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Explain away
"Explain away" in a Sentence (3 examples)
He couldn't just explain away all of his problems.
“I have heard it all. And how you will explain away any part of your guilt in that dreadful business, I confess is beyond my comprehension.”
De Niro veers dangerously close to caricature—making chirpy noises, always tilting his head, adding dashes of comedy—yet he ends up personifying evil while never sanding off the edges of this horrible man or trying to explain away his misdeeds with a humanist approach.
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