean' foie gras 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Perhaps that fear is, on some level, rational. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z If free markets emerge from this survey as dynamic, their claim to be rational is suspect indeed. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In its own way “Dr Dee” longs for a national identity that doesn’t separate the natural and supernatural, the real and the spiritual, no matter how rational that may be. Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z He himself orders his life like an accountant, never giving way to emotion but always remaining rational, sensible and focused. ‘The Same Old Story’ is anything but 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z He concludes that Britain needs more rational public debate: a closer relationship between politics and academia, better media analysis of government and more compromise in the legislature. A difficult truth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z These movements were, like everything with Surrealism, not quite rational and linear. Getting a Grip on Unreality 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The theory that the ability to sing — even dance — can survive the loss of the rational mind is stated early and hopefully in this fulminating play, directed by Mr. Bennett’s frequent collaborator, Nicholas Hytner. Review: Song Trumps Senility in the Angry ‘Allelujah!’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The shrink said he was a product of “affluenza, where his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences.” Justin Bieber: Affluenza poster boy 2014-01-24T15:46:00Z The attorneys write, “Therefore, the only possible rational basis for the statute is a moral objection to sexual acts considered deviant or downright ‘disgusting.’” A legal defense of donkey sex 2012-12-13T21:03:00Z Your son’s fears are not rational, so using rational language not only doesn’t relax him, it adds frustration and panic. Perspective | My 3-year-old says everything is ‘scary’ — including his chores. Is he manipulating me? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z With this and other contradictory food policies and guidelines in mind, it's ironic that the U.S. is now attempting to position itself as the arbiter of rational food choices. Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Where once he was rational and methodical, now he seemed instinctive and improvisatory. A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Whether a show like “Springtime” represents absolute bad taste or delicious good fun, it exists in a place far removed from the norms of civilized, rational discourse. When We Laugh at Nazis, Maybe the Joke’s on Us 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z These are exuberant exercises in rhetoric, full of paradoxes and historical fabrications, sweeping the reader along with a kind of facetious indifference to the standards of rational argument. High culture is being corrupted by a culture of fakes 2012-12-19T08:30:04Z They are perhaps the most rational and practical generation this country has ever seen. ‘Power Must Be Taken’: Excerpts From ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Crazy though it seems to schedule so many design fests at more or less the same time, there is a rational reason for doing so. Design: A Flurry of Design Events in Asia and Europe Fill the Autumn Calendar 2011-08-28T10:00:08Z As Isabella Boylston flew through a blinding series of turns in the third act of “Swan Lake,” leading an excellent American Ballet Theatre cast at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night, the rational world surrendered. A show of virtuosos, ‘Swan Lake’ shimmers with strong women 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The critic Margo Jefferson has astutely observed that Mr. Bradshaw operates on the principle that “our psyches speak in what our egos and rational selves call clichés.” Theater Review: ‘Job,’ at the Flea Theater 2012-09-20T02:00:00Z He’s cool and rational; she frets and seethes. In ‘Natural Opium,’ a Tourist Attuned to Every Indignity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z For example, if this violence was really caused by mental illness is it not rational to assume that rates of mental illness would be relatively similar between teenage boys and teenage girls? After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z On a rational level, I think we are pretty clear about it most of the time. Mary Gaitskill on the Relationship Between Love and Torture 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Their behavior in the aftermath of an emotionally paralyzing assault is thoroughgoing, rational and predictable. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein’s defense strategy is wretched 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z She's collected and rational when arrested, and she tries to motivate her staff and sister, and give them hope and love when things look bleak. Journalist Maria Ressa, convicted of libel in the Philippines, takes on Duterte in new documentary 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z So this is an album about finding new possibilities within a recognizable framework; it’s more rational than radical, with a thoughtful relationship to mainstream convention. Review: John Raymond, Uncovering the Possibilities of the Familiar 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Let's hope so, because it's rational, not hysterical. Smiling in the face of ash 2010-04-18T16:30:00Z But Masters and Johnson are at the heart of the story, because – all for the sake of research, of course – they’re looking for a rational way to keep sex safe from dangerous feelings. Masters of Sex Gets Dark, Delves Deeper Into Desire 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z My son agreed, “The rational response is to assume it’s a precaution.” The school shooting that wasn’t: When a lockdown isn’t worth it 2014-02-17T21:00:00Z The rational way of finding the right job just doesn’t bear fruit in reality. Secret to happiness: “I want this job for a week” 2013-05-01T14:07:00Z There is still a binary where men are defined as being rational and women are understood to be emotional. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Woven together, these monologues of bereavement and confusion, illustrated with images so terrible they repel rational explanation, form a tapestry of human misery that’s impossible to shake off. Movie Review: ‘Tears of Gaza,’ a Documentary of Human Misery 2012-09-18T21:51:22Z But that argument will be ineffective if your wife’s resistance is more emotional than rational — if she’s not ready to accept a son who doesn’t meet her upper-middle-class definition of success. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom sets parameters for her son’s college fund to an extreme degree 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z But is 9/11 really “unique” because Al Qaeda is a “rational, zealous, and murderous organization” bent on recruiting other disgruntled, post-colonial militants from failed states to their heinous methods and ideology? Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z Motives may not be fully rational, and reasons may not be completely knowable, but even extreme or capricious varieties of human behavior have observable patterns and causes. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Just the way any sci-fi movie seems rational, but is very much the product of your present imagination and neurosis and preoccupations. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z The arrangement of the shelves makes no sense to human eyes—books stacked next to saucepans, televisions beside children’s toys—but is perfectly rational to the machine intelligence that configured it. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Suppose a rational plan were devised to abolish the pains and problems of old age: what might it be like and how would it be received? David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z “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 Here then, in this strangely hybrid world of superstition and rational thought, magic and science, witch burnings and book printing, the reality we now inhabit was founded. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The three horses were basically Jonathan Swift’s Houyhnhnms in drag, these being a race of rational beings described in “Gulliver’s Travels” that physically resemble horses but are superior to human “yahoos.” Thomas the Tank Engine, neocolonial fantasy: What his new international pals, and the backlash against them, signal 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The trip, inconceivable to rational beings today, did happen—and, as we come to discover, had startlingly different roles in the lives of his three companions. Three Podcasts to Listen to in October 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Within this convergence of rational interests, one element is overlooked: madness. What Died at Altamont 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z She is caught between the sticky, sometimes lethal ties of blood and the impersonal, rational benevolence of the state. ‘A Chiara’ Review: A Mobster’s Daughter Dares to Ask Questions 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z We were arguing now, even as I tried to remain calm and rational. “Don’t you want to be normal?” 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Was this rational, or is this a double standard on my part? Perspective | Ask Amy: Toxic drunk pauses in the beer aisle 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The issue in this case was whether it could use the same rational to regulate “inactivity” by imposing a penalty for failing to obtain qualified health coverage. Closing the Window, Opening the Barn Door 2012-06-29T20:35:15Z Why do sensible and rational people seem to lose the ability to act sensibly and rationally when they are in conflict? Why being wrong really hurts 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The people on those waiting lists need life-saving organs and right now there are rational, ethical, cost-saving and proven methods available to us of getting those needed organs to them. The tragedy of American organ donations: So many more people could be saved 2014-03-23T14:00:00Z “Because everything had sort of descended into chaos. Nobody was making really rational decisions.” Patti LuPone Was a Constant. The Other Ingredients Never Cooked. 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Rather, it’s a pre-political—or sub-political—tableau of forces that are pulling the strings of modern life against the rational clarity of collective progress. “Monrovia, Indiana,” Reviewed: Frederick Wiseman’s Anguished Study of Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The late Victorian period saw an industrial expansion in crime fiction, accompanied by a belief in the power of rational thought – perhaps the apotheosis of both trends was Sherlock Holmes. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z Trump’s posturing hasn’t helped – the threat of nuclear war can send even the most rational thinkers running to the tinned-food aisle. Worst case scenario: the ‘preppers’ gearing up for cataclysm | Alex Moshakis 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Your rational mind tries to interject, “Well, back then, no, they hadn’t ever heard of seat belts and air bags,” but it’s too late. Critic’s Notebook: Supreme Court’s DNA Ruling Tests the Scriptwriter’s Art 2013-06-04T22:12:16Z The sides of his personality — sociopath and family man, scientist and killer, rational being and creature of impulse, entrepreneur and loser — are not necessarily as contradictory as we might have supposed. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z Gropius and his colleagues wanted artists to be useful and to help rebuild society along rational lines. Review | Bauhaus designers changed the way the world looks. But did they make it better? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z I know it’s not rational; I didn’t own the concept of putting blood spots on shirts.” ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ at the Met’s Costume Institute 2013-04-25T11:55:00Z I don’t do a rational analysis of things. The Carpetbagger: A Mexican Director, a Maori Tale 2013-12-06T13:30:46Z “A more rational pension system for our times would be a universal system not tied to the earnings of other family members,” he says. There Are No 'Typical' Families Anymore 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z They are not just rational actors hoping to find a relationship. Three Warnings Online Daters Should Take To Heart 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z They discover that trying to die in America, in a rational and pain-free manner, isn’t easy at all. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z During early rehearsals she vainly tried to find rational motives for her ruthlessness. ‘I, Claudius’ Returns in a 35th-Anniversary DVD Set 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z The Western mind can’t proceed without rational categories and oppositions, yet it reflexively doubts these basic habits of thought. It’s easy to overthink Picasso 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Crisply written, rational and practical, “Zero to One” should be read not just by aspiring entrepreneurs but by anyone seeking a thoughtful alternative to the current pervasive gloom about the prospects for the world. From one who should know 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z So is separating unfounded worries from rational ones. Don’t let volcanoes, other irrational travel fears, ruin your summer vacation 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Despite the host's attempts to have a rational conversation, the advocate becomes increasingly unhinged as he tries to justify his positions. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z 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 Because children this age have limited language, too much parental talk tends to add frustration to an already fraught situation, so I don’t recommend trying to be rational or “talking her out of” being upset. Perspective | How do I deal with a 2-year-old who has tantrums? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z On what rational basis should we be pessimistic about humanity’s chances of success on Earth? Needed: Global moment of Doh! 2012-08-08T00:00:00Z 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 He doesn’t act, or react, like a rational man. 'You don't ever get over it': meet the British soldiers living with post-traumatic stress disorder 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z And I’m trying to deduce what a rational ethical person would do in that scenario if the primary goal was to do the moral thing. Chuck Klosterman’s shocking secret! Being the Ethicist doesn’t make me ethical 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Four Lions has no rational onscreen intermediary — certainly not Omar, who for all his surface plausibility is the most determined suicide bomber. 'Four Lions' Review: Finding Comedy in Suicide Bombers 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z 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 Those parents are going to default, and their lives are going to be ruined, because they were allowed to borrow far more than is rational.” Are student loans the new subprime mortgages? 2012-10-07T14:00:00Z Rather than writing them off as nutters, he explained how joining such a community was, for many, a rational option in the meltdown of the Soviet breakup. The World's Most Dangerous Place for Women, The Genius of Omar Khayyam and A Long Weekend With the Son of God | TV review 2010-03-31T05:45:00Z I was a smart, rational person, and my boyfriend liked that about me. Perspective | I’m dating a conspiracy theorist. But it feels like I’m the one going crazy. 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z The word “apologia” in Latin meant giving a rational explanation for something, not saying that you’re sorry for something. Karen Armstrong on Sam Harris and Bill Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps” 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z At the core of the dilemma is the question of how to square a politics of tolerance and diversity with a commitment to rational thought and critical thinking that derives from secularism. What the media can learn from Bill Maher: 1 year after Charlie Hebdo attack, satirists still taking risks news outlets won’t 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z To buy a banana taped to a wall for $120,000 is, believe it or not, a perfectly rational decision. Perspective | The Art Basel banana was art, and the peals of outrage were one layer of it 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z We don't tune in to see these people work through their problems in an orderly, rational way. Reality TV: A blood sport that must change 2011-08-18T14:59:00Z The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather than though religion and tradition – provide ample grounds for a purposive existence. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z You understand that it isn’t rational to feel threatened by your partner’s previous lovers. My Girlfriend Is Perfect Except for Everyone She Dated and I Obsessively Think About Them Hourly 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z We like to think our purchase decisions are based on rational calculations and facts, but we know they are often driven by emotions, too. What our Spotify playlists reveal about the emotional nature of financial markets 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z In this piece that follows, the author shares her run-in with religious authorities as she tries to find a rational solution. When is Eid al-Fitr? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z But of course, my rational side tells me there’s no good way this thing ends. Of conscience and creativity 2013-05-09T00:00:00Z While working on the book, she got involved with Humanists UK, founded in 1896, which advocates for “a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail.” For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z And that’s only what I hear from people who are trying to be rational. Tell Me a Story with a Happy Ending, Part II 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z In this way, Dalí theorised, "one could subsequently try to ruin systematically the logical meaning of all the mechanisms of the rational practical world". Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z The more they try to stay calm and translate what they are seeing in rational terms, the more our own excitement and sense of the numinous grows. Back to the Hugos: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke 2011-02-10T15:32:31Z Old-fashioned Freudians believe that we have masses of juicy secrets locked up inside us, unacknowledged by our well-ordered rational consciousness and clamouring to be set free. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek – review 2012-06-27T11:52:01Z Putting the power of the state in the hands of the people requires making them into rational, enlightened citizens — whether they like it or not. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The rational roots of atheism deserve a much better movie than this. | 'the Unbelievers ': ‘The Unbelievers,’ With Richard Dawkins 2013-12-12T23:51:44Z 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 His attitude is that of a rational physicist, and he is careful to mark the difference between established theory and exploratory guesswork. