Sentence examples for a mere excuse for from inspiring English sources

THE Trinity is a mere excuse for a river.

For some clubs, football seems a mere excuse for more lucrative, and murkier, pursuits.

Since he joined the cast of The X Factor it's sometimes seemed as if each open audition is a mere excuse for members of the public to queue up and meet him.

Here, the plot has evolved to a mere excuse for a lot of dancing, and perhaps more spectacular star turns in various roles than in any other 19th-century ballet.

After watching ABC's surprisingly festive "CMA Country Christmas" on Monday night, I wondered if this might be the year when each of the big television networks finally figures out how to do a holiday special that doesn't feel labored or corny or like a mere excuse for corporate cross-promotion.

Apple gadgets are a mere excuse to line up once again, memorabilia of days spent with strangers sharing the same passion.

Time is just a mere excuse and a place to put my blame and anger towards.

I could certainly come up with cases in point – notably a Polish "Macbeth" presented at St. Ann's Warehouse that was so larded with lurid excesses that the play itself seemed mere excuse for thumbing the nose at conventional taste.

At this time, some critics were beginning to complain that the style was becoming an affectation, the nudity arbitrary, and the subjects mere excuses for abstract patterns.

If attitudes conveyed in interview studies are so easily influenced by economic incentives, are they then mere excuses for taking the easy way out in practice?

Somehow people who were already of evil will – and I'm not blaming the leave campaign, I want to be quite clear about that – but people who were of evil will are using this as an excuse, a mere sham, for their hatred to be expressed".