Such is the irrational element the Oedipus of Sophocles.

If there were irrational elements in Karl's behavior, they were at least partly due to a breakdown he had fifteen years ago.

Truly factual accounts of any series of happenings will, if honest, contain inconsistent or irrational elements.

Through understanding the emotional and irrational elements of a problem or idea, a group can be more successful at solving a problem.

They view them as misguided because the economy will continue to have irrational elements - but understandable because of the depth of public anger against inflation.

The notion of the three periods, with its interactions between rational and irrational elements in Judaism, led Scholem to put forward some controversial arguments.

There seems to be also another irrational element in the soul-one which in a sense, however, shares in a rational principle.

Therefore the irrational element also appears to be two-fold.

What happened was that fanatical and irrational elements on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line slowly gathered their power over the three preceding decades.

He displayed a complete understanding of what makes fashion work, both the rational and the irrational elements.