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z Narrative sense and rational meaning goes out the window, but it offers the thrilling spectacle of a headline act. Latitude festival roundup: my theatre highs and lows 2011-07-18T15:40:33Z She nervously smiles and flashes her ASU student ID for the camera, so we know where to find her, something no seasoned adult in a normal state of rational thinking would ever do. Real “spring breakers” don’t have happy endings 2013-03-29T16:01:00Z Grange gave expression to a rational, commercial style that is somehow very English. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z They exercise the prefrontal cortex, the rational part of the brain involved in decision-making, emotional regulation and, yes, resilience. Six ways to raise a resilient child 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Keep being brave enough to show your feelings and rational enough not to let them curdle into bitterness and recriminations. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You’d be cutting off your nose (a.k.a. an old friend) to save face 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The Kallmann-McKinnell design synthesized the two approaches, the rational and the complex. Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z But in Mozart, in Shostakovich, in Wagner, often, you get this feeling that you’re rooted in the rational but you’ve gone to some place that isn’t circumscribed by geometry any more. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The lower church, built in the Romanesque style, is somber, cave-like and complex, whereas the upper church, a fine example of Italian Gothic, is bright, spacious, rational. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z Bob Dylan later said that Rodgers’s yodel “defies the rational and conjecturing mind.” The Magnificent Cross-Cultural Recordings of Kenya’s Kipsigis Tribe 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Enforced monogamy is, to him, simply a rational solution. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Still, is giving $30 million to your nurse a rational act or the result of elder abuse? ‘Empty Mansions’: preying on the pocketbook of an heiress 2013-08-28T22:21:51Z He wasn’t crazy, but he took seriously ideas that arose from the deeper, less rational precincts of his mind, and he ushered his intuitions into physical being with consummate craftsmanship. An H.C. Westermann Retrospective Melds Humor and Provocation 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z There is only one rational response to this sort of thinking, namely that it is what you do that defines you, not what you privately think. Watching Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" in the Trump era 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z 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 Fear actually short-circuits rational thought and gets the rally-goer to accept the strongman as the only way to avoid the perceived threat. Unraveling the cult of Trump: American people must once again take power into their own hands 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z The rational in me knows that the second strain, not the first, is the one that deserves serious attention. Harrowing Births on Prime-Time TV 2011-11-02T14:49:44Z We like to imagine technology as a kind of superego: rational, impersonal, decisive. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Children are deeply emotional, but the rational, mature part of their brain is not working as well. Helping a first-grader cope with life’s disappointments 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Ottinger’s leap of absurdity is as much an expression of the tangle of confusion into which women are driven as it is an explosion of pent-up defiance at a repressively rational order. Style as Women’s Freedom: The Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z In the end, what these games convey is their creators’ unmistakable culture of excellence: a clear, rational, stubborn refusal to be anything less than the best at what they do. Rockstar, Blizzard and Quantic Dream Lead the Pack 2010-08-06T16:00:00Z He said he believed the Islamic Republic's government was a "rational actor." UN inspectors in Iran for nuclear talks 2012-02-20T10:35:00Z Kinnear's Hamlet – a deeply rational intellectual seeking to cope with a world that makes increasingly less sense. Hamlet 2010-10-07T23:28:00Z The rational part of me loves this move to complex characterisation, especially in films through which young viewers receive a portion of their moral tutelage. Wreck-It Ralph: why are all the film baddies turning into goodies? 2013-02-11T14:51:00Z Think of this show as a story of love between rational mind and passionate intuition. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z This episode was all about Laurie, as we see her struggling to reconcile her rational, scientific worldview with that of everyone else around her. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 6: The End Is Near 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The dialogue spins with rational arguments, while the theatrics spookily knock the furniture around. Review | History meets mystery in Arlitia Jones’s slightly spooky drama ‘Summerland’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Murdoch, conceding defeat, was further explaining the company's rational for pulling its bid on Tuesday. Time Warner to go it alone as Fox exits stage 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In effect, Armstrong has written a highly rational tribute to the murky wingman of our lives that exists beyond what is material and rational. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z See More » In contrast to last week’s episode, this one goes out of its way to provide rational answers to previously unanswered questions. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2, Episode 9: Nothing Can Stand in Her Way 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Had it been a more rational film, he would have been shown up as a charlatan. Paranormal Activity recap: reliving a phenomenon 2013-07-26T10:00:00Z “Can’t rational people create mad work?” she once asked a writer. Critic’s Notebook: Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons, Veiled Like Mona Lisa 2012-05-30T23:34:55Z Iran, for instance, has no rational reason to threaten Israel, with which it shares ancient cultural bonds and current enemies. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z And wherever rational grievances do exist, they are invariably viewed, and become magnified, through a religious lens. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z At the moment, any successful start-up engaged in scaling up will immediately plan to outsource production to China or Taiwan, because it's the economically rational thing to do. Apple is better by design, but does little for western workers 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z The Enlightenment, a movement which gripped Europe from the 18th century, loosened the hold of the Church in favour of rational thought. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z You would have thought the pharmacist, who allegedly is immune to the virus and who is now acting as the town doctor, would be a good candidate for, perish the thought, a rational Mexican. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Studies have shown depression and anxiety can impair the decision-making process – anxiety, in particular, can disrupt action in the prefrontal cortex, the seat of rational decision-making. The hour you are most alone: how I got trapped by poverty and depression 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Is any of this more rational than playing your cellar the first Nick Drake album on repeat? Can making your wine listen to music improve its flavour? 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The decree recognized indigenous Americans as rational beings with souls. Review | Gold, jade, macaw feathers, turquoise: Ancient American beauty at the Met 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z In such moments, Trump presents himself as capitalist man, the spirit of rational calculation. The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Why should they have the power to deprive intelligent, rational viewers of engaging with “difficult” art? Censorship is stifling Australia's artistic freedom of expression 2013-06-13T23:39:31Z More useful than rational categories are interpretative strategies borrowed from non-verbal art forms, particularly music. Frank Gehry’s variations on a theme 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “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 Surely, any rational mind would correctly identify this year as the moment the decade went sour. The London Olympics opening ceremony: a moment of optimism that destroyed the decade 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z It was a sorely needed reminder that the rational, oft-tedious act of feeding ourselves also contains therein gratification and sensual delight. From screens to stovetops: Exploring the tactile delight of culinary bookshops 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Sometimes you move it with choices, sometimes with discussion, sometimes with rational thought and sometimes with overidentification. Our 6-year-old son is an angel at school but a devil at home 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z In a rational, egalitarian labor system, Skinner theorized, all work would be considered equal, and no one would have to do anything she didn’t feel like doing. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z It’s often the grief talking; it can warp rational thought. My Brother-in-Law Vilified Us Online. Should We Still Have Him Over? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z So even when he and Abra join forces to thwart the creeps from True Knot, it’s in a rational, even heroic way. Books of The Times: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Is Stephen King’s Sequel to ‘The Shining’ 2013-09-15T21:53:08Z “Once people have bought into any cult, there’s no rational way you can change their minds – it has to be an emotional change,” Lorr tells me. 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Instead of the emergence of a rational global society, an unhappy humankind still suffered from the incoherence, hatreds and violence of political and religious sectarianism. Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z "The mediocre, rational world is my enemy," he declares. Thomas Vinterberg – back in The Hunt 2012-11-22T20:00:01Z "I don't think drug design will become fully rational in my lifetime," Colquhoun says. David Colquhoun, Twitter-addicted scourge of scientific quackery 2013-04-21T08:00:08Z Jessa pushes back at all this—at the general idea of taking something chaotic like sex and turning it into something organized and rational. Girls Watch: The Group 2012-04-24T14:41:45Z Luckily, we found a generous-spirited, rational man whom we liked and trusted very much to be our third and final donor. ‘It’s my wife’s pregnancy, not mine, but it is our baby’ 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z “I’ve always been really afraid of men. I think that’s really rational for a young girl to feel that way,” she said. Olivia Gatwood, a Poet With a YouTube Following, Branches Out 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z I would like to see his teaching adopted as expert canon by the celebrity truther movement, whose rational relationship with the search for meaning could probably use a bit of a leg-up. Is Kim Kardashian pregnant, or is it all just another celebrity conspiracy? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Goethe once defined it as “four rational people conversing with each other”, which suggests that a book on the subject might not be very exciting. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Had the senator’s speech marked a new commitment to dispassionate, rational inquiry, a respect for scientific thought and a well-grounded doubt in ghosts, astrology,creationism and homeopathy, it might have been cause for cheer. 7 ways to shut down a climate change denier 2013-12-18T13:00:00Z The seemingly far-flung mix is unified by Levy’s signature approach to form and spatial manipulation, which encourages both rational and emotional engagement with the seductive objects he creates in a bewildering array of materials. Please Do Not Enter Debuts Its New Los Angeles Gallery Space 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z "I let my childhood fantasy overrule my rational senses. That's the only reason this film exists." Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 'Broken Horses' treks from Bollywood to Hollywood 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z There is something about free stuff that makes us abandon all rational thought. Buy Nothing is everything 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z As hard as I might try, this primitive, instinctive side of me is calling the shots, at the expense of almost all rational thought. 'Sick and asphyxiating' – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Ebert, after all, stood for everything WBC will never possess – tolerance, exuberance, rational thought. Someone hates Roger Ebert: Westboro Baptist 2013-04-08T15:23:00Z Fortunately, I was rational enough to avoid rushing for the exit. Midlife crisis? It’s a myth. Why life gets better after 50 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z But my intellectual agenda was hardly just a matter of rational, liberal decision-making. Barbara Ehrenreich: My search for truth as a non-believer 2014-04-12T12:15:00Z This gives the impression that art is under rational, top-down, human control. Art Review: Armory Show, Modern and Contemporary, at Piers 92 and 94 2012-03-08T23:15:02Z “The idea is that there must be a strong social component rather than a rational decision here,” he said. How Much Is That Doggie From the Movie? 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z If you believe the worst, the next four years will be low on both empathy and rational compassion. Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z 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 “Salvation” and Judith Sargent Murray, for their part, believed that the promise of heaven for all presented a more perfect and rational view of God as loving and merciful rather than vengeful and arbitrary. Damnation, American style: How American preachers reinvented hell 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z I can’t think of any rational reason for her to get rid of it. Mom’s tossing everything, including me 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z "I hope everyone can be more rational about it," Tsung-yen told reporters. Taiwanese official begs people to stop changing their name to 'salmon' for free sushi 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z His approach to Bach’s music emphasized the emotional core within its rational precision and dancing rhythms, even while retaining the transparency of historically informed performance. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z 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 Those columns bring her hundreds of letters from people thanking her, saying they rarely hear from calm, rational voices, she said. Parker, Spitzer aim for ideological center on TV 2010-10-05T01:35:00Z It involves values or mores that people hold on a primordial or unconscious level, which are not easily expressed in language and not readily subjected to rational inquiry. Hey, liberals: You haven’t won the culture war 2012-11-10T20:00:00Z Could we trust ourselves to act like rational human beings? 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: Saddest Birthday Party Ever 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z “I am a very rational actor, always overthinking things, wanting clarity,” she said. Benjamin Millepied Uses Movement to Reinvent ‘Carmen’ on Camera 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Haus,” from 1987, was the artists’ riff on modernism’s tepid, rational end, a structure so functional as to be nearly invisible, evoking what they described as “Central European sadness.” Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z They have an extraordinarily rational policy toward the absurdity of their art. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But he was also unique in the way he made his own spirituality seem so rational. Letter: Directing Jonathan Harvey 2012-12-17T13:07:32Z He prefers a kind of rational compassion — a mixture of caring and detached cost-benefit analysis. Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z They don’t have full confidence that the system can be given a rational defense. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z To save the Giant, Joe and Gordon make what seem like a rational choice: They strip out Cameron’s operating system and replace it with MS-DOS, which makes their computer faster and cheaper. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: A Showdown at Comdex 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Describing himself as a "rational pessimist", he was quiet, humane, lucid and full of restrained anger over the inaction of governments around the world. The best theatre event of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:10Z They made it high art as well as an inspirational roadmap for rational discourse in uncivilized times. Review: A Byzantine Path to Middle East Peace in ‘Oslo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z He compares the pieces to relics in a world that might not be as post-religious as our rational minds would have us believe. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z What might then have seemed dysfunctional or unhealthy now starts to seem like a rational career move. Clarke award: the rise of sci fi shows you can't judge a book by its genre 2013-05-02T10:19:04Z Each time the camera soars over the men, you sense the civilizing, rational consciousness behind the scenes, carefully managing a natural world that as it downs one traveler after another, should be terrifying. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z But the Master is also a charlatan and a tyrant, driven by vanity and paranoia as much as by any rational ambition. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z We don’t, however, live in a rational, fair world. Put away your Bible, Justice: The new “religious freedom” arguments are neither 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Maybe we should seize the day and reboot the system in a more rational way. The Life and Death of Your Jeans 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z “My take is that there’s a sentiment in Europe that Americans are too ‘rational’ or lack the creativity for luxury, and I don’t agree with this notion,” she wrote. On The Runway: Enterprising Business Students Turn to Fashion 2013-12-06T23:33:08Z 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 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 His network of female slaves was cloaked beneath what he presented as a highly rational and emotionally mature practice of polyamory. Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Aren't we by nature superstitious and credulous beings, however rational we believe ourselves to be? David Shrigley: 'More than anything else, I need to laugh at things' 2012-09-29T23:05:12Z Sad that men now fear making rational comments, afraid it will effect their career or project! After the Apologies, Restaurants Struggle to Change 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z For all that, detective fiction, she says, is an inherently optimistic genre, affirming belief in a rational, comprehensible and manageable universe, and she isn't quite ready to confirm Dalgliesh's retirement. P.D. James channels Austen in new murder mystery 2011-12-22T21:04:04Z “Instead, Baltz cuts to the sociological quick. This use of the land is not evil because it is merely venal, but because it is rational.” Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z None of these trends bodes well for fostering an informed, engaged, critically reflective electorate capable of rational debate with those holding diverse views. The one thing that should really worry you about the 2020 election 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z A man bereft, he remains calm and rational — dispassionate in the midst of passion and its loss. ‘Next Life Might Be Kinder’: Howard Norman’s riveting exploration of grief, loss and truth In August 2009 he issued his ruling: Proposition 8 interfered with the fundamental right to marry and failed to meet even a rational basis scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause. Is the legalization of gay marriage inevitable? 2013-03-30T21:00:00Z People think of modern architecture as solving a problem through new materials and rational space. | Q&A: Historian Links Architects? Works to Glamour 2010-07-14T22:23:00Z Wan makes great use of silences, empty black space, furtive glances of something that the rational mind says should not be there. 'Insidious': A spooky haunted-house flick that also screams fun 2011-03-31T21:27:41Z 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 They learned how strong emotions can overtake the prefrontal cortex and cloud rational thinking. Goldie Hawn: ‘I was born with a high set point for happiness’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z I knew that these worries were not rational, and I was reluctant to talk to anyone other than my wife about them. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Be fair and rational — instead of venting, give a precise, detailed account of what happened. Help! It’s Been More Than 2 Years and I Still Don’t Have the Refund 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Steven is not a con man in the sense of a cool, rational grifter who knows exactly what he is doing and why. Film review: I Love You, Phillip Morris 2010-03-18T22:00:00Z The fact is, yoga was always rational, and more so in its old, extremist forms than in its present domesticated version. Art Review: ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at Sackler Gallery 2014-01-02T22:01:19Z That his pet coinage spread no further is hardly a surprise, since the ad industry of the day understood itself as a rational, even scientific, enterprise rather than a hotbed of lunacy. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z The Op-Ed writer does this by implying a distinction between rational impulses—policies and agendas—that define the latter, and the violent emotions of the former. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “He was a man who could withstand any physical pain,” the narrator writes, “face any danger, take rational decisions in situations where lesser men would crumble.” Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Without a vaccine or a cure, to attend a performance would not be a rational choice. You Live Outside New York. Are You Ready to Return to Broadway? 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z They fundamentally try to neaten things up and make it look more rational than it is. Goodbye, alt-weeklies 2012-10-06T17:00:00Z Congratulations liberals - you have successfully trained the corporate and academics worlds that it's better to throw all rational thought out the window rather than risk offending someone. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z My goal is to make this world a little bit smaller by building more empathy and then maybe, you know, creating a dialogue that can actually be rational and include all sides at the table. "Taking sides is not my job": "Retrograde" filmmaker Matthew Heineman on documenting a war's end 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s that they’re sick or high and there has to be some reasonable, rational explication for it. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Showrunner Breaks Down the Series Premiere 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Certainly, Nordenholt’s methods can be revolting, though he justifies them as rational and appropriate to an apocalyptic emergency. Review | The 1923 novel ‘Nordenholt’s Million’ explores issues unnervingly familiar in the Trump-covid era 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z And are you, a rational and mature adult, supposed to be in love with that all of the time? Perspective | I love my child but I don’t love parenting. Will this change? 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z You can scoop Adiga’s smaller observations up like shrimp in a net: “Even the smell of tobacco made a man more rational.” In ‘Amnesty,’ an Immigrant’s View Conveyed With Authority and Wit 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z So far from symbolising rational progress, the turbines are Stonehenge-like monuments of weirdness, incessantly turning and throbbing – an uncanny, oppressive heartbeat. Wake Wood ? review 2011-03-24T15:00:01Z “The space for rational and artistic thinking and expression must not be annexed by a few troublemakers for their political end but I fear this is what will happen if we buckle under this time.” Pakistan delays decision on movie that offended Islamists 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z 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 It is also a far more rational and constrained building than it initially appears. The new Broad museum, though efficiently designed, really only comes alive on the periphery 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z When the female body no longer sells, we can start having a rational conversation about what is or isn't appropriate. Pinups in the Post-Weinstein World 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z When we are feeling calm and rational, it is easy to see that. Break the cycle: how to stop having the same argument again and again and again 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “What we are representing isn’t the rational world. They need to defend that, and also understand that sometimes I have no patience.” For This Spanish Provocateur, Each Performance Is About Survival 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z That means letting paranoia, visceral anxiety and the feeling that something bad is about to happen at any second overwhelm the more rational faculties. Review: ‘The Terrifying’ Has Paranoia and the Feeling Something’s Wrong 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Before third or fourth grade, children haven’t yet formed the rational, organized thought processes that developmental psychologist Jean Piaget called “concrete operations.” Child anxiety and parenting in the Trump era 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z She is tempted by the assurances of Mike’s rabbi — but ultimately, can’t set aside her hard-earned feminism, her belief in rational inquiry as the cornerstone of a committed life. For Ellen Willis, criticism was personal 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z There was a time in your life when you didn't believe in psychology, when you didn't believe that intelligent, rational people were the product of anything more than their own intelligence and their own rationality. Sue Grafton: 'My childhood ended when I was five' 2013-03-18T09:00:06Z Halloween has one horror that makes even rational adults recoil: the monstrous amounts of candy that their children bring home. 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Maher’s recent inquisition against wrongly arrested Texas teenager Ahmed Mohammed is perhaps the ugliest example of his abandonment of rational thought in favor of superstition. Bill Maher, atheist fundamentalist: Why he gives nonbelievers a bad name 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Just which practices are moral at a given time must be a matter of rational debate. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z The only rational reason I can find to vote against independence is that it would condemn the English left to perpetual opposition. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z I'd like to think I'm a rational person, and I'm well aware that no matter how much I do "right," this virus doesn't really care. I can't stop buying N95 masks: As a hoarder, my instinct is to shop my way out of the pandemic 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s not as if a place that offers a bacon platter breakfast is where any rational person would go for wise spiritual counsel. Chick-fil-A starts a culture war 2012-07-23T21:20:00Z Al Qaeda is a rational, zealous and murderous organization that has influenced other militant groups and individuals. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z In the absence of rational agency on either side, the narrative defaulted effortlessly into the tropes of legend: quests for magical weapons, duelling codes of conduct, ransoms and bounties, eschatological bombast, archaic barbarity. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-01-31T07:01:01Z As a result, handbags are becoming less of an emotional purchase and more of a rational one. You Too Can Play the Handbag Stock Market 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It can be an emotional machine-gun for demagogues, obliterating rational argument. What Politicians Could Learn from Oprah Winfrey 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z So often, we use rational brains to help an emotional child, and we miss the mark. Perspective | When a 5-year-old has trouble transitioning from playing to learning 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The price of this is constant vigilance because the disease of addiction is not rational. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z Union protections were thus a rational reaction to irrational fears. ‘The Teacher Wars,’ Dana Goldstein’s History of Education 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z “I have to have an explanation for those choices that satisfies me and I must be able to put it into words even if I haven’t arrived at it by a rational process.” Frederick Wiseman Turns to National Gallery in London for His Latest Documentary 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Apart from anything else, if you’re nearing the end of your fertility, you’re likely to be in the grip of hormonal activity that exerts a stronger influence than rational thought. I want to have a fourth child, but my husband has put his foot down 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z 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 Mr. Alterman added, “In the end, against all rational odds, they win, in those interactions.” In ‘Oh, Hello,’ Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Have a Stage Senior Moment 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The opposite is true – it's a highly rational strategy to meet the audience where it is. From clear scripts to big-name casting, the Jan. 6 hearings meet the standards of must-see TV 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The tenets of the temple are remarkably grounded and rational, striving for “compassion and empathy” as well as “the freedoms of others”. Hail Satan?: the film that will change your mind about satanism 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z But Immanuel Kant’s scepticism about romantic passion – he favoured a deeper and more rational kind of love instead – reminds us that infatuation isn’t everything. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Steamboat is on the Ikon Pass, which is the only rational way to plan a ski trip here. Land of 100 Olympians: Why Steamboat Springs is a winter sports mecca 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z To grasp this “rational” approach to reading, Lynch asks you to transport yourself back to a time when, in place of today’s literary culture, what scholars call “rhetorical” culture reigned. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z They are resistant, even impenetrable, to the rational mind, and standing before them you may struggle to ward off impatience as they mutely refuse to do or say anything. Sculpture shows by Emilie Brzezinski, Bernardi Roig diverge sharply in theme Some rational part of my brain remembered that there was such a thing as photo manipulation, that they could put my head on someone else’s body. ‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z I am an extremely rational person and sometimes I wish I was less rational. Mackenzie Davis on playing a comedic antiheroine in “Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town” 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Likewise, some forms of depression are a rational response to a bad situation you need to address: maybe it’s time to leave a relationship, or confront an inner conflict. How to cope with loneliness | Oliver Burkeman 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, in my mind, nothing changed—I continued to obsess over my weight, only now with the added pressure of starting to recognize that I wasn’t really being rational. My lifelong diet 2012-08-02T23:40:00Z The “Alphabet Bété” sequence underscores a larger productive tension in Bouabré’s art between drawing and writing, between creation and communication, between the rational and the spiritual. The African Artist-Writer Who Mapped New Worlds 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z A stressed 20-year-old on an exam countdown isn’t going to be the most rational or rewarding of companions, and neither are they likely to offer much in the way of quality time, either. I find it hard to talk to my daughter. Now we’ve really fallen out 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z 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 gambler Winston Churchill took chances in 1940, albeit rational ones backed by educated guesses that, for all Hitler’s bluster, the Third Reich had neither the air nor sea power to destroy the Anglosphere. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Why would any rational person cooperate with police? 'Ghettoside' focuses on one L.A. murder to make case for more policing 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Despite Ingres’s willful distortions and expressive color, he was understood to be the embodiment of the rational draftsman-painter; whereas Delacroix was believed to be an emotive and dramatic colorist—a painter, not a draftsman. ‘Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix’ Review: A Master off the Canvas 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But recent updates to the plan add up to a “design that seems more grounded, rational and sure of itself.” Essential Arts & Culture: Vampire weekend, a Mexican masterpiece reemerges (sort of), the rising Academy museum 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It's not a rational response, but a very human one. Documentary examines Penn State in wake of Sandusky scandal 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z In the midst of all this lunacy is a rational man known for his “smart remarks.” ‘Prussian Blue’: Philip Kerr’s crime fiction at its best 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z It was something I didn’t have a rational explanation for. “Being black and gay in America both come with heavy doses of self-loathing”: Actor Darryl Stephens opens up about typecasting, visibility and telling his own story 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z My biggest about-face, though, was about the nature of human decision-making, I used to believe I was a reliably rational arbiter of evidence, and it’s now clear to me that I’m not. Perspective | The cure for partisanship in food debates: Start listening. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Each quiet, folky declaration is answered by a rich burst of instruments: physical responses outpacing rational decisions. Beck and Phoenix’s Bouncy Synth-Pop Team-up, and 8 More New Songs 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The Issei men's silence was a rational choice, a response to emotional trauma, and a direct result of the government's campaign to assert white supremacy on the Japanese American community. The Asian men I never knew 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Creek, it seems, has risen from the dead in a manner that would have the man himself struggling for a rational explanation. Jonathan Creek returns – but what is the detective's appeal? 2013-03-27T15:42:41Z Diamond’s knowing, rational, witty voice steadily persuades you that her comedy of ideas is onto something, even if this earnest production seldom wears its learning lightly enough. Review | ‘Smart People’ puts race under a comic microscope 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z After reading my book, I think one can reasonably conclude that a kinder thing for both of you would be to ease up, because it’s not rational to overschedule kids. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z Davies urges rational leaders to better deploy “imagery, sound and speech” to elevate reason over emotion, democracy over reaction. Three Authors Consider Contemporary Politics, Anxiously 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Besides the amount of on-air spitting each one does, the real difference is the degree to which their passionate coverage of a story also involves critical thinking, factual accuracy, clear logic and rational arguments. Donald Trump and the media: The problem isn’t too much coverage — it’s how this president i... 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “When we vetted it with our members, everyone said it was rational,” says Mark McAfee, owner of raw dairy producer Organic Pastures and secretary of CFU’s board. Can this radical approach to dairies save U.S. farms? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z "Office Hour" tunes into the paranoia running rampant in a society in which the realities of mass slaughter and untreated mental illness have made this response all too rational. Sandra Oh is in top form in SCR's 'Office Hour,' which tackles race, identity in a gun violence-wracked world 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z “There is just no rational reason why the whole situation escalated.” We’re still talking about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 50 years later. Here’s why. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Together with a political ally named Burrus, Seneca was directing the rational wing of the palace, leading a shadow administration much like the one described by the Times Op-Ed writer. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z There are rational explanations, like the fact that Joan lives in Los Angeles, or that — in memory terms — she was the last one in and therefore the first to go. Refreshing a Mother’s Memory With Love and Stories 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z So the decision to do Bravo Figaro! was more instinctive than rational; but, with so personal a story, it raised the question of how to represent him on stage. