But it was all for an excellent cause.
They are all talented people, multiple award-winners who are giving up their weekend for an excellent cause, but there's something about a room full of actors that makes me feel slightly uncomfortable.
Why did the chancellor give tax relief to provincial theatre in his last budget – an excellent cause – when he could have given the same sum to the Arts Council to distribute to them more rationally?
James Pethokoukis, a blogger at the American Enterprise Institute, while conceding that the Pope's words "are excellent cause for reflection," went on to say that they "should not obscure the reality that innovative free enterprise is the greatest wealth generator ever discovered and the economic system most supportive of human freedom and flourishing".
It's an excellent cause that we are participating in an well – see details here.
Now, this isn't the first time that the iThing launch extravaganza has attracted publicity seekers, and some of them even have an excellent cause.
Even better, it serves an excellent cause.
Given the enormous popularity of the ice bucket challenge, it's as if I crawled out from under a metaphoric rock and had ice water dumped on me -- for an excellent cause.
God (if you believe in her/him) is kind of like your kids, more influenced not by what charity board you sit on, or how much you give to help communities supporting orphans in Africa (excellent cause by the way) but by how you treat others that are not in your social class or circle when no one is looking.
David Gordon Whitestone, Queens, Sept.29, 2009 To the Editor: I was an assistant principal at Francis Lewis High School for 24 years, so I read with great pride about how parents want to send their students to this excellent school, causing it to be severely overcrowded.
