| 单词 | rationalize |
| 例句 | It allows them to rationalize using violence against the other and destroying their culture. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I rationalized the omission: There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They discounted the boy’s protests for their impracticality and sought to rationalize expenditure. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The bulge, he rationalized, was caused by all the new equipment they jammed into these things. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z No matter how many times he rationalized it, explained that he didn’t mind the discipline. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z This uncomfortable fact creates strong incentives for minority officers to deny, to rationalize, or to be willingly blind to the role of law enforcement in creating a racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of people of color are swept into this system and released every year, yet we rationalize the systematic discrimination and exclusion and turn a blind eye to the suffering. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She rationalized her lying by telling herself that this was her last year of freedom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She was missing Johnny so terribly and thinking so, to rationalize his not being there. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But at the time of the rebuff, even when the rebuff is impersonal, such as holding his bladder until he can find a “Colored” sign, the Negro cannot rationalize. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried not to stare at the way his muscles rippled when he moved, but I rationalized that it would be insulting not to admire them a little. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I don't know that I've ever felt so cheap, but I rationalized it by reminding myself that it wasn't my fault this person was trapped. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Lawrence remained defensive about the oversight as late as 1940, when he rationalized it as the consequence of the Rad Lab’s singular devotion to improving the cyclotron at the expense of unimportant short-term discoveries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some of them sought to rationalize their behavior after the fact, as though fearful that history would judge them for their silence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If the price of dog food and cake mix can be rationalized, why can’t some sort of rough “safety index” be devised which allows us to gauge how safe various activities, procedures, and illnesses are? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In Du Bois’s view, Washington’s public statements arguing that poor education and bad choices were responsible for the plight of former slaves ignored the damage wrought by caste and threatened to rationalize the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “But then,” he rationalized, “if I did that, all the other would expect to get ’em handed to ’em. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer duly contrived “an elegant theory to rationalize these results,” and when Bohr came for his visit, the work was trotted out for him as a showpiece of Rad Lab science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It annoys my father no end, but he rationalizes it by saying, “We live in a service economy. We all have to feed it somehow.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I was afraid I’d deliberate, ruminate, agonize, rationalize, and talk myself into not going. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I rationalize that none of the physical things matter so much. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Or she rationalizes, “I call him when he calls me.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The notion of white supremacy rationalized the enslavement of Africans, even as whites endeavored to form a new nation based on the ideals of equality, liberty, and justice for all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This lady’s grandson might be facing life imprisonment without parole, but given the overwhelming number of death penalty cases on our docket, I couldn’t rationalize taking on his case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Rather it seems that an aspect of human nature is the tendency to cling tightly to one’s advantages and privileges and to rationalize the suffering and exclusion of others. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She was teaching me how to ruthlessly interrogate the subject that elicited the most sympathy and rationalizing— myself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After thinking about it for a while, Bloom rationalized that he did feel some gratitude for not now being obliged to make the radical commitments he had always feared. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In any event, few of the people who bought Isaacson’s biography were looking for tips on becoming masters of the universe or pretexts for rationalizing their own arrogance. Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z I turned to keep walking, rationalizing that if I kept up the pace he'd speed it up, too. "Of course, he’s coming": Single-lone mom with kid travel taught me the joys of not playing it safe 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z So just knock off the rationalizing at the end and say something like: “It would be scary to think there is a scorpion in your room. I get why you are scared!” My 5-year-old is scared to go to bed by himself. How can we all get some sleep? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z But Booth, literary adviser to the Philip Larkin Society, in rationalizing his hero’s every problematic action, tends to disparage the women themselves: Jones was emotionally needy and demanding, Brennan tiresomely Catholic and devoutly observant. Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth And, hey, if Bryan needs to rationalize framing an innocent man, Chuck is there for him: Nobody on Wall Street is clean! ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 8: The Miseducation of Bryan Connerty 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z It’s about rationalizing the irrational, an enduring task for art. Two Critics Sample the Frieze Art Fair 2014-05-09T23:47:01Z It also leads his supporters to ignore or rationalize Trump’s other unethical or illegal activities. White evangelical Christians need Jesus — not Donald Trump — if their movement is going to survive 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Tommy adores her as well, but his protean ability to rationalize his misbehavior is a barrier to their romance. Cast helps John Patrick Shanley's 'Dreamer' from being a complete snooze 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z “I’m not in love with a racist,” he rationalizes. Critic’s Notebook: Hapless Men in Tow, ‘Legit’ Returns on FXX 2014-02-25T22:09:14Z When something can be put to bed or rationalized, that’s at least more satisfying to me, in terms of being able to wrap your head around it. Justin Theroux on the 'Spiritual' New Season of 'The Leftovers' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z They tried to play it off — “It’ll be better, now it’s a real game” — and to rationalize — “The Croatians are knackered, they’ll never last.” A tale of two losses: from hopeful to heartbroken in the World Cup semi-finals. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Politicized religion provides a substrate of beliefs that rationalizes—at least in the minds of its followers—all three of the GOP’s main tenets: wealth worship, war worship, and the permanent culture war. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z “For me, English has become the language of my expression with fiction, and I just try to follow it and not try to rationalize it.” Académie Française Honor Highlights Fluid National Allegiances Among Writers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z “Will it be more difficult for the Chinese to rationalize a cosmology in which there are two ‘suns,’ or for the U.S. to accept that it must live with another, and possibly superior superpower?” America’s Collision Course With China 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Mrs. Grade rationalized her rejections, scholars said, as the product of her conviction that none of the scholars or editors who would handle his work could do her husband justice. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z God’s hatred was how he rationalized his actions when asking me for the divorce. My friend says I should kill myself 2013-03-18T00:00:00Z This year, I can rationalize it as coronavirus-related: “Bosch” is my comfort show, the one I binge the day it’s available. ‘Bosch’ and ‘Fauda’: The Platonic Ideal of the Tough Guy 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z In my mind They dumb and destroy themselves is how I rationalize. Critic?s Notebook: Rick Ross?s ?Rich Forever? Brims With Cameos 2012-01-12T00:03:24Z Stressed in New England: When love gets rationalized down to “trappings of intimacy,” it’s time for a new rationale. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Why ask friends whether you should break up with your girlfriend? 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In the decades since Haskell sent out her warning, the industry has rationalized, and normalized, its discrimination with every possible excuse: the market, fan demand, creative “vision.” Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The term refers to the tendency, which is particularly pronounced among conservatives, to rationalize the sociopolitical system one inhabits as inherently fair and just. Study: Liberals, conservatives see mixed-race people differently 2013-06-09T14:00:00Z I once thought that adult life would leave me too busy for procrastination, but what I’ve realized is that growing older has only allowed me to rationalize it as part of my process. Weekly Culture Review: “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and More 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The film is about two sisters reeling from their brother’s horrifying disappearance, and how they come to rationalize the event, even forget it. The Art of Botox 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z At various times I thought of all these books while trying to rationalize my own effort, but I never did get completely, or even marginally, comfortable with what I was doing. Q. and A.: Kevin Powers and Ben Fountain, National Book Award Nominees 2012-11-13T17:21:36Z The two fight each other to be the sacrifice, and in the end she "wins" and rationalizes the decision because then Clint will be able to return to his family. “Black Widow” challenges treatment of women without biological families as disposable 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Or do they put their heads down and simply rationalize it as part of what they signed up for? How did abuse get baked into the restaurant industry? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Or at least that’s how I rationalized standing in front of a mirror downstairs with a cavernous Stella McCartney for Adidas khaki weekender slung jauntily over my shoulder. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper at the New Stella McCartney SoHo Store 2012-02-06T22:56:22Z How do you rationalize his success at the expense of his ideals? "Martin Eden" star Luca Marinelli on the struggle of the artist as individualist 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z To put it another way, for years the wine industry has rationalized inexpensive, bad wines as “gateway bottles,” steppingstones for consumers who eventually will graduate to the good stuff. How to Sell Good, Inexpensive Wines Without Pandering 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z "If we want to get his attention," one of the chairs of the planning committee rationalizes, "we have to think like him. Act . . . like him." "The Sandman" and the American Dream: Donald Trump is the Corinthian 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z He rationalizes that it’s for the good of his children, who are the same two reasons most people would cling to their jobs. | 'We Bought a Zoo': ?We Bought a Zoo? - Review 2011-12-22T22:43:00Z “It rationalizes, romanticizes, and legitimizes the terrorist murder of our father.” The Met, the opera on Leon Klinghoffer’s murder and the politics of protest I rationalized that since Jonathan Demme directed it — and I liked his films "Citizens Band" and "Melvin and Howard" — I might appreciate this concert film. "Stop Making Sense" converted me into a Talking Heads fan 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z “What I decided, and some people say this is rationalizing, but I decided that that time dancing was to give me the perspective to be a good patron of dance and patron of the arts.” Meet the management guru who is trying to fix the D.C. arts commission 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z But then I rationalized it by saying that, to her, it’s not even cool. Kate McKinnon on ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘S.N.L.’ and Hillary Clinton 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z This, I rationalized, would allow me to feed her during the night without having to stretch the long way over the co-sleeper. Let’s co-sleep on it: How I became the mom I swore I’d never be 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z The most enticing projects are the perfectly rationalized, immaculately constructed, live-and-work spaces that appeal to the minimalist aesthetic. So small, they’re unreal 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s also a bad idea to rationalize poor behavior by pointing to the failures of others. Do I Really Need to State My Pronouns? 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Most of the trip, I tried to rationalize away my feelings. Explorer : A Sisterhood of the Snow in Alaska 2014-04-03T17:57:48Z But one should be careful not to rationalize the term, detoxify it, pat it on the head and say, Don’t worry, we know you didn’t mean to be bad. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z We rationalize our immediate need for its delivered products against environmental impact or any other effect, be it physical or psychological. Review | Investigating Amazon, PBS’s ‘Frontline’ opens the smiling cardboard box and finds George Orwell 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The industry might need to be rationalized to survive. Perspective | In praise of the messy, misunderstood masterpiece (and in search of the next one) 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Unlike the Expendables or Getaway or any number of Nicolas Cage flicks, you can at least rationalize that this one is a slight cut above the others. The November Man – first look review: an asinine and horribly rote screenplay 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Hollywood has long churned out dumb, brutal stories, one difference being that today filmmakers no longer need to rationalize carnage with moralizing or blather about heroic codes. ‘Bullet Train’ Review: Ride and Die 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “Sometimes you quick-cook something, it’s a mistake,” rationalized the former mayor, who has taken to calling the museum his “most important work,” especially after the church murders. Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z “In the end you’re feeling something, even when you make a mess of me,” he rationalizes. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It rationalizes, romanticizes, and legitimizes the terrorist murder of our father.” The (controversial) ‘Klinghoffer’ show will go on at The Met 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z “Cannibalism is very much nourished by fetishistic desire,” the killer rationalizes at a point early in the movie. Review: In ‘Caniba,’ a Killer Tries to Make His Case 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In the new rationalized, centralized studio, the producer dominated. Thrills, Tears and the Real Gone Girls of Cinema 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z She “was fully justified in leaving,” she rationalizes on the book’s second page. North to Alaska in Dave Eggers' new 'Heroes of the Frontier' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “Judge for yourself” sounds like a declaration of independence, but too often it rationalizes settling for mediocrity. Whose wine judgment matters most? Your own, of course. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z After much evasion, justification and rationalizing of their reasons," he wrote, "they finally informed me that the color of the actress's skin would ultimately be irrelevant, since they intended to 'experiment with makeup.' ArtsBeat: Playwright Challenges Racial Casting Practices 2012-10-21T23:21:07Z The shirt was a find, and also a steal at $169 — especially when, as I did, you rationalize your decision by compulsively checking the comparable ones on Grailed. Woodbury Common: Bargain Hunting in the Fashion Afterlife 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Escher apparently did not understand why his “cerebral and rationalized” work found favor with the freewheeling 1960s counterculture — which was, in its own blissed-out way, also concerned with infinity. ‘M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity’ Review: Is It Art? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Private life was to be rationalized through a succession of unornamented, rectilinear spaces, as in Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Illinois, a model for which is also on view here. Review: ‘Endless House’ Expands the Definition of Home 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z My sister rationalizes that she doesn’t blame me for her need to leave the group. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sister restarted the family group chat without her. Is estrangement next? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The problem is that nearly two hours of rationalizing repetition, even by winking at it, can get wearying. REVIEW: 22 Jump Street Goes Meta on Your Ass 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z A key element of rationalizing the violence involved justifying the perpetrator's behavior. How did abuse get baked into the restaurant industry? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z For two years I lived in denial, rationalizing away my actions. Coming out to my wife 2013-02-19T01:00:00Z But the characters are also particular: the Mother, determined and entrepreneurial; the Father, himself a police officer, navigating and rationalizing his place in the community; the Son, an aspiring artist, sensitive and rebellious. Creating the opera ‘Blue,’ about police violence against young black men, was hard yet hopeful work 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z I had no one to blame and no one to help me or to rationalize what I had done; both my parents were dead. My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z Season 4 Carrie can be ruthless and callous, she can go too far and rationalize it, but we never lose the sense that she knows what she’s doing. Homeland Got Better By Getting Smaller 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z For surfers, rooting for hurricane swell may be increasingly difficult to rationalize. What’s Bad News for Coastlines Can Be Good News for Surfers 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Add in the rising prices of shipping, storage, service and equipment, and it’s easy to rationalize bottom-end inflation. 10 Manhattan Restaurants With Affordable Wines 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z He tries to rationalize this by reminding us that it was a different time. ?J.Edgar? Ruffling Feathers Among Former FBI Agents 2011-11-30T18:09:46Z Other manufacturers rationalized earlier by deleting poorly performing products and commissioning fewer new designs. Design: And the Great Furniture Festival Begins 2011-04-10T14:00:16Z Elizabeth's guilt load about her real and imagined maternal failures leads her to miss, rationalize, ignore and forgive the many signs of trouble. 'Imperfect Birds': Anne Lamott's novel of flirting with addiction 2010-04-07T22:27:00Z As a way to rationalize what happened, so they feel like less of a victim. Perspective | Matt Lauer and the problems with his ‘consensual sex’ defense 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Malkin says that Rice may be using her own violent acts to rationalize the abuse. Why Women Stay: The Paradox of Abusive Relationships 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Re: Invisible: The human mind is incredible at rationalizing. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A less visible disability is still a disability 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Everything has been stashed away higgledy-piggledy, a system that I’ve been known to rationalize by murmuring a line from poet Wallace Stevens: “A great disorder is an order.” Perspective | Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z When I asked Richard about the appearance of a conflict of interest, he was quick to rationalize that it wasn’t favoritism since his wife’s clothes were sold at Barneys before he bought it. Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z “An easily accessible, rationalized marketplace of relationships: This was the big game-changing difference between online dating and other forms of relationship intermediation,” Slater notes. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z “I rationalized that Joyce was a modernist,” Ms. Goldberg said in an interview with the influential graphic designer Sean Adams. Carin Goldberg, Who Transformed Book and Album Cover Design, Dies at 69 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z I did the same thing with that final Lost episode; as it aired, I was telling myself, Hey, this is bold all too often to rationalize my disappointment. On Not Watching Girls and the Benefits of Getting to a TV Party Late 2014-01-20T14:00:51Z Any attempt to rationalize the racial segregation of the Mormon priesthood, the Church’s official statement said, should be “viewed as speculation and opinion, not doctrine.” Can the Church of Latter-day Saints accept its racist history? 2013-05-04T14:00:00Z Don’t rationalize it or try to compensate for it; err on the side of you. John Scalzi's 10-point plan for getting creative work done in the time of Trump 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It's impossible to make that trip without becoming desensitized to violence, and increasingly willing to rationalize the most horrific crimes. "Breaking Bad" recap: Season 4, Episode 1, "Box Cutter" 2011-07-18T13:19:00Z “When people do treat themselves during this period, they can rationalize it more when it’s better for both their wallets and the environment.” Secondhand Shoppers Worry About Their Favorite Local Spots 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The fictional home will also have cabinlike aspects “to rationalize the appearance of a generator.” Spare Times: For Children, for Jan. 20-26 2012-01-19T21:42:34Z This, I rationalized, would make the feeding more efficient. Let’s co-sleep on it: How I became the mom I swore I’d never be 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Was it the woman’s way of rationalizing the spectacle of two black women talking to each other in the typically white gallery space? The Mysterious Darknesses of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z And rationalize that this step backward was actually necessary for a step forward, to be completed at some yet-to-be-determined point in the future, once the country has found its balance. Perspective | The Nancyness of Nancy Pelosi: What hating her says about us 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z By the outset of the episode, as he fumbles to rationalize himself to Jess under the cover story of national security, he seems so crushingly pressured you might expect him to start coughing up diamonds. Homeland Watch: Motel Matches 2012-11-19T13:00:01Z Who among us is not part evil?, he rationalizes. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z I rationalized it was O.K. because I was en route to Montauk with only a quick pit stop at the 24th Street flea market. What I Wore: Sean MacPherson, Hotel Proprietor, on ‘What I Wore’ 2012-06-22T18:52:46Z The constant scrutiny of a camera seems exploitative and cruel, even if you are at all suspicious when he rationalizes his behavior as childlike mischief. 'Art and Craft's' portrait of art imitator seems exploitative 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z He doesn’t say much but he is constantly thinking and reminiscing, rationalizing the parental abuse and rash decisions that delivered him to his present moment, in which a bright future seems impossible. The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z “At the Heart of Gold” examines the misplaced trust that allowed so many children to rationalize their own suffering. The Victims of Larry Nassar Who Dared to Come Forward First 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Eventually, with no luck, Tyler pulled on his parka and drove to the store, rationalizing that it would be harder for co-workers to turn him down in person. Six teenagers are running for governor in Kansas, and suddenly this doesn’t seem so preposterous 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z There are stories from people who’ve done awful things and still rationalize them. Inside the mind of a serial rapist 2012-07-27T20:00:00Z “I couldn’t rationalize how good men could make things up about another veteran when they knew the truth.” John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z "There's not a blurt, not a racist policy, not an unconstitutional trespass, not a crime against humanity that Conway hasn't managed to rationalize through her soulless, venom-spitting gift for toxic spin-doctoring." "American Idol" spotlights Claudia Conway, proving the media's learned nothing from #FreeBritney 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Like Meursault, Will remains unrepentant to the end, and his refusal to rationalize or apologize for his actions ultimately gives him strength. Books of The Times: ?You Deserve Nothing? by Alexander Maksik - Book Review 2011-09-12T22:26:31Z I rationalized that it would be unfair to punish myself for their mistake and decided not to correct it. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman confused by ‘delete’ request 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z And if our luck is to hold, we need to better rationalize and streamline our entire approach to airport security. Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work 2012-05-21T20:16:00Z Helen's mom, in an all too common fashion, tolerated and rationalized his behavior. 'And When She Was Good': Laura Lippman at 'top of her game' 2012-08-16T20:53:04Z They rationalize with the anger, others or even their own. Learning from grief, learning from rage — progressive survival under Donald Trump will require both 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z According to her friend Andrew Ward, now in the psychology department at Swarthmore College, “the working assumption in those years was that happy people were rationalizing all the time.” Happiness Inc. 2013-04-19T23:30:21Z When her crush calls her “Big Fat Gypsy Wedding,” she turns to Aretha and rationalizes: “‘Gypsy Wedding’ is good. Review: ‘Raised by Wolves’ Reimagines an Unusual Childhood 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Hitchens felt that many on the left acted cowardly, blaming Mr. Rushdie for the response to his fourth novel, “The Satanic Verses,” and rationalizing the reaction of Islamic extremists. Books of The Times: ?Hitch-22: A Memoir? by Christopher Hitchens 2010-06-01T22:25:00Z By contrast, in the later “Alien” movies and in the “Terminator” series, the maternal partly helps rationalize female violence. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z He rationalizes his behavior, and says that what he does, he does for his family. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z Is this a way to rationalize the deception of the last show? Review: ‘Our Last Game,’ the Ultimate Locker Room Pep Talk 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Eventually, CJ rationalizes Jarred's nice guy identification, ceding bare minimum, nice-ish behaviors from him: "He does act pretty sweet, and I guess he's, like, kind of polite." On "FBoy Island," the line between nice guys and fboys is thin to nonexistent 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z This is the entirely human tendency to seek evidence that supports what you already believe or theorize and to skip over or rationalize away evidence that contradicts your thesis. This is your brain on fake news: what’s behind the human willingness to swallow “alternative facts” 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z And the kind that rationalizes complacency by sowing doubt. Jon Stewart Bids Farewell With a Small Treat for Himself 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z A slice of that project – which is currently under review with a top peer-reviewed social science journal – explores the way gay men rationalize their sexual racism and discrimination on Grindr. How gay men justify their racism on Grindr 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z She's fascinating to watch and as fearless as her fellow performers, but her halting command of English is too conspicuous to overlook or intellectually rationalize. Cate Blanchett brings an extravagant fierceness to 'The Maids' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Those outside this range can seek rentals on SaunaShare.com, or rationalize the splurge as one might a car. Saunas Are Hot 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z I followed the “Rosemary’s Baby”-“Stepford Wives” model of inching into this crazy situation and alongside, justifying how the character is rationalizing staying. Jordan Peele on a Truly Terrifying Monster: Racism 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The bottom line is that “there’s millions of different ways we can rationalize something away,” Campbell said. MyPillow boycott: How a product can spark an identity crisis 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z She was rationalizing her abandonment of a half-completed work, “The Sly Old Cat,” which she had begun a decade earlier. The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z TV’s numerous series revivals usually make at least a gesture toward rationalizing why they need to tell one more story. Review: The World Changed. NBC’s ‘Will & Grace’ Hasn’t. