understandable

The Bush administration cultivated an understandable American fear of terrorism to justify abrogating what, until then, had been a settled consensus in this country: that torture is both wrong and illegal.

It is understandable that coach DeShaun Foster would be thrilled to add a five-star talent Iamaleava while moving some eyeballs to a program desperate to create some buzz in his second season.

“It’s one way to take this big, amorphous concept," meaning climate change, "and make it more understandable.”

It would be more understandable if, say, Christians were being told they couldn't wear a cross or have a picture of Jesus on their desk.

The passages recounting her shattered emotional state and her understandable fear of the sedatives that were administered to calm her, are terrifying in their battered simplicity and clarity of purpose.