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

In my view, that is merely a self-serving justification after the fact.

Not to rain on your parade (or your vacation), but that little white lie is really a self-serving justification to get you out of this pickle.

When challenged by a fellow producer, Rachel, an avowed feminist who struggles with the moral implications of her job, offers up a self-serving justification: "My plan is to make a top-rated television program with a black romantic lead.

Rationalizing ineffective enforcement because the law is less than ideal is a fundamentally self-serving justification for taking the easy way out.

Coming from the likes of Mugabe and his henchmen, playing the colonial card is self-serving justification.

It's almost as morally bankrupt as their self-serving justification for keeping hold of the money: Craig's been working a lot of overtime – "weekends, holidays" – they're definitely "not giving this back".

If you ask why we decide to value reason or to challenge self-serving justification, the answer will always involve facts about ourselves that are not the product of own choices.

They expected bitchiness, self-serving justification and cant and The Third Man gave it to them; they expected score-settling, distortions of the truth and a rewriting of Labour history, largely to the detriment of the author's many enemies, and he did not let them down.

The ICTJ's report says the commission's hearings gave those accused of violence a platform to make "self-serving" justifications without facing rigorous questioning.

The balance between the celebration of New York life and the satirical depiction of its evasions, dishonesties, and self-serving justifications has never been surpassed.

Whitehouse, playing many of what one of his characters is more than happy to call the "nutters", catches, with astonishing nuance, the great many tics and self-serving justifications, and grievances (and impairments) both wholly real and wholly imagined, of the umbrella under which we still lump the impossibly diverse characteristics of the "mentally ill".