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Failure in bureaucracy means not bankruptcy but writing self-justifying memos, and at worst a transfer elsewhere.
ECONOMIST: Technology and the public sector
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He now offers this fictionalized, leeringly erotic, self-justifying drama about the making of that film.
NEWYORKER: Exterminating Angels
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Jacott is a one-man study in self-justifying paralysis (the movie's funniest scene is his quivering interview for a video-store job).
CNN: ENTERTAINMENT
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And like her angry reaction to her devoted nurses, often all my teachers got from me in return for their effort was angry, self-justifying, fearful resistance.
FORBES: A Wake-Up Call For Leadership
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Most people who write about themselves are vain, self-justifying and self-centred, but this account of life at the Court of King Bill is an essay in selfabnegation and beautifully written.
ECONOMIST: General non-fiction
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Of course that can be a self-justifying argument.
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The real story in antitrust's continued popularity is not the flood of new theories, justifying a new activism, but the influence of beleaguered competitors like Netscape and the self-serving arguments of lawyers and economic consultants who stand to gain from an activist policy, regardless of the outcome for the rest of us.
ECONOMIST: Nuclear fallout