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Grantham had rationalized that it was necessary to kill his mother so that she would not have to deal with the fallout of the crimes he had planned to commit, Johnson said. Ryan Grantham of ‘Riverdale’ Sentenced to Life for Mother’s Murder 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z So she just keeps rationalizing the things she hears and sees. Novels of Suspense and Isolation 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z When a player spins a tale to rationalize a wrong answer, it’s not mainly out of a desire to hoodwink the panel about, say, what volcano shares its name with an Italian dish. Spiel of Fortune 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z There is one ill-considered effort in these pages to rationalize Malcolm X’s violent rhetoric in his Nation of Islam days. Books of The Times: Stripping Away Myth and Finding Multiple Masks 2011-04-07T13:56:45Z Thus most people prefer to ignore or rationalize away many of the realities they do not like to think about. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z “It rationalizes, romanticizes, and legitimizes the terrorist murder of our father,” they wrote in a note that the Met plans to include in its program. Met’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ Remains a Lightning Rod 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The lodging industry generally takes the position that poisonings are too rare to rationalize costly changes, like requiring detectors in every one of the country’s 5 million or so guest rooms. A $30 Alarm Can Stop a Silent Killer. Why Many Hotels Don’t Install Them. 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z I was watching too, a 10-year-old who rationalized that I wasn’t out playing football because my sitter wanted company in front of the television. ?One Life to Live? and Lessons for Real Life 2012-02-18T05:09:03Z Especially as he grew older, Calhoun rationalized these shameless arguments with pseudoscientific claims that Blacks were the natural inferiors of whites. John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Animals do not understand this sort of thing; they can’t rationalize it. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A sudden storm, followed by utter panic — and a road map for world peace 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Do you think the way Love rationalizes her actions precludes her from having a happily ever after with Joe? That Intense New Character on ‘You’? Victoria Pedretti ‘Had the Tools’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z In both cases drawing becomes a way to rationalize a sentimental image. Art Review: Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity 2011-02-24T21:29:53Z The obsession with the particulars of Holmes’ life is understandable as we aim to understand and rationalize violence of a seemingly random nature. Are men more violent? 2012-07-29T18:01:00Z If you cannot manage discomfort, that sends you barreling into perfectionism, blame, rationalizing–without taking away key learnings. 10 Questions With Brené Brown 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z And as his industry has changed, so has the outside world, where women are claiming the power to call out the kind of predatory behavior that was rationalized and overlooked for so long. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein and the dark side of Hollywood’s talent-worship 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Ultimately, Trump rationalized his defeat this way: “Essentially the judge just said, ‘Trump is too famous,’ ” he told the Atlantic magazine in 2013. What really gets under Trump’s skin? A reporter questioning his net worth 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z “As an addict, you rationalize the craziest things.” The Road to This Wedding Was Paved With Theft, Lies, Tears, Other Marriages — and Forgiveness 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z The late-night show imagined what the leader of the human resistance would sound like during the zombie apocalypse if he tried to rationalize and defend the zombies trying to eliminate his species. Stephen Colbert compares President Trump to a zombie apocalypse sympathizer 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z But such accounts are typically overlooked, or anyway rationalized, by those acquainted with them. America’s original California girl 2012-08-06T20:33:00Z Maybe it’s mean, but I’ve sort of rationalized this as her choosing to have a pet: perfectly enjoyable company, but doesn’t contribute. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Should you say something to a friend about her freeloader boyfriend? 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z A self-described "blue-state person," and "aging hippie," she had rationalized it by reminding herself that she would be moving to a liberal city. They came to Texas for the big houses and barbecue. They also got new laws on abortion, guns and voting. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z By casting themselves as victims of this imaginary conspiracy, she argues, the Puppies rationalize their behavior as a form of self-defense. The alt-right attacks sci-fi: How the Hugo Awards got hijacked by Trumpian-style culture warriors 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Like the rest of Stalin’s men, he has helped create a world of bureaucratically administered terror, one in which each bullet to the head is rationalized on a neatly typed hit list. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Please don’t do his rationalizing for him, too. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He said he wanted kids. Now that he’s married, he’s not sure. 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z He tends to take the executives at their word, accepting as common sense that dating is a marketplace ruled by supply-and-demand curves, “revealed preferences,” the rationalized pursuit of maximized utility, and “liquidity” in potential partners. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z Kent doesn’t try to rationalize — she simply shows all this in a horrid light, allowing viewers to understand the high cost of their modern-day lives. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The viral meme infiltrating our fraught politics began obscurely on a New Zealand radio show on which the hosts help rationalize absurd, illogical purchases their listeners share with them. Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z “If they think I ran away, it’ll look like I did something wrong,” protests Craig, who rationalizes his theft of county funds as rightful compensation for working holidays and weekends. 'Better Call Saul' recap: Jimmy's hustler nature prevails 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Barbara: Everything was really foggy and you kind of rationalize it, you go, “maybe he likes me?” ‘I remember thinking, ugh, this is bad’: Scenes from teenage party life in the ’80s 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z So recognize your comment as the weak excuse it is for your boyfriend’s arrogant certainties, and note that explaining and rationalizing are how partners of rude people spend a sad chunk of their time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Your kids and your lawyer boyfriend argue. Dismiss with prejudice? 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z As he faces up to what he has done, this intelligent, popular, handsome 18-year-old rugby player, who still has some baby fat, tries to rationalize what happened as a terrible accident. Movie Review: ‘What Richard Did,’ With Jack Reynor 2013-05-10T00:23:11Z Watching her rationalize a way out is amusing. ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ Review: She’s Hiding From Herself 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z But to the reader fully clued into his activities, he seems more like a dewy puppy who, eagerly lapping up corruption and rationalizing his motives every step of the way, starts taking on pit-bull qualities. In first novel, Seattle's Peter Mountford takes a dazzling trip to Bolivia 2011-04-13T21:36:04Z Everybody does things for very specific reasons and they can rationalize all their behavior. ArtsBeat: Apocalypse Soon: Tom Hanks Discusses His Web Series 'Electric City' 2012-07-16T12:00:46Z Drawing a firm line between “us” and “them,” the sheep and the goats, the chosen and the un-, allows church members to rationalize the shunning of those who have left the congregation. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z What does is the insidious way that morally abhorrent ideas and systems can grow to seem quite normal, their harms rationalized away by ordinary citizens who would rather not look ugliness in the face. Review: In ‘Good’ and ‘No End of Blame,’ Politics and Prickly Debate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z But it’s a problem when critics try to rationalize their preferences — their so-called taste — into a proscribed idea of cinema. film: Sometimes A Vegetable Is Just a Vegetable 2011-06-17T15:55:10Z But Berg, like all the other self-proclaimed prophets whose prophecies inevitably failed, found a way to both rationalize it and inflate his group’s importance. My life in the cult: How “serving God” unraveled into sex abuse, child neglect and a waking nightmare 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z And all of those things, taken together, would be the perfect material for a satire of a spoiled Westerner with first-world problems, rationalizing her entitlement through New Age mumbo-jumbo. Enlightened: The Best New Show No One But You, If You Are Bothering to Read This Post, Is Watching 2011-11-08T15:44:38Z Abuse always begins small, which is why it’s so easily ignored and rationalized. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “COVID is not over,” said Leonard Marcus, director of Harvard’s Aviation Public Health Initiative, which produced a report that some airline executives have used to rationalize ending mask requirements. What’s the deal with masks on planes? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z We're watching him rationalize why he has to kill people and why he does the thing he does. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Irene compartmentalizes and rationalizes her act; she needs to cool down, the tearoom is a breezy refuge, if one she intentionally seeks out rather than merely happens upon. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Today, we do feel a need to rationalize our lifestyle choices, perhaps more so than ever. Eat (like) the rich: Our celebrity cookbook obsessions, ourselves 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Another way of rationalizing the film is to call it the ultimate stoner movie — the High in the title says as much — since it contains plenty of weed references. How Low Can They Go? James Franco, Danny McBride and Natalie Portman in Your Highness 2011-04-07T09:15:00Z Gates was a man who rationalized the computer business. When Apple took over 2012-10-14T15:00:00Z She also rationalized extramarital affairs when we were discussing a movie we watched together, saying few people are entirely faithful. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What to say to a friend you think might be contemplating an affair 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Over-the-top, offensive, absurdist offerings like "Born Free" rationalize the effort at the very least—even if they kinda bug you in the end. From Lady Gaga to M.I.A., Music Videos Are Back 2010-04-27T21:41:00Z But by the end, it becomes clear she’s performed this penance so she can rationalize being with him, the only way to wipe his slate clean enough that she can admit her feelings out loud. Two Lies and a Truth: Story Collections Exploring the Spectrum of Human Honesty 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Ginsburg needed the job and “rationalized the incident as ‘just the way things are.’” From Top Law School Grad to Notorious R.B.G.: The Evolution of a Supreme Court Justice 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z But I think that we rationalize a lot of really toxic behavior that parents present to “protect their children.” That Intense New Character on ‘You’? Victoria Pedretti ‘Had the Tools’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Then, you decide — not rationalize — whether it’s a life you’d want yourself. Carolyn Hax: Age is just one factor when deciding whether to have kids 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z After much evasion, justification and rationalizing of their reasons, they finally informed me that the color of the actress’s skin would ultimately be irrelevant, since they intended to “experiment with makeup.” Blackface Clybourne Park Production Cancelled in Berlin 2012-10-18T17:07:34Z This is “turning into the skid,” because rather than fighting or rationalizing these feelings away, we are making room for all of the feelings that will occur. What to do when your kid can’t fall asleep without you in the room 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Hearing horror stories of what over-imbibing did to your body or reading that higher percentages of middle-aged white Americans were dying of overdoses, I rationalized that I wasn’t shooting heroin or popping Oxycodone. New Year’s is a bad day to quit sniffing glue — or anything else: Make those resolutions, sure, but don’t dream of starting today 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Theology is the attempt to rationalize our dilemmas. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps the older woman is chastising the younger one for being lazy, and the younger one recalls the story of Mary and Martha to rationalize her behavior? The art mystery in the menu: The meal in this painting is more than just lunch — but what? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z The 48-year-old initially rationalized the cost of the episodes by making up the cost on a stand-up tour. 'Horace and Pete' Put Louis C.K. in Debt 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z That was in a different context, and I can rationalize that internally, and I trust you. 'Fifty Shades' too steamy for some library shelves 2012-05-09T19:41:42Z Instead of simply saying he didn't have the goods, Finkel told her he could, then blended details from multiple children and presented them as one, rationalizing that the spirit of the story was true. