Once any political movement wins, it becomes self-justifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Is the Fate of Democracy in Sarah Palin's Hands?] Reference

Do they "just believe high-quality, self-justifying blarney?".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Immoral Hazard"] Reference

The 'state' becomes 'absolute' and absurdly self-justifying '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush's Conspiracy to Create an American Police State: Part I, Police States Begin With False Flag Attacks] Reference

Another self-justifying volume of lies, following Blunkett's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alastair Campbell's Diaries Out in June] Reference

What self-justifying minds have the meekest of these women! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

He is in the other thread pontificating and self-justifying ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Steele Claims He ‘Wasn’t Chairman Of The Party’ At The Time Ensign’s Sex Scandal ‘Took Place’] Reference

And yeah, Polly Walker starkers is self-justifying, contextwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [HBO's Rome] Reference

However self-justifying the description may be, it is not entirely wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of War] Reference

Second, it is a self-justifying pronouncement warranting no corroboration.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist] Reference

Stanford has a digital humanities project that is awesome and self-justifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 things make a post (google reader round-up light)] Reference

I'm not going to post the usual self-justifying "apology" for dropping people.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 16th, 2005] Reference

Or what if the CIA had been run by a secretive self-justifying neurotic like J.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It would be absurd to say that you can’t stick something under the fingernails, smack them in the face."] Reference

Most of the pieces were confrontational, self-justifying and unleavened by humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [In concert: The Roots and Mambo Sauce draft "American Playlist" at Kennedy Center] Reference

Our youth doesn't need to see any more of this morally bankrupt, self-justifying spectacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tina Wells: What John Edward's Actions Says to Today's Teens] Reference

The woman eyes you with the most piquant, self-justifying sneer possible; while all her little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827] Reference

Well, from your quote I would then assume that Holmes statement at the top was simply self-justifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

The presentation of facts is self-justifying only when the facts are developed in their true proportion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

For traditional environmentalists, a cleaner environment was self-justifying and seen as a goal or an end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Public Support for Sustainability] Reference

They either refuse to speak to Peretz or issue bland self-justifying statements that ignore all specifics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Alterman: Maybe You're a Cheat, Maybe You're a Liar] Reference

Anything he said would sound defensive or self-justifying, and neither would do him any good in Liana's eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harp of Imach Thyssel]

And this latest round of self-justifying blather makes his "historic" speech about race look like another ploy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought"] Reference

The equivocal, grudging and self-justifying tone of yesterday's statements suggests it will be an uphill struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Hayward's exit is not enough - BP needs root-and-branch reforms] Reference

Enough of your 90's style self-justifying self-defeatism by Michael Lubin on Saturday, Apr 19, 2008 at 2: 16: 22 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Slams "Activist Base of the Democratic Party"--Private Remarks Reveal Contempt for Dems] Reference

We sometimes begin to think that America is doomed to "researcher's" self-justifying type of ignorance forever more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Candidate For RNC Chair Sends Out CD With Song Called "Barack, The Magic Negro"] Reference

Hence, within their warped, self-justifying belief systems, their actions, however mercenary, become acts of altruism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democratic Party and the Infantile Omnipotence of The Ruling Class] Reference

What this produces is a self-justifying set of rules and practices, reinforced by a growing insensitivity to appearances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welfare For Capitalists] Reference

Most signally, though, a book that's written with a real loathing of espionage: self-justifying, ruthless and corrupting.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spy by Nature: Summary and book reviews of A Spy by Nature by Charles Cumming.] Reference

It was a devastating appraisal of the self-justifying writings that had dominated the literature for nearly half a century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Straits of Disaster] Reference

He understands that evil exists in the world and he knows how to portray it in all its self-justifying, self-pitying luxuriance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review)] Reference

For slow learners: A willingness to go on radio or television and mouth self-justifying platitudes does not count as repentance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Tebbit Refuses to Forgive Brighton Bomber] Reference

Another is this: for all of the self-justifying PR bluster that GwB got from them, the words "War on Terror" shall be laid to rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Obama: Don't close Guantanamo!] Reference

In our wayward cause and effect philosophy, blaming one of these two groups would certainly feed our self-justifying apathetic impulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byron Williams: While California Slept] Reference

I don't like the way Campbell writes - too wordy and rambling, and reading his blog, I can almost hear his whiny, self-justifying voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alastair Campbell Has a Blog] Reference

Dangerous because it is so lazily self-justifying and self-deluding: the only thing we could possibly be doing wrong is being so excellent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush's Lost Year] Reference

So the next time you hear some self-justifying spin from Press TV, remember what its own employees think - that Ahmadinejad is the good guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press TV and me] Reference

He could hear the self-justifying note in his voice, the plea for her to understand why he did not know what had happened to her sons, but –.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]