Sentences with phrase «somehow lets them off the hook»

They have invented this thing they call «evangelism», which somehow lets them off the hook for loving people, especially those they don't know, the unlovely, the poor, the stinky.

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ScottK: So what you are saying is that since the Jews prohibited their people from following the tradition of the Ammonites (burning their children as a sacrifice to their god Molech) that somehow lets people like Bin Laden off the hook for killing, burning and maiming thousands of innocent people?

However, there's a derivative issue — many students have been convinced that, if learning isn't accompanied by the psychological stress of an exam, then they're somehow «let off the hook» and can devalue the content.