People who experience cognitive fusion tend to misinterpret "thoughts" as facts, therefore serving as excuses for their behaviors.
Either way, their document-centred histories served as excuses for liberal imperial fictions.
But just as the books themselves served as excuses for Mary Anne and Will to talk of difficult things — particularly mortality — the book club serves here as an excuse for a loving celebration of a mother by a son.
Or, as Quill put it, "they [can] serve as excuses not to think, as belief systems that discourage explorations of the mismatch between theory and practice and the inconsistencies of any grand theory".
But in a revolutionary break with tradition on which the exhibition book says nothing, Wilson reduced the most famous monuments that served as excuses for his landscapes to the rank of secondary elements.
At this, it occurred to me that the real tragedy of the film's dated legacy lay in the continued oppression of Muslim women in migrant communities where culture and tradition serve as excuses to deny agency.
On another it simply serves to – excuse the pun – draw you in.
Those who were afraid to serve were excused -- and many did beg off, pleading fear of reprisals.
People are making claims in the American political agora every day that are equally irrational and equally serve to excuse reprehensible violence and injustice.
There was a time when the stories were fun to use to horrify girls, and another when they could serve to excuse your own emotional screw-ups.
Before this election, it wouldn't have seemed possible that tagging a "just kidding" onto the end of any number of cruel, bigoted, dangerous statements could serve to excuse them, but that is what Trump has done, time and again, while making it clear that he is anything but.
