Rationalizations

He could easily have found a hundred rationalizations for marrying this girl.

The excuses and rationalizations that we make for people who have injured us emotionally and even physically can go on and on — sometimes for a lifetime.

Their clever justifications and legal rationalizations read like a form of self-regard that’s appalling in the face of a MAGA takeover.

The difficulty we face can be explained when we grasp the nature of whiteness in a Freudian way, as one of the “complex rationalizations” that allows us to manage the “flood of instincts, deep-seated memories,” etc., emanating from the unconscious.

The time for excuses and convenient rationalizations for inaction has passed.

Reject their twisted and absurd rationalizations for why kids must die at the hands of mass shooters.

Wang’s initial hissy-fit-driven move to Brooklyn inspired all sorts of rationalizations of how it was a savvy business decision—Brooklyn is full of people!

I have had a number of conversations, most recently with a Mormon when we were both at the hardware store, and have listened to the most amazing rationalizations.

Gradually, events combine to strip Keller of his rationalizations.

It is an episodic account of her rationalizations to prove she is free, even though she is tethered at the end of her pimp's short leash.

Pasternak explained that neither character begins as a murderer, but becomes one by a set of faulty rationalizations and a belief that they are above the law.

Tertullian's intended readership was more likely to have been Christians whose faith was reinforced by Tertullian's defenses of faith against rationalizations.