rationalizations

• And while it's true that metrics sometimes can lead to a better product, in my experience just as often they had led to no insight whatsoever, like fancy reports that nobody reads or after-the-fact rationalizations (with graphs!)
• I was now living by rationalizations: I was the hunted, the police were the hunters, ergo, the police were the bad guys. —  CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - FRANK ABAGNALE JR.
• Later, in retrospect, he realizes that these   justifications and rationalizations are not legitimate Is there any kind of feeling of remorse there that maybe even though these people were nothing to him, they have families and loved ones and it might be of some value to let the people know where the bodies are-if it   didn't bother him or hurt him. —  TEDBUNDY
• We'd heard the tortured rationalizations, the nuanced explanations and former CEO Rick Wagoner declare that there can be "no more excuses." —  detnews.com - Commuting
• The primary foundation of their rationalizations is an extended and inappropriate metaphor, that you can call molecules "machines" and pretend that that means they were built by designers in little factories. —  Pharyngula

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