As far as rationalizations go, this one's quite a gem.
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The President's legal rationalizations are "ridiculous" and "weird," he says.
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It's easy to make rationalizations when things aren't going our way.
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Saturday's press conference put a stake through both of those rationalizations.
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After what Swinney endured growing up, he does not suffer rationalizations gladly.
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There are lots of rationalizations for skipping it, but experts are firm.
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And she herself is the best answer to his self-pitying rationalizations.
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"The cheap oil prices did not save Europe from further rationalizations," he said.
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Stella keeps coming up with whiny "poor me" rationalizations for her criminal acts.
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We solve for this dichotomy by creating rationalizations and excuses to do both simultaneously.
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Passionate ardor requires none of the elaborate rationalizations that take place between these covers.
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"Courts, of course, may not accept post hoc rationalizations for agency action," he said.
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If he ever writes a memoir, it would be interesting to hear his rationalizations.
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Almost as infuriating as what "Survivor" did, or didn't do, have been its rationalizations.
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Relatedly, he is cognitively inclined to transform failures into successes and construct intricate rationalizations.
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The misaligned incentives of the venture industry also contribute to the likelihood of founder rationalizations.
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It was left to secular organizations to identify all religious rationalizations as the fundamental problem.
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But draped over all of those rationalizations was my most powerful and seductive weakness: denial.
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Today's news could be a sign that we will see more of these rationalizations to come.
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Mr. Delrahim and his deputies routinely praise the biggest tech companies and adopt their legal rationalizations.
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But those rationalizations don't make sense, since the evidence is so overwhelming against the Brown family.
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So they begin stacking excuses like bricks, sealing themselves inside a box of explanations and rationalizations.
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The temptation for a vicarious do-over is immense, and so are the stage-mom rationalizations.
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You could concoct race-neutral rationales, or rationalizations, for these policies if you really wanted to.
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Market bears continue to seek ex-post rationalizations for why they have been wrong about US equities.
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Stage 28503 brings the rationalizations of why reasonable gun safety standards would not have stopped this particular shooter.
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Whatever rationalizations are applied, this will ultimately be recognized for what it is: a cowardly dereliction of duty.
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Psychologists and other experts say the best apologies are short and don't include rationalizations or requests for forgiveness.
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But barely a day in, I found myself trying to construct my own rationalizations: surely satirical stories were OK?
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Katz points accurately, and reproachfully, to the politically convenient rationalizations offered by leaders in the Dominican and Haitian governments.
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The longer you fill your head with rationalizations and empty excuses, the less time you have to take action.
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After all of your deflections, rationalizations and outright fabrications, have you, at long last, no sense of decency remaining?
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They can apologize profusely without any denials or rationalizations, but they will most likely be banished from public life.
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I'll have to repeat these rationalizations over and over again sometimes, but they'll eventually stick and allow me to relax.
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It's their self-protecting, self-deluding rationalizations that conjure the devils of distrust that rip a social fabric to shreds.
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A.P.: There are several works in the MoMA retrospective that deploy the device of mimicry, of echoing back familiar rationalizations.
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That's a convenient rationalization, and it is upon dozens of such rationalizations that Trump's continued hold on power is built.
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The most important step is the first, requiring confrontational probing to cut through failure to take responsibility and facile rationalizations.
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They just couch it in rationalizations in order to fool themselves into believing that they're behaving in their own best interests.
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It's an argument in line with other Republican lawmakers' rationalizations that they're trying to wring the best from an unfortunate situation.
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Miller added that he's seeing establishment Democrats repeat the same rationalizations that he and other Republicans made during the 2016 cycle.
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I'm disturbed by so many of the comments I have read, claiming all sorts of rationalizations for racist behavior and thinking.
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Feminist philosopher Kate Manne, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, warns against applying "post hoc rationalizations" to backing a candidate.
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"People do sometimes latch onto male authority figures who are lionized and celebrated and then find post hoc rationalizations," Manne tells Refinery29.
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In several press releases from groups claiming to be affiliated with the counterprotests, the rationalizations for anti-police rhetoric were made explicit.
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Their rationalizations and attempts at exculpation raise the question: does journalism operate in a space increasingly divorced from sober fact and judgment?
