The most charitable explanation for their apathy was that they could not understand English.

But there is another, more charitable explanation.

A less charitable explanation, he added, is that smaller companies are simply not watched as closely.

But there is a third, more charitable explanation and one which I feel within me is probably the true one.

The most charitable explanation is that executives at Virgin Records simply haven't been following the career of their own recording artist.

In my opinion there are two charitable explanations of this matter.

I see,"said the Purser grimly, "that there is another less charitable explanation of this matter.

The second, less charitable, explanation flows from commercial self-interest.

The most charitable explanation I can devise is that those responsible simply knew no better.

But that might be too charitable an explanation.