"understandable behavior" is a correct and usable phrase when discussing things that can be understood or reasoned
For example, "She displayed understandable behavior when responding to pressure from her peers."
To call "This Beautiful Life" timely is almost an understatement, since real life regularly generates plenty of clueless but weirdly understandable behavior like that of Schulman's characters.
Update 2: I'm not 'pro-censorship', but in this particular case it's understandable behavior on Twitter's behalf, period.
It is an intuitively understandable behavior due to the fact that as the probability of interruption increases, more ongoing secondary calls are prematurely terminated in detrimental of the mean value of both CHTn and CHTh.
And secondly, no one beats Jack Nicholson in terms of inappropriate, though completely understandable restaurant behavior (think of other great Nicholson at-the-restaurant-moments: making Randy Quaid order his food the way he wants in The Last Detail and his endless, OCD eating specifications in As Good As It Gets).
If Mr. Kristof had more fully investigated the Oaks allegation, he might have uncovered some understandable parental behaviors having nothing to do with literacy or SSI. 2. " 'One of the ways you get on this program is having problems in school,' notes Richard A. Burkhauser…." "'If you do better in school, you threaten the income of the parents.
It means, first of all, that human behavior is understandable.
This behavior is understandable -- I am a stranger, after all -- but it also irks me.
Anyone watching Hamlet will find his behavior completely understandable — O.K., I buy it; he's toying with his uncle — though any critic thinking about it afterward will reflect that this behavior is a little nuts.
To paint the cellist Jacqueline du Pre as such a monster in Anand Tuker's HILARY AND JACKIE (1998), then to turn around and make her sympathetic and her outrageous behavior almost understandable.
In some ways this behavior is understandable.
The characters are silly, flawed and human... most (with the notable exception of Clarke's father, Dwight Yoakam, who gives a real and frightening dose of crazy humanity), ultimately understandable, even as their behavior makes us squirm.