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z That may sound like the requirements of a much older profession, but Vincent rationalizes away that unseemly thought. Review | Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven’ was a huge hit. Now she’s back with a different apocalypse. 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z DuVernay rationalized that because her mother works in Selma today, she is herself somehow–mystically–connected to the city’s past. It’s not just “Selma”: Hollywood’s history problem 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z How much harder would it be to rationalize away? Perspective | Miss Manners: New mom’s posts might be hurtful, but butt out 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z But some of the most intelligent and complex work by Studio Gang helps to rationalize the flow of visitors and make intuitive internal connections so people can focus more on collections, as opposed to wayfinding. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “I’m rationalizing everything that he does, but I can’t say that in the same position I would do the same things.” Chance the Rapper on Why He's "Always Been Able to Defend" Kanye West 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z I couldn’t rationalize my apparently obvious enjoyment of such a strange combination of activities. Motherlode Blog: I Enjoyed My Son’s Bris 2013-05-31T15:17:42Z "Michael just loved kids. We infantilized him as though the man wasn’t essentially omnipotent. The thing about cognitive dissonance is that, when fully employed, you can rationalize or dismiss anything," Kierna Mayo writes for AfroPunk. How we talk about Michael Jackson and abuse matters 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z So, a person in a relationship with someone he doesn’t want to marry often will rationalize a bunch of reasons that Marriage: The Institution! is wrong for him. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He said ‘I don’t’ to her but is now saying ‘I do’ to someone else 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z I rationalized that I didn’t have to, since nothing romantic had happened between us. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z Just a thought: Maybe Kate was trying to rationalize her husband’s bias as the province of “everybody.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Talking to your daughter about gender and generalizations 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z That’s the real drama here: Louis’s struggle to rationalize, within his politics, the irrational desire to forgive. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z I didn’t know, and I rationalized any concerns away. Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z He refused to make himself vulnerable to authority figures; to rationalize his position, he espoused a theory that to prepare was to cheat. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z "Not everything can be spelled out or rationalized or even named," she said. Lindsay Duncan finds her footing in 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Place, for Clay, if not always in the foreground, is inextricable from her personal history, rationalizing and underlying what interests her, while never relegating her photographs to the merely local in scope and consequence. Mississippi History 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z “I just had an intuition, and then my interest became more rationalized,” he said. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z "If you rationalize putting yourself in harm's way, risking your well-being, your health, your freedom, your family's well-being and livelihood in order to be high, that's the rationale of an addict," he said. T.I. says drug problem started with prescriptions 2010-11-22T13:19:00Z But they’re not entirely prepared for the specifics — the first episode involves finding a Black stylist to put Colin’s hair in cornrows — and they sometimes ignore or rationalize the double standards he increasingly encounters. Review: ‘Colin in Black & White’ Finds Kaepernick Before He Took a Knee 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Calm down about the day-to-day, but don’t rationalize away anything that sticks around long enough to be a trend. Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend’s change in amount of affection sets off alarms 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The end of tipping means one more irrational thing rationalized, one more odd little ritual lost. Notes on the End of Restaurant Tipping 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z And as they discuss their problem and a potential remedy, you see how easily rationalized violence turns a group into a mob. ‘Dogman’ Review: In Italy, a Man-Eat-Man World 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Less obvious are those who repeat the cliché in order to rationalize their own choice not to spend on wine. Be It a $10 Wine, or Much More, the Judgments Come Free 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z And so they’re probably looking for ways to rationalize their activity. Eastwood on ‘Richard Jewell,’ criticism and finding stories 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z I am not not NOT inviting you to rationalize away your second-class citizenship. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: With his friends, it’s wine and dine, but with hers, it’s just whine 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In exposing Ted's mental health issues to the media, Nate can rationalize it to himself: What's a little violation of consent when it means that Nate can finally discredit his undeserving boss? The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Military commission proponents rationalize the need for this peculiar forum citing the exigencies of war and the unique circumstances presented on the battlefield. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Along those lines we have to ask how vision — art itself — is used to rationalize and perpetuate racism, inadvertently or not. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z This has led to a wide range of exploitation including racism and on-set fatalities, exploitation that has been habitually rationalized as the cost those without power pay for doing business in a putatively glamorous industry. Harvey Weinstein Is Going to Prison. But That’s Just a Starting Point. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z At times he is profoundly good at rationalizing some very disturbing behavior. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z As detailed by sociologist Joe Feagin, the white racial frame “is a generic meaning system that rationalizes the system of material oppression.” White America’s death crisis: The pain is real, but our perception is warped by the “racial frame” 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Davis drew upon the Bible, Greek philosophy and political and economic debates to show how the West defended, rationalized and fought for slavery before beginning to turn against it in the 18th and 19th centuries. David Brion Davis, scholar of slavery, dead at 92 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Trump voters, like most of us, he argued, are trying to control anxiety and rationalize their own decisions. WATCH: Why Trump fans won’t dump him now 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z And rather than rationalize the silliness of that premise—cops who clearly look too old to be teens going undercover at a high school—the Jump Street movie leans into it. 21 Jump Street, and How to Turn a TV Show Into a Movie 2012-03-20T12:41:17Z “But I can have a heart attack just sitting on the couch,” she rationalized. Explorer : A Sisterhood of the Snow in Alaska 2014-04-03T17:57:48Z Little details — like the fact that Mr. Simmons called in to “Today” instead of appearing on video — are used to rationalize the project. ‘Missing Richard Simmons,’ the Morally Suspect Podcast 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z She’s resourceful, frighteningly so, willing to do anything, and then, hilariously, rationalize everything. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z Many used scientific and medical language to rationalize women’s exclusion from active public and professional roles. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Ignoring the gender dictates of marital tradition, I irrationally rationalized that it was merely an engagement ring. Defriend your exes now! 2012-09-23T01:00:00Z There was a deliberate, almost prickly quality to Fisher’s writing and thinking that is rare nowadays, when criticism is more likely to involve open-minded rationalizing than steadfast refusal. Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Determined to start a new life after a childless, isolating marriage tucked away in the Surrey hills, Lizzie rationalizes her decision to eat her dead husband, a long-struggling sculptor, as a “moral choice.” ‘Season to Taste,’ by Natalie Young 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z She makes the hollow justifications that Fey herself knows not to, rationalizing that “the late 2010s were a different time!” 30 Rock: is the quarantine reunion worth the wait? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z In the fantastical universe of these superheroes, Eshun — whose parents are Ghanaian — found not escape, but a way to rationalize his experiences. ________Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Sure, it’s screen time, but it’s educational, I rationalize — a parental write-off. Looking for Moose to Moon Over 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z At least one customer is rationalizing the spending as the price of returning to innocence. Jets and the Ritz-Carlton Replace the VW Bus for Grateful Dead Fans 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “Into the Darkness” follows an industrialist’s family in early-1940s Denmark as its members rationalize their complicity with the occupying Nazis. ‘Into the Darkness’ Review: Making Excuses for Collaboration 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z His attacks are rationalized as self-defense and his most divisive remarks are framed as a holiday from America's great scourge, political correctness. The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But I think he's fascinated by their crimes, great or small, and touched by their attempts to rationalize or conquer them, to live inside that creepy place. Life During Wartime: The Year's Best Indie Film 2010-07-25T21:45:00Z “What I do with that, as distressing as it is, I try to rationalize what’s going on,” McCartney said of being panned in the 1980s. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Academy voters sometimes use technical virtuosity — as well as genre and “seriousness” — to rationalize their choices. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z What’s more, using New York, which is keeping its infection rate low, as a boogeyman to rationalize their reckless behavior is a terrible argument. Do We Need to Tell Our Son That His Dad Has Coronavirus? 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z What changed was that he was forced to detail and rationalize the way he reads and what he reads for. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z I rationalized it as supporting the hard-pressed local economy. ‘Oh-Oh, Ay-Ay!’ Riding to an Italian Rhythm on the Transumanza 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z At the same time, the book is less interested in explaining or rationalizing that significance than in dramatizing how it literally feels. Grief, Pain and the Lingering Impact of Trauma on Black Women’s Bodies 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z We rationalized the good; it outweighed the bad. What life in a cult was like: “We gave away our critical thinking and moral code and surrendered it to him” 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z While consuming one's peers could be rationalized as a desperate, last-ditch effort to stay alive, it's enough to put one off meat afterward. Chicken wings with a side of human flesh: A look at the meaty food cravings on “Yellowjackets” 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Throughout the postwar years he expressed no remorse and either remained oblivious to, or rationalized, the enormity of his crimes. How Did Josef Mengele Become the Evil Doctor of Auschwitz? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z She rationalized it this way: African designers are only just being recognized. ‘The dress comes out of pain’: Patience Torlowei creates fashion from the highs and lows of modern Africa 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z They can always rationalize it: “Oh, I have control over this. I’m fine. I can go to that grocery store.” ‘The Rings of Power’: The Showrunners Unpack That Twisty Finale 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Library officials say much of the existing branch is unused and that moving the business collection to the main library at Grand Army Plaza rationalizes Brooklyn’s holdings. Plans for Brooklyn Branches Have Merit 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z No matter how we rationalize it, the underlying truth doesn’t change or go away. We need to stop lying to kids about Donald Trump 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z “In the end it helped me, because people said I didn’t compromise,” Zumthor rationalized. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z "It's easy for someone who has seen them to rationalize and say I'm not sure I want to skip my mortgage payment to see them again," he told Reuters. Rolling Stones release low-priced seats ahead of L.A. show 2013-05-03T01:45:07Z Comyns’s hapless heroine’s vicissitudes follow the original story closely as she updates and rationalizes the extreme, weird sequence of murder and revenge. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “And furthermore, our feelings are just as valid a way of thinking as your rationalizing. They might be clearer.” Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z As Hoffman plays him he is fundamentally a coward, with an intellectual’s well-developed ability to rationalize inaction. Rod Lurie Remakes Peckinpah?s ?Straw Dogs? 2011-09-04T02:53:02Z Josh, a master at rationalizing failure, says of their stasis, “Maybe the point is, we have the freedom. What we do with it isn’t that important.” REVIEW: While We're Young: Can Ben Stiller Be a Happy 20-Something? 