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Example sentences for "rationalised"

Lexicographically close words:
ratiocinative; ration; rationabiliter; rational; rationale; rationalising; rationalism; rationalist; rationalistic; rationalists
  1. What swells out the Irish chronicles to such portentous dimensions is the history of the gods and giants rationalised by mediaeval historians.

  2. To these I have at times appended the dates, as given in the chronicles, to show how the early historians rationalised the pre-historic record.

  3. On account of the interests concerned in old times we should be guarded in receiving the rationalised interpretations of such myths, which have become traditional in some localities.

  4. The ancient and modern condemnation of eating beef was rationalised by the [=A]ryas as follows: To kill a cow is as bad as to kill many men.

  5. Offerings for deceased parents, prescribed in detail in the Vedas, are similarly rationalised into kind treatment of parents in old age.

  6. Yet, while we thus get the full dramatic effect of Infatuation, it is so far rationalised that we are allowed to see the machinery by which the Infatuation has been brought about: [=iii.

  7. The use of the word 'opinion,' with its implication of a rationalised process of intellectual decision, may be misleading.

  8. At bottom it comes to this: that it relieves us of so much trouble and responsibility; the life of instinct and emotion is so easily flowing a thing, and that of social restraints and rationalised decisions so cold and dry and barren.

  9. Jehovah for Job was a universal force, justified primarily by his omnipotence; but this physical authority would in the end, he hoped, be partly rationalised and made to clash less scandalously with the authority of justice.

  10. The initial forms of prayer are not so absurd as the somewhat rationalised forms of it.

  11. It would be rationalised in the only sense in which any primary desire can be rationalised, namely, by being combined with all others in a consistent whole.

  12. Peculiarly perplexing cases of competition between the rival claims of others sometimes occur in the domain of the resentful feelings, which, in their purified and rationalised form, constitute the sense of justice.

  13. With Macdonald-Wright and Russell the palette was completely and scientifically rationalised so that one could strike a chord upon it as surely and as swiftly as on the keyboard of a piano: the element of hazard in harmony was eliminated.

  14. These artists completed Cezanne in that they rationalised his dimly foreshadowed precepts.

  15. One of the very greatest improvements in the rationalised education will precisely be that it cannot possibly foster the awful priggishness which is a very common result of our own methods.

  16. Thus the effect of rationalised education will not be, as one critic has rather rashly supposed, to make children little prigs.

  17. Footnote 162: Dr Vigfusson is exceedingly severe on the Heimskringla, which he will have to be only a late, weak, and rationalised compilation from originals like the oddly termed "Great O.

  18. On the other hand, Kudrun, while rationalised in some respects and Christianised in others, has the extravagance, not so much primitive as carelessly artificial, of the later romances.

  19. But the Gospel narrative is rationalised whenever it can be done.

  20. What fundamental difference is there, when all is said, between Schleiermacher's de-rationalised Life of Jesus and Strauss's?

  21. Others have taken refuge in a kind of highly rationalised Judaism little different from pure Theism.

  22. We may say, then, that being is becoming rationalised and moralised as and because the spirit in man realises itself.

  23. We only too often see highly rationalised convictions in persons of weak purpose or low motives.


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