How to Use illogic in a Sentence

illogic

noun

• There was no style but life, no syntax but life, its logic and illogic, its ebb and flow.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• The lack of clarity about the sculpture’s purpose is matched by the illogic of its symbolism.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2019
• And then by some sporadic illogic that no one else could understand.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• The novel abandons logic to reveal the illogic of Anton’s worldview.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
• Within them, the doc traces the illogic of military force and shows how violence only begets more violence.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• There are caring public servants unable to overcome the pettiness and illogic of the system.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Sadly, in our own day, it’s editors, who were once deemed a check on reporter illogic, who now insist on facts that fit a prefab narrative.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• Earth just isn't as interesting as the crazy surreal illogic of the show's brilliant conception of the afterlife.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2019
• The relationship between leads Aldis Hodge and Kevin Bacon got tiresome and vague, and the finale was topped by a courtroom scene teetering on illogic.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The illogic is hinted at in the first press conference, when an impudent journalist dares to ask what many must have wondered: Did the local Mafia have anything to do with financing this deal?
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2019
• The problem with that illogic is many of these players might be major players soon and maybe by bumping into these guys, the Rams might pick up some info, in case a trade possibility might pop up.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• Aside from the chronological illogic of this (from my perspective), I am bothered by the social implications for the status of women.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2021
• His is a thorough indictment of the illogic, legal inconsistencies, and arrogance of the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
  — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2022
• The illogic of one cryptic fragment colliding with the next cryptic fragment vindicates soul over system.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• That makes his stand an expensive one to take, especially given its basic illogic.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• But there's plenty to savor in this first season, including archly broad comic-book baddies, dopily creepy lore, and classic(ally silly) CW illogic—all of it wrapped in the comforting conventions of a teen soap.
  — Alexis Gunderson, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
• Spicer’s reaction is familiar to anyone who watched him as press secretary attempt to defend the indefensible: a mix of anger and illogic.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2021
• Yet a hallmark of the genre at its best has been a recurrent need to complicate these oppositions—above all in the figure of the cowboy, who has tended to subtly betray the illogic of this binary mentality.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2021
• This condescension underlies movies that pass off illogic and omissions as marks of fantasy and imagination—or, at least, as good enough for children.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The modern political landscape is an interesting backdrop for Morgan, who addressed the illogic of the monarchy during The Crown’s first season.
  — Julie Miller, HWD, 17 Aug. 2017
• Every aspect of the work — the disjunctive scale of its subjects, the spatial illogic and the crisp, ghostly forms — reinforces the hallucinatory quality.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 14 July 2017
• And advocates across the ideological spectrum should urge the courts to follow the First District’s lead and reject the disastrous illogic now developing in the federal circuits.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
• For some people — those of us who can’t help brushing against the margins — the logic, or stunning illogic, of our lives makes the decision to de-emphasize the arbitrary distinctions that sustain the American color-caste system that much simpler.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• At its best, Kaepernick & America affirms the illogic of white supremacy and testifies to the power of political education.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022
• Its possibility still defies the illogic of American racial caste.
  — Brittany Luse, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2021
• The truth is that constitutional illogic is not necessary for an autocrat to take power, as Gödel feared, because would-be autocrats have no respect for constitutional logic in the first place.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2021
• Nevertheless, Musk’s views on immigration and birth rates clearly echo the illogic that gives rise to such hateful ideology and its violent consequences.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• But the sheer illogic of this controversy captures something essential about culture-war progressives.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 18 July 2021
• The contemporary impulse to rebuke disgraced creators by vanishing their work from the cultural marketplace exhibits a mean-spiritedness, a vengefulness even, as well as an illogic.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The illogic of the program is part of the political left’s historical confusion with regard to propaganda, which is about spreading fantasies while condemning realities.
  — Chilton Williamson Jr., WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024