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It's about the deals that people make with themselves in that situation, the rationalizations they offer, the stories they choose to believe.
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We've been down this road before many times, with all sorts of different, strained rationalizations that ultimately arrive at the same place.
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Whatever El Comandante decided it was -- for convenience, expedience or the increasingly baroque and self-serving rationalizations he provided for staying in power.
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His defense was mounted entirely by his team of lawyers, whose presentations relied on constitutional technicalities and impassioned rationalizations for the president's actions.
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Unfortunately, these rationalizations now look like little more than wishful thinking, as Fedor's next opponent has been announced, and the news isn't great.
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These speeches are called "Confessions," but they are more like rationalizations, shaped to place as much distance as possible between themselves and Hester.
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But precisely because their views are likely to be rationalizations of a previous antipathy, they may not be terribly susceptible to reasoned argument.
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Their rationalizations — that the party's nominee will need their wisdom and policy expertise in the campaign and when he's president — border on the pitiful.
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And yet the individuals involved tend to use a very consistent and discernible number of post-hoc rationalizations to account for what they did.
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Yet at its best, the movie effectively illustrates the cynical calculus that these parents made, as well as the rationalizations employed to justify their actions.
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She may have had plenty of rationalizations and explanations for why she tormented that young woman — but none of them added up to an excuse.
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"The market often makes mistakes, so you need to be wary of the endless rationalizations you may hear come after any meaningful decline," Cramer concluded.
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Yet pro-lifers have an easy out for their rationalizations: Clinton's performance did far more to solidify the pro-life contingent behind Trump than Trump's.
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All that remains is to discover the reasons, the rationalizations, the engraved moments of fury and terror and passion that brought us from there to here.
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" Yale educated Missouri Senator Josh Hawley offered one of the most confused and twisted rationalizations when he said, "It doesn't necessarily mean you're against free trade.
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In graduate school and later, when I was a postdoc at M.I.T. Before then, there was a lot of discrimination around me, but I had rationalizations.
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Trump and his trade team have given us a multitude of rationalizations for tariffs, which, in their minds, have a veritable Swiss Army knife of functions.
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Instead of plot, the bulk of the narrative is devoted to Berie's internal debates, observations and rationalizations, told in gem-cut sentences that kept me reading.
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Among other rationalizations of their reluctance, they fear that such proceedings will swing public opinion in President Trump's favor, as happened in the Bill Clinton impeachment.
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Kha's work here makes me see that only self-serving rationalizations or a refusal to recognize their humanity prevent me from understanding these things in a kiss.
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At no point does the episode minimize Abraham's crime; his protestations that he never hurt a child and merely looked at pictures come across as pathetic rationalizations.
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Republicans, on the other hand, have impressed with the sheer number of rationalizations they've offered as to why the Blue Wave will only amount to a ripple.
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For months, American political punditry was little more than an escalating series of rationalizations for why the guy dominating the polls would obviously, inevitably lose the primary.
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But while all those reasons are true, or at least plausible, the more you talk to Church, the more you suspect they're partially rationalizations after the fact.
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But as those tasks are completed, mission creep sets in; he finds rationalizations to kill even the innocent, collecting new parts to replace the rotting old ones.
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" Weiner and Lasky referred to the Ferguson effect argument and the idea that concerns about cellphone cameras were increasing violent crime as "convenient rationalizations by law enforcement.
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When you work every day with individuals, when you hear their rationalizations and sympathize with their decisions, you can lose sight of the structures shaping their behavior.
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Unfortunately, founders and investors aren't having the debate about high-quality versus low-quality growth frequently enough, and the wrong incentives can lead reasonable people to catastrophic rationalizations.
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But White House press secretary Sarah Sanders appeared several hours later with the latest in a series of increasingly inventive, yet hard to believe, rationalizations for Trump's comments.
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But at an honor-starved moment when most of our politicians are quicker to shirk responsibility than to shoulder it, I cringe at his evasions, elisions and rationalizations.
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This was more than a year into Trump's presidency, by which point the rationalizations of other supposedly serious conservatives who took top administration jobs no longer held water.
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Or if, on some level, she was unwilling to, because it would require her to confront assumptions, rationalizations and perhaps prejudices she had held much of her life.
