For Roos and Martin, Isaac is a shared concern and a source of contention and competition, an excuse for each to blame and berate the other.
"Both sides have been raising tensions the way you blow into your balloon, and now they need an excuse for each other to stop blowing so that the balloon won't burst".
"I had a good excuse for each missed event!
Wall Street, the spiritual (if not, these days, the actual) home of finance, and the Upper East Side, where many financiers live, maintain a special relationship, perhaps akin to that of Britain and America, or — more recently — to that of co-dependents, who thrive or founder in tandem, and are quick to make excuses for each other's shortcomings and missteps.
By Lauren Collins Liz Smith Wall Street, the spiritual (if not, these days, the actual) home of finance, and the Upper East Side, where many financiers live, maintain a special relationship, perhaps akin to that of Britain and America, or — more recently — to that of co-dependents, who thrive or founder in tandem, and are quick to make excuses for each other's shortcomings and missteps.
Dean and Ramona will not make excuses for each other's faults, nor try to change them.
The person abusing her may threaten her with more violence if she tells anyone what really happened to her, so she comes up with excuses for each injury.
The banning of actual doctors and nurses, the whole darn sexy lot of them, because that's the way brats since time immemorial have found an excuse for interfering with each other?
Two Arabic governments continued to use a sporting conflict as an excuse for disturbing rhetoric about each other.
In all seriousness, though, this State of the Union was much more about grandstanding and symbolism than substance – "just an excuse for people to troll each other", Noah explained.
(Later, though, he frames it in more demotic terms: "The concert is an excuse for everyone to talk to each other, get together, sleep with each other, hold each other, and get very stoned").
