Use "irrationality" in a sentence

1. Crossing the road is a wager with the combustion engine and irrationality

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2. It's not that we don't have fully functioning brains, it's that they are over active and sometimes over functioning; this leads to an overload and then to temporary irrationality

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3. This behaviour is a potential link toward irrationality, which can be just as dangerous if not the same or worse than mental illness

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4. I think that Camus is telling us that the absurd person is fully aware of the irrationality of existence, embraces it, and exploits that irrationality to find happiness where there should be none

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5. Torbin could feel his heart pounding, and the butterflies in his stomach: an irrationality he thought belonged in his youth

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6. ” Irrationality, it seemed, would always be with us

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7. irrationality of how we practice medicine in the United States is not isolated to

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8. The question to be asked is: does this irrationality in medical care apply only to

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9. I thought this was an extremely good example of the hopeless irrationality exhibited by many people

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10. The look was that of compulsory that too often led to irrationality and ultimately defeat

11. motivations of base emotion and irrationality, only the simple

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12. The trait of irrationality and the propensity for unsupported

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13. THE IRRATIONALITY OF RATIONING CAPITAL

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14. The very irrationality of hate

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15. CAN YOU SEE EVEN A LITTLE OF THIS IRRATIONALITY

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16. She no longer questioned the irrationality of the world of which

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17. Now as I speak to you, my irrationality, first in the accumulation of wealth and then in the destruction of it is seemingly coming to the fore; if only I had not lost my sense of balance in either case

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18. “The irrationality of psychopathy is not the emotional; its gratuitous irrationality is its lack of empathy

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19. “From irrationality comes the twins of Power over and Ownership of

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20. But all these worlds are comformed by our economic irrationality and obsession: the world is money based, though money is both unnecessary and the very system which is distorting and twisting the other logics – whose principle entelechy is health, not growth for growth's sake and accumulation for accumulation's obsession

21. This our basic irrationality: we choose money over life

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22. Somehow, I managed to rebuff them, not because I have no feelings for them but because I felt that it would amount to irrationality on my part if I should allow another woman to have it

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23. I am a woman; my rationality and my irrationality is love and absolute intimacy

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24. Hallucinations and irrationality manifested themselves and they frightened me

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25. � In that very irrationality, it makes a powerful instrument in creating meaning perspectives

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26. � However, once we have entered into the irrational, and punishment and the fear it produces are irrational, the product of this irrationality happens outside of domination

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27. � No matter how powerful, the dominator may find it impossible to dominate the irrational response to its own acts of irrationality

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28. Sutton calls the irrationality of these forces that make these suicidal things happen ‘the ‘X” factor’

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29. And the experience of psychosis in the mentally ill can be related to ‘normal’ experiences regarding the intensity or irrationality of beliefs in ‘regular’ individuals (Chadwick, Birchwood & Trower, 1997)

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30. He understood that there were terrorists who hated the United States, he knew that, he hated them, hated their irrationality more than anything else about them, but he appreciated that in this world there were people willing to do crazy, suicidal acts for reasons that seemed almost frivolous to Quaid

31. He accepted terrorism as a fact of life, as a consequence of irrationality

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32. 'It has been excogitated,’ the Sadducees would say, 'in recent ages by successive teachers, bent on moulding the Mosaic system to their own heathenish philosophy; and proving the thoroughly human character of its contents by its gross irrationality, its conspicuous injustice, and its frequent puerilities of interpretation

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33. ’ Evil men did not resemble beasts in evil speaking, but they resemble then in irrationality, and will be like them in their destiny

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34. by deeper ones — as the “irrational”, their irrationality being the more

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35. ensured by the absurdity of restraints, their irrationality and the ten-

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36. “I don’t know why Ma hates Annet, but it’s all so long in the past, and it’ s nothing to do with me or Amabel,” he said, with the indignation of youth against the irrationality of parents

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37. For that matter, it was far from certain they would defy the Inquisition if Maigwair asked them to, and Clyntahn’s goaded irrationality was only too plain to see

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38. The irrationality of the gambling spirit is well shown here by the absurd acceptance of unpaid preferred dividends as a source of value for both the preferred and the common

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39. Irrationality could go no further; yet it is important to note that mass speculation can flourish only in such an atmosphere of illogic and unreality

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40. Thus, with the encouragement of the manipulator, the speculative public pulls itself up by its bootstraps to dizzier heights of irrationality

41. But true insanity? Irrationality and obsession that come from nowhere, with no explanation? That would have to be left behind, as a sort of spiritual remainder

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42. There is a strong tendency for prices in OPMI markets, both high and low, to have elements of irrationality that do not exist to anywhere near the same extent in negotiated transactions between reasonably knowledgeable buyers and sellers

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43. This is a perfect example of how investor irrationality can provide opportunity for us

