Sentence examples for noble excuse from inspiring English sources

"This is not a noble excuse, but everyone was at fault".

Across the country, chefs and restaurateurs have been taking on the erstwhile health-food punch line with a kind of experimental brio, using it as a noble excuse to fool around with flavor and texture and hue.

This is not a noble excuse, but everyone was at fault because we did not react to the disparity between national fiscal norms that allow multinational societies to find a darkroom.

A time to celebrate freedom and democracy, the approaching Bastille Day gave me a noble excuse to bake up a storm.

When young Jack Kennedy got the Democratic nomination, in 1960, it gave Joyce a noble and stirring excuse to get out of a house that she couldn't seem to help filling up with babies.

Instead, that became an example of what one figure in the film calls "noble cause corruption" — a tendency to excuse transgressions supposedly done in the service of good.

Queen Christina of Sweden's tendency to dress as a man was well known during her time, and excused because of her noble birth.

If it was humble, noble, embarrassing or whatever, this gives you no excuse to reject whatever or whoever represents it.

And the best Mr. Bush could offer was a call to individual empowerment — a noble idea, but in Mr. Bush's hands just another excuse to abdicate government responsibility.

He sputtered: "Excuse me, David, but what did they do, these noble creatures?

50) Writing, a once noble profession, nay, an art, became content and content became an excuse to pretend that everything that's ever happened is of the utmost importance, and is eternally significant.