Sentences with phrase «alibis for»

But whatever the problems between the core and the periphery of this show may be, Christov - Bakargiev seems to have anticipated and created alibis for them all.

It is a tremendous sensory experience, but at the risk of heresy, I have to confess to finding something a bit precious in its swooniness, a tonal register that is detectable despite, or because of, the periodic stabs of unsentimentality and brutality that function as alibis for the charge of escapism.

Labour figures argue that all the above — the parliamentary arithmetic, the market warnings, the Prime Minister being «Gordon - ish» — are mere alibis for the Lib Dems, who want to pretend that they had no choice but to get into bed with the Tories.

Kennedy Agyapong, for instance, always comes up with a number of funny alibis for sneaking out of the country in post-election times in spite of all his pre-election foolhardy and fiery political outbursts.

In the first serious confrontation for 3 - year - old trotters, the favorite had alibis for his loss, and the winner's time established his credentials for the Hambletonian

Details of the plot against Hitler were worked out minutely for each person to have alibis for his actions.

When you look at what's possible by taking the sunny side of the street, it's hard to think of cynicism as anything other than an alibi for being out of ideas.

Looking back at my ambition to become a lawyer, it looks less like a plan for the future and more like an alibi for the present.

By the end of the evening one thing was clear — Giuliani had concocted such a shifting, nebulous alibi for Trump that it didn't even hold up to a few hours of media scrutiny let alone a future interview with a Federal prosecutor.

Don't be judgmental can be an alibi for moral laziness, but it can also stem from an impulse that is sound.

The good thing is that extra peaches are not a problem once you get the hang of this salad.And if you still have some peaches left over, bake a pie, make this fantastic mini peaches and cream empanadas you have a good alibi for as long those peach baskets last you....

These pairings are so over-the-top you'll need to find an alibi for your diet.

What this really represents, as outlined in a recent issue of the New York Times, amounts to a phony alibi for breaking a vow made to all combat veterans, who've literally put their lives at risk for our nation, that no matter the cost, funds needed to treat their resultant disabilities would be found and allocated, to restore their limbs and lives to reasonable levels of independence.

«I'm now used to Conservatives, they certainly did it for five years, using me as an alibi for awkward decisions that they have to face within their own party and I've no doubt that this just fell into that same category.»

Thus, Corbyn's comments brought criticism from unprecedented quarters - Novara, the heavily pro-Corbyn media site, broadcast a show where three of the four guests criticised his remarks; foreign policy writer David Wearing warned that «casting around for a socialist alibi for deferring to anti-immigration sentiment is entirely the wrong approach»; journalist Rachel Shabi (somewhat older than the 2010 generation) criticised his «divisive» rhetoric.

The former foreign secretary said Europe «can not be the alibi for the collapse of our economy» over the last 18 months.

«However, this is certainly a poorly contrived alibi for his ineptitude and apparent low capacity for the serious business of

But casting around for a socialist alibi for deferring to anti-immigration sentiment is entirely the wrong approach.

«However, this is certainly a poorly contrived alibi for his ineptitude and apparent low capacity for the serious business of governance.»

Having similar bucket list experiences is a natural alibi for people to connect over.

The question for Moll is whether or not she'll help Pascal, who insists he's innocent but doesn't have an alibi for the night of the girl's disappearance, as the evidence keeps stacking against him.

White Bird in a Blizzard is an alibi for Mr. Araki to flex his considerable muscle as a visual artist, using a palette that ranges from the blissful to the grotesque, and an atmospheric score by those eminences of the ambient, Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie.

She does go to the dark side, but she's very much driving herself there — on a journey which begins with faking an alibi for Pascal for the night of the most recent murder.

-- tale gets, the film needed some meaningful alibi for wanting to tell it at all.

And he insists on a six - figure retainer for what he reasonably expects to be an open and shut case, given how some surveillance tapes corroborates Louis» alibi for the night in question.

