Well, now you mention it Ed, I don't particularly like it but it's excusable for a player who has played about four minutes of Premier League football.
It's excusable for a sheltered novice filmmaker to be out of touch like this, but not for a veteran.
But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances.
"It's excusable to not do other things, to ask someone to come back to report an offence," he said.
The forces that made that impossible for the past 240 years are same ones that taught these men to measure their power in terms of their control of women, that it's excusable to treat women as trophies or toys.
Mr Bush's budget deficit is excusable for the moment: the war on terror has been expensive, and it makes no sense to run a surplus in a downturn.
[Technically it's five words, but he won three Emmys for "Monk," so it's excusable.] Chris Smith: "Good guys, bad ideas".
Here, again, this may be excusable for newcomers in facilitation or it may make sense, if the workshops are designed to serve similar objectives.
Such a slippage might be excusable for a rock band, but for an electronic act whose claim was always on the future, it might border on the criminal.
Perhaps as long as we're abstaining from it during our encounter with the art, then engaging with it afterwards is excusable?
Spanish killing is excusable because it consists of "accidents" in the noble pursuit of anti-terrorism -- collateral damage -- whereas ETA killings are despicable because they are terrorism.
