| The film absolves us of any obligation to remember the disasters that followed. |
| This refusal to recognise that authority gives young people an excuse that absolves them for their behaviour. |
| By concentrating all evil in the oppressors, it absolves the victims from examining their own failings. |
| The author hereby absolves herself of all knowledge, responsibility and blame. |
| The priest does come, and absolves the ghost's sins, after which it can rest. |
| Conveniently for him, it absolves journalists from having any responsibility for getting their facts straight in the first place. |
