pretext

It's a pretext, a convenient excuse for the masses.

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

It's true that sometimes "passion" over a subject is used as a pretext for such aggression.

The pretext is already here in America's paper of record.

Now we've learned that the Feds have engaged in a bait and switch maneuver: databases are collected on the "terror spies" pretext, and then they're used for domestic criminal prosecutions.

Why would she contact his family members if she was directly talking to him and they could blow her pretext of wanting to talk about model trains?This strongly suggests that he knew enough about BitCoin to be chased away by the question.

There's just something that irks me about a person who is putting up their opinion voluntarily seemingly knowing that it will not be reciprocated by others but provide a pretext hoping to fish guilt from others who may disagree.

If I don't like you and you just happen to be black, a woman, gay, etc..does it always have to be because of these traits..and not because you're an asshole?Nobody forced the candidate to accept the job offer before backing out of it on a rather flimsy pretext.

It's that Microsoft - a software vendor - is suddenly the authority over distributing and signing keys for what amounts to a hardware lock mechanism that prevents you from doing whatever the fuck you want with your computer, all in the name of a false pretext of security.

Second, because very few houses in residential neighborhoods are gang hideouts, and the police are using the theoretical presence of armed gangs as broad, categorical pretext to militarize all of their SOPs, regardless of context, circumstance, degree of escalation, or suspicion of crime.