But by the end, the Ping-Pong presentation of self-deceptions and self-justifications starts to feel weary.
This could involve spending too much money, eating or drinking too much, or engaging in any behaviors which require denial or justification in order for you to feel all right with it.
We have every reason to feel concerned but no justification for being violent.
As the original works so well, there is no justification for digitizing it, and the result is doomed to feel unnecessarily contrived.
But all this may have been mere justification to make us feel better.
* KIMMEL CENTER Philadelphians tend to feel about the Academy of Music the way Chicagoans feel about Wrigley Field, perhaps with less justification.
In the end, he said, the show went on -- and before each performance he read a quote by George Cook, who during World War I said: "The social justification which we feel to be valid now for makers and players of plays is that they shall help keep alive in the world the light of imagination.
You may look at your problems and feel absolute justification to dive into your worries, traveling as deep into that black hole as you possibly can.
In Paris, everywhere I go I spy women who eat their whole big lunch and desert, without so much as a peep about "oh I haven't eaten anything yet today," or "last week I ate only raw," or whatever justification they feel like they need to give for actually eating a generous quantity of food.
It may, with no justification whatsoever, just feel wrong to them, and what's the point of a memorial to the dead if one disregards the emotions of those they left behind?
