Sentence examples for flat excuses from inspiring English sources

On another occasion Carr was quoted as damning the movie as "one of the most inept, amateur, utterly flat excuses for a film that has ever been concocted".

Things turned nastier still when a widely circulated 'private' email attributed to Caleb Carr accused the director of conjuring 'one of the most inept, amateur, utterly flat excuses for a film that has ever been concocted' and declared that the film would only be salvageable with 'another 10 million in reshoots'.

He answered, offered a convoluted excuse involving flat tires and dead cellphone batteries, and then we had phone sex.

While their friends and family may be physically or emotionally hurt by the psychopath's actions, he or she will typically just deflect the blame with excuses or flat-out deny it.

Beth continually explained that Pete didn't know her, but that didn't quite excuse the flat quality of their scenes together, which lent even Pete's most heightened, poetic lines ("a temporary bandage on a permanent wound") less weight, so that they cast little shadow.

But that excuse falls flat when recognizing, for instance, that there is no monument in New Orleans to the mass slave revolt that took place in 1811, when some two hundred men who had endured the brutality of bondage marched on the city, killing two white men and burning plantations as they went.

GOOD's Nona Willis Aronowitz argued last summer that even though we know that as many as half of all men and women cheat on a significant other at some point in their lives, and many more consider it, when it comes to changing up traditional ways of constructing our own relationships, we have a tendency to hesitate, or make excuses, or flat-out say "no, thank you".

Later, he took her back to his Islington flat where she made her excuses and left in a taxi – but not before letting in her boyfriend Jackson and his friend Chandler.