| 单词 | self-justification |
| 例句 | ‘Elitist’ is an overused word, tinged with resentment, but in describing serialist self-justification of the twentieth century it is spot on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “But I did get to speak to him,” the chaplain argued in a plaintive tone of self-justification. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Much of Parade's End takes place within the heads of its characters: in memory and anticipation, reflection, misunderstanding and self-justification. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z All of the men are White, and their reasons for hiding their faces are “denial, shame, fear or self-justification,” according to the gallery’s statement. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Repentance is made of words, and words for Walt have been abused to the point of disembodiment — they have, for so long, been the currency for his self-justification. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z She does try to pre-empt unsympathetic reader reactions, but also pulls off the tricky balancing act of avoiding either self-justification or self-castigation. A Habitual Liar Almost Conned Abby Ellin Into Marrying Him. Instead, He Gave Her the Idea for a Book. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The peppy new-wave tune “Walk of Shame” plunges into a jumble of emotions — embarrassment, regret, self-justification — on the morning after a drunken hookup. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z Jack’s confessional narration also has the air of a self-justification, which he delivers in the form of his philosophical discourses on aesthetics. Review: Lars Von Trier’s Empty, Repugnant Provocations “The House That Jack Built” 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But there also is an implicit connection of the worst of this work — the least critical, most vapid and fully co-opted — to the contemporary art market in a way that feels like self-justification. Review | The 1980s New York art world was cynical and crass. Should we be honoring it? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z I think we're meant to see him as utterly alone, lost in his rage and self-justification. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Those few seconds of front and wit are far more memorable than much of the synth-pop self-justification displayed tonight. Mark Ronson and the Business Intl 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z Mann spent the bulk of the war years stewing over this offense and composing an extended self-justification, “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man,” which he completed just in time for the armistice. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z CNN backed up Cuomo, too, stating that he had been “verbally attacked with the use of an ethnic slur,” which prompted Trump, Jr., to call Cuomo’s self-justification an “excuse just as fake as his news.” Respect for Fredo, a Character Who Is So Much More Than a Political Insult 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Majumdar’s outrage is matched only by her sympathy for these ordinary people so deft in the practice of self-justification. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Imagine a snow cone that’s part obsession, part self-justification, part masculine fragility, sweetened with self-pity and sweat, and you’re mostly there. Review: In ‘Islander,’ the Puck Stops Here 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Alas, all attempts to normalise Jackson are derailed by the arrival of Breaking News, a mind-boggling bit of self-justification with a peculiar muffled vocal. Michael Jackson: Michael - review 2010-12-09T15:29:00Z "Self-congratulation, self-justification, self-pity and plain old bitterness don't really make it as motors for good autobiographical prose," he notes, a little regretfully. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z You might say “The Mandrake” is a cautionary tale designed to remind you those who are adept at self-justification can talk their way in or out of anything. 'Mandrake' a puzzling departure for Red Orchid Theatre 2011-04-18T22:15:03Z It’s showing you its subject the way that he wants to present himself, and it has a definite thread of self-justification. Review: ‘Colin in Black & White’ Finds Kaepernick Before He Took a Knee 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Which, you have to admit, is some journey of self-justification for Sturges. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z They are also a garrulous couple, given to long spiels of self-justification and self-laceration. Review: A Put-Upon Nanny Erupts in Todd Solondz’s ‘Emma and Max’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z His true identity and self-justification for his villainy are buried within the picture’s Byzantine plot, which is rife with double-crosses and hidden agendas. ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Action, excitement at warp speed 2013-05-15T04:11:26Z Zimbardo did not make this movie and does not appear in it – but “The Stanford Prison Experiment” unmistakably bears his fingerprints, and contains elements of both mea culpa and self-justification. Inside “The Stanford Prison Experiment”: Six days in a fake prison, and how they changed the world 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z She never ignores their flaws, their perfectly human tendency toward self-justification, but she also captures their longing to be kind, to be just, to somehow behave well despite the contradictory desires of the heart. Review | An African American couple torn apart by the justice system 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Not that he regrets his actions — he has already moved far down the socio-path of self-justification. David Oyelowo mesmerizes in 'Nightingale' on HBO, but that only goes so far 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z He told himself that hyper-vigilance and steely self-control made him a better businessman – "but this is probably quite a self-justification." Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z At first glance, this appears to be an exceptionally eloquent version of Bernstein’s “reply to violence”—the self-justification of an aesthete who wishes to stay the course. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps there's a touch too much explanation, or self-justification, as he tells me about op-eds he's written about the arts and his speech in 2008 on the need for a media arts portal. Peter Bazalgette: 'Maybe I don't qualify as great or good' 2013-02-24T00:06:07Z “In the Blood” also has a touch of Brecht’s theater of alienation, with its use of projected titles and isolated monologues of self-justification. Review: ‘In the Blood’ and the Singular Talent of Suzan-Lori Parks 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Their debates on situational ethics and self-justification are effective precisely because of their broadness. A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Confronted by his wife’s hysterical outbursts, Hardy initially explains away his love poems to Gertie as mere literary constructs, but soon loses interest in self-justification. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Ultimately, though, the reader is left feeling that Gandhi’s own defenses of his behavior are riddled with self-justification, and Manu’s voice may never truly be heard. A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But that shift is no mere cynical self-justification; it’s built into the story. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z All of this is done in a vibrantly alive yet hushed voice that floats somewhere between willed stupidity and luminous knowledge, between self-communion and self-justification, between exhilaration and despair. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z Contrary to what these advocates of the confessional culture suggest, narcissism and self-justification don't lead to absolution. PR advice for Charlie Sheen and other celebrity dummies 2011-03-09T09:00:00Z But I’ll tell you this – he is dead on the money when it comes to channeling the utter lack of empathy and compassion, the creepy braggadocio, and the egocentric self-justification of a sex abuser. Inside the mind of a serial rapist 2012-07-27T20:00:00Z We watch him sparring, cajoling, arguing, digging ever deeper into the recesses of the rabbi’s memory and self-justification. ‘The Last of the Unjust,’ About a Jewish Camp Official 2014-01-24T19:52:42Z For “Fargo” the franchise, now into a fourth go-round after two seasons and a movie, the repetition of catastrophic human error serves as a kind of self-justification. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 3: The Mike Yanagita Effect 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z It had a lot of fantasy and self-justification in it. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Defensive and often pompous, they veer between self-justification and glum resignation. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z While Herschel isn’t really learning from each new mistake for much of the book, his interior searching gives Lipstein a chance to offer up thought-provoking commentary, even when it feels like self-justification. In a dark satirical novel, a callow Brooklyn tech bro atones by ... going vegan? 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z At other times, with its insider details and hints of self-justification, “Calamitous Affair” may principally appeal to those curious about Roth’s departure from Mosaic. Review | ‘My Calamitous Affair’ is a long-winded dramatic footnote 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The speech was full of emotion and self-justification, yet empty of information. Putin’s Victory Day speech passionate but empty 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z But his motives can also be gleaned in part from his book and his frequent essays and major speeches, all seething with resentment, propaganda and self-justification. Review | How to read Vladimir Putin 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Barr’s attempted self-justification would be funny if the consequences of his silence hadn’t been so dire. Opinion | Have you heard about how Bill Barr saved democracy? Let Bill Barr tell you. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Caleb narrates this novel in a voice that braids confession and self-justification into tight knots. Review | How to make it rich as a bad art friend 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z And there is a difference between getting a suspect to talk by treating him with dignity and appearing to sympathize with an alleged criminal’s self-justification. Opinion | Remember these words whenever anyone tells you policing is colorblind 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Like almost everything he would go on to write, it is a monologue of anxious self-justification in which the speaker keeps claiming she feels no need to justify herself. Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z In those societies, the self-justification of their dominant minorities concerned their physical, mental, or moral superiority and/or their special relationship to God or Gods. COVID-19 exposes the weakness of capitalism 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Isbell was eminently familiar with the self-justification that leads many artists to drink. 'No downside': Johnny Marr, Best Coast and Jason Isbell on how sobriety improves music 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The human capacity for self-delusion is exceeded only by the politician’s capacity for self-justification. Opinion | No, Susan Collins, Trump is never going to learn 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Solskjaer is by no means unique in using it as a stage for self-justification. Liverpool Races Away, Leaving United Grasping for Moral Victories 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z As word of Bevin’s self-justification circulated, medical and other experts lined up to state that Bevin’s science was all wrong. Kentucky ex-governor pardoned child rapist because victim's hymen was intact 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z What Markovits means is that merit is a self-justification in the same way that the divine right of kings was a self-justification. Is Meritocracy Making Everyone Miserable? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Any visible, vested interest in self-justification dooms this kind of writing from the start. Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian on the trouble with writing about sex 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z All three published lengthy memoirs explaining why they did and didn’t, do what they did and didn’t do – inevitably, with a degree of self-justification in each case. Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner: revisiting the 2008 financial crisis | Howard Davies 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The main obstacle to direct talks is Khamenei, he said; having the United States as an enemy has been a linchpin of the regime’s self-justification. John Bolton on the Warpath 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Shakespeare is neither firmly for or against Caesar: instead, he is interested in changing perceptions, the rhetorical means by which groups are persuaded to action, and their forms of self-justification. May as Polonius, Gove as Cassius: is Brexit a Shakespearean tragedy? 