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44. He had ceased drinking at a point below irrationality, and had neither stirred nor spoken during two or three hours

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45. • Expected returns can vary over time due to rationally time-varying risk or risk aversion and due to investor irrationality and sentiment

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46. These patterns hint at irrationality but could be rationally justified with timevarying risk premia (because discount rate variation is another cause of volatility, in addition to the variation of expected cash flows that Shiller focused on)

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47. The next chapter covers investor irrationality in detail; here I make brief remarks on rational learning

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48. One need not resort to irrationality to explain these behaviors

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49. • Behavioral finance states that investor irrationality causes systematic mispricings that rational arbitrageurs cannot fully offset due to scarce capital and riskiness of “arbitrage”

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50. • I use the terms “investor irrationality” and “market inefficiency” interchangeably because the former is often thought to imply the latter

51. The general volume of trading, arguably overtrading, is also explained more easily by irrationality than by rational models

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52. In contrast, LSV argued that the success of value strategies reflects their contrarian nature and that the evidence was more consistent with investor irrationality than with a risk-based story

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53. The long bull trend in emerging market assets amidst a gradual improvement in emerging market fundamentals is another example where data are consistent with investor irrationality as well as rational learning

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54. However, empirically such survey-based expected returns do not predict near-term returns as well as simple carry, perhaps due to the noise in survey data and perhaps due to irrationality in expectations

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55. Among other signs of irrationality, simple return chasing (i

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56. Survey-based proxies of the market’s exchange rate forecasts raise questions about investor irrationality

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57. Academics debated alternative explanations for this “forward premium puzzle”: rational time-varying currency risk premia, some form of investor irrationality, or a “peso problem” (some probability of a currency devaluation implied in the yield although no such devaluation had occurred in the past—see Chapter 7)

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58. I do not know whether they are sensitivities to rationally priced systematic risk factors, on the one hand, or common key characteristics related to investor irrationality or learning about structural changes, on the other

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59. Irrationality stories argue that an asset’s characteristics are what is priced: investors dislike value stocks, small caps, illiquid stocks, poor diversifiers, etc

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60. Such evidence seems to favor irrationality stories but the rationalists argue that the characteristic might be a good proxy for imperfectly estimated factor beta

61. If investors are not fully rational, then maybe more than offsets: proponents of investor irrationality argue that hoped-for growth is overpriced

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62. Even when they do not—recall the empirical violations of the PEH in interest rate markets—the outcome could reflect investor irrationality and expectational errors

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63. Investment returns reflect multiple factors, both rational risk premia and investor irrationality

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64. I believe the irrationality in the market generally tends to be more focused on the long side

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65. Finally he demonstrated almost directly the " irrationality," the perverse violence of her love

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66. This means has been employed since remote antiquity, especially by those men who usurped the power, and men for a long time did not see the irrationality of this means

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67. Is it possible the men of the lower classes, all the millions of these people, can with a calm conscience perform all these obviously bad acts, tortures, and murders, which they are compelled to perform, only because they are afraid of punishment? Indeed, that could not have been, and neither the men of the one class nor of the other could help but see the irrationality of their activity, if the peculiarity of the state structure did not conceal from them the whole unnaturalness and irrationality of the acts committed by them

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68. This irrationality is concealed by the fact that in the commission of each of these acts there are so many instigators, accomplices, abettors, that not one of the men taking part in it feels himself to be morally responsible

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69. On this inequality and exaltation of one class of men and the annihilation of the other is mainly based the inability of men to see the irrationality of the existing order and its cruelty and criminality, and of that deception which is practised by some and to which the others submit

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70. If protests were expressed in words and in writing and in printing against these mad acts, pointing out their irrationality, such protests were concealed or squelched

71. All that seems so unimportant, and yet in these seemingly unimportant acts, in our aloofness from them, in our readiness to point out, according to our strength, the irrationality of what is obviously irrational,—in this does our great, invincible power consist, the power which composes that insuperable force which forms the real, actual, public opinion, which, moving itself, moves the whole of humanity

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72. He is tormented, not only by the irrationality of the material world and the absence of beauty in it, but also by its lack of love, by its disunion

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73. Again, in the same way, one would suppose it to be the business of real science to demonstrate the irrationality, unprofitableness, and immorality of war and of executions; or the inhumanity and harmfulness of prostitution; or the absurdity, harmfulness, and immorality of using narcotics or of eating animals; or the irrationality, harmfulness, and antiquatedness of patriotism

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74. This means was employed from the earliest times, especially by those who had gained possession of authority, and for a long while its irrationality was not detected

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75. And is it possible that all the millions of the lower classes can feel easy in conscience when they commit such obviously evil deeds as torture and murder from fear of punishment? Indeed, it could not be so, neither the former nor the latter could fail to see the irrationality of their conduct, if the complexity of government organization did not obscure the unnatural senselessness of their actions

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