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  • n  the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding

  • To make him, the one undaunted advocate of those hopes, the scapegoat of a world collapse is to visit upon him injustice so cruel that it must perish of its own unreason.
  • The villain, as ever, was Marcos, his face a chart of unreason, corruption and bluff.
  • More sensitive to human rights than ever, more liberated in their own lives and outlooks, a growing number of citizens view prisons as a new symbol of unreason, another sign that .
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  • Sideglances
    A TRIVIA QUIZ is something I have never been able to resist, even though they often make me feel exceedingly stupid. The latest to come to hand was inspired by the review of a book by Susan Jacoby on reading while watching TV, “The Age of American Unreason.”
    Feb. 27, 2014 - The Gilmer Mirror
Quotes

  • Edward R Murrow in ABS CBN News
    Murrow said: "We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one or another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in...
  • Pope Benedict XVI in Zenit News Agency
    Christian faith, concludes the Pope, believes "that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with Reason and not Unreason."
  • Michael Lewis in The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
    The crash of 1987, Lewis writes, marked "the beginning of the Age of Financial Unreason, when panic became just another quotidian aspect of financial life. At the time, to a lot of people, it felt like the end of something. In retrospect, it appears...

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