Sentence examples for excuse that makes from inspiring English sources

When you need to navigate a tricky bit of road, there's no time to ask someone to be quiet, and telling a peer to shut up for a minute, in any terms, is so rude that it absolutely requires an excuse that makes it take even longer ("can you hold on for a minute?

What we did not know was that blame is a narcissistic excuse that makes one person feel better at the price of another's unhappiness.

Or you might ask: Can we come up with an excuse that makes it OK to watch in time for kickoff?

Then, the "girls aren't guys" belief changed to, "Well, I'm not doing gang-bangs!" Slowly, over the eight years I spent in the adult business, I made justification after justification to take my "performance" to the next level because of small excuses that made the entire picture excusable, all the while remembering that I originally said, "I'll never do guys".

They are the excuses that make it easier for men who perpetrate violence to feel justified in their use of power and control tactics.

Huffman's performance captures Lorna's agony and terror, her fear that she's "going to fall into a black hole and never come out," and also the aspects of depression that can be so frustrating for those outside it — the unreliability and the excuses that make it hard to tell whether the sufferer is dying inside or getting away with murder.

Do anything that will annoy her, and then just make a babyish excuse that will make your parents feel bad for you and scold your sister.

The Democrats were largely quiet in the lead-up to the war with Iraq, which is one excuse that reporters make for not probing Bush Administration claims.

It's an important question for new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, after his PR department offered up the laughable excuse that he made "an inadvertent error" on Yahoo's website and in an SEC filing claiming he had a Computer Science degree.

The excuse that floormats made their cars suddenly and uncontrollably accelerate always seemed rather thin to me.

His aides famously told inquisitive reporters that their boss was "hiking the Appalachian trail" when he was actually engaging in a rather different sort of recreational activity, an excuse that only made the incident more notorious.