Sentence examples for pat explanation from inspiring English sources

The pat explanation is that party leaders are united behind James McGreevey, who nearly ousted Mrs. Whitman in 1997.

First, there's the pat explanation, which invokes the famous dictum, much embraced by statisticians, by the physicist Lord Kelvin: "When you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind".

That pat explanation glided past the fact that the E.P.A. document was apt to attract attention, whereas the administration's plan calls for a lot more research in lieu of prompt action.

To be fair, though, such a pat explanation almost has to be oversimplistic – very likely the reason it appeals to me, duh – and many other elements of University and alumni life must be important in cementing any high-profile and creative relationship with a huge, increasingly diverse coterie who each, after all, were on campus for only a few years.

When she was pulled over by a policeman, she had her explanation down pat.

In this new work, Mr. Currin seems to be searching for a kind of authenticity that resists pat explanations.

But at least Mr. Grondin's disturbingly creepy performance offers no pat explanations, and it doesn't plead for our sympathy.

And while the Arkansas shootings struck many as an entirely appropriate vehicle for examining important issues, particularly gun use and violence, many of the pat explanations fell flat.

Trying to use such pat explanations to shed light on our deepest motivations is "analogous to trying to see how our own kidneys work," he says.

None of those pat explanations of his art survive this brilliant retrospective that reveals the abundance and curiosity of his approach.

But it is a refreshing and original study, showing clearly that Muslim anti-Semitism is neither universal, nor inevitable, nor subject to pat explanations.