If I explained why, you'd think it sounded awful.
I'm not sure if I can explain why, but I didn't.
If I had to explain why I resumed writing, I might mention the experience of translating "The Old Man and the Sea," and its connection to my personal experience.
So if I had to explain why I made an exception in this case, I would say that I had no particular interest in the woman herself, but that I simply wanted to see her heart in the outside world.
I will have to respond to this critique in some length if I am to explain why I find the normative question inescapable and why I think that a European Constitution presents a special need for justification.
But no, I'm not buying that argument (and I'd explain why if I hadn't taken a vow of secrecy).
He says he's going to treat himself to his own ruff: "Just bowl about with it, if anyone questions it I'll explain why I'm wearing a ruff, and then they'll have to walk away won't they, embarrassed?" Never mind ruff, what about a crown?
It's called Prime Cut/Kessel Run, and if you'll indulge me, I'll explain why I keep going back to it.
If I have to explain why, on the contrary, I picked up the phone and called the psychiatric hospital, I can only propose that her warnings must have resonated with me on some dreadful subsonic frequency, like the underfoot shudder of a subway train running all the way from Avenue A to the mouth of hell; deep down, very deep down, I must already have understood what she was talking about.
And if I have to explain why that's important, I guess that makes me a science advocate advocate.
