She graciously explains, "It is one of the subtle ways we limit who applies."

So it was no surprise when she stopped just a minute or so into the song to graciously explain that she heard a "whistling sound."

Colin Sullivan, a museum guide, graciously explained the history of the mansion and its residents when we stopped by before museum hours and found the front door open.

But Johnson graciously explained that Sanders was injured.

He graciously explained that he wanted to keep down the hype during his first season as a starter.

"This is my great-niece, on my grandmother's side, Noelani Hale," Lucinda explained graciously, whisking her pale-blue lace handkerchief toward the girl.

Our experimental animals aged and died normally," he explained graciously, "but I was beginning to wonder if we had rejuvenated you two, or perhaps endowed you with eternal life.

"The gates of Tune Town are locked with piano keys," he explained graciously, "so when you struck the opening chords, of course you fell in."

Carol Baldwin, the office manager of Ribbon Things, graciously explained why.

Yet he still graciously explains how it came to be that an Oregonian who works in Washington wrote a best-selling guidebook to New York City.