A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

It was a mistake on our part and unacceptable.

Their mishandling of the Folsom modifications has become very apparent, ... This is more than unfortunate. This is unacceptable.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.