pardonably

I was pardonably curious in my survey, for it appeared my fate to be pent up with them on this miniature floating world for I knew not how many weeks or months.

Chapter 3 2010

“William has gone home,” Beth replied, pardonably proud of how cool her voice stayed.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

"How the devil should I know?" retorted Dela garde, pardonably annoyed.

Gatlinburg 2010

“William has gone home,” Beth replied, pardonably proud of how cool her voice stayed.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

But we do get pardonably a little testy about one thing, compulsion.

David Horton: Different Strokes 2008

I think much of psychiatry is the same: it's not that they're stupid, merely pardonably ignorant.

Schizophrenia : A Hideous Progression Zoe Brain 2008

There was another kind of recurrent query Peter wouldn't brush aside either, as many another harried editor quite pardonably might: Why on earth did The Atlantic publish so much of that infernal modern poetry?

A Life's Work 2005

There was another kind of recurrent query Peter wouldn't brush aside either, as many another harried editor quite pardonably might: Why on earth did The Atlantic publish so much of that infernal modern poetry?

A Life's Work 2005

There was another kind of recurrent query Peter wouldn't brush aside either, as many another harried editor quite pardonably might: Why on earth did The Atlantic publish so much of that infernal modern poetry?

A Life's Work 2005

It is not that we are given only a method of interpretation by the form of Scripture – a method that, by pointing us to the conflict and tension between texts simply leaves us with theologically unresolvable debate as a universal norm for Christian discourse (I make the point partly in order to correct what some have – pardonably – understood as the implication of what I have written elsewhere on this matter).

'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture 2007