Sentence examples for added a note of self-justification from inspiring English sources

But he also added a note of self-justification, and indeed bitterness, prefacing his admission of responsibility with a note that "after 33 years of military service to our country," he found it "extraordinarily painful to endure these many months of false accusations of 'treason' and other outrageous acts".

But she added a note of empathy.

Then he added a note of caution.

Jeffrie Murphy (2007: 11) adds a note of qualification, writing: "[A] retributivist is a person who believes that the primary justification for punishing a criminal is that the criminal deserves it".

But Wake adds a note of caution.

Researchers add a note of caution, however.

Dean adds a note of realism.

He adds a note of urgency.

Add to this the sort of self-justification that the late and unlamented Attorney General indulged in before Congress and with his own department.

But is this brain drain real, or merely a bit of self-justification?

A sweet urge of self-justification fills me.