Well, there's a dirty little trick that might explain their red colour.
What might explain their ability to avoid the swings of their rivals?
This might explain their apparently wilful oversight of an important event in Chinese history.
They are, traditionally, a non-hierarchical society, which might explain their gentleness, the elegance of their great good manners, and the sense of safety and welcome everywhere.
That might explain their desire to steer people away from the liberal arts, which teach us how vapid and ridiculous their arguments are.
(The possibility that this man took the photographs himself by using a timer might explain their lack of self-consciousness and also lends an air of urgency).
When Haines examined the lives of Big Daddy, Bully Boy Muir and the like, did he notice any unifying patterns, anything that might explain their shared career path?
The list provides an occasion to solicit the views of the artists themselves -- to hear them sum up their legacies and say how they might explain their work to an audience 50 years from now.
The companies have said, however, that they would like to focus greater attention on gas production, which might explain their absence from some of the largest oil reservoirs being developed -- for example, off the West African coast.
It is governments that make the deepest incursions into our lives, so that might explain their reluctance, so far, to do anything to protect the privacy of their citizens.
Mr. Thant, after setting the stage for the takeover by the British, tries to put the Burmese point of view back into the picture by retelling their history, in the hope that it might explain their present predicament.
