Sentence examples for mere excuse from inspiring English sources

THE Trinity is a mere excuse for a river.

For some clubs, football seems a mere excuse for more lucrative, and murkier, pursuits.

I could certainly come up with cases in point – notably a Polish "Macbeth" presented at St. Ann's Warehouse that was so larded with lurid excesses that the play itself seemed mere excuse for thumbing the nose at conventional taste.

Here, the plot has evolved to a mere excuse for a lot of dancing, and perhaps more spectacular star turns in various roles than in any other 19th-century ballet.

Apple gadgets are a mere excuse to line up once again, memorabilia of days spent with strangers sharing the same passion.

Time is just a mere excuse and a place to put my blame and anger towards.

They ridicule talk of their links to outside agitators as mere excuses to repress them.

At this time, some critics were beginning to complain that the style was becoming an affectation, the nudity arbitrary, and the subjects mere excuses for abstract patterns.

This is no cause for complaint as the films are mere excuses to pair up the then-reigning terror titans Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

If attitudes conveyed in interview studies are so easily influenced by economic incentives, are they then mere excuses for taking the easy way out in practice?

Since he joined the cast of The X Factor it's sometimes seemed as if each open audition is a mere excuse for members of the public to queue up and meet him.