Asked to condemn Entwistle, Patten refused: "The easiest thing to do is to join in the general thrashing of a decent man and I'm not going to do that".
The transcripts of Lytton and James's conscription tribunals, as well as their correspondence, make it clear that they refused the easier way to gain exemption - by saying they were opposed to all war - and, instead, claimed exemption because they thought the war begun in 1914 was wrong.
"The Emperor's Club" carefully sets itself up as an obvious, transparent morality play, and then just as deliberately refuses the easy payoff.
Rags and Tatters refuses the easy answers – actually, it refuses the difficult answers, or any answers, in favour of a more open and questioning approach, which borders on a distinctive kind of mystery.
Mr. Bay, a muscular cinematic populist, refuses the easy route of satire, and the result is both repellent and impressive in its celebration of greed, hedonism and physical fitness.
The most ambitious artists will refuse the easy dismissal of the terrorist as a pariah or psychopath and instead will explore the deeply disturbing decisions born of those passionate beliefs.
Refusing the easy path -- a barely disguised political tract that condemns the colonial oppressor and applauds the rebel cause -- he has instead allowed history, in all its chaos and complexity, to shape the fiction itself, giving himself over to the facts without letting them quell the artist's rage for order.
The Unspeakable is a book about refusing the easy platitude and the self-justifying spin.
bomber crews nor the vast damage the bombing campaigns unleashed, Swift refuses the easier routes of hagiography and unreflective condemnation.
