Sentence examples for splendid excuse for from inspiring English sources

In Dublin in particular it is regarded as a splendid excuse for a party, beginning at breakfast and often ending in drunken gloom and rancour, just like the book.

In each a paper-thin plot served as little more than an excuse for splendid singing, lively playing, sumptuous costuming and a whole lot of dance.

An excuse for imperialism.

No excuse for cuts.

A convenient excuse for philandering?

Any excuse for a party.

Any excuse for a reunion.

McGowan's splendid if occasional dialogues (between Catrine and her father, Catrine and Gilbert, Gilbert and Betts) suggest the natural talent of a playwright, but in any of the literary arts a talent for exchanges, or images, is not enough; without a deliberate, personal design -- which must be timely, not a convenient throwback -- it is an excuse for a writer not to be careful.

There's no excuse for it.

Because there is no excuse for it.

We had no excuse for it.