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, propaganda and self-justification runs strongly as a theme through much wartime and postwar literature—including in this magazine, which hewed to a standard U.S. interpretation of German behavior and “atrocities.” Armistice Day: November 11, 1918 to November 11, 2018 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z It is a combination of memoir, self-justification and inspirational guide to imagining a different world of racial politics and criminal justice. Review | A defense of Black Lives Matter from the activist in the blue vest 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z He insists on the ethical necessity of treating both men not as monsters, but as humans, as he confronts self-justification at its most irredeemable. Karl Ove Knausgaard: ‘I don’t know why more people don't read Mein Kampf’ 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z In a fever of self-justification, Shiv explains that love is ugly—it’s a con, gummed up with “fear and jealousy and revenge and control.” “Succession” ’s Satisfyingly Nasty Family Ties 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The moral imperative to admit your mistakes and change course subsides beneath a fog of self-justification. Why admitting you're wrong should be the new right 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z For anyone familiar with the excesses of fan culture, this self-justification sounds like more than just panicked denial. In 2018, let’s stop pretending abusive fans are ‘passionate’ 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Might seem bizarre, but there are believed to be numerous psychological mechanisms at work based around self-justification, sense of control, sunk costs, and so on. The neuroscience of no regrets: why people still support Brexit and Trump 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Fringe outfits such as the New IRA, responsible for several attacks since 2012, find self-justification in the violence of the state. Ripples from Catalan referendum could extend beyond Spain 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Such a system would introduce significant friction to the company’s self-service system, however, so in the grand tradition of self-justification, Zuckerberg has chosen to pass off expediency as principle. Russia's election ad campaign shows Facebook's biggest problem is Facebook 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z You can decide for yourself whom to respect — here and there self-reflection shades into self-justification. Trio of riot documentaries look back to 1992 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Clinton had “a kind of spiritual high-mindedness . . . a kind of fervor, and self-justification that God is on her side.” Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Since Emerson himself was perhaps the least consistent of writers, often saying one thing in one place and its opposite in another, the remark bears the unmistakable stamp of self-justification. Political Reporters’ Hobgoblin 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z When Clinton mouths the words “I am sorry” and surrounds them with a thick cloud of self-justification, we are convinced only that she regrets being caught. Hillary Clinton’s short-circuited apology 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z At each stage in the process, the irritation and desire for self-justification that so naturally well up in moments of conflict are dissipated and absorbed by the formulaic nature of the exchange. Marital Disputes: A Survival Guide 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z That this logic might be seen as self-justification for choosing yet another white male to occupy one of the highest offices in the land didn’t seem to occur to him. Senior Trump adviser: Donald won’t choose a female or minority VP candidate for fear of “pandering” 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In their tossed salad of situational ethics, the Republicans’ most contradictory and least conservative self-justification is: The court’s supposedly fragile legitimacy is endangered unless the electorate speaks before a vacancy is filled. Do Republicans really think Donald Trump will make a good Supreme Court choice? 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Drawing on a series of case studies, Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Weston identified a multistage process—grievance, self-justification, research, preparation—through which a “hunter” generally moves before committing an act of violence. Can We Stop Homegrown Terrorists? 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z An opposite, more plausible but overly cynical theory is: Confession as an apologia or self-justification, a strategic bid for sympathy and admiration Owning up to problems, faults and misdeeds as a way to win friends. Too much information? The writers who feel the need to reveal all 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z One lawyer accurately joked that the document is an exercise in self-justification “with a lawsuit attached.” Bill Gross, Honorary Millennial 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z "The credibility of his wording in relation to this apology is undermined by the incredibility of the self-justification we have heard," he told Daily Politics. John McDonnell sorry for IRA comment - BBC News 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z I can’t help feeling that at the heart of this debate is an element of self-justification. What’s the Point of Scoring Wines? 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z An infant Emperor Meiji was adopted as the new order’s figurehead and self-justification. 5 Myths About Emperor Hirohito 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Finally, though, free-floating resentment against Heller and other figures casts a shadow over everything, and scenes of special pleading and self-justification inflate the running time to no dramatic purpose. N.W.A film 'Straight Outta Compton' starts fast but runs out of gas 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Clearly, there’s some kind of nutty adolescent self-justification involved with that kind of cruelty. Jon Hamm was an awful frat guy. He could be a great anti-bullying advocate now. 