But now, look at the matter from the other side, and see how much less satisfactory the alternative explanation is.

In fact, it was something for which nobody on board had any satisfactory explanation to offer.

It would be hard to give a satisfactory explanation if he were found in that part of the house so late at night.

We never have a satisfactory explanation of where it comes from.

"You think that would be a satisfactory explanation of my being in the museum?"

When people come across death in their own lives there is often no satisfactory explanation.

And unless you can offer a satisfactory explanation, something will have to be done.

To date, no one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation.

"I have asked you this before and never received a satisfactory explanation," West said.

And I can't really give you a satisfactory explanation as to why that is.