There's no core of plausibility in his role.
Others still are little more than twinkles of varying plausibility in their inventors' eyes.
Like Romney and Paul, in abandoning responsibility for the past they also surrender plausibility in the present.
And worrying about plausibility in a thriller is like worrying about whether you left the stove on during your vacation.
It is an excellent ambition and there is sufficient plausibility in the theory behind it to make it a goal worth aiming for.
Two key cast members will be missing: Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, and with them the last remnants of plausibility in the field.
And for all Mr Cameron's own calm plausibility, in the new atmosphere of austerity his front-bench team has come to seem vulnerably jejune.
The view that campus collegiality leads to tyranny of the majority has some plausibility in explaining the absence of Republicans from academia, but the main causes clearly lie elsewhere.
No one can know for certain what went on in this nightmarish subworld, but this film has a conviction and plausibility in its detail that means its impact is overwhelming.
How aware Han Solo or Sarah Connor or 007 – given alibis of differing plausibility in their respective franchises – are of the weird repetitive vibe around them is by the by.
There is plausibility in the suggestion that these changes were brought on by a desire of the women's fathers to avoid having their daughters' portions of the larger family estates slip irrevocably into the hands of their husbands.
