The emphasis on sincerity is also evident in Tony Blair's repeated excuses for the war in Iraq.
In every stage of these oppressions the American people have asked for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated excuses and obfuscation and seemingly unnecessary bureaucratic delay.
The grandfather's call came after nearly nine months of getting no response to birthday presents and repeated excuses from his son about his grandson's whereabouts, according to the International Business Times.
On 15 February, 2011, Shelley and Halbrooks sent the judge in the Drake case a letter that repeated the excuse given to Crane: the requested documents had been destroyed, by mistake, during a routine purge.
One night, having kept Thomas pacing outside a concert hall for more than half an hour, she told him that she'd had to give a client a ride home, because his car had been stolen from the clinic lot — then she repeated the excuse a few months later, in pretty much the same words.
Clinton's campaign aide, who emailed reporters on the condition of anonymity, repeated that excuse, but did not say why the Democratic frontrunner had chosen to break her silence now – other to say "she owes it to the American people to make it clear where she stands on this issue".
But when she spoke there was a lot of: "Can you repeat that?" "Excuse me?" "Huh?" I needed closed captioning.
At first it was just a nagging sense that light I couldn't account for was getting in to what should have been, rationally, a solidly dark outlook — that I was hearing a repeated whisper of "excuse me?" in the margins of my awareness, in a tiny, tiny font size.
Trump's repeated attempt to excuse his support of sexual assault as "locker room talk" speaks volumes about his and many men's absolute refusal to admit their own sexism.
This enables the tiny group of insiders who control DPVA to try to excuse repeated defeats by falling back on the theme: "we did 'our part', but someone else screwed up".
