Sentence examples similar to A pardonable lapse from inspiring English sources
But these are pardonable lapses in a considerable accomplishment.
Roberta thinks this a pardonable falsehood.
No doubt, Muslims may be killed occasionally, but if that happens it's a pardonable mistake.
The next kick, a 57-yard attempt on the final play of the half that would have matched his career long, was short — certainly a pardonable offense.
It was only an instinctive caution, and perhaps a pardonable desire to play the coquette with Fielding, which prevented him from doing so.
One of her cousins became "the most reactionary priest in the whole of Colombia," the protégé of a notorious monsignor who preached that killing Liberals was "a pardonable sin".
A lawyer persuades Sanson that the only means of freeing her husband is for her to confess to adultery, thus turning the killing into a pardonable crime of passion.
It would be a pardonable exaggeration to say that Hill created the way in which the people of late 20th-century Britain - and the left in particular - looked at the history of 17th-century England.
By the time James Levine became the company's music director in 1976, it was a pardonable assumption that singers at the Met had forever suffered indifferent, dull or inept support.
Sex for the sake of procreation is not sinful, and sex within marriage solely to satisfy lust is a pardonable (venial) sin.
