| I discarded that idea because it seemed too much like a cop-out. |
| It can become a cop-out, a way of escaping the need to act, to act wisely and vigorously. |
| I certainly don't think of it as a cop-out to excuse oneself from helping others. |
| And another thing, calling a film pretentious is the biggest cop-out. |
| It is the greatest cop-out in the world for airlines to say to passengers that the delay is caused by air traffic. |
| It's a cop-out, of course, to avoid the difficulty of finding a small enough child actor to look two-and-a-bit years old but behave well on stage. |
