Sentence examples similar to feeble alibi from inspiring English sources

For all the glories of Lope de Vega and Velàzquez – who turns up here as a minor character – Madrid in the Spanish golden age is painted as the capital of a worm-eaten empire in which everything is for sale; a chessboard where "a man makes what moves he can" and clings to an alibi, however feeble, to "preserve at least a shred of self-respect".

The excuse is feeble.

Come on – up and at 'em!" Though the guilt and redemption route is the approved alibi that enables erring public figures to earn forgiveness, there remains a quite understandable fascination with people who refuse to follow its feeble code.

liberal alibi?

Feeble stuff.

Feeble labeling.

How feeble!

But enforcement is feeble.

Too feeble.

Howell has an alibi.

The jokes are feeble.