Sentence examples for thinly veiled excuse from inspiring English sources

The article by Tony Kushner used Arnold Hutschnecker's death as just another thinly veiled excuse to revile Richard Nixon.

Under the peace deal the six-region structure will be dropped from the constitution.But some see the Houthis' justification as a thinly veiled excuse for snatching power.

More important, the plot provides a thinly veiled excuse for fans, capes, matadors, Gypsies and lots of spirited, vaguely Spanish-flavored dancing to Ludwig Minkus's melodic score.

Camera hire every day for £15, wizard school weekends only, until July 10, then daily Learn to love liquorice My mum swore by the medicinal value of liquorice, though I long suspected that was a thinly veiled excuse to munch her way through boxes of the stuff.

I used the Computer Merit Badge as a thinly veiled excuse to connect to the Internet for the first time.

This kind of completion is just a thinly veiled excuse to get users to do your advertising for you, and we are long past the point where that kind of duping works.

But for proponents of gun control, those explanations are thinly veiled excuses amid intense pressure from the National Rifle Association NRAandand gun rights advocates.

Will Eisner (1917-2005) was both a great distorter and a great observer, and WILL EISNER'S NEW YORK: Life in the Big City (Norton, $29.95) compiles four volumes of his thinly veiled excuses to draw Manhattan and the Bronx.

The hard-to-find film plays Saturday at 8 30 p.m. at Anthology Film Archives as part of Mods Go to the Movies: Vehicle Films of the 1960s, a program of movies that, long before MTV, were thinly veiled excuses to promote pop groups and their music.

You will start to avoid his daily check-ups, as these are merely thinly veiled excuses to pressure you for results.

This rally seems to be a thinly veiled, bizarre excuse to spread religious bigotry and racist propaganda.