The phrase "a sort of explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that the explanation provided is not definitive or complete, but rather a general or partial clarification.
Example: "What I gave you was a sort of explanation of the complex theory, but it may not cover all aspects."
Alternatives: "a kind of clarification" or "a type of description."
Mr Fearon's feeling for the verse, for the histrionics of "Arise black vengeance" as well as for the aching pathos of "O thou weed, who art so lovely fair" constitutes in itself a sort of explanation for the character's credulousness: a combustible imagination, for which words lyrical, martial, or lubricious are like lighted matches.As for who wins, Iago or Othello the question doesn't arise.
The staff at Jones' venerable website InfoWars.com have offered up a sort of explanation in the form of a supercut that shows Jones being an actor because that's a hat that, yes, he clearly sometimes wears.
"I will not bastardise my musicality for anything," he says in sort-of explanation a quarter of an hour later, during an unofficial tea break (his producer twiddling his thumbs back in his booth).
Complaining was useless, nothing ever happened, I never got an apology or any sort of explanation.
Both have suffered the health problems that sometimes accompany advancing years but neither have felt compelled to offer any sort of explanation or excuse, and rightly so.
Ironically, the search engine's animated servant fails to supply any sort of explanation regarding its own 200% jump in share price over the last month.
Though longer and more jargon-laden, the altered definition was less specific about the types of explanations science can build not just natural explanations, but any sort of explanation deemed "more adequate".
The reviewer would, however, have "loved any sort of explanation as to why [Daniel] changed his mind about changing the past or how he thought this could work.
