Sentence examples for brief excuse for from inspiring English sources

DeMille's greatest legacy, of course, is his introduction of religiosity into this campiness -- to provide a brief excuse for the rest of the picture.

Speaking on Wednesday, the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov recalled the Turkish president's own comments, and said it was "hypocritical" of Turkey to use the alleged brief border violation as an excuse for this week's incident.

In that year the abortive Cavite Mutiny, a brief uprising against the Spanish, served as an excuse for renewed Spanish repression.

Cavite Mutiny, (Jan . 20 , 1872 brief uprising of 200 Filipino troops and workers at the Cavite arsenal, which became the excuse for Spanish repression of the embryonic Philippine nationalist movement.

An excuse for imperialism.

No excuse for cuts.

A convenient excuse for philandering?

Any excuse for a party.

Any excuse for a reunion.

Because there is no excuse for it.

We had no excuse for it.