Later in the movie, he provides an alibi for her in exchange for Mildred's promise to go on a date with him, an event that turns into a spectacle of humiliation when Mildred's ex-husband Charlie (John Hawkes) mocks her for being seen with James.

After a chance meeting with a tolerant and merciful priest who gifts Valjean silver from the church and an alibi for the police, see's Valjean on a path to redemption.

Towards the end, Mildred consents to a date with James (Peter Dinklage), a car salesman who has provided Mildred with an alibi for arson and attempted murder for no other reason than that James is lonesome and has a thing for her.

He has been in trouble with the law before; he has a gun; we know that he is a hunter; he doesn't have an alibi for the night on which the last victim went missing.

Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband's murder.

But «zen - like» is a phrase best kept at arm's length; too often it is employed as an alibi for art of undernourished means and overblown pretensions.

One begins to wonder if such critical elucidation isn't intended to provide an alibi for paintings in need of specificity and rigor — in short, oomph.

The composer is so overexposed, his oeuvre and ideas so thoroughly surveyed, it's almost impossible to imagine being surprised by either new work, or an exhibition that doesn't banally wheel out the same aleatoric alibi for some formless, a-curatorial display.

Casting his own artistic practice in the harsh light of circumspection, he enumerates the guilty pleasures associated with his craft — painting's ardour, its penchant for grandeur, beauty and emotion — and so finds an alibi for his art.

But in the political sphere, uncertainty has been harnessed as an alibi for denial and inaction.

Despite what politicians may say publicly to the contrary to give themselves an alibi for not doing enough of the right things, they don't really think that the size of their deficits is that big a problem.

This will generally mean people who had an alibi for the time of the crime, whether it was presented at trial or not.

It's also setting up the ubiquitous and convenient alibi for the obvious cause of this problem, that «It's the mother's fault.»

«Bipartisanship can not mean an agreement to do nothing, it can not be used as an alibi for the lowest common denominator», he said.

This is political rhetoric, setting out an alibi for the common situation in which the children in fact remain miserable flip - flopping back and forth and act that out, and where children's relationships with their primary parent have been disrupted and begin to suffer.

Psychologists believe that these individuals commit «reverse stalking» in order to have an alibi for their own harassing behaviors and to try and maintain a relationship with the true victims by getting their sympathy.3

Not exact matches

In court today Force apologized for his behavior and to his family members saying, «I'm sorry, I lost it, and I don't understand a lot of it,» clinging to his insane alibi.

Yet, it prevents him from using this as an alibi by adding that the factor which keeps the disease from being controlled is «alcoholic thinking» — selfishness, fear, resentment, lack of humility — matters for which the alcoholic is responsible.

Generally speaking, Daniel Dennett's method in all his books is too often reminiscent of the forensic technique employed by the Snark, in the Barrister's dream, to defend a pig charged with abandoning its sty: The Snark admits the desertion but then immediately claims this as proof of the pig's alibi (for the creature was obviously absent from the scene of the crime at the time of its commission).

The attempt to blame society, under whatever form of government, party rule, or social pattern, for the ills that afflict us is one of the most absurd attempts at alibi - ing oneself out of difficulties that the ingenious and sinful mind of man has ever devised.

By showing understanding of how difficult it is for the alcoholic to let go of his alibis, the counselor may help him to do so.

The counselor may describe for him how his alibi system functions 14 and why he feels he must defend his need to drink.

At the age of thirty - eight and one - half, Xs» alibi or rationalization system, by which he has for so long defended his ego, begins to crumble.

THE HON. H. D. BUTTERFIELD Managing director Bank of Butterfield The alibi that I have to use as an excuse for my complete inability to hit the ball the way I used to.

It's obvious you are a theo apologist and his game will forever speak for itself, you can infuse whatever you like, Theo does not have the attribute of a great striker and he will only give you high work rate and flashes of brilliance and not the real deal alibi a deadly striker.