No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent
Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.
I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character
Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.
He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.
Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.
It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die. . . that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.
