Sentence examples for hardly excuse from inspiring English sources

Ms Zinovieff reluctantly concedes that her grandmother was not just chronically unfaithful but wildly promiscuous ("bedding" was her own word for casual sex); worse, her hapless children were left in strange hands for long periods, and then moved with a cruel abruptness that even the kindest biographer can hardly excuse.

But it hardly excuses it.

That may be true, but it hardly excuses the predatory practices of many priests.

But that hardly excuses the earlier uprisings.Many more popular overthrows that at first seemed splendid have turned out badly.

That she may be too far gone to care or to protect herself hardly excuses the invasion of her privacy.

Bernhard's misogyny has been traced to his alienation from his mother — he was raised by his grandparents — but this hardly excuses such rants.

An account of how this motley army worked together makes for enjoyable reading.Though she produces long-buried material indicting both South Koreans and American bystanders, Ms Jager hardly excuses the North.

A messy triumvirate of the two Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as boss of News International on July 15th, helps explain (though it hardly excuses) the firm's pathetic failure to investigate quickly phone-hacking and bribery.

So, though it hardly excuses any of the awfulness, the party is perhaps reaping its own whirlwind: when an organisation's moral centre implodes (and here, it's worth the obligatory mention of Iraq), anything goes.

Even Laurent, who is hardly excused from the evil he commits against Delphine, is granted a hearing, and he comes off as trapped, deluded, and not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

Kelly musters some sympathy for the frustrated banking specialists who joined the Bank board when "the die was already cast" but hardly excuses their inaction: "I am surprised that a Board which did possess a small number of experienced and well-regarded individuals nevertheless failed to raise more concerns about the way the Bank was being managed".