Sentence examples for invite explanation from inspiring English sources
'I see that you have a little swimming mouse.' His tone did not invite explanation, and so I offered none.
Here again, the orderliness of the topology and the clades (monophyletic groups) resolved in it invite explanation.
'Like' as a concept, is more immediate, more understandable and doesn't need interpreting, whereas +1 invites an explanation.
History invites an explanation of what is in terms of its genesis, not statically but in the process of becoming.
Like Borges in "The Library of Babel", Millhauser is ultimately investigating the mystery of fiction itself: "One school of thought maintains that the wonders of the Barnum Museum deliberately invite mechanical explanations that appear satisfactory without quite satisfying".
Whenever a Beatles milestone rolls around – the release of previously unavailable music on iTunes or the anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – it invites an explanation of why the group's music was revolutionary and what remains so enduring about it.
Lengthy explanations invite interruptions; so get to your point as quickly as possible.
To say you still supported Corbyn invited a long explanation about why you were wrong.
Such a finding of low vitamin E plasma levels in those horses invite several speculative explanations including the quality of the pasture, bioavailability of vitamin E, and the health of the horse in terms of absorption capacity.
Although at first sight contradictory, this reciprocal relationship between knowledge growth and didactic teaching invites a unifying explanation: namely, that the switch of educational philosophy to non-didactic methods represents a strategy for teachers and students to cope with the expansile information environment [ 18, 19].
Hello is a greeting (the phatic function), that when uttered with sufficient portent, can inform of the seriousness of a situation (the referential function); when weighted with emotion can warn of the speaker's frame of mind (expressive function); when delivered with sufficient surprise or challenge can invite or demand an explanation (the directive function); and so on.
