This is a naive approach to fiction, granted, but a tough one, since intellect, cleverness, charm, wit, tact, even fact cannot conceal incredibility.
"Labour's economic policy lurches further form chaos to incredibility".
Incredibility is, finally, the point of the film.
The rest of us will be slogging through a landscape of papier-mâché incredibility.
Mr Osborne said last night: "Labour's economic policy has lurched from chaos to incredibility.
But the loopy incredibility of all this is redeemed by his indomitable playfulness.
For sheer madness of mind my imagination is left cold with incredibility at the immensity of brutal war.
What attracted her, she added, was not so much its controversial and sexual subject matter but the fact that "it just felt so incredibility honest".
Were Jacobson playing this riff as pure Wodehouse, the reader would happily forgive its incredibility — for, as in Martin Amis, Wodehouse's inheritor, the riff would be the raison d'être.
"When I think about those more senior leaders who have been incredibility generous with me and invested a lot of time in me, the best thing I can do to to repay that is step up now.
He might have been talking about Enron, Lucent, Xerox or any of the other big corporate deceivers that have come to light in recent years.Deceit demands more deceit until eventually the pile collapses under the weight of its own incredibility.
