I considered all my previous irrational behaviour to have been reasonably excusable, because it had been conducted with consenting adults.

But his plans are thwarted by the irrational behaviour of others.

It encourages irrational behaviour from the clubs who are not in receipt of parachute payments.

To one generation, this will seem strange and irrational behaviour.

It explains so much that, even in the midst of these ongoing dramas and the irrational behaviour of others, it all makes perfect sense.

The wolves represent the majority who display an irrational prejudice and hatred towards the minority, the rabbits.

There are irrational prejudices too.

In the phrase, prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, he defends people's cherished, but untaught, irrational prejudices (the greater it behooved them, the more they cherished it).

Again, combating her irrational thinking, and with a positive memory in mind, she could bolster her new view.

Royalists found comfort in equally irrational thinking.

By using this approach, the person can begin to recognize their irrational thinking and find an alternative way to approach situations.

A correlation has been found between paranormal belief and irrational thinking.

Five minutes after leaving the house and that familiar, irrational thought begins to gnaw away.

She can probably even work up a rational explanation for that one irrational thought, or was it two?

Try to replace each irrational thought with a more rational one, but one at a time, rather than dealing with them all at once.

She remained highly sensitive to rejection but learned to identify the unhealthy and irrational thoughts that invariably preceded her intense emotional responses.

Utterly irrational thoughts of contamination have held him hostage.

It's a great day for romance, but depending on what frame of mind you're in, your actions could range from boring to totally irrational.

It was not just bizarre, it was totally irrational.

In fact, it's totally irrational to blame yourself for a random disaster on this scale, when nine times out of ten riders would have escaped with, say, a broken collarbone.

That way, you don't have to convince him that you would do something totally irrational: plunge him and yourself off the cliff.

Utterly irrational thoughts of contamination have held him hostage.

Here lie utterly irrational levels of guilt.

The extreme pressures imposed by professional sport can result in utterly irrational behaviour.

This bizarre, utterly irrational masterpiece, lasting little more than an hour, has images that bury themselves in the mind.