Edward McGaffigan Jr. of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in particular, makes dignified, not unreasonable on-camera arguments.

It was not an unreasonable argument; and I had already made my point-which was that I was not about to make any deal behind the back of my associates.

Jeffrey showed the young man in the room, saying, "You're just in time to find your wife-to-be engaging mi an unreasonable argument!"

She had to haul out the old, tired, and perfectly unreasonable argument to keep her position in the driver's seat It was her car.

When Mayor Willie Brown, one of the film's principal villains, tries to defend development by suggesting that it will create more jobs for San Franciscans in the long run, this not entirely unreasonable argument is simply ignored.

The role of a visitor and defendant also calls for him to be more quietly observant than usual, even though the stubborn tirade, the unreasonable argument and the suspicious rant are the best of his comic devices.