Sentence examples for that needs explaining from inspiring English sources

Moments of social peace and coexistence, however troubled and imperfect, are the brief miracle that needs explaining, and protecting.

Something about the notion that Keats might have used laudanum more regularly than his earlier biographers thought seems to stir readers' interest, as though it explains something that needs explaining: the extraordinary creativity of such a young man.

A similar structure can be found in noir's screwball flipside, with an absurd situation that needs explaining via flashback as the opening gambit of comedies such as The Hangover or Pardon Mon Affaire.

If a taxpayer has an unusually large charitable contribution or medical deduction, for example, or another matter that needs explaining, then attaching a statement and perhaps a copy of relevant documents to the return might avert questions or an audit, he said.

And, to state the obvious, it's not just the past few months that needs explaining.

The important difference in this case, however, is that there is no apparent logical complexity that needs explaining: being Quine — or perhaps better, quineity — as it happens, simply holds essentially and uniquely of Quine.

To Roosevelt radio meant the freedom to explain things, and thus the freedom to do things that needed explaining.

"It's going to melt anyway," he explained, as if that were the thing that needed explaining.

Cataldi and the gang explained it to him, because the best gags are the ones that need explaining.

Most critics, on the other hand, have thought that there was a good deal that needed explaining.

Barash dismisses, on flimsy grounds, the idea that it is the florid advertisements of chimps that need explaining, and not our lack of them.