Sentence examples for a self-serving explanation from inspiring English sources

Afterward, the captain has a self-serving explanation for his failure).

But that is a self-serving account.

Smothers says that he turned to crime because he became "callous" after losing the "two people closest to him" — a somewhat self-serving explanation.

No self-serving explanation or apology stating that proper procedures were not followed can hide the apparent lack of candor demonstrated by the editor who initially proposed this language.

SCHUMAN and Monnet's dream is becoming a nightmare and European policymakers are stuck with contradictory and self-serving explanations for the ongoing tragedy.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel was a master of the cross-examination - exposing the athlete's wobbly, self-serving explanations.

"His self-serving explanations have yielded no comfort.

While the bubble was inflating, self-serving explanations were offered for why traditional formulas of home valuation no longer applied.

So they accepted self-serving explanations that the crisis resulted from mass hysteria, that nobody was truly "responsible," and moved the employees seamlessly into other parts of their business.

Dunn's defense was an imaginary gun that only he saw, a self-serving scenario with dialogue out of a bad movie, and implausible explanations for why he unloaded a weapon and ran away.

It's a self-serving analogy.