bearably

When it comes to taking one’s chances with a stranger, we may be better off keeping our expectations reasonably pragmatic, if not bearably low, instead of plunging into the wilderness with our hearts exposed.

You need to be you, she needs to be needy and it’s time you both figured out whether you can be these things bearably together.

It was not, as they say, unbearably sad; on the contrary, it was bearably sad—a tranquil, contemplative, lapping kind of sorrow.

Often, as Martin points out, they “make thinking bearably simple” But we need a way to describe them if we are to understand them.

Now the days, often as not, are still summery, if more bearably so.