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In the United States, rationalizations such as flaws in the mental health system or the influence of violent video games enter the public discourse after domestic extremist attacks.
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They say the conservative majority on the court is on the verge of embracing some of the same legal rationalizations that produced Jim Crow segregation in the census case.
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Leisureland offers those same, outdated expectations of effortless prosperity and an unquestioned white majority, preserved the only way they can be — by way of extreme contortions and self-rationalizations.
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When he crossed the line in the past, there was always a ready escape hatch, a set of rationalizations offered by his slack-jawed, but ultimately accommodating, Republican allies.
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Whether it's risk-aversion, inertia or any number of rationalizations among voters for not making a change midstream, the last quarter-century has demonstrated a remarkable stability in the presidency.
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It's a cruel, mercenary strategy, but the movie is selling uplift, not a lesson in 21st-century rapacious capitalism, so their duplicity is delivered with sniffles, smiles and hollow rationalizations.
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Although he has increasingly clashed with opinion hosts in their at-times sycophantic rationalizations of President Trump's conduct, he did not indicate Friday that the friction contributed to his decision.
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But a measure of gloom, for all the rationalizations, has been hard for the Warriors to shake as Saturday's Game 1 against the pesky San Antonio Spurs — sans Curry — draws near.
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People probably go in relatively normal and the contradictions and rationalizations they have to make to stay sane working their make them progressively more unhinged like [Hacking Team CEO David] Vincenzetti.
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It reflected all the rationalizations that I heard from Americans who had voted for Trump or were willing themselves to see some upside to his election: The tweets weren't merely splenetic.
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When those eating practices are linked, however inconclusively, to health scares—as they are currently—those beliefs become loud rationalizations for dehumanizing Chinese people and treating their lives as less worthy.
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"At an honor-starved moment when most of our politicians are quicker to shirk responsibility than to shoulder it, I cringe at his evasions, elisions and rationalizations," writes my colleague Frank Bruni.
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During the Obama presidency, this rising band of isolationist neo-progs have seen their ideas nourished and been drawn to the Administration's rationalizations for shirking America's role as leader of the West.
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Still, Taylor's best role may simply be as a coolly unsentimental truthteller—a youthful radical cutting through the rationalizations of their elders, the people who broke the economy that they grew up in.
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"The identification of disease with national origin, ethnic group, or religion took on a more sinister character as one of a number of rationalizations for displacement, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide," he wrote.
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Both would have been better and more honest if their characters were just as openly mercenary as any male movie thief and didn't try to soften these women's crimes with tears and rationalizations.
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Chapel Hill shooting forces uncomfortable conversations among Reddit's atheists A question Krauss does not ask is if reasons may be found elsewhere, if hatred may find its rationalizations outside the language of God.
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But Trump has no particular ideological fixed points, and has time and again showed his willingness to be creative and make up new policy positions or rationalizations for old ones on the fly.
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One could easily imagine, if something like this were to come to pass, justifications or rationalizations made for the use of violence to defend the ruling white majority against an ascendant coalition of minorities.
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"The Government is using the same rationalizations once weaponized against African Americans seeking to serve their country to justify banning transgender Americans from service," the brief filed by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund states.
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These rationalizations can be tied to psychological research, says Alice Atkin, a PhD student at the University of Alberta's Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute who is studying video game players and their personality types.
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It's what I think about when I go over the excuses and rationalizations that have kept me largely silent on one of the great moral challenges of our time: the crisis in Israel-Palestine.
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Especially for those of us who are natural "fixers," the urge to intervene and help a child avoid failure can be a potent force to reckon it, and one that comes with plenty of rationalizations.
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In a series of chapters centered on different individuals who are part of this rarefied class, Giridharadas exposes the rationalizations of the 0.001 percent who actually believe they are making the world a better place.
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I'm downright giddy to read the rationalizations for the GOP's narrow win in a district where Democrats have not even bothered to field a candidate in recent years because they judged their chances to be so dim.
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He uses the tools of the novel to anatomize the various psychological mechanisms and sociopolitical rationalizations that enabled intelligent, generally well-meaning and well-informed individuals to justify or ignore what was right in front of them.