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z Civilization, the thinking went, was a homogenizing system of efficient, rational rules, designed to encourage discipline and “progress.” The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z If he is truly as thoughtful and rational as he seems, it’s hard to believe he fled to Hong Kong without a workable exit strategy and ended up, as he put it, “trapped” in Russia. What Brian Williams Should Have Asked Snowden 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The film imagines that throwing off repression to live a happier, freer life on a more exalted rational plane is not only desirable but also achievable. | '3': Tom Tyker?s ?3,? a Comedy of Adultery - Review 2011-09-15T22:32:35Z That may be rational, but it's also dramatically reductive, erasing the teasing ambiguities of Henry James's novella and Myfanwy Piper's libretto, and putting only a rather banal case-study of Victorian female hysteria in their place. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z Striving to match the power of recent painting, they shared an interest in fusing the rational order of technology with spontaneous construction techniques. LACMA's 'Space Sculpture' shot from center stage to oblivion 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Aristotle saw children as essentially moral beings in training, while Kant viewed morality as a simple matter of relationships between free and rational beings. First Person: Whose Picture Is It, Anyway? 2014-04-11T22:48:49Z 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 "The Hollywood aura seems to drive people away from rational thinking. Film investing is extraordinarily risky, especially when you are dealing with outside-of-the-box projects," said Philip Aidikoff, a Beverly Hills securities lawyer. Film entrepreneur draws mixed reviews 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Nick Paolucci, a spokesman for the city’s Law Department, said he was pleased that the appellate court agreed that the board’s “determination regarding the development of this historic site was proper, rational and not arbitrary.” Appeals Court Backs Landmarks Commission on House Used for Underground Railroad 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Not wanting to speak ill of the dead is a human and rational desire -- once someone is gone, he or she is unable to defend him- or herself. It's a wonderful afterlife for Michael Jackson 2010-06-21T05:17:00Z Ms. Targoff and Mr. Greenblatt write in the book’s introduction, “Browne’s voice is the voice of a vanished world, a world utterly routed by our own conceptions of rational inquiry, scientific proof and common sense.” Thomas Browne, 17th-Century Author, Draws New Interest 2012-08-07T12:00:00Z Davies, a political economist, argues that democracy is in peril because crowd-driven emotions have displaced rational thinking in an age dominated by the internet and social media. New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z By all rational odds, Armenia should not be on the map today. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The idea that he and Robert Gottlieb, who have edited thousands of pages together, still meet prepared to go to war over semicolons defies any rational partitioning of time. ‘Turn Every Page’ Review: It’s Not Done Yet 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Sean had always been the rational one, a brilliant computer scientist who spoke sense when I was in the throes of clinical depression. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z Speaking at the White House ahead of a screening of his new documentary, Before the Flood, DiCaprio said such rejection indicated an inability to engage with the rational world. Leonardo DiCaprio: climate change deniers should not hold public office 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Where was the rational discussion about how morals and values factor in? Abigail Disney Builds a Dialogue on Gun Control 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Serious, “rational” society had produced mass destruction in the 20th century. Yoko Ono and the Women of Fluxus Changed the Rules in Art and Life 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z He thinks he's rational and meticulous, but he is actually driven by pettiness, greed, anger, class resentment and intellectual vanity. "Breaking Bad" 4x6, "Cornered" 2011-08-22T09:23:00Z They want to minimise their own unpopularity and will see the world in ways that make their actions seem rational. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z Mr. Gardner said that in too many accounts of 9/11, the focus on Qaeda members as rational actors has been obscured. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z Following the backlash, the account issued a statement last week on its feed urging fans to be “rational” when chasing celebrities for a “harmonious and healthy internet environment.” China’s Weibo bans BTS fan account for illegal fundraising 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z She couldn’t understand this was a rational inquiry. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z And even St. Thomas Aquinas, the theologian most committed to the demands of the rational, believed that a painting of the crucifixion in the church of San Domenico Maggiore spoke to him. Seduced by Naples’ chaotic, crumbling beauty 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Its producers think it can spark some positive rational conversation; realists point out those are not qualities often associated with the subject. Sundance 2016: which films are set to reverse festival's box office flameout? 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “You don’t do rational things when somebody blows up an atom bomb at your feet.” Peter Bogdanovich, 82, Director Whose Career Was a Hollywood Drama, Dies 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z He had daily experience making narrative leaps that defied rational thought. A dark fable of love, adventure and redemption 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “There’s an idea I was raised with in misogynist postwar Britain that feeling and rational thought were opposed,” Anohni said. Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Thankfully, “The Hidden Spring” provides a necessary reminder that rational thinking isn’t all it seems to be. Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It is the opposite of the grotesque and the visionary, modes in which unruly imagination runs riot over rational wisdom. Art Review: Sophisticates? Sketchbooks 2011-05-26T22:23:15Z Michaela’s expressions of loss, at first dark but rational, become obsessive and crazed: “The first duty of the widow is to join her husband.” Review | Joyce Carol Oates captures the wobbly reality of widowhood in ‘Breathe’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Hazzard’s stories feel timeless because she understands, as she writes in one of them: “We are human beings, not rational ones.” Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z If that isn't abstract enough, then maybe ir/rational will suit. Browser games round-up 2012-07-21T23:05:41Z The audience is a rational collective of people who listen to Grande’s music. Ariana Grande: A pop star obsessed with her fans 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z This critique says that rational social engineering, the sort often pursued by revolutionaries and progressive reformers, can never reproduce the subtle knowledge and virtue captured in tradition. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z “The options open to Russia were difficult, and there were powerful and rational arguments to justify the foreign policy adopted by Petersburg,” Mr. Lieven writes. Review: ‘The End of Tsarist Russia’ by Dominic Lieven 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Roth quickly and likably departs from any such rational scheme in favour of the more chaotic and obsessive, hopelessly self-absorbed stuff of his life. The Scientists: A Family Romance - review 2013-01-14T07:00:01Z Listening also puts you in more of a power position because you can make rational choices about how — or whether — to respond. Ask Amy: Woman feels betrayed when friend dates her ex 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Edward is a rational, ethical creature — “responsibility” is one of his favorite words — and the movie takes pains to be reasonable. Review: ‘Snowden,’ Oliver Stone’s Restrained Portrait of a Whistle-Blower 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z When you get called a name, understand that you are witnessing a burst of frustration and that using too much rational thought, reasoning, punishment or bribes will increase that frustration. Perspective | ‘I hate you’: How to respond to a 4-year-old’s insults 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z He’s the perfect rational man, a Dutch mathematician born into a world of heroic engineering where people can no longer tell what land was made by nature and what by man. Love Among the Ruins 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The erotic force we like to call love is not rational. London Theater Journal: A 'Carousel' That Really Moves 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps the “addict” isn’t under a spell, but is instead making a rational choice to use them. My first time scoring heroin 2013-01-01T01:00:00Z The story “is not one of steady, rational progress,” Henry Marsh writes in his review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to be fully rational when you live in a world where information is incomplete. Boston Marathon bombing: Why early reports are wrong 2013-04-16T19:27:00Z For rational people and others who actually live in empirical reality, the age of Trump is surreal, maddening and unbelievable. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Perverse invention and rational coherence lock into each other at weird, compelling angles in his work. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z It was a corrective portrait, reframing the scowling demigod of musical myth as someone, well, human — rational, and more interested in optimism than anguish. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Here was another example of the rational thinking Alsop brought to Mahler’s dark night of the soul. A Mahler under control 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The famous "efficient markets hypothesis" argues that stock prices are driven by rational calculations. What our Spotify playlists reveal about the emotional nature of financial markets 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z The film’s final battle scene has military barbarism triumphing over rational thought, and Bäumer’s honed animal instinct wins out over his humanity. In a German ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ History Has a Starring Role 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The emergence of ethics predicated on the workings of reason mirrored the rise of rational religion among freethinkers who sought to silence enthusiasm’s loud party. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Here’s the thing: every decision the fundamentalist Christians on the Dover School Board made, in public or behind closed doors, was rational. Make them talk about evolution: Why won’t a single Republican presidential candidate admit that Darwin’s right 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Continuing in this vein, is in and of itself, unfair, and only raises hostility, not rational cooperation. On ‘Black Lightning,’ a Superhero Takes On Race, Justice and the Real World 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z We must respond to it rather as we respond to art: with all of our receptors alert, at all levels — rational, emotional and aesthetic. Perspective | Art can help distinguish between conspiracy and reality, and this exhibition proves it 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Beattie is disarming too, as a sweet, rational guy who is appalled by his new home, and quietly sets out to humanize the place. In ‘Assisted Living,’ the Golden Girls (and guys) meet Orwell 2013-04-29T19:14:35Z I agree with you — even though we’re not being entirely rational. I Was Fine With Being the Breadwinner, Until 2020 Came Along 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The rational mind seeks to define the experience in positive, if awestruck terms. Jon Savage on song: The Dovers open their Third Eye 2010-10-04T12:55:00Z “I made the rational decision,” he said, “and left.” Documentaries in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy 2013-02-01T21:33:10Z While parts of it merely smuggled elements of rational pricing into the Soviet context, other parts were truly directed at outdoing market processes. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z "It isn't rational" — an observation that could serve as an epigraph to Orton's collected works. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s possible to imagine a more rational system, in which one word describes the activities of artistic and intellectual life, another our group identity, and a third our implicit norms and ways of living. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The new players are bringing a more rational business perspective, and digital technological advances are helping the low-budget movies that screen here reach wider audiences. Sundance 2011 filmmakers face new reality 2011-01-20T17:13:58Z This is Gibson’s first movie since the 2006 Apocalypto, and his first since rational people everywhere turned against him for his repeated anti-semitic ravings. Mel Gibson Reaches Toward Redemption with Grisly, Effective Hacksaw Ridge 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s a world where asking how many cars it takes to destroy a cargo plane isn’t the setup for a bad joke, but a rational question with the answer: three. How the Fast and Furious franchise used cars to symbolize the American dream 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z A carefully written, rational complaint sent using the company’s online “help” form is far more effective, at least to start. Perspective | How to get a travel company to respond to your complaint 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z I admit, this was entirely a rational exercise. For Northern Rhône Reds, It’s Not the Age but the Emotions 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Even the segregation of gangs along racial lines is rational. Protection rackets 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Nervous Nelly: The tough part about such dread is that some of it is rational. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Learning to confront feelings of dread 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z "Love, I am firmly convinc'd, is the Effect of Prejudice & Imagination; a rational Mind is incapable of it." How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-02-18T08:00:05Z Yet determined to seem rational or in control. The warrior critic: in praise of Pauline Kael 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z To Le Corbusier, the house was famously "a machine for living", it was rational, bright and sanitised. Interior dark: two shows reveal visions of the unhomely 2010-06-16T10:07:00Z Would a show called Loose Men only last for five minutes tops cos blokes have much more rational minds than women? One last thing... Loose Women 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Is it rational to think that people like the inhabitants of Terminus, the governor, the Wolves and the Survivors are the majority of people who are left? ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Finale: Negan Makes His Entrance 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s based partly on the assumption that price gauges demand by rational consumers. Stop buying expensive wine! 2012-09-30T20:00:00Z Apparently you want this, and want to justify it as a rational choice, so you’re shopping for hopeful rationales. Carolyn Hax: Sometimes, the greatest gift is knowing when not to butt in 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s the closest he gets to rational hindsight in the entire book. An Audiobook Gives New Life to the Haunting Memoir of a Waco Survivor 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z A concise visual essay on age-old associations of the masculine with rational abstraction and the feminine with the messy body, it looks as if it had been made in the 1980s by a second-wave feminist. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z “Putin is acting so irrationally he makes Nikita Khrushchev appear like a rational actor in comparison.” In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z “It could provide all its people with some rational way to live together while still glorying in their cultural diversity.” Charles Fuller, Pulitzer Winner for ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ Dies at 83 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z What’s even more shocking is that nearly three years have passed since that bombshell of an announcement, and perfectly rational people have not calmed down. Perspective | Meghan and Harry made a fairy-tale escape. They still seem trapped. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z It's possible we Americans are not entirely rational about The Great Gatsby. Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z “We make up 51% of the world, there’s no rational reason there shouldn’t be an equal percentage except that in the art world, as in any other field, women’s labor is valued less,” Hebron says. Women, art and inequality in the gallery world: Sprüth Magers exhibition fuels an old debate 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Only in contemplation, he suggested, are our rational needs and desires properly fulfilled. High culture is being corrupted by a culture of fakes 2012-12-19T08:30:04Z I don’t think she made a rational decision. In ‘Succession,’ Tom and Greg Were Never Playing the Long Game 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z It can temporarily deprive us of our ability to reason and make rational choices because it can be completely paralyzing. Today's teens are anxious, and social media can play a role 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z She seems sound and rational and only occasionally prone to babble. Jane Fonda: ‘Plastic surgery bought me a decade’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z “All I’m saying is, there are bound to be things that rational people can discuss here in a rational way that’s not immoral.” Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Not that it’s an entirely pleasant, fair or rational person that she became. Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z To tell a “story,” whether real or invented, is to presume at least the possibility of rational understanding. ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z Being more rational and objective about the decisions that we make can easily override those experiences. Doomed to relive high school? Science that says who we were at 16 still defines us 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z “He was rational to expect he would serve some time in jail but generally be graded along the usual curve for white-collar criminals,” Henriques says. How do you humanize Bernie Madoff for an HBO movie? Simple: You don’t. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z She plays Ellen Martin, a Michigan grandmother whose attempts to do apparently straightforward things like settle an insurance claim and buy a new condo are ensnared in complicated schemes that defy rational comprehension. ‘The Laundromat’ Review: Meryl Streep in a Cycle of Spin 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z In general, we live in quite a rational society, certainly in historical terms. Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z A rational question, actually, at least from a political perspective. Review: The Anti-Clinton Brigade’s Four-Letter Word Obsession 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Envy is also an emotion that, like anger, can motivate people to do things that, as rational agents, they have no business doing. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z It was a sorely needed reminder that the rational, oft-tedious act of feeding ourselves also contains therein gratification and sensual delight. From screens to stovetops: Exploring the tactile delight of culinary bookshops 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z I can’t add anything to your ample justification for a rational, minimally generous person to try white noise and back off. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His wife wants to set a curfew for his visiting 42-year-old son 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z As Kubrick's career progressed he was increasingly drawn to stories that defied or challenged rational analysis, like "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "The Shining." "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z This century has been better, or at least more rational, for the Super Bowl halftime. Coldplay and Beyoncé Hope to Match Past Spectacles at Super Bowl Halftime Show 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z We live in a culture that prides itself on being rational, when in fact we are as governed by superstitions, suppositions, as we ever were. Eula Biss' 'On Immunity' is a beautiful shot of insight 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z 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 They deal with crises of faith and morality; they consider the conscience of the lonely or the depressed or the evil, and hint at redemption through rational logic. Black Sabbath’s New Album, ‘13’ 2013-06-07T16:18:21Z All diet advice can be rendered in four words, "Eat less, move more", which would work if we were rational beings but our relationship to food is emotional. Suzanne Moore: 'I've joined the gym!' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z But by the time the Earth starts to shake, buildings crumble and the overlords in "Mad Max" kill for water, rational thought has been blurred by the instinct to survive. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Sometimes, tension in a twosome is also about paranoia overtaking rational fear, said Dr. Karasu, who went on to tell the story of a wealthy Park Avenue couple he knows. Together Apart? How About Totally Losing It? 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In movies like this, rational adult behavior is counter to requirements; instead, we have a lolloping white rabbit, which materializes on Sarah’s porch and violently resists expulsion. ‘Run Rabbit Run’ Review: No Child of Mine 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The complex balance of rational and national identities is its first and foremost concern. Books of The Times: ‘Americanha,’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013-05-19T20:26:59Z Spock, cool and rational, finds the drone strike — well, photon torpedo — option morally wrong. ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Action, excitement at warp speed 2013-05-15T04:11:26Z ES: The stakes are too high to expect much rational deliberation of the evidence, I’m afraid. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z If being logical and rational were all that mattered, we wouldn’t need actual physicists. What Role Do Emotions Play in the Way Our Brains Work? 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z “Who are you?,” on the other hand, is an inquiry that plunges this obsessive rationalist — or rational obsessive, if you prefer — down a rabbit hole of indeterminacy. | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ?Manacled Mormon? and His Kinky Weekend 2011-07-14T22:11:29Z They seem a lot more sane and rational. Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2, episode 10 – Do Not Disturb 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The Lincoln in Mr. Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s film represents the triumph of the moral good, achieved through rational discourse, the law and backroom wrangling. ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Django Unchained’ and an Obama-Inflected Cinema 2013-01-16T16:28:50Z Revolution Muslim put out a long statement in which it insisted that it was in favour of a rational dialogue with non-Muslims. South Park censored after threat of fatwa over Muhammad episode 2010-04-22T20:16:00Z There is an enormous contradiction, and it is readily apparent if you just walk through a simple sort of logic and simple rational points. Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z Seeking a rational explanation for his oddities, he takes up with an eccentric lone researcher, then joins an ill-fated scientific expedition to discover the nonexistent Northwest Passage. ‘The Age of Ice’: locked into an eternity of cold 2013-08-08T19:44:22Z Another TikTok user offered maybe a more rational explanation for what transpired. Talking cat asks owner 'Are you coming?' in viral TikTok video 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z It was impractical timing – I was newly and precariously self-employed and the house I rented with my partner, Steve, was tiny – but there was no chance I could be rational. Four years, 40 negative tests: why being young and infertile sucks 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z But to many, Rand’s philosophy of “rational selfishness” seemed as harsh and limited as the Russians’ materialism. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z You’re quite a rational person in spite of being an author of fantasy. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z And don’t even attempt to infer a rational storyline. London Theater Journal: A Weekend of Hedonism and Hope 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes the images look like maps of a world that exists just past the horizon of rational consciousness. ‘Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint’ Review: What Did She See, and When? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “Delaying gratification is only the rational choice if the child believes a second marshmallow is likely to be delivered after a reasonably short delay.” 14 Factors That Affect the Decisions You Make 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Who else but the poor and the suffering, she asks a younger, more rational nun at dinner, would have visions of heaven? The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Always the rational one in his family, Vincenzo is now letting impulse and raw emotion get the upper hand. ‘The Dismal Science’: a dark brew of angst and economics 2014-01-22T22:35:56Z The engine of his diatribes is rational argument taken to perversely logical or baroquely excessive conclusions. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z In a rational world everyone would then be fairly served. My sister is making our parents and me babysit so she can pursue her single lifestyle | Mariella Frostrup 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z What makes rational travelers like you and me suddenly explode? A Recipe for Air Rage 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And Walter White alwaysgoes into this thing clean and sober and remains clear-eyed up to the end of season four here and does the things he does in a rational, calculating manner. Breaking Bad Q&A: Creator Vince Gilligan Talks the Finale, and the Future 2011-10-10T17:45:00Z But his defense team argued that he’d been the victim of “affluenza, where his family felt that wealth bought privilege and there was no rational link between behavior and consequences.” Spare us the “affluenza” defense this time: Ethan Couch faces real prison time for violating parole 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Pinsky was at a transitional moment in his poetic career, moving from the discursive, coolly rational style of “Essay on Psychiatrists” and “An Explanation of America” toward a more enigmatic mode of questioning lyricism. When Robert Pinsky Wrote a Video Game 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The rational part of her, the one that sees a therapist and fitfully takes medication, tries to talk herself down. In John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down,’ a Teenager’s Mind Is at War With Itself 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z And almost deal with that separately in order to stay calm and logical, rational. Belarusian political dissidents on spreading their message of freedom: ‘We never know when our life will end’ 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z A city built from scratch, the metropolis was to be modern, rational, ordered – the opposite of colonial India. Auctioning off utopia 2013-07-14T22:00:00Z As compelling, even reassuring, as the rational method is, it is never the whole story. Secrets of Stonehenge 2010-07-23T12:29:00Z Surrealist artists hoped to draw upon and release automatic thoughts and unconscious feelings, connecting themselves and their audience to stirrings of the mind that aren’t yet rational. The use and abuse of the feminine in Hirshhorn’s ‘Marvelous Objects’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The purpose of this talk was to convince the assembled audience that not only are we less rational, we're less moral too. SXSW 2011: Dan Ariely on what makes people cheat 2011-03-16T18:45:00Z "I'm not sure that there is a rational explanation as to why people buy or like watches," says Hallock. Cool High-Tech Watches 2010-11-11T23:00:00Z 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 If we are to respect and laud our most rational of selves, let us also appreciate the wild and vast landscape of unreasonable reflexes. How to Say ‘No’ This Thanksgiving 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Martin had always been about maintaining control in his life, pegging the world in neat, rational categories, everything in its place. ‘Acid Test’: The case for using psychedelics to treat PTSD, depression Is religious faith rational, and do we really want to be equal? Ready Thyself for an All-Night Philosophy Jam 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Usually, the first instinct of a rational person would be to defuse the situation, mainly since my child was there. Paul Scheer: The First Time I Got In a Bar Fight 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z In Shakespeare's plays, suicide continues to be presented as a rational response to a narrative that has gone tragically awry. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The dreams in which much of the movie takes place are artificial constructs, rational, rectilinear simulacra designed to achieve specific ends. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z But, then, it is a mistake to think of the Boris phenomenon in rational terms. Boris Johnson reminds Tories of what David Cameron has lost 2012-10-06T23:08:26Z Gleaning insights from bacteriology, she makes a case for microscopic fairies that live in our bowels and shape our rational minds — even before our lizard brains lurch into action. Jennifer Moon's mesmerizing show turns the art world into a punchline 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Their supposedly sane leader is hardly less ridiculous, putting his faith in this boneheaded crew and offering no rational account of his motives. Four Lions may roar, but its laughs are hollow 2010-05-10T10:09:00Z If you stay calm and rational, they will, too. Explaining the news to our kids: How to make sense of the nonsensical 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z However, I felt the tone of the question from “Caregiver” was reasonable, rational and based on professional experience. Perspective | Ask Amy: Grieving parent wonders how to respond 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Even if we like imagining we are wonderful, superior, rational and empathetic beings, we are not. "It is always the other who is guilty, never us": Movie "R.M.N." examines what drives xenophobia 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z You may soon find a rational explanation for your fears. Quarantining With a Ghost? It’s Scary 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z But both worked their dark magic on a primal, more than rational, level. TV Tonight: American Horror Story: Coven 2013-10-09T09:45:39Z Every rational part of us can see that guilt should not reside in a place, but it does. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z It's a rare moment when Grayling's scrupulously rational mind allows for a glimmer of something more emotionally subjective. AC Grayling: 'How can you be a militant atheist? It's like sleeping furiously' 2011-04-03T20:00:01Z Their ability to be rational and logical is not very well-developed, and if you draw too many boundaries around too many issues, the children will become suspicious, resentful and obsessed with the banned issue. How parents can learn to say yes again 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “Punk rocker meets high-powered lawyer. Lawyer sees head-to-toe tattoos, loses all rational sense, and the rest is history.” Love Rocks — And So Does a Walk Down the Aisle With Debbie Harry 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z That fealty may not be rational, but what about America is? How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z They also rarely make choices in a rational way.” Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Tell your husband, gently, that his tuition threat is a page from Milly’s playbook — assuming he’s rational and kind enough not to punish such truth-telling. Carolyn Hax: Husband is pulling a page from obnoxious mother-in-law’s playbook 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The lightning-fast and scrupulously rational online judicial process through which society punishes the guilty, eg furiously tweeting death threats at an Australian DJ whose prank telephone calls are ethically indistinguishable from murder. From Armchair Paralympian to Paedosavile: my words of 2012 2012-12-30T20:00:00Z And that even if supposedly “rational, impartial adults” let you down, as they do Claire, there is triumph to be found in telling the truth. Parachuting In, Then Speaking Out 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z In short, the rational course for these firms — even the ones not presently working closely with the military and security agencies — is to cooperate with the national security state. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z Instead, he tells them, they must use rational thought to realise that, over the border, they are as exploited as Marx hypothesised. Fastest! Tallest! Marxist! The visual art of Phil Collins 2011-02-06T22:29:00Z The rational part of me knew I was making the right decision, but the socially conscious part of me felt dirty and broken and tainted just mentioning the word. My abortion almost killed me — but not for the reason you think 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z It is devoutly rational, even scientific: it contains descriptions of the world’s peoples that may seem wildly fanciful, but are based on the authoritative sources of Ricci’s time. 2010-01-20T05:23:00Z However, in each of his persuasive speeches to world leaders and conversations with journalists, Zelenskyy conveys the deportment of a rational, determined man. Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z This crowd -- most of whom looked like "Jersey Shore" rejects and watched the majority of the show through their phone-cams -- has no interest in sober, rational Charlie. Charlie Sheen hits New York - but what IS the show? 2011-04-10T00:08:52Z But the results tended to be more eccentric and ambiguous than the equally poetic but decidedly rational films of contemporaries like Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné. Jean Grémillon Retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Beyond that: Consistent, rational and comprehensive teaching as you nudge him toward independence will erase any expectation that, literally or figuratively, you’ll be carrying him through life. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Can a 3-year-old who always wants to be held ever hold his own? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z His first book, The Divided Self, which presented schizophrenia as a rational response to intolerable experiences, was written at just 28. Unthinkable? Rehabilitating RD Laing 2011-08-26T22:06:42Z It’s not our rational brain; it’s our narrative brain. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The Mind of God’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Of course, getting through to people on the other side is a challenge that neither artwork nor rational argument can always meet. Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather’ ponders the role of art during times of crisis 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z No grandstanding, no emotional outbursts, just a rational, level-headed approach to dealing with a problem. Stay Single and Don?t Change: Life Lessons From TV Season Finales 2012-05-16T10:00:18Z Finally, there is the interplay between rational order and the creative imagination. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But there was a rational explanation for the spook at his window. Marine Court: Hymn to the Sun 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z This is a building that wants to look respectable and rational but not staid, one that is fairly conventional on the horizontal plane and takes a significant if measured chance on the vertical one. Downtown L.A.'s long-delayed federal courthouse is a polished work of civic architecture 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The skills and values Painter cultivated over the course of her career — rational discourse, analytic rigor and historical meaning — are regarded with suspicion, and she finds herself pigeonholed as too “academic” and “twentieth century.” Review | An aspiring artist finds out it’s never too late to start over 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z And for all its apparent craziness, this hotel is, at heart, a rational building, with an interior that is carefully planned. Much of a Dutchness: the Hotel Inntel Zaandam 2010-03-31T20:30:00Z Waite has a knack for showing the ways that cognitive dissonance can chart pathways in the mind that cause emotional confusion to obscure rational thought. New in Memoir: Lessons in Falling in Love, and 2 Accounts of Its Horrors 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The Queen's existence means that a flabby "Bah humbug!" emotion is given a rational constitutional backbone and transformed into a credible opinion. The Queen's jubilee should be a time of rejoicing for our spoilsports 2012-06-02T23:05:41Z The Newton that emerges from the manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. Magician’s brain 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z RN Ancient Worlds 9pm, BBC2 Because so many of their ideas underpin our own society, we like to think of the ancient Greeks as "rational, cultured, humane, civilised". Tonight's TV highlights: Edwardian Farm 2010-11-24T00:05:00Z The resulting critique suggests that so-called rational and logical worldviews are much closer than you’d think to the altered states of deeply subjective experience. T Magazine: Fungus Among Us 2010-11-22T21:02:00Z That message, in just about every Woody Allen movie a fan can name, is that morality is the most practical, rational way to get through a meaningless, ultimately fatally cruel, existence. ‘You know, I’m never happy’: Woody Allen discusses new ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ The troop chemistry is tender and Davis shines in her compassionate, albeit familiar, role as a maternal figure and rational voice. ‘Troop Zero’ Review: A New Generation of Underdogs 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z “But my sense was that she did have the capacity to pick a lawyer and that she could make a rational decision.” Is Britney Spears Ready to Stand on Her Own? