In their search for some kind of self-justification, for a sense of moral purpose, Western elites turned to the international arena. |
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The text is at once self-justification and foamy-mouthed invective against the world. |
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Their real skills are in playing politics, going to meetings, wandering around giving orders, self-justification and backstabbing. |
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With two complicit systems of self-justification and self-fulfilling incomprehension reinforcing the divide, is there any way forward? |
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The remainder is blighted by alternating self-flagellation, self-justification and unwarranted extrapolation. |
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Fortunately for my peace of mind, which you might call self-justification, satisfied reactions to reviews vastly outnumber the rest. |
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The battle scenes are suitably bloodthirsty and chaotic, but they are balanced by scenes of self-justification and soul-searching. |
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At once foggy and focused, the media lexicon of self-justification rolls on. |
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Unfortunately, the proposed code appears to be little more than another exercise in self-justification by the commission. |
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Few sportsmen have ever been so consumed by preoccupations with image, publicity and puerile self-justification. |
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It can be legitimate to write the brief after the concept has emerged, but there is danger of self-justification narrowing the vision. |
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As a consequence, American journalism makes extravagant gestures of self-justification. |
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The role of Quentin, garrulously veering from self-pity to self-justification, is a difficult one. |
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Do you mean that some coaches indulge in self-justification? |
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Doubtless, such differences may be rooted in self-justification. |
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The group's self-justification became even more pronounced when we suggested that this was surprising given the level of talent of each member of the band. |
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Even if they wrote their thoughts down in their memoirs, you don't know if these were just self-serving lies made up as post facto self-justification for a place in history. |
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He wrote a long and detailed account of Nelson's death, partly in self-justification, to say he did everything he could to save the country's number one hero. |
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These events are accompanied by sophisticated attempts at self-justification. |
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We would, of course, have had to leave aside a lot of the self-justification that we all tend to engage in on all sides. |
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The challenge is to deal with so many differing expectations without being crushed by the burden of self-justification. |
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And that mistake, that self-justification in their errors, is what seems to separate you from what it is. |
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Didn't she feel like storming the barricades in a fit of enraged self-justification? |
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It is the picaresque story of an Irish adventurer who unconsciously reveals his villainy while attempting self-justification. |
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Ironically, the same psychological crutch of self-justification can then help in these situations. |
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They got that, but they got it colored by a distancing, third-person narrative and bouts of self-justification. |
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The story is part love story, part comedy of self-justification, and part a chronicle of an appalling crime. |
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While compassion makes us feel the richer for our magnanimity, justice stirs up far more complex emotions of self-justification and equivocation. |
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Refusal of recognition and negative images of the Other evolve in the cultural domain, where they find both self-justification and their most radical forms of expression. |
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In fact, there was perceived to be such a threat in the form of the Cold War attitudes in the West, which made the KGB's self-justification easier. |
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This tendency is especially expressed when judging people and their intentions. We engage in this as a form of self-justification or to distance ourselves from real problems or from what is really happening. |
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Former President Clinton's collection is an exercise in self-justification and self-glorification. |
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The tensional character of the Scriptures ought to prevent its use ideologically or for self-justification. |
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Their grudges, their grievances, their self-justification. |
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That intensely personal motive for self-justification is gone. |
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I think he is absolutely correct. After being only interested in power and about their own self-justification, the Liberal Party members did nothing in the area of product safety and consumer safety for 13 long years. |
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They naturally have different information needs and requirements to accommodate but they are essentially working towards the same goal and this appears to have been lost in the rush for self-justification or ego management. |
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Juan's enforced cross-dressing seems to be Byron's self-justification for his harshly reviewed collections of juvenile poetry in the style of the Della Cruscans. |
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In contexts where people try to justify their own words and deeds, mission proclaims the message that there is no need for self-justification, for it is God alone who justifies. |
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It has no room for sophistry or self-justification, or for what you can get away with without getting caught. |
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To say it is a question of their just desserts in self-justification is for them to be doing the one fatal thing that brings down governments time after time and that is discounting the Canadian public. |
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Mixing reminiscence, self-justification and philosophical musings, Max Aue describes his work with a German death squad during the invasion of the Soviet Union. |
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The danger is that remembrance is used for self-righteousness, self-justification, point-scoring and what-about-ery. |
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It's so he can fly off in a swirl of self-justification to Um-beseir and his huge bed and his Russian hotsy-totsies. |
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They give the impression of a war happy trio, anxious to pull the trigger at all costs, looking for the excuse and the self-justification to let the B-52 bombers and the small bombs loose. |
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