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"The slipshod rationalizations thinly disguising an underlying desire to remove a strong enforcer surely do not justify making him the first official ever to be removed by a president for cause," wrote Brian Simmonds Marshall and Veronica Meffe.
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Leading the Smiths in the 1980s, and then in a solo career that has extended to 11 albums, Morrissey has targeted himself — his shortcomings, his rationalizations, his yearnings, his peevishness — just as often as he has savaged others.
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None of those rationalizations change the fact that Biden has considerably less money to spend in the final 100 days before people start voting that any of his top rivals -- including Sanders, Warren and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
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"Hillary's being supported by the father of a jihadist is treated like back-page stuff, presented amid florid excuses and rationalizations," she says, adding, "It was a staffer's mistake, an "unforced error," and Clinton's opponents are "leaping on it.
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"Instinct over expertise: "The organization ... needed a set of internal rationalizations that would allow it to trust a man who, while he knew little, was entirely confident of his own gut instincts and reflexive opinions, however frequently they might change.
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The only difference is that those of us who are more engaged can invent better rationalizations for why we do or don't believe that if we're going to burn up a planet, we ought to pick one we don't live on.
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A plurality of parents in the survey said that they only focused on general negatives of marijuana when discussing admitted drug use with their children, rather than addressing the specific, misguided rationalizations that their children use to justify their marijuana abuse.
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The full trappings of white male privilege afford him the undying rationalizations of esteemed Republican men and women (many with daughters), and a mainstream media complex craving for an interview and ratings fix like a heroin addict cooking a spoon.
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I've argued that the defenses of her language on the left, even from some Jewish leftists, bear a worrying similarity to the rationalizations used to hide the cancerous growth of anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party under leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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The human, all too human, neuroses laid bare in Monzó's pithy stories can be discomfiting to read for the nerves they strike — the lies we tell to get by, the rationalizations and hypocrisies, the forbidden thoughts, the randomness of events.
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The coach sends in one of the brain's quarterbacks, the anterior cingulate, which scans the field and makes the call to save the president's most loyal followers from that blitz of negative emotion, and the brain begins the search for rationalizations.
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Deep down, beyond the usual rationalizations about science or utopian notions of new worlds, the average person's interest in space ventures comes down to whether they feel some level of personal engagement — something that allows for some vicarious interaction or thrill.
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We're used to seeing the workplace portrayed on television (workplace-set shows are one of the basic archetypes of both dramas and sitcoms), but it's so rare that we see the intricacies of a termination — the warnings, the rationalizations, and the actual conversation.
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The novel's "intimidating illumination" of the lecherous, aging David Kepesh is too repellent for him fully to embrace, as it seems to be for Roth himself, who, Amis writes, "does not equip Kepesh with moral clarity" but with "rationalizations" and "suffering" instead.
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President Trump's anti-immigrant and anti-refugee policies have closed the door to the United States, and Europe's fears of a Muslim invasion reaching back to the days of the Ottoman Empire remain, even if glossed over with more politically correct rationalizations.
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Full of shoddy rationalizations and evasions, it purported to show that America's intelligence community failed to use "proper analytic tradecraft" in concluding that Russia wanted to help elect Donald Trump, and that there is no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
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By internalizing these debates, Mr. Barnes avoids the polarized either-or, black-or-white characterizations of Shostakovich as noble dissident or spineless government patsy, but he also traps us inside the composer's mind, where we soon tire of the narcissistic musings and self-pitying rationalizations.
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Disease pathogenesis: Seventeen prior essays—dating back to May—have explored how rapidly and methodically the underlying malignancy has metastasized globally, the most recent of which have elucidated the legal underpinnings of this effort and the flimsy rationalizations for procrastination that have been diagnosed.
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No one who saw a twitchy, young Goldblum blabbering about rationalizations in The Big Chill would've said that 30 years later, the guy would age into such a stunning specimen that people would literally erect statues in his honor, and yet, here we are.
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CARYN GANZ A chronicle of multiple romances and/or obsessions, from childhood crush to high-school infatuation to post-breakup rationalizations, "Never (Let You Go)" is two or three songs in five minutes by Deanté Hitchcock, an Atlanta rapper who sometimes slips into singing.