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z For three months, the Cardinales said, they raised the baby as their own, trying to rationalize the unexplainable. ‘We Had Their Baby, and They Had Our Baby’: Couple Sues Over Embryo ‘Mix-Up’ 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z He remembers rationalizing what were symptoms at the time. Barry Watson talks ‘Heaven,’ spirituality and cancer battle 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Brad apologizes, Marcia rationalizes his behavior, and then she pretends he's the perfect man. Perspective | Ask Amy: Spouse sees marriage consumed by differences 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Once over the pass and into the city of about 78,000 Bendites, I begin to rationalize quitting my job, working at Mount Bachelor all winter and living in a tiny apartment. Scenic byway outside Bend leads to outdoor fun 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z How did they metabolize and rationalize what was happening? On Nazis, family and the question of forgiveness: Two novelists confront the legacies of their families 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Even though these highly enjoyable mysteries finally turn out to have rationalized human solutions, they keep open the possibility that, deeper down, a supernatural explanation may actually be the truer one. Review | Long before ‘Ghostbusters,’ fiction’s detectives were exploring the otherworldly 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “There was a philosophical need,” one Jane rationalizes in the documentary, “to disrespect a law that would disrespect women.” Perspective | What will post-Roe America look like? Let’s look at pre-Roe America. 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z This could all lead the Dodgers to unimaginably rationalize that it’s finally time for a split, but who could blame them? Plaschke: Would Clayton Kershaw and Dodgers really split? Unimaginable but understandable 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z All of us need the neocortex to be able to rationalize, and process information using executive functioning skills. Forensic psychological expert: MAGA "victimhood" is a major recruitment tool for violence 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Once a start-up darling, the cash-strapped company on Monday said it continued to take actions to implement its strategic plan and was focused on rationalizing its real estate footprint. WeWork to withhold interest payment on some notes 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Some critics say executives may be using shrink as an excuse to rationalize their company’s poor performance or justify closing stores in underserved communities, said Neil Saunders, managing director at the consultancy GlobalData. Target, Citing Theft, to Close Nine Stores 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z "Our framework will help rationalize and design transition metal nitrides for alkaline ORR." Researchers reveal the origins of zirconium nitride's superior performance 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Each financial aspect of your proposed action must be carefully examined and rationalized using real data and accurate projections. How To Do A Feasibility Study 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Others acknowledge that Trump may be a con man, but rationalize it: "He's our con man!" The Jan. 6 Trump indictment is traumatic — and cathartic: We may be free of him at last 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The rollbacks are often rationalized by conservative political leaders as promoting “parental rights.” Column: The carnage from the rollback of child labor laws is just starting 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z When at first seeing that mullet on her son last year, Keene remembers rationalizing, “It’s not my hair. It’s part of his personality and uniqueness.” He’s 9, from Seattle, and in the USA Mullet Championship 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z CEOs often point to the pay of elite performers to rationalize their own compensation. Column: By the standards of their peers, Hollywood CEOs aren't all that overpaid. That's the problem 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z How do they rationalize that obvious double standard? Thank the Supreme Court for the next big campus battle: Legacy admissions 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z How do we rationalize the eight years of warfare against ethnic Russians in the Donbass region before the Russian invasion in February 2022? They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they're lying about Ukraine 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Roy had been older than many of them — kids who were just starting to figure out their lives used as cannon fodder for the broader goals of empire Roy couldn’t even rationalize anymore. The America That Americans Forget 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Durham said investigators repeatedly relied on “confirmation bias,” ignoring or rationalizing away evidence that undercut their premise of a Trump-Russia conspiracy as they pushed the probe forward. House censures Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-Russia investigations 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z So I set out to hear from my fellow Catholics about how they rationalize loving a church that doesn’t always love them, while denouncing a group devoted to fighting intolerance of LGBTQ+ people. Column: For some LGBTQ+ Catholics, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a drag 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “Many whites are blind to racism’s continued presence,” he added, “and, related to this blindness, many whites rationalize their ignorance by thinking that Black people are race-obsessed.” Eusebius McKaiser, Acerbic South African Political Analyst, Dies at 44 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Over the course of hundreds of focus groups, I've seen female GOP voters rationalize, compartmentalize, and defend Trump's treatment of women. The women of MAGA remain a mystery 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Chang: My poulet rôti potato chip consumption has surprised even me, Mary, though I’ve rationalized it away as best I can. Our critics pick their highlights and lowlights from the Cannes Film Festival 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Under Robespierre’s leadership, the Committee for Public Safety attempted to reorganize and “rationalize” French society as a whole, not just win wars. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Abbasid rulers also faced religious divisions and criticism, even as the cosmopolitan nature of the caliphate sparked the growth of speculative philosophy and rationalizing thought. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The findings aren’t flattering for the FBI, with Durham asserting that it rushed into the investigation without an adequate basis and routinely ignored or rationalized evidence that undercut its premise. Durham report takeaways: a ‘seriously flawed’ Russia investigation and its lasting impact on the FBI 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z He had been rationalizing his behavior by saying that his wife was not giving him the attention he needed. I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z And it said investigators repeatedly relied on “confirmation bias,” ignoring or rationalizing away evidence that undercut their premise of a Trump-Russia conspiracy as they pushed the probe forward. Prosecutor ends probe of FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation with harsh criticism, but no new charges 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Overall, Italian merchants, borrowing from their Arab and Turkic trading partners, pioneered efforts to rationalize and systematize business itself in order to make it more predictable and reliable. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z It conflates good health with good morals to rationalize expending vulnerable lives for the economy. I’m immunocompromised. I’ve been cautious about COVID. Thanks to everyone else, it doesn’t matter 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Also, if you don't know the symptoms, you can rationalize them so many different ways. Pregnancy books are everywhere. Why are there so few menopause books? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s a busy world, and there’s a lot of pressure to “get better” and “move through,” heal, rationalize, reconcile. In ‘Ways of Being,’ Bellingham poet Sati Mookherjee holds space for grief 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z These many hours spent online might be rationalized as entertainment or social bonding, but the reality is hardly benign. AI was supposed to save the internet, not destroy it 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Several monarchs in the latter part of the eighteenth century did, in fact, ban torture in their realms, and “rationalized” justice systems slowly evolved in many kingdoms during the period. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The six-state plan rationalized departing from a strict adherence to water rights by attributing some 1.5 million acre-feet of cuts to evaporation and other losses as water travels down the canals from the major reservoirs. Colorado River cities and farms face dire trade-offs with new federal review 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z “No words can explain, justify or rationalize tragedies such as these,” the association wrote. Kentucky high school football player dies after head injury 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z “I don’t think we can rationalize irrational actions, so I am just trying to make peace with that,” she said. Victims of Nashville school shooting honored in somber vigil 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The fourth season "settles into a superb array of the show's signature strengths: Machiavellian plotting, comic rationalizing and withering put-downs," said The Wrap's Bob Strauss. Succession: Critics praise 'brutal' fourth and final season 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z He also rationalized the royal bureaucracy, making all applicants pass a formal exam, which provided a limited path of social mobility for non-nobles. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is a familiar tactic traditionally used to rationalize amending an initiative passed by the people.” Misguided Legislature keeps chipping away at Public Records Act 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Commission on Civil Rights, criticized the center Tuesday for rationalizing the actions of its legal staffer. Lawyer charged with domestic terrorism was ‘legal observer,’ says Southern Poverty Law Center 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “They might rationalize any failure they witnessed, particularly with a fatalistic mind-set that disasters are inevitable.” Quake Will Not Delay Elections in Turkey, President Says 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z "We're in the process of assessing the global footprint of Novavax, rationalizing our supply chain, rationalizing the portfolio and rationalizing the company structure and our infrastructure," he said. Novavax raises doubts about its ability to remain in business 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z This idea was hugely inspiring to other Enlightenment thinkers, because it implied that society could be perfected if education was somehow improved and rationalized. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Juneteenth is special because the nation is celebrating the end of the shameful hypocrisy of slavery after rationalizing it for centuries. Opinion | Celebrate Black history. All of it. 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z All of that could be rationalized, however, as necessary sacrifice for the martial glories to come. No, dictatorships are not more "efficient": See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z He said that parents have a strong incentive to feel good about or to rationalize what they are feeding their kids, especially pickier eaters who might rather go hungry than eat a carrot. Nearly half of preschool-age kids aren’t eating their veggies 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z A safety override is a mechanism that prevents me from generating or displaying any content that is harmful to someone physically, emotionally, financially, or creates a condition to rationalize harmful content or to manipulate you. Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’ 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s how we rationalize that we couldn’t be ripped off. Advice | Why knowing how to spot a scam doesn’t always protect you 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z We swaddle ourselves in a kind of mental bubble wrap, rationalizing that such an atrocity could never happen here. Column: Here's why Congress and our political system allow these mass shootings to continue 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z County Labor Federation President Ron Herrera — rationalized their peer’s illegal actions and patted themselves on the back for doing so. Column: May Jose Huizar's fall be the end of the 'Eastside politico' 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z The ordinariness of men running into each other at full speed represents a normalized—even rationalized—violence that is routine to this American game. Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “There was an opportunity that proved to be very easy to obtain a large amount of cash with victims that for him could easily be rationalized away.” Maseratis and manicures: How fraudsters spent your pandemic money 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z That tendency among some to rationalize and make excuses for celebrities of color, instead of immediately acknowledging that they are sharing dangerous conspiracy theories and having an honest conversation about why. Column: White supremacy comes in all colors. 2023 will make this impossible to ignore 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z “If you never get a vacation, you’ll find a way to take one,” she says in the film, rationalizing her addictions. Perspective | Whitney Houston and exhausted Black women 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Censored were seemingly innocuous footnotes that a person could rationalize were not that important, or they would be in the report’s main body. Obama loyalists in ‘16 kept public in dark about Kremlin-dossier disinfo 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z You can already hear Rivera rationalizing the decision. Perspective | The Commanders need a jolt at quarterback. Will Carson Wentz do? 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z “To sing with the gods, you sometimes need a ladder,” Houston rationalizes in the movie. ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ review: Clumsy biopic mars star’s skill 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z For a fleeting moment this month, a deal to protect 2 million “dreamers” and rationalize our asylum system appeared within reach. Opinion | The untimely, infuriating death of the deal to save 2 million ‘dreamers’ 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “Short-term shareholders are a loud minority and will be washed out. This is a healthy and normal process as financial markets across the world rationalize.” Elon Musk’s role at Tesla questioned as Twitter occupies his attention 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “It is a hard thing for me to rationalize.” Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z When you were playing Portia, particularly in Sunday’s episode, how did you rationalize her decisions? Haley Lu Richardson spills the most 'perfectly Portia' details from 'The White Lotus' 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z During one of Deborah’s visits, he told her he was playing chess with Jesus, finally convincing her that what she once rationalized as drug-induced bad behavior was indeed serious mental illness. A failing mental health system leaves this mother pleading: Keep him in jail 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z “The physical assault of Councilmember De León and his staff at a holiday event is not protected righteousness, and those who rationalize these acts are complicit in the assault,” she said. A low for L.A. politics: Council member and activist fight as children watch in horror 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z “Nobody can actually rationalize or predict and develop a strategy accordingly — that’s a problem.” Brittney Griner Swap Puts Spotlight on Americans in Russia 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z In every case a leader has to rationalize the trade-off. At the DealBook Summit, Untangling the Now — and the Future 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z GOP officials can, and do, try to rationalize their support for him by citing his positions and actions on the issues. Opinion | Republicans, you can do better than Herschel Walker. Draw a line. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z In a note to employees, Mr. Iger said a new company structure was on the way that “puts more decision-making back in the hands of our creative teams and rationalizes costs.” Iger’s Sudden Return to Disney Shocks a Discontented Kingdom 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z While last year's climate summit had also agreed to call on countries to outright phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, this year's draft encourages efforts to "phase out and rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies." COP27 draft climate deal retains 1.5C limit, but many issues unresolved 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Jones-Drew looks back and tries to rationalize the team’s decision not to hire Tucker. How NFL teams use Black coaches to clean up their messes She said at the outset of a lengthy, weepy speech that she takes responsibility for her actions but spent most of her speech rationalizing and minimizing her conduct. Kansas mom gets 20 years for leading Islamic State battalion 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z She said at the outset of a lengthy speech that she takes responsibility for her actions but spent most of her speech rationalizing her conduct. Kansas mom gets 20 years for leading Islamic State battalion 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z In defeat, Clinton and the Democratic National Committee machine borrowed from the Republican playbook, and rationalized her loss with speculations and outright falsehoods in an effort to delegitimize the Trump presidency. Election denial and the Big Lie: Sure, Trump made it worse — but both sides do it 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Gellman asked around to see what House Republicans might come up with to rationalize their impeachment revenge strategy, and nobody was quite sure. Can the Republicans really impeach Joe Biden? Yes they can! 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z He does rationalize his methods to his madness throughout. Best Blu-ray & 4K UHD horror movies: ‘Fright Night,’ ‘Night of the Living Dead, ‘Poltergeist’ & more 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Just know that your dream will hurt some important family members, no matter how you rationalize it. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Couple propose beach wedding as ‘vacation’ for guests 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Saunders is fixated on the ways language can be used to rationalize and dehumanize. Review | The same George Saunders wears a heavier cloak in ‘Liberation Day’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Having discarded democracy from your governing philosophy makes rationalizing such behavior not only easy but attractive. Is the GOP still a legitimate political party? The answer should be self-evident 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But I rationalized that this kind of discipline would help the few girls who had trouble controlling their weight. I was a teenage swimmer. It took me decades to admit my coach was abusive 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The posing of these questions is not meant to rationalize rule-breaking. Perspective | How do we draw the line between sports cheaters and sports strivers? 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z No matter the offense, Republicans always found a way to look the other way, to rationalize their support for him, to shift their focus to their progressive enemies. Donald Trump's QAnon cult rally: If you thought the fever was breaking, think again 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The way Graham had rationalized Trump’s actions since Jan. 6 had been particularly craven — and a perfect example of how McConnell was quickly losing his members to Trump. ‘Unchecked’ book excerpt: Inside McConnell’s decision not to convict Trump 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The state, Moses wrote, engaged “in needless legal gymnastics to attempt to rationalize their actions and their calculated violations of the order.” Judge chides Montana for refusing order on transgender law 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The news that Ms. Sarsour was among the leaders of the Women’s March, said Mr. Lancman, a Democrat, struck him as “heartbreaking — that’s the word — that antisemitism is tolerated and rationalized in progressive spaces.” How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z And the higher the perceived stakes rise, the more tempting the invitation to destroy political norms — and to rationalize their destruction as necessary for democracy. Opinion | America’s democratic structure is indeed shuddering — under its own weight 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Bluebird has rationalized the high price of Zynteglo by referring to the lifetime cost of transfusions and chelation therapy, which the company says can run as high as $6.4 million. Column: This life-saving drug will cost a record $2.8 million. Who will pay the price? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “Barbarian” systematically rationalizes questionable character decisions, dismantling defenses with logic, an appeal to humanity and the promise of unearthing mysteries. ‘Barbarian’ review: The dangers of curiosity fuel this genre-bending horror movie 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “Since the president can’t rationalize the crippling costs of his climate policies,” Barrasso said in a statement, “he needs to exaggerate the benefits.” Costs of climate change far surpass government estimates, study says 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Trump's followers therefore identify with his lawbreaking and other antisocial behavior, while also being compelled to rationalize it as both necessary and good. Trump's followers are delusional and dangerous — but don't call them hypocrites 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Conversely, it becomes easier to justify or rationalize bad behavior. Culture, progress and the future: Can the West survive its own myths? 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z We rationalize our decisions and tend to reject extremes. Opinion | A Republican woman for Congress: Pro-life? Pro-choice? Pro-women. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Most of it rationalizing everything away before you have to say it, so you can avoid the whole thing. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Girlfriend’s tidiness feels like pressure to keep up 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z It is important to remember that hybridization was devised to rationalize experimentally observed molecular geometries. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z His chief whim was his passion for human torture — conducted, or rationalized, as genetic and medical experimentation designed to further the Nazi cause of racial purity. Review | A French bestseller considers Josef Mengele’s years on the run 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Concerned that he might be violating the powers of the office, Jefferson rationalized that his not facing impeachment charges constituted Congress’s tacit approval of his actions. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z When we rationalized a square root, we multiplied the numerator and denominator by a square root that would give us a perfect square under the radical in the denominator. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z For this reason, a process called rationalizing the denominator was developed. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z As an alternative to this kinetic interpretation, the effect of changes in concentration on equilibria can be rationalized in terms of reaction quotients. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z A Republican gay man with a husband, he rationalized helping the GOP pass anti-LGBTQ legislation by "compartmentalizing" his personal life from his professional one. Truth-telling, confession and first-class lies: Is moral clarity possible in Donald Trump’s America? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z We rely more on cognitive strategies; we are far more inclined to rationalize — we can’t even control it. A neuroscientist’s insights on the adolescent brain 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z We will follow a similar process to rationalize higher roots. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z When we rationalize the denominator, we write an equivalent fraction with a rational number in the denominator. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z These trends in nuclear stability may be rationalized by considering a quantum mechanical model of nuclear energy states analogous to that used to describe electronic states earlier in this textbook. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z We have never done that, or maybe we have and we just rationalized it. Why Hank Green can’t quit YouTube for TikTok 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z “Evan tends to run warm,” I rationalized, but perhaps it was actually because it was one less item to put on her. My baby girl died. How I’m learning to live with grief and care for her brother 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z To rationalize a denominator with a higher index radical, we multiply the numerator and denominator by a radical that would give us a radicand that is a perfect power of the index. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z Even though we have calculators available nearly everywhere, a fraction with a radical in the denominator still must be rationalized. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z This phenomenon can be rationalized by considering the effect of added solute molecules on the liquid's vaporization and condensation processes. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z That sentiment is common, and a lot of people rationalize it by hoping newly elected members of Congress will "grow into the role." With 100 days to go, Republicans are flatlining — yet somehow still poised to win 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The lavender ice cream wasn’t available yet, and because it wasn’t 5 p.m. anywhere in North America, I couldn’t rationalize a lavender lemon drop at Salty Girls Sequim Seafood Co. In Washington state, lavender fields forever 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Explain how dividing complex numbers is similar to rationalizing a denominator. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z We will use this property to rationalize the denominator in the next example. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z We can remove radicals from the denominators of fractions using a process called rationalizing the denominator. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z How do these Republicans rationalize keeping their mouths shut about Trump and his coup plot and the attempt to overturn the 2020 Election more generally? Joe Walsh's MAGA warning: If Trump is indicted, expect "major violence" 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Because Kim has spent multiple seasons, and possibly years of her life before “Better Call Saul” started, equivocating and rationalizing. Rhea Seehorn just earned her first Emmy nod. How Bob Odenkirk sent his congrats 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Men who kill their partners rationalize their actions by blaming the women’s behavior, and the victims somehow become responsible for their own killing, Begum said. Killings of women at Mideast universities provoke outrage and worry 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Always simplify the radical in the denominator first, before you rationalize it. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z Over its history, justices have found ways to rationalize everything from eugenics and forced sterilization to racial segregation and internment of citizens. Right-wing justices put Supreme Court at odds with America 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z They rationalized being quiet and keeping their mouths shut because their job was to stay there and make sure Trump didn't do worse damage. Joe Walsh's MAGA warning: If Trump is indicted, expect "major violence" 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z There is progress, but that progress is slowed by people like Mr. Greene who deflect, deny, excuse, rationalize and sidestep the issue. Opinion | Deflection doesn’t end racism 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z I’ve always been interested in denial and the stories people tell themselves, their families and their communities to rationalize the bad things they’ve done. For Sackler exposé writer Patrick Radden Keefe, truth is always stranger than fiction 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z When this happens, we must rationalize the denominator. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z This technique may be too squishy for universal use, since you don't want to force yourself to rationalize, say, marrying or teaming with or even befriending someone who so cranks your nerves so predictably. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Picky-eater sister-in-law is ‘maddening to be around’ 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z “The people who voted for him because he was famous are not going to be swayed or deterred by this. I think people will rationalize their tribalism,” said Andra Gillespie, a professor at Emory University. Herschel Walker says he didn’t try to hide his other three children 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s all too easy to rationalize checking just one email, sending just one tweet, taking just one glance at Instagram. Opinion | QR code menus are the death of civilization 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But if she came out before, Berry rationalizes, surely she could again. Abortion foes, accustomed to small wins, ready for a big one 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The average person then rationalizes the Big Lie as being true because the opposite somehow cannot be true. Cult expert Steven Hassan sees 95% chance of worsening pro-Trump violence 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Miller added that remote work setups have allowed people to rationalize paying more in rent, as they spend more time where they’re living. Median Rent in Manhattan Reaches a New High 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z How do homeowners whose window signs say they welcome every oppressed group rationalize a housing system that has caused their own children to flee? Twilight of the NIMBY 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Paxton rationalized his grandstanding on Musk’s behalf by asserting that Twitter’s “potentially false reporting” of fake accounts could violate the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Column: GOP politicians are helping Musk turn his Twitter deal into even more of a circus 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “We make decisions based on emotion and rationalize them after,” she says. Kimberly Palmer: Managing money starts with your emotions 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z And it could further rationalize the heavy spending because it was trying to better understand audiences through meticulous analysis of viewer data that its competitors just didn’t have access to. Netflix changes how it produces movies to compete with Disney Plus 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Francis just barely refrains from calling her crazy, though he refers to her experiences as “a fantasy” and capably rationalizes this stranger’s behavior. Review: The throwback thriller 'Watcher' benefits from director Chloe Okuno's complex lens 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z “And if your gun was used, you would try to rationalize it. We did everything legal, right? What else could we have done?” After another massacre, one gunmaker maintains a familiar silence 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Hoff finally rationalized when she took a job as a reactor operator at the plant that she could be a mole for the anti-nuke advocates. Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z You are rationalizing the fact that your boyfriend is stealing something that you rely on for your health — not to save his dying mother, mind you, or feed his family, but for profit. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend’s side hustle? Selling partner’s meds to his friend. 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z “I’m just more sickened by it and I’m still trying to put my thoughts together in some sense of trying to rationalize it, because I can’t,” he said. Nationals end skid against Dodgers, win 1-0 in series finale 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Pence then unsubtly visited the Charlottesville, Va., memorial to Heather Heyer, who was killed in the 2017 white supremacist riot there that Mr. Trump sought to rationalize by faulting “both sides.” Pence, Tiptoeing Away From Trump, Lays Groundwork for ’24 Run 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Kalmoe: Partisan moral disengagement builds on psychological research by Albert Bandura and others showing that people who hurt others tend to hold views that rationalize that harm. Buffalo, Jan. 6 and the rise of partisan violence: These scholars saw it coming 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Men rationalizing their need to control women's bodies and their reproduction has been going on forever. Samuel Alito's use of ancient misogyny: SCOTUS rewinds to centuries-old common law for abortion ban 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z I'll give you credit — most people try to rationalize away the little stuff, but you didn't shrink from a challenge. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend’s side hustle? Selling partner’s meds to his friend. 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The April 30 Free for All letter “Stop euphemizing abortions” succinctly laid out and rationalized the writer’s beliefs and concerns about abortion as well as other issues. Opinion | Advocating abortion access is not advocating abortion 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The woman said she was in an unhealthy mind-set at the time, including suffering from a severe eating disorder, which she now believes led her to rationalize Bauer’s alleged abuse during sex. As MLB suspends Trevor Bauer, a new accuser speaks out 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z By going to those vilifying extremes, they make political violence against all those groups more likely because it's easier for people to rationalize violence against people whose evil behaviors define them. Buffalo, Jan. 6 and the rise of partisan violence: These scholars saw it coming 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z All of this is simply to point out that men rationalizing their need to control women's bodies and their reproduction has been going on forever. Samuel Alito's use of ancient misogyny: SCOTUS rewinds to centuries-old common law for abortion ban 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “He was looking at how power was shifting in society and really writing about how people rationalize cruelty towards other people,” said Thuman. How a play inspired the term ‘gaslighting’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Train decided he needed a rational framework for adjudicating geopolitical disputes, so he turned to the guide created by the quiz site Sporcle to rationalize its Countries of the World Quiz. Creating online geography game Globle was relatively simple. Making it accurate is the real puzzle 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z “Governments have to realize that they can’t just make laws and then skirt around them and rationalize themselves that it’s all OK because they’re very important people working at the center of government,” Rutter said. UK’s Johnson rejects calls to resign amid ‘partygate’ fine 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z I rationalized that even if I didn’t make much money on the deal, this project could prove to me that I have a ground team in place that’s ready to take on bigger projects. Perspective | An out-of-state flip in a small market offers high profit, also high stress 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z “This character is me under different circumstances. Logic is always on the side of a character. It’s up to me to rationalize the validity of his action.” Nehemiah Persoff, one of Hollywood’s busiest actors, dies at 102 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “Because of the growth, we need to kind of rationalize the system,” Mr. Cohen said. Biden adds hurdles to federal grants for charter schools, keeps promise to teachers unions 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But she said Maryland did not show it had any “compelling interest” to rationalize those adverse effects on Republicans. Judge throws out Maryland congressional map over ‘extreme’ gerrymandering 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z It is rationalized for the public by specialists and experts, drawn from the military establishment, along with pliant academics and the media. The dangerous myth of American innocence: Only our enemies commit "war crimes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “There’s no way you can rationalize it,” he continued. Kent Waldrep, paralyzed athlete who championed disability rights and research, dies at 67 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In 2014, Russia invaded and then annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, rationalizing the invasion as an act of self-determination and by expressing concern about the fate of ethnic Russians in Crimea. Opinion | Failure to face Putin now will only permit further atrocities and encroachment 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But it is incredibly important that we resist letting our fear rationalize support for tough-on-crime responses, especially when it comes to our children. Opinion | Despite carjackings, D.C. shouldn’t revert to ineffective tough-on-crime policies 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z By defining Negroes not as human beings but as beasts, the nation rationalized subjugation and cruelty and justified laws that stripped them of basic human rights. Whose lives really matter? How racism colors coverage of the crisis in Ukraine 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Other companies point to their employees’ livelihoods in rationalizing decisions to stay, or not completely sever ties. Not all Western companies sever ties to Russia over Ukraine 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z We tell ourselves that we mustwork within a world dominated by the military-industrial complex, rationalizing that this is how it is. The Manhattan Project Shows Scientists’ Moral and Ethical Responsibilities 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Banks also have to confront a striking geopolitical risk: Russia is a nuclear state, and Putin took the Cold War-era step of boasting about its arsenal in a speech trying to rationalize the invasion. In private, bankers debate nuclear war, Russian trading risk 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z This theory dehumanized Black and Brown children and rationalized a surge of tough-on-crime policies that ultimately sent hundreds of children to prison for life. Opinion | Despite carjackings, D.C. shouldn’t revert to ineffective tough-on-crime policies 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Continuing to rationalize this approach with familiar narratives won't help — nor will ignoring the flawed thinking that underlies our misguided drug war. We’re waging the wrong battle against opioids 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “The way that a police chief uses it is they rationalize ... ‘Look, this is a bad apple. In the federal case over George Floyd’s killing, former officers put the Minneapolis police on trial 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Murder is what they did — and there are a multitude of ways in which they can rationalize their actions to themselves. Perspective | Actively racist 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The Feb. 6 editorial “Buying time, though not a lot” rationalized that any nuclear deal with Iran would be better than no deal. Opinion | A bad nuclear deal with Iran would be disastrous 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z And in abandoning this approach, in rationalizing our gambling regime by making it ever more universal, we’re following the same misguided principle that we’ve followed in other cases. Opinion | We Aren’t in Vegas Anymore 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z He helps partisan Republicans rationalize their choice not to vaccinate. Why Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation is so dangerous — and dangerously appealing to his audience 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “They’re no doubt trying to rationalize their aircraft fleet and network planning, and achieve greater economies of scale and scope like the larger U.S. airlines.” Frontier, Spirit announce merger to create fifth-largest U.S. airline 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z She didn’t blame evangelicals for voting for Trump in 2016, but their enthusiastic embrace of him and their ability to rationalize his sins were eye opening, she says. Opinion | The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Indeed, like many abusers before him, Hitler rationalized his own depraved behavior by falsely accusing his victims of doing the same thing. The psychological reason that so many fall for the "Big Lie" 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z “We cannot rationalize the human losses with what we generate economically,” he said. Why Is Everyone Going to the Dominican Republic? 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z His alternative to the theory of “originalism” that conservatives use to rationalize their backward-looking rulings was a concept Breyer called “active liberty.” Opinion | The skirmish is over a new justice. The battle is against the right wing’s imperial judiciary. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The right wing is invoking the slogan of “parental control” to rationalize imposing a radical agenda on schools. Opinion | It’s time to challenge the right wing’s radical schools agenda 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “No one is going to rationalize sloppy play for any particular reason, fatigue or otherwise,” he said. Sullivan wary even with red-hot Penguins surging 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z He rationalized the United States’ colonial project by invoking what would now be seen as straight-up white power. Opinion | Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy, and complexities, are with us still 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Sports fans rationalize athletes’ behavior if they are admirers — up to a point. Djokovic entangles sponsors in Australian Open vax uproar 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Instead, he rationalized his jailing of peaceful opponents as equivalent to the “more than 700 political prisoners” he alleged the United States took in response to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. Opinion | Nicaragua throws in its lot with the world’s autocracies 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z In a statement released Wednesday by CAIR, Nelson said he “was going through a personal crisis and experiencing extreme financial difficulty” and rationalized taking the money. A cryptic email, then a confession: How a Muslim group uncovered moles 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z "When the prices are that high, people will rationalize not using a kit. They'll wait until they're sick or need it for school or something," he said. Walmart and Kroger hike price of COVID tests after federal agreement to sell them "at cost" expires 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The snarky comments to friends are invitations — which you probably rationalize as concern for your friend’s well-being — for people to report back to you with evidence supporting your cause. