Sentence examples for understandable his from inspiring English sources

If it is a bit stately, that is understandable: his life story really is extraordinary.

Heaney's reluctance to take a position on these unresolved issues is understandable; his decision to pass over in silence what's at stake here is not.

If Houellebecq is, on the evidence of "The Elementary Particles," the most potentially weighty French novelist to emerge since Tournier — and the wait has been long, and therefore overpraise understandable — his third novel, "Platform" (translated by Frank Wynne; Knopf; $25), opens with a nod in an earlier direction.

Vidic started for the first time since tearing a calf muscle in the first league game of the season and though his laboured performance on the ball and in the tackle was understandable, his team-mates had less of an excuse.

His desire for Champions League football is understandable, his worth on that stage not in question, but all a player banned for another six matches has achieved is further disruption before a campaign of critical importance to Liverpool and their manager.

Peirce's assimilating his late philosophy to that of the absolute idealists, however, is not quite as straightforwardly understandable as his finding his views similar to Kant's: his explicitly given reasons for the assimilation are not always easy to understand.

The Italian striker headed straight for the tunnel on the final whistle as his manager ordered his players to salute Liverpool's suffering travelling support, his disappointment understandable but his lack of appreciation poor.

But he will have to simplify some of his more dense prose so that he is understandable to his critics, his students and people in the community.

His research was not easily understandable to his students or his colleagues and he made no effort to popularize his ideas or to simplify their exposition to make them more accessible.

Smith broods: "Imagine his foul understandable need, his satisfaction, changing DH Lawrence to DH cinders".

His efforts are understandable, because his roots in the place run deep.