| If the fact that the trial judge did not do the right thing is pardonable, those circumstances should be mentioned. |
| But, also like baseball, it's entirely pardonable in view of its good-natured competitiveness and unpretentious charm. |
| By poetic license, quite pardonable when assumed by Austin Dobson or by Praed, we speak of the leisure of the eighteenth century. |
| In Lilliput and Brobdingnag, however, the satire scarcely goes beyond pardonable limits. |
| Either it plumps for simplification, which is pardonable given the justness of its moral outrage. |
| A certain amount of instability, of recklessness, of unthinkingness may be pardonable in youth, but the years should have brought their wisdom. |
