Example sentences for: rationalist

How can you use “rationalist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (Rehnquist is a supreme rationalist, and even his critics admired the analytical force of his dissents.)

  • The book takes place over three summers in the late 1970s in and around a mitnaged (rationalist, anti-mystical, non-Hasidic) ultra-Orthodox sect, the Kirschners, who followed their rabbi from Frankfurt to Washington Heights just before World War II and have taken to summering in a hamlet in the Eastern Catskills.

  • Leonardo, the scientific rationalist and inventor, is an Apollonian (his work is owned by, among others, the archrationalist Bill Gates).

  • Not terribly analytical about his politics, Will is a trenchant rationalist when it comes to hardball.

  • Barr has the temperament of a Grand Inquisitor--a moralist in a rationalist's body.


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