There were upbeat but hypocritical justifications for what was happening.
Atwood sketches Stan and Charmaine empathetically, but she's also unrelenting, cataloging their selfish desires, hypocritical justifications, and weakness in the face of temptation or coercion.
These interpretations have also been criticized as hypocritical and poor justification for the film's content, as Cannibal Holocaust itself is highly sensationalized.
But there are also times when it masks cowardice, self-justification and policies that are hypocritical and/or morally indefensible.
Their justifications have ranged from the hypocritical (abuse of Senate procedure) to the nonsensical (being gay is a choice, whereas religion is not) to the irrational (the bill will prosecute "thought crimes").
But what convinced me that the film diminished itself needlessly was in its depiction of Christianity simply as a hypocritical instrument of suppression, the Bible routinely cited as justification for enslavement in sermons to the enslaved.
But even beyond that, the White House's effort and justifications are a fantastic mix of problematic and hypocritical.
"The problem with Bush's legacy is they tied democracy promotion so much to the Iraq war justification and the war on terrorism that it made American policy look hypocritical," Mr. Fukuyama said.
In justification, Netanyahu recycled the regular refrain of the Israeli right -- that the United Nations and its "hypocritical council with an automatic majority against Israel" can claim no moral authority to judge his country.