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There could be many explanations and rationalizations for this - among them that the ECB is going to keep the program going for longer than expected - but the reality may simply be that euro zone bond markets are no longer scared of the dreaded T-word, tapering.
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And despite the laughable rationalizations now being peddled by administration apologists, Mr. Brennan's spanking is just the latest display of what has become standard operating procedure for this president: using the official levers of government to punish critics and to encourage other detractors to sit down and shut up.
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" Except that the winding trail of Tallent's memoir, replete with quotes from Freud and run-on sentences that no fifth-grade teacher would allow, stunningly demonstrates that she no longer believes her own rationalizations: "Stories thrive," she observes almost as an aside, "on exactly those risks perfectionism forecloses.
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And so he runs with whatever conclusions are useful for him in the moment, only to come up with rationalizations for them when he's pressed on his flimsy reasoning — even if it means describing someone as a "respected pundit" when they're best known to the general public for cracking offensive jokes.
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Sacramento Kings For all the reasonable rationalizations that can be offered for the Kings' plight, given their string of injuries (including health setbacks for De'Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley) and the effects of an energy-sapping October trip to India, no one in Sacramento wants to hear any of that.
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"For the three decades I've been an advocate, there has always been a segment of vegans who have built vast and elaborate rationalizations for basing their 'activism' on screaming and hatred (and attacking anyone who is not sufficiently pure and dogmatic)," writes Matt Ball of the One Step for Animals.
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The school also started pushing some ad-hoc rationalizations of the librarian turning into a football fan while living in a nursing home the last year-and-a-half of his life—which seems like a craven reasoning you create to prop up an argument you probably know doesn't have much foundation.
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" The senator said the era for global success of democracy has shifted to "a time in which the seductions of authoritarian rule find favor with many; when self-interested leadership excuses naked aggression with weak rationalizations; when ethnic grievances haunt the old and religious fanaticism fires the minds of the misguided young.
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So long as Republicans and conservatives are unwilling to recognize this error — to reckon with the devil's bargain they made decades ago, and the rationalizations they've deployed to justify it — they will be unable to prevent figures like Trump and Carlson from becoming a defining element of the conservative movement and Republican Party.
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In all of the rationalizations and justifications to explain away the behavior of these men, to avoid saying what they really mean—that winning at sports is more important than the safety and well-being and humanity of women—the one thing that is always missing is any discussion of the victim in these cases.
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America has led the way in responding to anti-Semitism in the 21st century: Pressuring the OSCE to organize conferences on anti-Semitism in Europe; working with the international community to promote Holocaust education; and speaking out against violence toward Jews and refused to accept rationalizations that it was all about the Middle East conflict and not Jew-hatred.
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Over the past decade, no comic had a greater impact on me than Louis C.K. While my relationship with his old work has changed — I can't laugh at his rape jokes anymore, and the story lines on his FX show that touched on assault now seem like obscene rationalizations — I still regularly think about Louis C.K. punch lines and chuckle.
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Over the past decade, no comic had a greater impact on me than Louis C.K. While my relationship with his old work has changed — I can't laugh at his rape jokes anymore, and the story lines on his FX show that touched on assault now seem like obscene rationalizations — I still regularly think about Louis C.K. punch lines and chuckle.
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This same attitude makes engineers discount the importance of sales; makes Hacker News commenters contemptuously dismiss the notion that their self-proclaimed hyper-rational arguments might actually be skewed rationalizations of their own emotional bias; and makes the tech world assume that better technology automatically makes the world better, and if it isn't measurably better yet, well, that means we just need even better tech yet.
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Crosscheck is slowly being admitted into the canon of grasping rationalizations for why Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE beat Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE in 2016.
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We need to empower voting in the United States and expand it, and we need to fight what is, I think, the most cynical dimension of the era of zero-sum politics and defection from democratic norms that we have entered, which is voter suppression, which one party is doing in a number of different states and jurisdictions with all sorts of rationalizations that they offer about efficiency and cause and cheating and so on, but which they know in their hearts and probably in their private deliberations — and we can know from their actions — has the explicit and probably sole purpose of preventing minority voters from voting.
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