![]() ![]() In the excerpt that you quote, I don't think that Mr. As to which way the pendulum swings, or the trend is going, the "other way" is presumably the opposite of whichever way the writer presumes is current, or has designated as the standard from which the "other way" deviates. In this field and in many others, trends swing back and forth, just as a pendulum swings back and forth. ![]() Encouraging people to lean on excuses is a trend discouraging them would be a trend the other way. ![]() He is talking about trends in counseling or psychotherapy. Indeed, you now see in the psychology literature recommendations that, in essence, therapists help their clients generate excuses to make them feel better, to try to focus them on why perhaps some of their problems are not really their fault, they're not bad people." : "But one of the things that my colleagues and I felt was that the pendulum may have swung too far the other way now. Because it's a lot nicer if you make up an excuse, for example, for missing a lunch date or turning somebody down than if you say 'I didn't want to go out with you because I didn't like you' or 'I missed the lunch date because I had better things to do.' : SCHLENKER: "Much of the research showed that excuses can actually produce beneficial consequences in the sense of salvaging self-esteem, making people feel better, maybe even allowing them to keep stronger relationships with others. Where Does the Phrase ‘Eat the Rich’ Come From? ![]()
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