There's got to be a logical down-to-earth explanation.

Unlike Lawrence, however, their monologues are poetic, often rhyming and full of both florid imagery and down-to-earth explanation.

The romantic description quoted above, the 'jewel in an aquamarine sea', needs a little down-to-earth explanation.

SOME of New Jersey's sightings of unidentified flying objects have turned out to have quite down-to-earth explanations.

The most obvious, worldly, down-to-earth explanation in matters involving supposed occult activity is not always the correct one.

The Enquirer offers this rather down-to-earth explanation of Lucci's win, straight from an Emmy judge: She snagged the trophy because she finally stopped submitting tapes with "overly dramatic" performances and went with something subtler instead.

But Professor Lieven has a perhaps more down-to-earth explanation for the Russian empire's lasting allure.

But if you want a more down-to-earth explanation, it's like the story of the man with a bad stammer who complains that the radio station wouldn't hire him as an announcer because he didn't carry- a party card.

But the paper's recitation of failed events suggests a more down-to-earth explanation: $2,000 per couple to hear Neil Sedaka and Mary Wilson is stupid.

Some of the theories are mythological, while the others give more down-to-earth explanations.