Tired, with a twitch under one eye, his longish white hair hanging down like a wilted Einstein's, Mr. Walther rejected the notion that time could excuse the crimes of that era, or reduce their heinousness.
Christine and Blaine even devised a special signal so that Christine could excuse herself when the Drews lingered in conversation.
But see, there's an even more massive issue here, even if one is so constipated that they could excuse this unbelievable act.
A few thought cheating and lying were childhood habits that could be excused, especially since Danny obviously liked baseball so much and, on TV at least, seemed like a nice enough kid.
They received little protection from a midfield in which Aaron Ramsey and Alex Song took knocks, but that could not excuse individual errors and a general lack of concentration and organisation.
There is in the country something of a benign neglect towards racism, in part because much of it tends to be of the low-level variety that could be easily excused as part of an ironic, knockabout, piss-taking Aussie sense of humour.
Like the first version of the introduction allowance in 1999, the principle of conditionality remained prevalent, meaning that the benefit was reduced correspondingly in the event of absence from the introduction programme (that could not be excused by illness or other compelling reasons).
The grass, because of the rain, was not in perfect shape, but that could be excused.
That could be excused, it appears, as a Cleveland-born writer's lingering anger toward James for leaving the Cavaliers for the Heat in July.
