Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma.

Either can be a good man "because the charms of isolation and beauty of polar regions puts reason in his being."

Brad couldn't put any rhyme or reason to it, either.

"Do you see, as the old bird put it, any rhyme or reason in the proceeding?"

The beauty of the discovery put reason utterly and finally to flight.

It is useless to try to put reason into her magpie head.

But if you ask why he threw himself at these problems everyone else regarded as hopeless, you have to put reason to one side.

The review is an outstanding example of putting "partisan passions" aside and putting reason first.

"They are deliberately playing on people desperate for companionship who put reason behind when they can find a mate," he said.