These forgivable flaws can be chalked up to eccentricities of taste, reminders that this book is more a theater lover's journal than a history lesson.
"The Ghost Brigades" has its minor, forgivable flaws — sitcom-like dialogue that's meant to read like clever banter, and a few adolescent jokes about bodily functions — but what I can't completely overlook is an unusual swipe it takes at Heinlein himself.
There's the odd misstep, – Hey's attempt at menace is overegged and the violence just sounds cartoonish – but the abundance of winning songs elsewhere makes such minor flaws forgivable.
Despite the negative comments it has received, Final Fantasy X-2s critical reception has been largely positive, with IGN summarizing it as "a brilliant and addictive romp through Spira that we're certainly glad to experience", and GameSpot commenting that it is "every bit as poignant, endearing, and engrossing as its forebears," with strengths that "ultimately make... X-2s minor flaws forgivable".
With the stimulus bill the flaws were forgivable: there was an urgent need to give the economy a boost.
And even these minor flaws are forgivable, since his researcher's drive to uncover and his writer's tendency to include yield so many illuminating details, among them several that simply light up the sky.
The New York Presss Mark Peikert thought that Deschanel made the film's flaws "almost forgivable", and that the film was "a feature-length audition reel for Deschanel to finally get the roles she deserves".
If this is a flaw, it is forgivable.
Time is incredibly unkind to video game visuals, unless they're Tetris, and I fear that if I started Half-Life right now I'd only wind up writing an article about the minor flaws it inevitably has, completely forgivable in the bigger-picture appraisal (and probably fewer than most new games), and enraging a community of die-hards.
The flaws of these novels are minor and forgivable, their virtues many.