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Joiner says murder-suicides, which he estimates claim the lives of 1,000 to 1,500 in the United States each year, are almost always the result of extensive rumination, planning and self-justification. Aggression, not just depression, led copilot to crash plane, experts say 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z It is a struggle not for self-explanation but for self-justification: I’m sorry this is happening but, really, they drove me to it. What Shakespeare Knew About Robert Durst 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who had reason to recognize the rage, shame, denial, and self-justification attendant upon acts of violence, could not finish “The Goshawk.” How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z At the heart of these is a process of discernment which helps the practitioner to strip away his layers of self-justification and self-delusion, and penetrate through to the inner core of his behaviour and motivation. The Crisis That Changed Pope Francis A few of the returning secretaries offered some self-justification for the history books. Dana Milbank: Secretaries Day at State Any gathering of economists since the financial crash has usually been an occasion for blinkered self-justification. Nobel-winning economists challenge conventional thinking on recovery 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z For, by doing so, they presumably point to some truth that we would rather not face; in this case, the limitless human resource, even in extremis, for self-justification and the normalization of the abnormal. What Shakespeare Knew About Robert Durst 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Sure to feed Armstrong’s Olympian capacity for self-justification is a recent ruling by a federal judge in Washington clearing the way for a $120 million whistle-blower lawsuit against him. Lance Armstrong Faces $120 Million Fraud Suit 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z At a time of public-spending cuts, its usual self-justification—that the BBC is good value because it does a lot—looks increasingly shaky. Slimming Auntie 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z This is clearly partly an exercise in self-justification on the part of file sharers; but it’s also down to his – literal and metaphorical – larger than life nature. Calling All Whistleblowers: Kim Dotcom Offers $5m Reward For Helpful Evidence 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z This is no ghosted part-work, overfilled with self-justification and interminable anecdotes of parties and tour drinking bouts, which so often are passed off as intimacy and self-revelation. John Crace surveys the past year's cricket books for Wisden 2013-04-11T07:00:02Z Rather than use the avian flu moratorium to seek advice, listen and foster debate, many influenza scientists engaged in an academic exercise of self-justification. H5N1 viral-engineering dangers will not go away 2013-03-27T18:20:05.420Z But the messianic grandiosity of his self-justification is a little disconcerting. Julian Assange: the fugitive 2012-12-07T22:58:00Z But beneath Mr. Hill’s surface charm and ready self-justification lay a lifelong addiction to drugs and alcohol and, family members have said, a flash-flood propensity for violence. Henry Hill, Mobster of ‘Goodfellas,’ Dies at 69 2012-06-14T00:18:19Z The violence is one thing, but it is made even more unappealing by the fact that his default setting is self-justification and denial. Joey Barton's latest act of violence proves he is no renaissance man 2012-05-19T21:50:01Z The disaster had cut him to the heart, yet, in his pride, he would not speak a word of self-justification. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z If I am striving to tread the way trodden by Mary and the Saints, I shall do well to let self-justification alone. Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady 2012-02-25T03:00:09.890Z Wordsworth set the example of such painstaking self-justification. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z He went off into by-paths of explanation, of self-justification, of appeal. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z When pressed with such appalling difficulties as these, the Necessitarian falls back, in self-justification, upon the reason why the sinner cannot be holy. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z The boy's bitter attempt at self-justification was checked by his mature friend. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z There had been something almost attractive in the curt directness of speech and manner that had seemed to repudiate the necessity for self-justification. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Ought I to have allowed myself to be crushed without attempting self-justification? Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z She moved to his side, laid her hand on his shoulder for a moment, and said, with an ineffable air of self-justification, "He is not ashamed of the tea-room." A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z I tasted it just before you arrived and it was delicious,” exclaimed Mrs. Vernon in self-justification. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z That is, his method of dealing with the twelve low comedians is, I am told, conducted on a cold utilitarian basis without struggle of conscience or effort at self-justification. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z "It broke to pieces," said the convict in self-justification. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z At first, when I began, I thought it was that—the need for self-justification—but now I don't think it's a question of justification or condemnation at all. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Like so many elements of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the events on the Mavi Marmara produced two fiercely competing narratives, each full of self-justification and contempt for the other. U.N. Report Finds Israeli Blockade Legal but Raid Flawed 2011-09-01T16:30:48Z And as for the Italian good-nature, it forms a sound and unshakeable basis nowadays for their extortion and self-justification and spite. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z "I'm a good destructive critic," I said in self-justification. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z For Lynn treated her to the reproof of a sulky silence, in which he persisted till she felt constrained, in self-justification, to adopt the very tone that had vexed her. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z There have been times when I questioned the propriety of any attempt at self-justification. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z We catch the weakness and the strength of both points of view, and thus enter into the comprehension of a most subtle struggle for self-justification. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z "We stayed too long in hiding," said the man, with a glance of self-justification. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z R. B. Johnson thinks that it was a correct estimate written in self-justification. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z My grounds for self-justification in that particular instance, were rather untenable. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z I thought myself armed at every point for self-justification when I came to you. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z That recollection helped his self-justification for a moment, then his thoughts went on: “But of course he wouldn’t do anything of the sort now; and he wouldn’t want me to, either.” The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Arguments, self-justification and sick apprehensions, surged in chaotic bewilderment through her mind. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Napoleon, the prisoner, had a double object—release and self-justification. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Tweeting and Facebooking are the records of choice for many Others have more complex motives - self-justification, remorse, or the freedom to confide in a phantom friend how hard the world is treating them. Dear diary 2010-12-31T15:40:10Z She had gone away that grey, windy December day just before nightfall in a trembling state of stupefaction without complaint, without attempts at self-justification. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Franco was about to answer that he did not know, which was perfectly true, but reflecting that this might seem like self-justification, he said— "In Russia." The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico While she ate her supper she tried to make a plan, but the excitement within her was growing steadily, and she could only think out eager self-justification for her own decision. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Seeking for self-justification, he turned his head slightly so that he might inspect his companion more closely without attracting her attention. The Bachelors A Novel Some plain talk on the part of the cousin apparently followed, for we find the composer urging certain points in self-justification. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work "My brain has been dulled by long money-making, like a nail hammered on cast-iron," he said in self-justification. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z It defends proposals that in peace would be indefencible; it works itself up to a pitch of righteous self-justification. American World Policies He hardly heard her long and passionate self-justification. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance At last these alternate surges of guilt and self-justification grated on his nerves. Helena Brett's Career They are not satisfied to act as one of Nature's elementary forces, but they are constantly making outrageous attempts at logical self-justification. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine "It was a very harmless letter——" she began in self-justification. The Head Girl at the Gables "Then it is best to speak it?" he pleaded, as if for self-justification. The Torch Bearer We understand that the judicial poet of The Lily and the Bee will—in self-justification—forthwith produce another poem, to be called The Cat and her Tails. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Truth talked and not lived, rolls on the human heart a stone; consigns sensibility to the charnel-house of sen- suality, ease, self-love, self-justification, there to moulder and rot. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 And then Hugo muttered his last desperate self-justification—that he had "meant to put it back!" Under False Pretences A Novel There was a faux air of self-justification in this, which did not bear analysis. When Ghost Meets Ghost But my self-love always springs up against the shadow of blame, and so you need pay no heed to what I say in self-justification. Records of Later Life Her little sobbing cry of self-justification was received with jibes and winks. Orphans of the Storm She spoke slowly, with a noble dignity, all hint of sultry menace passed; willing, for Karen's sake, to stoop to this self-justification before Karen's husband. Tante Sit here a bit on this ledge, I want to tell you, but not in self-justification, mind you, not that. The Eye of Dread Though we may love and die of the pain of unrequited loving, yet love is its own self-justification, and its own reward. Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex Suppose— He tightened his lips in defiant self-justification. Rescue Squad We dare say you have your self-justification," we put in at this point, "but you must own that it doesn't appear in what you are saying. Imaginary Interviews Even the Fräulein had her word of regret—regret mingled with self-justification. The Grey Woman and other Tales He therefore builds up a defensive psychology against it—a psychology of boldness, bravado, and self-justification. Introduction to the Science of Sociology I have for years, during the life of the insinuator, held such self-justification unworthy of me; now even decency demands silence. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The self-justification she puts forward for her errors is sometimes sophistical, but not for that insincere. Famous Women: George Sand He groped for something in self-justification with which to confute Lois Montgomery's daughter. Otherwise Phyllis “He may think it unwise to be detailed in self-justification.” Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange This does not imply self-complacency, self-indulgence, self-justification, but simply encouragement, strength, and fortitude. Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life Denvil's temperature rose steadily, and his stress of mind broke out in a semi-coherent babble of remorse and self-justification, of argument and appeal, of desperate reckonings in regard to ways and means. Captain Desmond, V.C. But possibly you urge, in self-justification, Others will manufacture spirit, if I do not. Select Temperance Tracts Climbing now into the old-fashioned four-poster bed, he thought again of his conversation-spree and longed for self-justification. No Clue A Mystery Story With an attempt at self-examination, which was only a self-justification, she tried to recall the early days when she had loved her husband, and to conjure up the face with the gentle light in it. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 Mrs. Weaver spoke in a tone of mingled injury and self-justification. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories This is the sure way to produce anger, self-justification, and an increase of the strength of prejudice, against that which has caused him this rebuke and irritation. An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females Mr. Dalken was stern and dignified in his self-justification, and Paul had the grace to flush uncomfortably. Polly's Business Venture In their self-justification certain of the sophists attached themselves to a definite doctrine maintained by those of their predecessors and contemporaries who were atomists, or followers of that same Leucippus whom we have quoted. The Approach to Philosophy "It was so ordered by the Republic," she began in a tone of self-justification; then stopped with a sudden perception of his point. The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Every nation, every party, faction, and cabal among his own and other peoples, has judged him from its own standpoint of self-interest and self-justification. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Of that I have a right to complain: but, for the rest, spare yourself the effort of self-justification. Deerbrook “Well, I am from Denver, Colorado, where folks don’t fuss like you do in the East, just because you cross a street to get to the other side!” declared Dodo, in self-justification. Polly's Business Venture There was no attempt at self-justification in those communings, but an effort, sincere enough in its way, to understand how all this had happened. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Now he was even sicker of Earth's self-justification. Victory In Bonaventure a look of distressful self-justification quickly changed to one of anxious compassion. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana White to the lips, but with her head held up in silent self-justification, she moved slowly down the room, running the gauntlet of public disdain. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life Therefore, partly out of revenge, partly in self-justification, she proceeded with increasing enthusiasm to show that to know M. de Vallorbes was a lamentably liberal education in all civilised iniquities. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Mrs. Emery protested with an instant, reproving self-justification: “You may be—you’re not her mother; but I understand Lydia through and through.” The Squirrel-Cage The words of self-justification and of reproach toward him were at her lips, ready to break forth in unaccustomed force. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy “No!” he says, in an effort at self-justification. The Death Shot A Story Retold I have done; but let me say, Hazlet, that your self-justification is, if possible, more repulsive than your sin.” Julian Home But I wished to spare him if possible, and give him room for self-justification, so I did not tell you all. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The distortion of the image of his youth in his memory, to which we have referred, is based on that need of self-justification. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation But her arguments in self-justification and her want of respect for the dead are unpardonable. Mary Wollstonecraft But,' with a sudden swerve into the track of self-justification, 'if that makes you think I'm fickle and weak-willed, you're all wrong, darling. Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray The German is so skilful at intrigue that he seeks even in advance of an expected offensive to lay the foundation for self-justification. Face to Face with Kaiserism “But,” she replied, silently, with a very natural tendency to self-justification, “although Beniah told me not to touch things, I did not promise not to do so?” The Hot Swamp Even at so wide a remove of time, the poet's wounded pride finds expression in this singular theory--or, rather, in this more than dubious piece of self-justification. Milton "Well, me dear, what can I say but what I think?" flinging out her ample arms in self-justification. April's Lady A Novel Seated at the good lady’s feet in an attitude of childlike humility, she related the story of her adventures in simple, unexaggerated language, without any attempt at self-justification. Flaming June The tendency of every diary is towards self-justification and complaint; yet, to-day, personally, I have "no complaints." Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Their points of view were so different, her expression so unrelenting, that the self-justification he had planned to speak was choked in his throat. The Mayor of Warwick Ellen threw herself upon her knees, and when she rose up, the spirit of pride was entirely broken, and resentment had died with self-justification. The Wide, Wide World You know all the arguments, all the self-justification of those days. One Young Man The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk. His speech is a tissue of falsehoods and prevarications: if he uses a fact, it is only to twist it into a form of self-justification. An Introduction to the Study of Browning So that I am bound almost in self-justification to set down my reasons for this temperance of mine in conversation. Certain Personal Matters He could hear her harsh, solemn voice in self-justification and agonized appeal. Pembroke A Novel Then Bertie apologized, in a dull voice, with his eyes on the ground, and mumbled a kind of confession, mixed with self-justification. The Motor Maid "You've given the yielding plan a fair trial, and it has failed," said self-justification—the swiftest pleader I know. A Great Emergency and Other Tales The teller of tales, anxious to escape from restriction but not avid of being cast into the outer darkness of the taboo, can in self-justification become as technical as any lawyer. The Killer In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error—self-will, self-justification, and self-love!' Jewel's Story Book Now, if you refuse to make these solemn resolutions your own, can you assign any reason for such refusal, which you will be willing to utter in self-justification when facing your Final Judge? The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character Her mind went staggering back over the past, seeking for means of self-justification and defense. Bressant Mrs. Vanderpool had a most uncomfortable sense of being judged, of being weighed,—and there arose within her an impulse to self-justification. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel He only knew that if the inventor had not become insane, he should have secured his signature at some wretched price, and out of this conviction he reared his self-justification. Sevenoaks For an instant there had been a faint suggestion of contrition in his tone, but it was overwhelmed by his desire for self-justification. A Hoosier Chronicle There is nothing here that can be condoned, and we must resist all temptations to indulge in self-justification. The Grey Book I winced, and felt the need of self-justification. The Princess Passes That was the notion that he continually dwelt on for self-justification when he happened to take the trouble to justify himself. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 So she turned to Littleton with her smile and in tears—the image of bewitching but pathetic self-justification and surrender. Unleavened Bread Ducat's words had destroyed that last secret refuge of the soul in which every man keeps the vestiges of self-justification and self-respect. White Shadows in the South Seas "No," replied the daughter, then added, as if in self-justification: "I knew, of course, that you'd find help if things got too bad." The Emperor of Portugalia If my father is not man enough to do a simple act of justice without bartering a woman's happiness and his son's happiness, let him find comfort in his self-justification!” The Lion and The Mouse A Story Of American Life All of which," Frank finished his self-justification, "shows that we're far from anxious to leave you girls when we say we're eager for action. The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers For the sake of saving her husband and sister from destruction, she waived this right to self-justification, and stood for years a silent sufferer under calumny and misrepresentation. