His transparent self-justification was unacceptable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Now he was even sicker of Earth's self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
He is a master of rationalization and self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Dershowitz: Legitimating Bigotry: The Legacy of Richard Goldstone] Reference
The public attempts at self-justification, however, bordered on farce. From Wordnik.com. [The Nanny Spin Wars] Reference
He made a face, clearly hating the self-justification in his own voice. From Wordnik.com. [Tell No One]
Rather, it's likely to dig them in deeper into their self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Wells: Hard Truths and the Teachable Moment: The Gates-Crowley Saga] Reference
Meanwhile every hit he gleans will simply encourage his self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bronstein: Newsom's YouTube-athon: A One-Man Show, Hold Your Applause] Reference
He may no longer be concerned with any cause except one -- self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Max Blumenthal: The Demons of David Horowitz] Reference
He remembered with involuntary self-justification how distinctly she had insisted upon. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
"I came in with your brother, as I often do," he answered coldly, in self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
The world still looks to the United States, whether for guidance or for self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Leslie Harris and John Morris: We've Met the Enemy and it is the Messenger] Reference
The tales in "Second Opinions" sometimes veer toward score settling and self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Respect A Patient's Intuitions] Reference
A never-ending cycle of hatred thinly disguised by the day's most recent self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Gaza Invasion Protesters; Don't Feed the Beast-- Let's start talking about smart protest."] Reference
But it could be that all of that careful reasoning is just after-the-fact self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Whiny, insecure children tend to become conservatives in adulthood, study suggests] Reference
It is that time in the political cycle when revenge and self-justification come thick and fast. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted By ‘Courage’] Reference
Don't get me wrong; I will watch a game on FOX, but it requires considerable self-justification. From Wordnik.com. ["Balls of Liberty"] Reference
What sets it apart from memoirs is that there is no attempt at exaggeration or self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [What Gordon told Hugo] Reference
S.anley S. Arkin, said the S.C complaint "smacks of impulsiveness and efforts at self-justification.". From Wordnik.com. [SEC Files Fraud Charges Against Cohmad, Co-Founder in Madoff Case] Reference
In the light of that radiance, you can't keep up the pretence of self-justification and self-protection. From Wordnik.com. ['What Difference Does it Make?' - The Gospel in Contemporary Culture] Reference
Ergo, we have developed a political class who rule by narratives of denial and shallow self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you calling a moonbat, anyway?] Reference
The self-justification she puts forward for her errors is sometimes sophistical, but not for that insincere. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
The arrogance, sense of entitlement, and self-justification just because you can jump to the front of the line. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Nancy Snyderman: Planes, Vaccines, and No EQ] Reference
The problem with your position is that it usually ends up being nothing but self-justification for doing nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Obama: Sticking it to the Working Stiffs] Reference
It's easy to get caught in the self-justification trap, especially when one is accused of "validating" the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney's Pelosi Ploy] Reference
It took a few days of vain and tortuous self-justification for them to realise that they were milking a dry udder. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
But other providing a valuable forum for self-justification, I don't understand what the op-ed page gains with Yoo. From Wordnik.com. [John McQuaid: The Philadelphia Inquirer and John Yoo] Reference
Silence is one of the deepest disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification. From Wordnik.com. [Faith, hope, and love] Reference
After an avalanche of serious criticism (and not just from Obama supporters), all GS can offer is self-justification?. From Wordnik.com. [George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate] Reference
Attempts at self-justification by aides, not to mention exercises in self-importance, fall into this category as well. From Wordnik.com. ['Only Kidding'] Reference
The words of self-justification and of reproach toward him were at her lips, ready to break forth in unaccustomed force. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It makes it a straight, if unspoken, race fight with all the self-justification any white man needs for not voting for him. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
"It was so ordered by the Republic," she began in a tone of self-justification; then stopped with a sudden perception of his point. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
Another reason could be self-justification, which may well be one of the few high growth areas created by the current administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Continuing Rule Of Fear In Washington] Reference
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