Valjean explains his past to her directly rather than through Marius.

"A Dangerous Woman" never quite explains Martha's past, or the forces that shaped her.

Regina asks about it, and Dylan explains his dark past.

Mr. Sherry shows little interest in the many other ways historians have tried to explain our recent past.

Others respond to a government's need to explain a nation's past to itself.

Pearson said she wrote the book, "so that I won't have to keep explaining" her past and her life story.

Don't ask me to explain my troubled past.

Mr. Mordaunt took it upon himself to explain the court's past as well as its present.

I immediately felt like the diagnosis explained my past.

He was both prophesizing his future and explaining his past with a single act of personal mythology.