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time But his last remark started him on the way of self-justification. The Divine Fire As soon as it exhibits the form of a wise reserve it must be called by another name: prudence and self-justification. Poise: How to Attain It Cool defiance, free self-justification, might have carried him through. Marcella He made no attempt at self-justification, though Mrs. Peck was staring from one to the other in mystified interrogation. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories Besides, he was obliged to go through some further rehearsing of the creed adopted in the dawn on Lake Champlain before his self-justification could be complete. The Wild Olive Her smile had been full of the smug satisfaction of one who has washed his hands in public self-justification. Broken to the Plow He had added, in the transparent self-justification of selfish youth, "And I'll pay it back to him every cent." Hillsboro People Listen to me, I pray, in self-justification—be not suspicious of, nor blame the royal horse, nor be thou angry with me, either. Sacred Books of the East The second faction against our Mother Tongue springs from a malicious self-justification. The Banquet (Il Convito) Why, I do not know of a member of our church that would do the manly thing that he has done, coming up without any self-justification and asking forgiveness for his wrong. Around Old Bethany A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis She never chided him for not replying … she never complained … but every line was flavored with the self-justification of all essential falseness. Broken to the Plow The lingering self-justification was swept away by the sense of the harm his pleasure-seeking had done to the lad whom he had once influenced. The Three Brides It was a contemptuous denial of her own flimsy self-justification. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 While in Asiatic despotisms the individual had no inner self and no self-justification, in the modern world man demands to be honored for the sake of his subjective individuality. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes "He is honest," Don Andres asserted more than once on the ride home, perhaps in self-justification for his soft dealing. The Gringos Apparently no one interfered to prevent this remarkable piece of military self-justification; the soldiers were evidently accustomed openly to criticise the conduct of their commanders, while the latter responded in any manner they saw fit. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 During this speech Mrs. Condor's voice had dropped from its original tone of petty rancor to one of petulant self-justification. The Blood Red Dawn All this is, however, worse than idle; the servant only sins the more in every attempt at self-justification. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 With an over-powering need of self-justification he told her of his further adventures with Ezram, of the old man's murder and the theft of the claim. The Sky Line of Spruce He said a great deal in attempted self-justification. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage He knew equally well that he fed his wrath and hatred, and that he accumulated provocation and self-justification, by being made the nightly sport of the reckless and insolent Eugene. Our Mutual Friend In self-justification he returned to his old argument. The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama "I came in with your brother, as I often do," he answered coldly, in self-justification. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories I was unwilling to decide for ever upon the character of my former friend without a complete self-justification. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 "Perhaps I ought to have come to you and explained it all; but I shrink from self-justification,—at least before a fit opportunity makes it comparatively easy." The Vicar's Daughter He might have answered her in kind, but self-justification passed his power. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Like an instinct for self-preservation in the most desperate danger, so man follows an instinct of self-justification in the most hopeless disgrace. The Bride of Dreams Nothing can be better conceived than his fit of passion at Sancho's laughing, and his sophism of self-justification by the courage he had shown. Literary Remains, Volume 1 In our reveries we are frequently engaged in self-justification, for we cannot bear to think ourselves wrong, and yet have constant illustrations of our weaknesses and mistakes. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform It was such a wearisome business, this "being fair"—he put it so—to her; this conscientious erasing of self-justification which he felt to be so unworthy. Life at High Tide They were skirting the Palais Royal when suddenly she turned to him in an impulsive attempt at self-justification. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama This is the point of my narrative on which, as respects my own self-justification, the whole of what follows may be said to hinge. The Opium Habit He behaved in a dignified manner in regard to it, and he made no attempt at self-justification, although the wound was evidently long in healing. Cambridge Sketches With this hope—in this conviction—I have written, in all candor, what no reasons of personal advantage or self-justification could have induced me to write. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft It was rather hard for him to be reproached in this way, but he did not think of saying anything in self-justification. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process She had the most exquisite feeling of triumphant self-justification. Hilda Lessways Confronted with the gracious figure, how should he think of self-justification! The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 Should he then waste mere empty words with such self-justification as any common thief would not hesitate to do? Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Why, I shall be forced, in self-justification, to carry through the farce!' Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face "Well, it's time she knew," he muttered in self-justification. The Rose in the Ring So he acted by the Galatian church, which was flattered into a notion of self-righteousness, and self-justification. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 "I tried to put her on her guard," she broke forth at length, bent, it would seem, upon self-justification against an invisible accuser. At Last But in a kind of quibbling self-justification I recalled that I had bought Parnassus and all it contained, "lock, stock, barrel and bung" as Andrew used to say. Parnassus on Wheels In the scattered nature of his support lay his greatest weakness, for it made the task of self-justification extremely difficult. The Iron Trail Kalliope did so, and Miss Mohun was struck with the complete accordance of the two accounts, and likewise by the total absence of all attempt at self-justification on Miss White's part. Beechcroft at Rockstone The issue was clouded, too, by a wholly natural effort at self-justification. The Winds of Chance Mary is foolish," he said, in partial self-justification, "to take my hasty words so much to heart. The Wedding Guest He had done a thing so clearly wrong, that no attempt at self-justification gave his mind its former calmness. Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them Vain was it that Mr. Levering sought self-justification. Home Lights and Shadows In all the hours of mental anguish which had passed since her departure from Saratoga, there had been an accusing spirit at her ear, and, resist as she would, self-condemnation prevailed over attempted self-justification. After the Storm The grounds for my coming at all you will very well understand, and you will applaud me when I declare to you that I come to her penitent; to exculpate myself, certainly, but despising self-justification. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete Still Lena could get no plain confession from her, for Anna clung to self-justification, and felt it abandoning her, and her soul fluttering in a black gulf when she opened her month to disburden herself. Vittoria — Complete Yet she had done only what all the women she knew had done, Margaret reminded herself in self-justification. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby They showed me, in self-justification, letters from their relations in Melbourne, speaking of the notorious Harry Alison as a huge bearded ruffian, and telling horrid stories of his excesses in no measured terms. My Young Alcides Sometimes the unhappy girl heaped mountains of reproaches upon her own head; and sometimes pride and indignation, gaining rule in her heart, would whisper self-justification, and throw the weight of responsibility upon her lover. After the Storm He hurried out his words of self-justification, for he saw the anger in her face. Thyrza In spite of her alarm, which was even greater than the occasion warranted, she obeyed all Dixon's directions promptly and well, without a word of self-justification. North and South But she was sore and angry—in no mood to make any advance or stoop to self-justification. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life "And you, prisoner, what have you to say in self-justification, after this crushing accusation by Mademoiselle de Courtornieu?" The Honor of the Name He does not, like Mr. Lansing, fill five hundred octavo pages with "I told you so," and you can not conceive of his using that form of self-justification. The Mirrors of Washington Or perhaps these fears of possible scruples were merely his self-justification for gratifying his reluctance. The Trial No one would read a pamphlet of self-justification so long after the deed, even if I put one out.' North and South He was at it again, back at his eternal self-justification. Maurice Guest "It is not a question of self-justification, but of fighting," he said, in a tone rude even to insolence. The Honor of the Name "I've thought it over a good bit," he went on, apparently in self-justification. The Firefly of France She disliked Maggie for what seemed to her most admirable reasons and, as that dislike slowly, slowly turned into hatred, her self-justification only hardened. The Captives Evil beliefs, passions and appetites, fear, depraved will, self-justification, pride, envy, de- ceit, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, disease, 115:24 death. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures All hope of defending himself has long passed from him; indeed he rarely even attempts self-justification, and is aware that submission produces the nearest approach to peace which his own house can ever attain. Barchester Towers Reaching out for some means of self-justification Grant turned to the Big Idea; that was his; that was big and generous and noble. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day And the fact was, that self-justification and carelessness of exact correctness of truth had brought all this upon her, and given her aunt this bad opinion of her friends! Countess Kate A wordy prayer may afford a quiet sense of self-justification, though it makes the sinner a hypocrite. Christian Science Raleigh writes an apology, letters of entreaty, self-justification, what not; all, in my opinion, just and true enough; but like his speech on the scaffold, weak, confused—the product of a 'broken brain.' Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time I hurried down to the Marinsky Palace, arriving at the end of that passionate and almost incoherent speech of Kerensky's, full of self-justification and bitter denunciation of his enemies. Ten Days That Shook the World It sounds a little too like a lover's self-justification.' Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Will it not rather present additional temptations to the unhappy scoffers, and furnish them with a pretext of self-justification? Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces ‘There are traitors hid here, Sir,’ said Percy, in angry self-justification. The Caged Lion Such is the gratitude of kings, thinks Stukely; and retires to write foolish pamphlets in self-justification, which, unfortunately for his memory, still remain to make bad worse. Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time All hope of defending himself has long passed from him; indeed he rarely even attempts self-justification; and is aware that submission produces the nearest approach to peace which his own house can ever attain. Barchester Towers The woman had the advantage in this, that she had to expend all her force on mere self-justification, and had no energy left for vain-glory. Sir Gibbie This is the point of my narrative on which, as respects my own self-justification, the whole of what follows may be said to hinge. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater There was no attempt at self-justification for these sinister reflections—they needed no justification. Tarzan the Terrible And surely, if there had been private marriage, two people who were about to be sent to the Tower for their folly would have made the marriage public at once, as the only possible self-justification. Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time But the idea of her father suffering at her hands cast her down lower than self-justification. The Egoist God accordingly uses the Law for a hammer to break up the illusion of self- righteousness, that we should despair of our own strength and efforts at self-justification. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians He worked round the circle again to self-justification. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains "Because my transgressions are multiplied and my own efforts at self-justification rather a hindrance than a furtherance, therefore Christ the Son of God gave Himself into death for my sins." Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。