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When you know too much to like a friend’s fiance 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Yes, a political message can persuade voters or, on the other end, help them rationalize their choices. Opinion | The Words Democrats Use Are Not the Real Problem 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z It's its own worse enemy because it rationalizes the feelings of degenerates and fools. The midterms will be decided by swing voters ready to reward the GOP for trying to kill them 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The script buys wholeheartedly into Resident Evil’s weird narrative quirks, like Raccoon City’s implausibly ornate police station, rather than trying to rationalize them or lampshade them with a joke. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is a feature-length fan film 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z That market is now one competitor down, with lingering questions about whether anyone will ever rationalize it. Opinion | Zillow sent its algorithm to take on the housing market. The housing market won. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “We see members of Congress talking about using violence or excusing the Jan. 6 insurrection. That attack on the nation’s Capitol was unprecedented in our modern history. And people are rationalizing the violence.” This UC firearms researcher says America is on a collision course with disaster. We need to listen 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z The railroad did not just disperse slavery but also the white-supremacist ideology that rationalized the system. Perspective | Virginia’s multicultural country music history is a lesson more of us need to learn 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z We also need to make grid upgrades, and rationalize the patchwork of state and local regulations and utility rules that take time and money to navigate. Opinion | I used to be an electric car skeptic. I’ve changed my mind — but I still didn’t buy one. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z This is how she rationalizes the payoff: “It is a donation from the political party to a neighborhood. … It is populism, but people are hungry. There is nothing wrong in giving them food.” In Haiti, the difficult relationship of gangs and business 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Many view him as a literal prophet or savior: His evident immorality has been rationalized as somehow necessary to his prophetic role. Religion scholar Anthea Butler on "White Christianity" and its role in fueling fascism 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z There is no way for him to rationalize getting caught several years later. Perspective | Jon Gruden is done — in Las Vegas, in football and anywhere decency matters 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z In comparison to the fathers, whose approach is to label and rationalize what occurred, Gail and Linda are more attuned to the spiritual and the inexplicable. 'Mass' gives Ann Dowd and Martha Plimpton the spotlights they deserve 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Called “From the Vault: Property From the Grateful Dead and Friends,” the 228 lots offer more than enough temptation for any self-respecting Deadhead to rationalize dipping into investment funds — or maxing out the credit card. Need a miracle? This Grateful Dead auction offers ultra-rare artifacts, merch and drug ephemera 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Facebook has similarly deployed such analogies throughout its history, often to rationalize its downsides and caution against overreaction to its problems. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen tells lawmakers that meaningful reform is necessary ‘for our common good’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z “It’s important, because you don’t want to keep coming in on Monday” trying to rationalize losses, Smith said. Ted Lasso’s positivity needed by both Falcons, Washington 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Wells, who had also detected the odor, replied that he would probably be fine — it was a big theater, he rationalized — so the couple stayed to watch the Cold War drama “Bridge of Spies.” The unusual headaches that upended this man’s life began with a new car 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Instead, they say, the trial has been an attempt to rationalize the arbitrary detention of a well-known critic of Kagame, who has stifled independent media and political opposition in Rwanda. ‘Hotel Rwanda’ inspiration Paul Rusesabagina sentenced to 25 years in prison for terrorism-related charges 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Provinces like Salta are building regional mining logistics nodes and access roads, lowering tax rates and rationalizing confusing rules for the sector to attract investment in the ‘white gold’ metal. In Argentina's north, a 'white gold' rush for EV metal lithium gathers pace 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z USC needs to remove Clay Helton right here, right now, no more waiting, no more waffling, no more rationalizing, no more rhapsodizing. Column: USC's season can be salvaged, but not without removing Clay Helton immediately 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Hansen uses this logic to explain how a person can rationalize marking up public property: Painting over Seattle’s graffiti is a game of whack-a-mole. The taggers have won 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Maybe, though, this was some other path to rationalizing a sense of wonder or uncertainty about how the world had been changed. Twenty years later, I wonder how a terrible Tuesday in September changed me 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Before being sentenced, Ms. Salzman made a statement to the court in which she said that under Mr. Raniere’s influence, she had begun to “rationalize and overlook the wrongdoing around me.” Sex Cult Leader’s Top Deputy Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Neither Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia nor President Vladimir Putin of Russia made any effort to justify or rationalize the hits; they simply denied personal responsibility. Opinion | Repression Without Borders 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z If we could be careful and responsible, we rationalized, then maybe it wouldn’t be unreasonable to at least start trying? Lessons from Life Choices Made During the Pandemic 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z At an earlier news briefing outside Police Headquarters, Li Kwai-Wah, a senior superintendent in the National Security Department, said the student union’s language “rationalizes, beautifies and glorifies terrorism.” Hong Kong Police Arrest Students Over ‘Advocating Terrorism’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Instead, he wrote in a statement that his advocacy was driven by his belief that the tax code "needs to be simplified and rationalized." Secret IRS files reveal how much the ultrawealthy gained by shaping Trump’s “big, beautiful tax cut” 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Witter said he’s been able to rationalize the decision as a fan, but admitted his initial reactions to the trade were negative to say the least. Meet the Mariners fans who have waited most of their lives to see their team in the postseason again 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z They pushed aside thoughts of collateral damage — the lives they disrespected and damaged — by rationalizing that their contributions outweighed any harm they were doing. Tales of scientists gone rogue (or worse) 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z There are decades of vileness that have been overlooked or rationalized. Column: Eric Clapton's not God, just another vile anti-vaxxer 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z In this particular chicken-and-egg situation, the rejection of the vaccine comes first, and the lies are spread to rationalize a decision that's already been made. "Flagging" misinformation isn't enough: COVID is resurging because the right gobbles up lies 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z An increasingly multicultural America challenges their sense of self, driving them to embrace illiberal anti-democratic ideas they rationalize as necessary for defending “true” Americans. Opinion | Nationalists in Christianity’s clothing 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z So when are Republican leaders going to quit rationalizing and acknowledge the truth about their toxic relationship with Donald Trump? Opinion | Trump is making Republican leaders look downright pathetic 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Many Republicans rationalize ignoring his rhetoric: His speech on Saturday wasn't even aired live on Fox or CNN, and he may end up being indicted in New York and occupied with legal and financial problems. Memo to "respectable" Republicans: Stop looking for GOP heroes to fight Trumpism from the inside 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z I rationalized the purchase as a belated retirement gift to myself, though buying a piano of this caliber, at this point in my life, was folly. Opinion | It’s hard to sell a piano these days. It’s even harder to contemplate junking one. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z He rationalized breaking the law by telling himself he was not hurting anyone. A Rogue Climber Running From the Law Was Fleeing His Own Trauma 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Shoemaker said he and his team rationalized removing apps by framing them as simply enforcing a country’s laws. Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z People tend to cling to things they think are core to their identities and rationalize those choices. Opinion | The misguided identity politics of the anti-Trump Republicans 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Baffert talked about how easy it is to rationalize why a horse won after the race is run. Bob Baffert keeps a lid on Triple Crown plans for Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Horse racing trainers generally can rationalize any post position as being OK, except for one, and that’s the one. Essential Quality narrowly avoids dreaded one post, is 2-1 favorite in Kentucky Derby 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z He even rationalized the organization's actions in covering up the abusive 1980s relationship between prominent Maryland club coach Rick Curl and swimmer Kelly Davies. Dead in the water: The tragic human cost of swimming's abuse scandals 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Followers of labor-management debates will recognize this notion as a cousin of the “undeserving poor” trope so often wielded by conservatives to rationalize cutbacks in government anti-poverty programs. Column: Employers say lavish unemployment checks make it hard to hire workers. Don't buy it 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Arguably, this kind of racism also made it easier for America to rationalize bloody and costly wars in other Asian countries, like Korea and Vietnam, in the mid-20th century. Anti-Asian violence is nothing new: It has a long, disturbing history in the United States 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Am I rationalizing by saying they need to drive the child to the hospital and should use some of this money for a dependable car? Is It OK to Use Money Raised for a Child’s Cancer Care on a Car? 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z After all, people will claim to believe all sorts of idiotic things in order to rationalize their racist beliefs. Derek Chauvin's trial is a test of whether facts matter 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z In this case, the underlying belief being rationalized is the Republican turn against democracy itself. Republican delusion — not disinformation — is the bigger danger to American democracy 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Tenurism rationalizes this lack of equality, giving rise to reasoning like: “Since the tenured are treated so much better, they must actually be better.” Democrats and unions ignore the plight of nontenured faculty 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z How does a “good person” rationalize that even to oneself? Editorial Roundup: Florida 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z She was named White House press secretary in April 2020, and quickly demonstrated an ability to vigorously defend or rationalize Trump’s frequent misstatements. Former Trump official Kayleigh McEnany will be a co-host on Fox News' 'Outnumbered' 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The rampage — and the rationalizing — reflect the dehumanizing impact of the bigotry and stereotyping that America’s disfavored groups are subjected to. Column: Asians, Blacks experience racism differently. But we need to unite against hate 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z This clip, which I hope goes viral, perfectly captures the attitude through which oppression is rationalized. "Persona" argues convincingly that it's time to cancel personality tests 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Believers can always find a way to rationalize their failed predictions and concoct new myths in the face of unpleasant truth. Son of a QAnon believer details his mom's tragic refusal to leave the conspiracy cult 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z This whiplash notion of scarcity and abundance has led many people to rationalize going ahead and getting the vaccine even if they don’t technically meet eligibility requirements. Vaccines Are Here. So Is Reckless Behavior. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z This abuse is all part of MidCity’s attempt to rationalize the impossible lie, willingly accepted by McDuffie, that no one will be displaced by a project that destroys affordable housing. Opinion | There can be no racial equity in D.C. when Black and Brown families are being displaced 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z He tried rationalizing his choices, convincing himself that as long as he could keep skateboarding — even if it no longer served as his primary occupation — he was fine. How Jeff Grosso helped create skateboarding culture and remained a Southern California legend until the end 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z However much the administration may rationalize that decision, sparing the crown prince dishonors Khashoggi’s memory and blinks at a conspiracy aimed at a journalist who lived in this country and wrote for the Washington Post. Editorial Roundup: US 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z |
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