Sentence examples for elaborate justifications from inspiring English sources

But no elaborate justifications are needed; it would be a must in any case.

As anyone who has spent time in Brazil can attest, Brazilian celebrations don't usually require elaborate justifications.

They fund lobby groups, thinktanks and economists to devise ever more elaborate justifications for their seizure of the nation's wealth.

I knew Ms Markwell had to be part of this exciting venture when I read her recent feature on The Chadwick Oven, a £360 stove-top pizza oven which, by the time she'd applied her own particular elaborate justifications, had become a profoundly sensible investment, up there with, say, using your annual Isa allowance.

His confused theology and unrealistic military objectives are elaborate justifications for his refusal to give up his power, plunder, and cult of personality.

Others think Mr. Greenspan is creating an elaborate justification for raising rates to mask a desire to bring down the stock market.

It is a far cry from this practical 12th-century treatise by a man of affairs to the elaborate justification of Christian kingship and natural law created by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, during the climax of medieval Western civilization.

Still, it is possible that the position is more than an elaborate justification for short-sighted pleasure-seeking.

It was also, he said, "an elaborate justification of mass murder".

To some of them, this may all seem like an elaborate justification for my personal counseling methods, or playful dancing with the Devil.

If it felt written backward at times — an elaborate justification of a simple inspiration, to put the characters in their traditional costumes — it moved fast enough to stay fun while it happened.