Sentence examples for insane excuse from inspiring English sources

Courts, media, and the public at large have thrown at rape survivors every insane excuse you can imagine, from "You shouldn't have been drunk" to "You couldn't possbly have been raped because you were wearing skinny jeans".

DAs may also make insane excuses (to themselves or others) in order get their fix, claiming, for example, that "Sunday is my day to just sit around and watch TV," when in fact they do that every day.

According to that case, an insane person is excused only if he did not know the nature and quality of his act or could not tell right from wrong.

This anticipates the notorious conditions under which a combat airman can be grounded: you have to be insane before you're excused flying combat missions, but if you don't want to fly any more missions that proves you are not insane.

The only way to be excused from flying such missions is to be declared insane, but asking to be excused for the reason of insanity is proof of a rational mind and bars being excused.

President, words don't just disappear from the middle of sentences unless it's CBS bleeping me when I say excuses like this are... insane," Colbert said, using an expletive that was censored out.

"If the same violence is committed by a white supremacist or apartheid sympathizer and is not a Muslim, we start to look for excuses — he might be insane, maybe he was pushed too hard," Mr. Awad said.

On an insane impulse, I asked if I could be excused to use the toilets for a minute.

On an insane impulse, I asked if I could be excused to use the bathroom for a minute.

"The behaviour of Hannibal is never insane – [I] didn't want to use that excuse.

Anyone who wants to be excused from flying dangerous missions, he explains, can't be insane.