Sentence examples for it's pardonable from inspiring English sources

That hybrid quality testifies to ambition, and it's pardonable that the play doesn't live up to it.

AFTER the shock of losing the safe seat of Dunfermline and West Fife to the Liberal Democrats last week, it was pardonable that some Blairites, weary of being made to feel grateful for Gordon Brown's carefully timed interventions to save the prime ministerial bacon, enjoyed a moment's Schadenfreude.

However, it is true that the young girls in France are adept in touching up their countenances, and therefore it may be pardonable in this instance.

It would have been pardonable – admirable indeed – to have published another novel starring policeman poet Adam Dalgliesh.

No doubt, Muslims may be killed occasionally, but if that happens it's a pardonable mistake.

Either it plumps for simplification, which is pardonable given the justness of its moral outrage.

While that which is pardonable comprises all sin and blasphemy, it is the Sinfulness from which they spring, which is caused by the evil spirit within man, which is unpardonable.

By the time James Levine became the company's music director in 1976, it was a pardonable assumption that singers at the Met had forever suffered indifferent, dull or inept support.

Their expectation was pardonable.

This may be pardonable in a commerce secretary.

But these are pardonable lapses in a considerable accomplishment.