But both represent increasingly irrational and inhumane levels of punishment.

Pangall disappears, although his fate is never made clear as events are seen from Jocelin's increasingly irrational point of view.

He wants to be the best of the men around him and when beaten, becomes very agitated and increasingly irrational.

For over a year, the old Emperor had grown increasingly irrational, his mind failing, his body trembling.

In fact, her increasingly irrational antimilitary biases were a main reason for Pierre's decision that he needed someone from the military as a counterbalance.

During the twentieth century, as the residential pattern of communities changed, the local government structure became increasingly irrational.

"She has no organic condition which might account for her increasingly irrational behavior," McCoy said.

This message transforms the professor into a mass of insecurity as he conducts an increasingly irrational search for its author.

Denied access to his son and with the court appearance looming, Gallacher began to get increasingly irrational.

An alcoholic, Tate became increasingly irrational towards the end of the decade.