Sentence examples for a special pleading from inspiring English sources

Perhaps there is always a pretence, a special pleading, a sentimentality at work when we call photographs art.

The legal theorising of the "brilliant" Ronald Dworkin sees Scruton arguing that it contains a "special pleading for judicial activism, provided that the activists are political liberals".

It's difficult for me, Stewart Lee the TV comedian, to make the case for the BBC, as the Observer's below-the-line commentators, having first put my job title in inverted commas as if it were a lie, will maintain this column is an example of "special pleading", a bit like when Keith Vaz spoke up for poppers in a parliamentary debate about criminalising them last January.

It's not a question of telling the truth or a lie; it's not even a question of special pleading.

I don't believe our having suffered on a colossal, cataclysmic level should be recruited as a kind of special pleading".

But this is not just a case of special pleading.

It would be concerning if this change was a response to special pleading from the banks," he said.

Only a couple of them, Goncharova and Popova, are great painters; the others are not, but the exhibition isn't a case of special pleading.

If just a couple of the women, Natalia Goncharova and Liubov Popova, were truly great painters, the exhibition still isn't a case of special pleading.

If only a couple of the women, Natalia Goncharova and Liubov Popova, were truly great painters, the exhibition isn't a case of special pleading.

If only a couple of the women, Natalia Goncharova and Liubov Popova, were truly great painters, the exhibition still isn't a case of special pleading.