| But what does stand out in Adrian's novel is the way he combines verisimilitude with implausibility. |
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| The film has a brilliant plot, devoid of holes or implausibility, but is only secondary to the characters. |
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| She's a kooky, overtalkative eccentric and there's a breathless implausibility to the way the romance develops. |
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| Twas preposterous to Hughes anywise, who considered it a complete implausibility. |
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| Yet it really would be a pity if we voted on a report littered with legal implausibility, with formal trash. |
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| Both are predicated on the implausibility of a constitutional amendment to achieve a similar end. |
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| This story of putting lovers to the test following a simple wager came as a shock on account of its obvious immorality and implausibility. |
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| Decisions based on findings of implausibility are vulnerable on a review by a superior court or tribunal. |
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| It is on the face of it extremely implausible to deny change, but extreme implausibility has not always deterred philosophers. |
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| Does the implausibility of Doxastic Voluntarism show that pragmatic belief-formation is also implausible? |
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| The implausibility of voluntary-financed government notwithstanding, elements of Rand's view remain profoundly appealing. |
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| At some point on the scale, a degree of implausibility is reached when the experiment can no longer be considered acceptable. |
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| The implausibility of that task is based on the highly socialized nature of the state and previous lack of political will. |
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| The implausibility of one version of consequentialism does not make consequentialism implausible in general, since other versions of consequentialism still might be plausible. |
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| And balls to the space-alien writers for breaking new ground in implausibility. |
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| Aside from the implausibility of expecting the unco-ordinated actions of thousands of private firms to yield a coherent optimising policy on global warming, say, there is also what you might call the constitutional issue. |
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| To illustrate the implausibility of this testimony, the defense attorney, Earl Rogers, pulled a Colt. |
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| The members of the Goncourt committee repaid the indulgence of the author and his hero in kind with indulgence for this implausibility. |
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| Even if we set aside for a moment the extreme implausibility of its beliefs, there remains another hurdle which a theism must leap in order to reach anything resembling credibility: the question of authority. |
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| The play never rises above the fundamental implausibility and, I have to say, essential grubbiness of this idea. |
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| Thanks to the great wisdom that comes with age, I am disgusted by slut-dropping, and untroubled by the absence of anything other than third-hand reports and its inherent wild implausibility. |
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| A model of implausibility, that is all that can be said of these results. |
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| Despite the implausibility of Gregg's explanations, the Senate, eager to move past the Iran-contra unpleasantness, approved his nomination last September. |
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