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That a man who had seen such terrible things would embrace such quaint superstitions might seem an understandable escape from reality.
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But maybe that is understandable, because his escape was such a close thing.
Because it is a very small actor, it is perhaps understandable that it escaped our attention.
However understandable the yearning to escape painful memories, The Times's policy is not to censor history, because it's history.
In 1938, Carrington and Ernst moved to Provence, not least to escape the understandable fury of Ernst's abandoned wife.
But in a city like New York, the two-roof route has understandable appeal, especially for couples with an escape hatch, a k a a summer house, and no children.
The judge said he found it understandable that Saiful did not try to escape Anwar's alleged sexual advances or file a police complaint sooner because he had long idolised Anwar and was concerned about his future.
My friends conveyed Mr Whitehouse's sympathies to me – he having taken understandable advantage of the hiatus to make good his escape – and I spent the rest of the night very, very drunk".
"The preference for anonymity of those confidential informants involved in actual criminal conduct is presumably a desire to escape criminal prosecution, and this preference, while understandable, is hardly deserving of constitutional protection," he wrote.
While the escaped slaves' desire for personal vengeance is understandable, the new season asks whether Spartacus' army is starting to become just as cruel and oppressive as the Romans were.
It is understandable why women would use their women-only facilities to escape sexual harassment.
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