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Max decides to do something about this: his next novel "would be written by the rational god of market forces". Burnt Island by Alice Thompson – review 2013-05-29T14:02:55Z Milton Babbitt, an influential composer, theorist and teacher who wrote music that was intensely rational and for many listeners impenetrably abstruse, died on Saturday. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z Famously rational for a creative artist, Mr. Davies laughed at the idea. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z It’s beautiful when you find things like that – you realise creativity doesn’t come from a rational place, it’s subconscious, and you should not be aware.” Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The people in her photos are making rational choices, given the values of the culture, she says. America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Are there communities that rational folks could migrate to? Beyond “new atheism”: Where do people alienated by the movement’s obnoxious tendencies go from here? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The fragmented images, toned a soft sepia, float freely somewhere in the vague past, confetti of the unconscious, while the succinct beats of their formation assert the rational mind's urge toward pattern and order. Cuban artist Jose Fors: A deft command of metaphor and material 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z He’s also one of the show’s most rational characters. The Walking Dead Recap: 'Bloodletting' 2011-10-24T09:00:45Z Let’s try to use this holiday for some rational economic improvement! No gifts, just pay my bills 2012-12-14T01:00:00Z Going to the fair is like visiting a great, eccentric museum abounding in wonders and curiosities but organized according to no discernibly rational plan. Fine Art and Antiques Show at Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The situation will look a lot less dire in the morning, and time spent cooling down now will allow for a more rational, logical and reasoned communication later. Motherlode Blog: Finding an End to the Parent-Teacher Wars 2012-04-20T19:34:37Z Most game theory, he noted, treats players as equally “rational” parties sitting across a chessboard. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z People do these things because the human mind is not always rational. Buying lies: If Hillary Clinton had spent a little more time with HGTV before the election she’d know what America really wanted 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z An allegorical figure, Death, who has been rendered all too obsolete by mass slaughters, squares off against Emperor Überall, pretty much a dead ringer for Hitler, if slightly more rational in the end. Review: Juilliard Opera’s Timely Double Bill 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “We need a complete overhaul of the student-loan system so there’s a more rational set of limits” to curb the debt problem, says Kantrowitz. Are student loans the new subprime mortgages? 2012-10-07T14:00:00Z How could an entirely rational person like myself almost tank a perfect gig? No fries with that: An artist's guide to surviving while eating on the road 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z No rational person could be surprised; as we’d grown more serious about each other, we’d become bizarrely less vigilant about preventing an unplanned pregnancy. My partner didn't want children. I did. Then I got pregnant... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Our ancestors invented rational explanations for inexplicable phenomena, because not knowing what thunder is was worse than thinking that it was the roar of a colossal dragon. The monsters we create: On Stephen King’s “It,” the creepy clown epidemic and Donald Trump 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z For Lee, his rational, sarcastic and slim persona acted as a sort of brake on his chubby partner's childlike excess. Can the Cameron-Clegg comedy double act survive? 2010-05-21T15:55:00Z Big Brother’s pronouncements are treated as absolute truth by his acolytes, even when they defy rational thought — so Black is White, 2+2=5, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The astrophysicist says that “Starry Messenger,” a call for science, exploration and rational thought as paths to a better life on Earth, may be his “most important.” Neil deGrasse Tyson book ‘Starry Messenger’ coming in 2022 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “They took me seriously. . . . They treated me like a rational human being, and they never laughed at me.” ‘Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up.’ How white supremacists are recruiting boys online. - The Washington Post 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z This ignores the fact that Black voters are rational political actors voting in their best interests just like everyone else. Black voters played a crucial role in Joe Biden’s victory. Can he keep their trust? 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z "Any one of the organs situated within the chest or abdomen - the heart, the lungs, the liver. Not cerebral or rational. Having to do with more earthly feelings and emotions." 'It's a full-body experience' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Bloom and her husband found that trying to end one’s life in America, in a rational and pain-free manner, isn’t easy at all. ‘In Love,’ a Novelist’s Powerful Memoir About a Happy Marriage and an Assisted Suicide 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z When computers arrived during the 1950s and 1960s, the idea of logical, rational workflows got an extra push through the acceleration of data processing, followed by the development of computer-based forecasting and materials planning systems. Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z The council was not so designed, but rather it represented a rational plan to focus official support for the . Letters: Our commitment to the arts is rock solid 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The sights of Humboldt County, Calif., can be hard for the rational mind to reconcile. T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z In a nearby wall text, Ms. Quaytman comments on how af Klint, working like a “mad scientist,” was able to join both rational and intuitive faculties to conjure invisible, metaphysical ideas. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z But he is presumably responsible for being a rational adult who willfully nicknamed himself “Gucci.” Hate-watching Duke vs. Yale: It’s “Batman vs. Superman” for a-holes — not the game America wants, but it’s the one we deserve 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Poor Dr Faraday has the thankless task of trying to convince the Ayres that every odd sight and sound and incident has a rational explanation. Guardian book club: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 2010-08-11T14:06:00Z Lewis about God and rational thought, will close on July 22 after two years of performances because of declining ticket sales, the show's lead producer said on Monday. ArtsBeat: Time Is Up for 'Freud's Last Session' 2012-07-09T19:40:29Z The EA community, so far as I can tell, not only talks about being rational but actually puts it into practice, which distinguishes it, I would argue, from the contemporary new atheist movement. Beyond “new atheism”: Where do people alienated by the movement’s obnoxious tendencies go from here? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z I also don’t think your rational mind can argue persuasively for these “usual reasons.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your spouse is unmoved by the reasons to buy instead of rent 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z He acted as though this was a rational, rather than racist, explanation. Grieving together, and also apart: A Jewish American wrestles with identity, belonging and trauma 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z It is also, more deeply, a protest against the standardization of feeling, the widespread attempts — scientific, governmental, commercial and educational — to manage matters of the heart according to rational principles. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z News of secret courts being introduced in the world's oldest democracy should scare any rational human. Future tech: Big Brother, big data or creator culture? 2013-03-14T10:26:52Z Music fandom is a passion that discourages rational thinking, and some artists take advantage of that. The Violent Life and Shocking Death of XXXTentacion 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z What we were aiming to do was make the right choice for us — a rational, logical decision that an objective couple in our situation would make. My Valentine’s Day miracle 2013-02-15T00:15:00Z People call him over-emotional about racism, or unable to be rational. They hate each other's political views – so why have they become friends? 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z It is important to stress that, as long as it is not excessive, handwashing to minimise the risk of coronavirus spread from other people is a rational response to a genuine threat. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z It's useful, as Longworth posits, to have cultural artifacts that articulate these real fears, rational or otherwise, that a portion of the culture has. Sex and the cinema girl: Karina Longworth dives into '80s and '90s erotic films, revealing herself 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z 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 Your hunch that he’d respond punitively sounds like a direct hit, a rational fear that’s being validated right now by his behavior. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She was groped, but her husband is the one acting violated 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z I’m not saying it’s rational that the sight of you makes your friend anxious. My Daughter’s Married Boyfriend Shouldn’t Join Us on Vacation, Right? 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z There are rational motives to oppose vegan diets on health grounds. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z James said, “Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.” Review | Summer escapes: Five new thrillers and mystery novels offer welcome distraction 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The setting of most courtroom dramas is a merciful, rational place, where lies are exposed and gray areas are illuminated by the impersonal workings of a mostly benevolent system. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Real life, and not least our inner lives, is rarely very realistic or rational. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z He wants to be as approachable, rational, and careful as possible to help Trump voters understand his side. They hate each other's political views – so why have they become friends? 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z But there is no question that the dealmaking at this year's Sundance, which concludes Sunday, reverted to what one producer with a film in play called a "rational approach." 2010-01-28T07:51:00Z Some distant poetic link can be felt between the inner tubes' exposed air valves and the whale's spout hole, but it is tantalizing rather than rational. Lauren Grossman at Platform Gallery: leviathans and hellmouths 2012-04-05T19:30:11Z You can “help feeling” and revert to rational thought, especially when you’re as clear as you are about how misplaced your jealousy is. I’m jealous of my best friend’s romance 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z “Necessity, Again,” by the Norwegian choreographer Jo Stromgren, was also exactly what the program note said it was: an homage to “ the moments when we just want to be emotional and not rational.” Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2012-05-23T21:55:51Z The difficulty is that to some — including an assistant district attorney — Clark seemed rational. ‘Empty Mansions’: preying on the pocketbook of an heiress 2013-08-28T22:21:51Z Through mediums who were mostly women, its followers communicated — or, at least, believed they were communicating — with their dearly departed and a world apart from conventional religion and rational thought. ‘The Ghost of the Mary Celeste’: a haunted 19th century 2014-02-05T21:15:29Z As I sit across the table from him, he can make even the most extraordinary claim seem calmly rational. Sam Parnia – the man who could bring you back from the dead 2013-04-06T21:00:01Z Besides, striving for beauty is ultimately a rational choice in a world that values it so highly, and converting that pressure into fun or communal experiences is its own form of resistance. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Demand is more fluid and variable than supply because it’s influenced by vagaries of taste and fashion; it’s less rational. Critic’s Notebook: Pei-Shen Qian’s Paintings Examined 2013-12-30T22:57:08Z In 1995’s The End of Racism, he defended Jim Crow, invented buzz terms like “rational discrimination” and casually dropped the words “the facile equation of racism and slavery”. Death of a Nation: more angry nonsense from Trump's favorite film-maker 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z But there must be a moment when it, whatever “it” is, takes over from a rational, emotionally functional being who would never choose to become an alcoholic. 'I quit my job. Drink gushed into the space I left for it': confessions of an alcoholic 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Edgar, more rational but equally afflicted, wonderingly replies. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Arthur Conan Doyle thought of himself as a rational man. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z They probably defy rational explanation, better understood via a clipped electric guitar chord or the fold of a shirt-collar than any text. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z It’s a rational decision to stop loving his parents—and if it takes a toll on Jonah we don’t see it, because this is not his story. This Week in Fiction: Ben Marcus on the Cruelty of Children 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z 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 As our protagonist, Paul, explains: “Teenagers were not rational, was the point, and the world was not always kind to them.” After a Copycat Murder, Reopening an Old Case and Old Wounds 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Their rational: Cell phone cameras discourage cops from using necessary force and doing their jobs. Watch: Larry Wilmore’s must-see takedown of lazy, racist cops 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Weerasethakul’s work partly explores a tussle between the superstitions instilled in him as a child and what he describes as his “rational beliefs”. The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s an awkward concept, but then again power dynamics are intuitive, not rational. Want to be more assertive in life? This former dominatrix will show you how 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Rough, I know, but it is not fair to assign that much rational thought to a 4-year-old. Perspective | 4-year-old’s refusal to use the potty is pricey and perplexing 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z He makes short work of Matt Ridley's "rational optimism", and is right to suggest that we should start thinking about how to live with declining populations. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z Everyone looks so quirky, but is being so, I dunno, rational. Doctor Who: A Longtime Fan Looks Back at a Show That Became an Obsession 2013-11-22T21:04:46Z But they came to us with a very rational argument, which is that there are really two types of audiences. Margin Call Director J.C. Chandor on VOD and the Awards Season Hustle 2011-12-20T16:15:11Z Instead, our wine culture too often cuts right to the rational analysis, tracing aromas and flavors to soil types, winemaking techniques and so on. For Northern Rhône Reds, It’s Not the Age but the Emotions 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z It also allowed truth seeking to blur into wishful thinking, as Europeans’ yearning for a benign resolution to the global crisis trumped all rational skepticism. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Siebren Versteeg’s algorithmically generated painting machine makes attractive abstractions, suggesting that AI is slowly closing the gap between rational computing and corporeal creativity. Pittsburgh Report: Five Places for Healing Through Art 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But declining to participate in an empty ritual that changes nothing is an entirely rational response, arguably more clear-eyed and realistic than investing it with meaning it does not possess. Yeah, the GOP is evil and will win — but the midterms are meaningless 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Everywhere, there is a patiently rational and metaphorical approach to the miraculous. Film review: Lourdes 2010-03-25T22:25:00Z Because of this rational decision, she got sent home. The Bachelor Watch: Sean Tells All 2013-02-20T15:37:01Z So how do you envision this rational ethical person? Chuck Klosterman’s shocking secret! Being the Ethicist doesn’t make me ethical 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Trump quickly became known for his role as the ringleader of chaos, staying calm and rational while the contestants striving to be hired sputtered around him. How 'The Apprentice' Shaped Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Each character occupies a fixed spot on the spectrum from decent to evil, crazy to rational and smart to dumb, and then shifts just enough to produce a plausible surprise. ‘The Drop’ Unfolds in a Brooklyn Underworld 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z “He’s really smart. We all know he’s really, really funny but he can be really compassionate and rational and levelheaded.” ‘Right now, I am everywhere’: Matthew Perry’s endless loop 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Both fields were once considered to be taboo in design, which was steeped in the technocratic, rational culture of the modern movement for most of the last century. Special Report: Decorative Arts: The Revival of the Artisan 2011-10-27T11:30:10Z 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 Christian’s buried grief has wound itself into a tight spring of rage and resentment, and it finds expression in a coldly rational, self-justifying impulse toward violence. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z You may dream of perfectly rational government, but fitting the complexities of life into dispassionate systems poses its own hazards. The Perils of Order, Taken to the Extreme 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Even the arch-revolutionary rational thinker Socrates had conventional religion on his mind just before his death. Clash of the Titans and the classics 2010-04-13T10:52:00Z Four-year-olds are known for being opinionated, strong-willed, emotional, helpful, loving, thoughtful, curious and bright, as well as occasionally rational and deeply empathic. A 4-year-old has tantrums over ‘silly problems.’ How patient should this parent be? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z 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 He himself once suggested that “descriptions of poetry written by men who are not poets are usually ridiculous, for they describe rational thought processes.” Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 2012-09-18T00:04:57Z But I am also not delusional or stupid enough to think this is rational, which strands me in some awkward netherworld between hopeless romantic and self-aware realist. Modern Love: Casting Call: Bit Player, Male 2011-03-10T22:08:55Z At the back are the most rational and straightforward of the rooms for art, with white walls, exposed bow-truss roofs, concrete floors and big square windows looking onto 2nd Street. Why does this huge new gallery in downtown L.A. underwhelm? It's a familiar story 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The story begins with the colonists surviving on the know-how of Native people — remarking on their vital manual skills while disdaining them as uncivilized savages lacking in rational intelligence. Made by Hand in America: A New Book Tells the Story of Unsung Artisans 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Colbert’s blowhard-conservative character will try to counter Mr. Stewart’s message — seeking a more rational approach to political discourse — by urging participants to “keep fear alive.” Growing Interest, Despite Questions, in Jon Stewart?s Rally 2010-10-15T01:30:00Z His methods may be analytical, but his persona is pure theatre, the dressing-gowned matinée idol of rational detection. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z At the same time, they were also embracing ideas of urban design that were in some ways progressive, and that seemed at the time rational and modern. Perspective | On Richmond’s evolving Monument Avenue, myth and ugly lies run deep 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z “Do you think that consciousness might be beyond rational explanation?” Art Review: ‘Alexandre Singh: The Pledge’ at the Drawing Center 2013-01-17T20:50:38Z It is too much pressure, and this kind of stress rarely leads to rational and kind decisions. Perspective | Is my 4-year-old becoming a bully? 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z "Smoking is not a rational, informed choice of adulthood," he said. Doctors vote for ban on UK cigarette sales to those born after 2000 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z You can consider him unethical — a far cry from journalists who apply a rational filter in publishing governments secrets. Perspective | Booting Jim Acosta from the White House was bad for press rights. Charging Julian Assange might be worse. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Rowling quoted her writing, in which she issued a “plea for plurality, tolerance and the importance of rational discourse.” J.K. Rowling Calls Donald Trump ‘Offensive and Bigoted’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Throughout class, Lee refers disparagingly to “Frankie Talk”, personifying the voice of rational thought, which, she explains, should be silenced whenever possible. What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z If a perfectly rational actor is expected to behave one way, why do so many people behave the way they do? In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z If we pride ourselves on a rational, research-based approach to education, we must look at the right facts. Why Parents Should Not Make Kids Do Homework 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Where De Havilland brought something rational and controlled to her performances, Fontaine was the fragile, emotional star of movies such as Rebecca and Letter from an Unknown Woman. Olivia de Havilland: Hollywood’s queen of radiant calm 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z This flies in the face of rational economic theory, which holds that people act “to maximize their material self-interest,” McCarthy-Jones writes, and shows how readily people’s feelings about fairness enter into their decisions. ‘Spite’ Looks on the Bright Side of a Dark Feeling 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “But that works well, because it makes me hold off and look at the rational part of putting things together.” How we stay together: 'There is no magic cookbook of relationships' 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Here was the duality of Man – not only in the figure of Brodie but also apparently built into the construction of the city itself – light and dark, the rational and the savage. Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2010-08-16T14:31:00Z Why pretend that our condition is in any way rational or reasonable? Am I abandoning my daughter? 2012-08-17T00:00:00Z Such solutions, however rational, therefore end up in what he calls the “too eponymous box”—postponed, fudged or abandoned. A difficult truth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Eliot, who had abandoned the Evangelical religion of her youth during her twenties, wrote with a moderate, calming voice to Stuart, and advised her against challenging her friend’s presumably long-brewing spiritual choice with rational argument. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z I had always assumed that these large and powerful American agencies — the NSA, the CIA, the FBI — were born in some kind of rational way. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Still, if these ideas represented the beginnings of biogeography, it was a case of rational or semirational thinking being piled on a foundation of myth. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z It's not rational; it's some weird inner child healing thing. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Everybody shouts, all the time, especially indoors and mostly when having what ought to be a rational discussion. The Newsroom: are news anchors really this important? 2012-06-23T23:04:22Z Josh had seen for himself that depressions are very often, as he put it, “rational reactions to the situation, not some kind of biological break”. Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Their emphatic shapes and clarion colors, in myriad formats, are unreasonably rational and ascetically luxuriant. Postscript: Ellsworth Kelly 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z This branch of economics aims to understand how people actually behave, as against the idealised view of "rational" behaviour which has dominated mainstream economics. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z It was a visceral impulse, not a rational one. The Fourth Wall Is My Laptop Screen 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z It refers to the ways in which humans learn to make goal-directed rational calculations based on their expectations about other people's rational calculations. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z She added: “Remember that while teens continue to grow and navigate social relationships, through these conversations parents can foster the development of thoughtful and rational thinking skills, while also maintaining connection.” 'Skull Breaker Challenge' going viral on TikTok is dangerous, doctors warn 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z When it comes to vomit, I'm not rational at all. Motherlode Blog: Emetophobia, Vomiting Children and Me 2013-01-14T19:31:55Z Bloom is not making a case for heartlessness, but arguing for a kind of rational compassion — a mixture of caring and detached cost-benefit analysis. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “I was very mature and calm and rational,” Dakota Fanning says of her six-year-old self. Dakota Fanning: ‘I don’t remember people not knowing who I am’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z 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 Maybe the point of the film is to break down rational thought and make us chase our tails in bewildered theorising. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Of course, the only rational response is to ultimately — not unilaterally, not easily, not capriciously — through a dedicated and orchestrated step-by-step process, get to zero. "Countdown to Zero": Valerie Plame Wilson's new anti-nuke crusade 2010-07-23T01:02:00Z Shiffman points out that a fear of sharks is no more rational than a fear of cars, lawn mowers or toasters, all of which outperform the animals in lethality. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z “There is no rational reason for doing this,” Mr. Cahill said, popping a chocolate bar out of a plastic mold. The Kitchen-Counter Chocolatiers 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z When a college president asks Elizabeth Costello if her vegetarianism comes out of her moral conviction, she evades apparently rational argumentation, and replies, religiously, that it "comes out of a desire to save my soul". The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z “Ecotopia” is a novel, and secession was its dominant metaphor: how would a relatively rational part of the country save itself ecologically if it was on its own? Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z One minute, the 4-year-old will be helpful and show amazing glimpses of rational thinking and empathy. How to help a clingy 4-year-old uncling 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Because a TV company wants to make a seven-part documentary about an ethical industry full of sane, rational, clever, hardworking people? TV review: The Model Agency 2011-02-24T08:00:02Z More and more, American culture wants our children to be sweet and little and cute and yet completely rational. Perspective | 3-year-old goes on ‘evil-villain’ rants. What’s up with that? 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Concha dough requires more kneading than might seem rational. There’s Nothing Like a Good Concha. Here’s How to Make Them Great. 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The experiments seemed to demonstrate that ordinary people were close to being rational; they thought like “intuitive statisticians.” The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z If a director's obsessions connect with the ideal material, the effect is beyond logic, beyond rational experience — and certainly beyond whatever was on the page. 'Biutiful': Melodrama and tension get top billing 2011-01-26T20:23:02Z A little for him, a little for you, a little for your marriage: a rational arrangement between the people who matter most, which his parents can take or leave. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: One slip-up in 15 years, and the in-laws won’t forgive 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z As if we were rational creatures whose motives and desires were ever anything other than a hopeless jumble. The miracle cure that wasn't: 'White Matter' on the personal tragedy of lobotomy 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Discarding something stops being a simple or rational act. Is it normal to hoard? 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z However, Mr Barr’s careful statistical analysis indicates that over the long sweep of history, skyscraper construction is rational: bursts of activity tend to follow an increase in land values, but not the other way round. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Chwe's error is telling: he always wants to turn motivational complexity into rational strategy, the sine qua non of game theory. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z But Cypher is made of sterner, righter, more rational stuff. Movie Review: ‘After Earth,’ Starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith 2013-05-30T21:48:08Z And I don’t think if he looked at it in a rational state of mind, he’d have any problem with it. Music: Phil Spector Film Poses Fair Use Questions 2010-06-26T02:49:00Z If we were being utterly rational, we would avoid gardening not because of bees but because of other arthropods — namely mosquitoes, ticks, biting flies and some midges, which seek us out to suck our blood. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? She is the rational actor of classical economics, as imagined for instance by Adam Smith. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Your mother is self-absorbed, unaware, uninterested, incurious, distracted; doesn’t listen, interrupts, talks over, turns all conversations back to herself; and, the killer of all rational hopes, she is defensive. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It’s nature over nurture when it comes to changing your mother 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Well, one of them may be, but he’s also the only one who appeals to Bathsheba’s less rational side. Review: ‘Far From the Madding Crowd,’ the Rom-Com 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Beatrice tells Benedick at their least rational moment. Review: Wrecking Crew puts dusk to good use in 'Much Ado' at Lavizzo Park 2010-08-26T20:51:00Z What “Glengarry” suggests is that people are not merely rational actors. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z “There is no rational basis to provide access to erotic novels like these, and at the same time exclude contemporary fiction with similar content,” the letter said. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries 2012-05-21T22:00:24Z But these testimonies revealed rational calculations of risk versus economic and social security. The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America's longest war 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Some 1920s designers were convinced they were creating a new style for a rational and absolutely modern world. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z The divide was personified by two Frenchmen: the rational voice of the philosopher Jacques Derrida alternating with the emotional music of Charles Aznavour. Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2012-05-23T21:55:51Z And it seems to me completely normal and rational. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z It would not be rational of the coalition to make deep cuts into the relatively modest budget for arts subsidy in a place like the north-east. Arts funding cuts 'dangerous' for north-east England 2010-07-27T12:58:00Z She’s liberal but with very cold rational views about how society works. Love across the divide: couples on Brexit, politics and religion 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Behrens never makes clear, however, beyond occasional mentions, why this childhood obsession would continue to exercise Billy and Karin as rational, engaged adults. ‘Carry Me’ review: Life and love in harrowing wartime Europe spring to life 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z President Kennedy was cool, rational, careful and willing to compromise. Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Back then, it was said, cars were the path to prosperity and more rational streets. Critic?s Notebook: A Bike-Lane Perch for the Urban Show 2011-11-07T19:50:40Z Unlike those who see the ritual attachment to groups of athletes in matching uniforms as a sign of mental deficit, Zirin insists that within every sports fan there exists a rational kernel. How owners are ruining the games we love 2012-07-23T19:22:00Z Tushingham sports a huge grey wig and rustic straw hat, and deploys a stern mien while eloquently skewering Sewell’s claims to be a rational man. Rita Tushingham on life after A Taste of Honey: 'It was a shock when the 60s ended' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Rather, the rise could be a rational response to an improvement in the business and employment conditions the index is based on. What our Spotify playlists reveal about the emotional nature of financial markets 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z There are, obviously, lots of perfectly rational reasons to hate living in any specific city: spiralling house prices, terrible public transport, overcrowding, et cetera. Hate where you live? So does everyone else | Oliver Burkeman 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z What turned individuals away from Ayn Rand was not her atheism, not her defense of laissez-faire capitalism or even her rational demolition of altruism. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Certainly sounds like a rational female investigator whose job takes her down the road of the supernatural. Gillian Anderson's first book, a supernatural thriller, is coming 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet research from my lab shows that children actually are rational, thoughtful consumers of information. Dear Santa Claus: Why do I still believe you exist? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Remember, in a rational world, bad pop songs help us discern between escapism and denial. There is no song of the summer 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z She leaves open the tantalising possibility that rational Dr Faraday might actually be a bit of a psycho, or even a malign psychic presence. Guardian book club: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 2010-08-11T14:06:00Z Admittedly, falling in love creates a cloud of amnesia that can be problematic when we are trying to make rational assessments. My boyfriend cheated on me using Skype sex. Does it matter? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Instead, “Son of God” offers a rational, straightforward, contemporary take on the life of Jesus, filmed in Morocco and starring a Portuguese actor, Diogo Morgado, who brings an infectiously revolutionary spirit to the central role. ‘Son of God’: Not the greatest story ever told, but it has spirit 2014-02-26T22:57:00Z “A rational jury might or might not conclude that the pun here is sufficient to dispel any confusion among the purchasing public,” she wrote. No injunction for Beyoncé over 'Feyoncé' knockoffs: U.S. judge 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes I convince myself that all of this sounds rational. Does My Child’s Name Erase My Identity? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The remaining 10% presumably choose suicide in full awareness of what they are doing, as a rational choice. What I have learned from my suicidal patients 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Written in cool and crystalline prose, “The Shades” unspools in a rational and realistic world in which all is not as it seems. In This Novel, a Mother Risks Everything for a Second Chance 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Tremblay’s world is one in which help and medical resources are “stretched to the breaking point,” exacerbated by “a myopic, sluggish bureaucracy” and a president “woefully unprepared to make the rational, science-based decisions necessary.” Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “These contracts didn’t come to be the way they are,” Gockley says, “without rational minds making decisions.” Metropolitan Opera, with new contract, gears up for season that nearly wasn’t Americans like to believe that our political discourse is driven by ideology or, barring that, naked self-interest; yet a man like Trump doesn’t succeed in a nation of either idealistic or rational individuals. The Donald Trump jokes are on us now: This public humiliation should have tanked his politics career — but it only fueled his fire 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z 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 Megan calms him down, and rational people in the audience ask, how long is she going to put up with this? ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: What Are You Thankful For? 2012-05-14T12:13:27Z “Herzog helped me understand that art is not rational,” says Carpenter, who will play the Seattle Symphony’s grand Watjen Concert Organ in recital on April 25. Organ rock star Cameron Carpenter in Seattle on April 25 2014-04-16T19:48:13Z Sheriff Truman suggests there must be a more rational answer — Leland must have been insane. Was ‘Twin Peaks’ Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back and See 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z He is his brother’s keeper and, of course, his alter ego, with a hair-trigger rage that’s the purportedly rational counterpart to Thomas’s involuntary darkness. Review: Mark Ruffalo, Times Two, in the Saddest Story Ever Told 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Even if our rational brain knows it used to be frozen, our reptile brain still thinks it’s more appealing in its thawed state. Perspective | We think fresh is best. But to fight food waste, we need to think again. 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z "It’s solid yet perforated, enclosed yet open, urban yet rural, and rational yet organic." El Blok Hotel to Open in Vieques 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z One of the art world’s favorite recent catchphrases is “alternative knowledge,” cribbed from anthropology and misapplied to just about anything that defies rational expectations. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes things are frustrating and super-annoying when changes are made to your travel plans for what seems like no rational cause. When "Oh No!" Is What You Want To Hear From Your Airline 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Yet the gaffes kept on coming, to the point that no rational person could simply dismiss them as noise in the signal. From the Enlightenment to the Dark Ages: How “new atheism” slid into the alt-right 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Though my rational mind understands how unhealthy the experience was, the feeling of abandonment is strong. My life in sex: the woman in recovery from sexual abuse 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z One of the things that happens is that you do learn to put much more faith in your instincts than you do in your rational mind. Philipp Meyer: 'We don't have a good context for where we come from as Americans' 2013-07-21T08:30:00Z “It’s not set in the real world, but a kind of mystical world just beyond rational perception,” Mr. Wright said. Finding an Original Heroine 2011-04-02T03:13:01Z In her debut novel, “The Incendiaries,” she bridges those “imaginative chasms between rational and fanatic world views.” 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Then along comes “David,” a doppelgänger of the real deal who represents the tormented telepath’s rational mind and speaks in an English accent. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap: Breakthrough 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z "All this might lead rational, thinking people to say, 'Is higher education even worth it?' And, that's the point," writes civil rights attorney Dan Canon. Who "belongs" at elite universities? The raging hypocrisy of higher ed gatekeeping 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z For that we need to be calm, rational and ready to listen, not in a state of rage. I live as a feminist, but I’m tired of being so furious all the time | Dear Mariella 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z This fear, rational or not, keeps your brain in a panicked loop. Perspective | My 2-year-old won’t get dressed. How can I win this war? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Like others in his profession, he had grown frustrated with classical economic models that assumed that humans were rational actors who always sought to maximise their individual gains. Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011-08-20T23:08:00Z There's no rational reason why fiction written by women shouldn't be accorded the same critical and commercial respect routinely given to fiction written by men. Letter: Orange prize trouble 2010-09-06T23:05:00Z Informative, detached, rational coverage is a snooze-fest and a ratings bust. Why TV news is addicted to weather porn 2011-08-29T12:30:00Z Plowing through recent studies in neurology, for example, Kessler learns that the center of rational decision-making in humans, the prefrontal cortex, is the last part of the brain to mature. 'My Teenage Werewolf': Lauren Kessler's journey through the thicket of adolescence with her daughter 2010-08-18T20:16:00Z For the research center, computers programmed for energy conservation did the same, distorting the hexagons, a rational process producing woozy but climate-efficient forms. Zaha Hadid’s Desert Think Tank: Environmental Beauty and Efficiency 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z “Come meet the robot, have some cake, some naming contest and have a rational conversation about what the machine does and doesn’t do. And after you do that, all is good. 100 percent.” Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s her character’s job to be the rational one, the shrewd warrior who uses logic and calm in the face of nature’s thuggishness. You Won't Actually Be Done With 2016 Until You Watch The Shallows 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z As rational arguments for environmental protection or civil rights show, morality is possible without sentimental appeals to individual suffering. The case for compassion, not empathy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z It is a telling return to rational thinking that Narciso Rodriguez showed only a single dress that fell below the knee in his fall collection, which was right on target. Fashion Review: For Customers Who Really Shop 2010-02-18T02:20:00Z It is entirely sensible – in fact there are few rational reasons to have a child. Having kids increases global warming. But don’t blame the parents… 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z But “in the heat of the moment,” says Steinberg, “the rational part of kids’ brains is often overpowered.” How to Talk to Your Kids about Taking Risks 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z In her essay "Illness as Metaphor," Sontag argued for "clarity, rational thought, and medical information" when confronting disease — as opposed to romantic mythologizing. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Not only does the gentleman in question appear exquisitely unconcerned by his actions, he is also, notes Pinel, otherwise completely rational. How psychopaths take over 2012-10-13T17:00:00Z What happens to rational debate, civic culture and the common good? Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Can this rational, charming chief without the edge, ego or cult following of wacky founders succeed in today’s insane economy? Dara Khosrowshahi, Dad of Silicon Valley 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z But the artist’s fixation on scientific theorems and rational systems can sometimes be frustrating. In San Francisco, Art That Unspools the Mysteries of the Universe 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z When we’re watching a film, we have these responses that on a rational level, we know are subjective, but we treat them as if they’re objective, and that’s just the way it is. Nobody Makes Films Like Alex Garland. But He Might Stop Making Them. 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z As the name implies, the technological reliquaries placed visceral content in a rational vessel. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Self-belief frequently entails self-delusion—a rational person would give up, facing the slim chances that even great athletes have of winning a championship. The Particular Drama of Simona Halep 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z “Secularity—like having your own laws and rules based on rational thinking, reason rather than holy books—is better for everybody.” Are kids from religious backgrounds really more selfish than their nonreligious peers? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Yet after reading “Patient H.M.,” most rational readers will wonder: Who, exactly, was doing the hallucinating here? ‘Patient H.M.’ Recalls the Story of a Surgery That Took a Man’s Memories 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Furthermore, while Deists argued that the rational soul with its heavenly heritage could unveil God’s work, Locke’s mind had no such power. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The strangeness of reality consistently exceeds the expectations of science, and the assumptions of science, however tried and rational, are very inclined to encourage false expectations. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Legal rulings, he said, should not be based on popular opinion but on rational jurisprudence. Watch John Oliver Take Elected Judges To Court 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z 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 The city, then, is never as rational as its founders, patrons, architects, planners, bureaucrats and engineers might have wished it to be. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by PD Smith – review 2012-06-08T21:55:08Z Mr Aldersey-Williams is a rational man, but he takes care to distinguish between “knowable and unknowable truth”. Weird science 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s fantastic stories, but there’s no rational reason to believe anything in it. Stellan Skarsgård: Nobody should think they have God on their side 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z In Mr. Bayona’s tough-minded film about grief, the monster’s purpose is to shine a light on a child’s most real and rational fears. ‘A Monster Calls’: Talking Trees Are Easy. Truth Is Hard. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Thankfully, we have the rational, studious, more than just the hot new girl at school, Leigh, being the voice of reason from the very beginning. Stephen King's "Christine": Honoring the horny hot rod and so-called bad adaptation 40 years on 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z The copy quite clearly states: 'A Serbian Film is simply beyond any rational certification'. Open door: The readers' editor on? entertainment writing and 'torture porn' 2010-09-05T23:05:00Z He grew particularly excited by the implications of the division between the brain’s rational, verbal left lobe and its imaginative, pattern-oriented right. UFOs, alien abductions, the occult: to one man, the building blocks of scholarship 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Yet an overdose of theory may not occur, for the choreographer says he is concerned with “the moments when we just want to be emotional and not rational.” The Week Ahead: May 20 ? 26 2012-05-20T08:00:06Z It is perfectly rational to dislike something the merits of which one is happy to acknowledge. Rick Gekoski: It takes judgment, not taste, to pick a Booker winner 2011-08-26T13:25:14Z This is a CBT exercise which involves giving a persistent thought the courtroom treatment, by confronting it with a rational counter-statement. If coronavirus scares you, read this to take control over your health anxiety 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Certainly, there is rarely a moment tonight when the information coming from your eyeballs and eardrums isn't being pooh-poohed by your rational brain. Madonna – review 2012-07-21T23:05:36Z Haydn's oratorio, based on a mix of Genesis and Paradise Lost, is among the most optimistic and rational musical statements. OAE/Fischer – review 2013-01-11T14:18:12Z In particular he argues that people are fundamentally emotional, not rational. Dambisa Moyo: By the Book 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z HA: The character that seems the most rational and that I relate to is Lou the cop. Hank Azaria: I've Lived The Simpsons Marathon 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It is, instead, simply a rational decision not to accept the existence of God without evidence. The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z It would occur to them that the baby is not rational. This 4-year-old dawdles, and his parents are stuck 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z 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 it is Asughara who forces Ada’s rational self ever further into the background and takes over her body more than any other personality. In This Debut Novel, a College Student Hears Voices 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z No rational reason explains how his simple request to share her table in a Paris coffee shop — "Vouz permettez?" — led to a shared life, a daughter and her new status: widow. 'I Married You for Happiness': the mystery of a lasting marriage 2011-09-14T21:52:04Z Obama is by nature rational and pragmatic, and two terms of the Presidency have made him all the more so. “WTF” with Barack Obama 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z But in Star Trek I saw a future worth investing in, where rational scientists travelled around learning from other cultures, and where religious dogma was viewed with suspicion. We lived long and prospered! How Star Trek saved fans' lives 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z He’s this pompous, rational know-it-all, but by the end is a gibbering idiot with his thumb in his mouth. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Feuillade does away with all this biographical detail, and with it goes any sense of psychology or rational motivation. DVD: When Fant?mas Held All of Paris in His Criminal Thrall 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z “Your first thoughts are the most psychic ones, before your rational mind interferes,” said the teacher. I was an astrologer – here's how it really works, and why I had to stop 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Bonilla has not seen their family since January and said that they feel guilty, “even though I know in the rational part of my brain that I’m doing the right thing.” This American Mess 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z These confections bypass the rational part of the brain. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z And given the Republican opposition that emerged, his assertion that "over time, people respond to civility and rational argument" appears awfully quaint. 'The Obamas' a portrait of their life in D.C. 2012-01-09T15:37:00Z The more that members of the Trump administration act like petulant toddlers, the more we need to marshal our cognitive ability to offer rational arguments. The resistance is all in your head: 6 ways to fight Trump brain rot 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Indeed, we don’t want to completely escape from our state of denial, even if we could—it’s the only thing that keeps us sane in the face of rational realization of mortality. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Like when the thinking function is not sufficiently guided by empathy and feeling and intuition, unconscious frustrations can take the form of seemingly rational thoughts. Dear Mitt, you walk funny 2012-09-19T00:00:00Z He nearly always finds a different person with rational experiences, needs and maybe a festering emotional itch to scratch also demanding justice. Review | The comic ‘Admissions’ tests white privilege and getting into college 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Zellweger, forced to play a character who lurches from rational to absurdly credulous, loses credibility by the minute. 'Case 39': Oh, the horror of Ren?e Zellweger's career regression 2010-10-01T16:54:00Z 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 Even when we try to be rational, our decisionmaking may be guided by animal instincts. How the Republicans wound up with Trump: E.J. Dionne explains in 'Why the Right Went Wrong' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The question hanging over the current administration is whether they have rational discussions about any of these issues at all. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z But if you are madly in love with your pets, as any rational person is, you know what a loss it will be for both me and my three-year-old grandson, Jax. Anne Lamott: My secret little prayer 2012-11-13T00:30:00Z As befits a lifelong student of mathematics, the show celebrates the rational, the schematic and the cerebral. Art Review: From Theorems and Numbers, the Geometry of a Diverse Career 2011-07-21T22:35:53Z These include drawing, models, societies, and publications such as technical manuals where "rational explanation" and "visual exposition" are complementary – or should be. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z But Perry also showed all manner of rockers, rappers and punks alike that our accepted notions of music and meter were tediously rational and wholly drained of magic. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z “This documentary is a more rational piece that allows the four men to explain their thinking.” Film: Two New Films About the Nuclear Threat 2010-07-18T01:33:00Z They were deranged individuals without rational purposes – unlike the nihilists, anarchists and nationalists who exploded, shot, stabbed and defenestrated the crowned heads of mainland Europe. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z I never thought my ability to be rational and forgiving would break my heart. Carolyn Hax: She cheated, he forgave. And now she questions his love. 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z There are rational forces that we think drive our dishonest behavior — but don’t. Books of The Times: ‘The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty’ by Dan Ariely 2012-06-28T19:44:45Z Like the film around her, Marina is defiantly eccentric but also intelligent, sensitive and somehow rational. Attenberg, Dogtooth and the weird wave of Greek cinema 2011-08-26T23:04:02Z The scariest things are what’s inside us – those base or unknown parts of us that co-exit with our ‘rational’ 21st century selves. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Yes, it is logical and rational to choose to keep your distance from people you don’t want to be with, especially when there is a likelihood that they will mistreat you. Perspective | Ask Amy: Family legacy of abuse visits next generation 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z How progressive, I thought, albeit with a certain dismay, and I went off looking for something less rational and frictionless. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z Yes, of course it is, but it requires a large amount of definitive information and rational thinking about the meaning of all that information. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z It wasn’t quite a rational choice, but it made sense. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z There isn’t any suggestion that rational, practical, or concerted solutions exist. “The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The essay form is best for making an argument that is more or less rational, and my feelings on the subject are too complicated and contradictory for that. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z What seem to us calculated signs of rational planning were for him simply the only way he knew how to write music. Review | British harpsichordist plays Bach with precision, clarity and finesse at Phillips Collection 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z |
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