rationalizing

But pretending that giving up on big climate action means a victory is nothing but rationalizing defeat.

If the answer is no, relaxing them is acceptable, for the common good of rationalizing and streamlining airport security.

All elites are good at rationalizing their eliteness, whether it's meritocracy or “the divine right of kings.”

So my entire liberal arts education was an exercise in learning how different thinkers engaged in post-hoc rationalizing.

“They are taking themselves away from any sort of perception of being opportunistic or predatory by rationalizing,” she says.

Of the other class have been the Greek philosophers and the rationalizing schoolmen and the modern lights of science.

The son studied philosophy and history in Paris and wrote historical works of an anti-clerical and rationalizing tendency.

Thus, while some shock me by their sacerdotal dogmatism, others repel me by their rationalizing laicism.

I want you to say, in giving these impressions, why, what you base them on—and I understand that you are rationalizing.

You have completed your rationalizing statement in that connection?