(The actor Bernard Fresson plays a spineless French intellectual articulating excuses for his class's political apathy).
For years, some of us have been writing against the immorality of politicians and intellectuals who excused Slobodan Milošević, Islamo-fascism, Saddam Hussein, the Iranian theocracy and the Russian kleptocracy.
But it's also incumbent on liberals not to let the G.O.P.'s current (and, yes, perhaps long-enduring) policy problem become an excuse for intellectual laziness.
The LRB, for many years edited and deputy-edited by women, advanced an excuse about intellectual expertise, though not one with a byline, male or female.
The prince showed little interest in the intellectual atmosphere, and he was excused from examinations, though he did become involved in undergraduate life.
The project is one of many homespun hacks from the Stupid Hackathon, which also included the creation of a a telepresence robot (actually a human with an iPad strapped to their face), a calendar of retouched photos of male intellectuals, and a laser-cut excuse generator. .
And that was the great intellectual trap that meant we did excuse an awful lot of appalling behaviour on the grounds that it was pushing the necessary buttons to move to the new post-capitalist form of society".
Rejection of "political rhetoric" (an agreed-upon pejorative in our literary present, but one often without defining characteristics) typically ends up as an excuse to impose prevelant "intellectual" fashions on poems -- then on the ages of poetry.
The law tries to intrude on the Internet with the excuse that the law is protecting intellectual property.
Some excuse Theranos' secrecy as merely protecting their intellectual property and technology, in addition to desiring confidentiality for their company.
