Word: unreason
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...letting the fire burn to force the people out of the building, is that it's so rational. So pathologically rational. So...unconscious. The strategic rationality of standing around on the scene, walkie-talkie in hand, and issuing orders to let the fire burn runs right over into unreason, into the unconscious in "unconscionable...
...crafty); General Fidel Ramos (heroic); the once- and-future Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile (sophisticated); White House Emissary Senator Paul Laxalt (resolute). Corazon Aquino came across as increasingly impressive as did American diplomacy, in a rare successful role. The villain, as ever, was Marcos, his face a chart of unreason, corruption and bluff. The hard eyes asked always: Is there one more hand to play? The people: No. Close-up on the shrunken leader, descending a plane, protected by an umbrella...
...afraid of the impossible. He was seduced by the forms of unreason," said Della Terza...
...form of his directorial career who has elicited from Maggie Smith this confluence of naked emotions. She is, from moment to moment, grieving, loving, bitter, wasp-witted, rapturous, valiant and a wombful of fear. Her most powerfully affecting sequence is the descent into madness, where terrifying apparitions of unreason flit like vampire bats through the buckling rafters of her brain...
...claims mercilessly; leaving them unchallenged, it feels, will erode the spirit of skepticism that is healthy for both science and society. Says Kurtz: "There is always the danger that once irrationality grows, it will spill over into other areas. There is no guarantee that a society so infected by unreason will be resistant to even the most virulent programs of dangerous ideological sects...