Word: rationale
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The debate in Commons produced little more than bitterness and disagreement. It also indicated that Bloody Sunday had radicalized many of the Ulster moderates-notably members of the nonviolent Social and Democratic Labor Party-who until then had still hoped for a rational political solution. A case in point is...
For me and a few others, the twelve-tone system offers a rational solution to the problem of creating a new and significant musical language.
If problems of overpopulation, war, famine, racism or crime are to be solved, rational processes will solve them. Those who squander their mental energies upon occult matters, such as astrology, tend as a class to depend upon the technologists and rationalists. I fear that if the present trend continues, our...
So the arguments spin on and on, and the more each side insists on the rationality of its argument (what can be more rational than a discussion of the costs?), the more one is drawn to agree with Clarence Darrow, who observed a half-century ago that "questions of this...
The obvious themes are built into the plot, and you can't ignore them. Peckinpah has put a rational, wishy-washy liberal under stress, simply so that he may understand man's violence: that it is inherent in his nature, that sometimes the violent solutions are the only valid ones...