Rationalisations

Certainly, as the corpses of the Palestinian and Kashmiri Hamza al-Khatibs pile up, there will be the usual flurry of intellectual rationalisations – the bogey of Islamic terror will again be invoked. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And it is unavoidable that there will be rationalisations and reductions in capacity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead, we get all sorts of rationalisations about why Luke/Acts, the Epistles of James and Jude never state that Jesus had a brother called James. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

Notice something Greg: the excuses and the rationalisations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Between the howls of the denied and the rationalisations of the defenders, the actual book itself and the complexity involved in writing it tends to be forgotten. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)

And doesn't taking the absurd rationalisations of thugs at face value mean the BBC is tacitly endorsing their justifications for violence? ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is, thanks be to the deity or metaphor or your choosing, no Democratic Rush Limbaugh spoon feeding us rationalisations on issue X because issue L is what we really care about. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such a calculation flatters the United States 'view of itself (just as other great powers have adopted such rationalisations) and there is just enough of a germ of truth in it to give one pause. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As one of the other contributors suggested, well oiled post rationalisations are being prepared and new armageddon scenarios being developed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Why the mealy-mouthed rationalisations and clutching at straws? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Having obviously run out of flimsy over inflated rationalisations that had been popped by such a simple question he took the line of "debate" that these "pacifists" usually resort to at some point ... and hit me! ❋ Unknown (2009)

These arguments go beyond rationalisations for the profession and actually strive to become justification for state or civic support of journalism to shore up its broken business model. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For all the Neo-Platonists 'rationalisations, sin is defined throughout Christian morality in additive terms, as an impurity which has been introduced and must be removed (specifically, "washed clean in the blood of the Lamb"), not as a deficiency which must be compensated for. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

When I see you grasping at ever flimsier rationalisations, I know it is time to stop. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fantasy has its own rationalisations, its own rules and perspectives, but if the story in the end gives you that thrill of amazement it doesn't really matter if it doesn't make sense in terms of the world as we understand it. ❋ Unknown (2007)