Sterling reminded himself he was not the sort to entertain irrational notions about ghosts.

This is a ridiculously romantic and perhaps irrational notion.

Even the irrational notion that Buma, newly human, had sent me a crocodile girl to protect seemed possible in light of these horrible memories.

Cadderly did not find it difficult to argue against that irrational notion.

Well, in this case..." "Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up.

But they all boil down to the wholly irrational notion that this defunct gentleman wasn't shot with a bow and arrow at all.

You had better start using your mind for its true purpose of knowing the world around you, instead of abandoning it to faith in irrational notions.

In the split-second when he had first mentioned marriage, Ashley had harboured the giddy irrational notion that he might next be going to say he loved her.

I can't risk my life for an irrational notion.

In this respect, the European Parliament seems to me to be nourishing somewhat irrational notions of economics.