The phrase "a convenient explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an explanation that is easy to understand or fits well with a particular situation, often implying that it may be overly simplistic or not entirely accurate.
Example: "While the theory provided a convenient explanation for the phenomenon, it failed to account for several key variables."
Alternatives: "a simple rationale" or "an easy justification".
Even among the educated class in Indonesia, black magic is often a convenient explanation for one's own shortcomings.
On the other hand, they should also not be used as a convenient explanation for Barack Obama's crushing defeat there.
"If the cause is technology, you can't do much about it". Globalization becomes a convenient explanation for many economic discontents, from job insecurity to squeezed living standards.
El Trauco, a tiny figure that walks the forest with stump feet and bearing an ax, has become a character who seduces young women -- and a convenient explanation for pregnancies out of wedlock.
Those advocates of civil liberties (some of them quite new to the cause) have a convenient explanation for why Democrats have been less vocal and slower to criticize the collection of metadata from everyday American citizens: slavish devotion to President Obama, whatever policies he might champion.
Dark energy causes the acceleration by pushing space itself apart, altering the distances to the supernovas as it does so.In this section The scent of a man Steam on A shot in the dark Malice aforethought Reprints Related items Dark matter: Accidence and substanceApr 6th 2006Dark energy is also a convenient explanation for another curiosity.
That is a very convenient explanation.
Not having money is an extremely convenient explanation for most of us about why we are not as content as we would like.
Now, once Jeb is out of the race, Trump becomes their convenient explanation for an embarrassment of riches that spent most of the $150 million raised.
Antommarchi found evidence of a stomach ulcer; this was the most convenient explanation for the British, who wanted to avoid criticism over their care of Napoleon.
