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.
It's excusable as it's 11pm in Melbourne, Australia where Eccleston is filming the third season of the HBO drama The Leftovers and playing the Rev Matt Jamison can take it out of a man.
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.
Saltwater economists — who are to be found in coastal areas, especially at M.I.T., Harvard, and Berkeley — are more likely to allow that, at this stage of our understanding, it is excusable to study some macro phenomena without giving a complete account of their causal logic.
For example, even if rape was adaptive in the distant past, a notion that even many of Dr. Thornhill and Dr. Palmer's like-minded colleagues think dubious, that would not mean that it is excusable or should not be heavily punished.
Saltwater economists who are to be found in coastal areas, especially at M.I.T., Harvard, and Berkeley are more likely to allow that, at this stage of our understanding, it is excusable to study some macro phenomena without giving a complete account of their causal logic.
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.
[Technically it's five words, but he won three Emmys for "Monk," so it's excusable.] Chris Smith: "Good guys, bad ideas".
It is excusable to grow enthusiastic over the infinite numbers of organic beings with which the sea of the tropics, so prodigal of life, teems", though he cautioned against the "rather exuberant language" used by some naturalists.
