On Christmas Eve, after Johnny dismisses his father's report of Germans and Britons singing "Silent Night" to one another the previous night as another of his father's well-meaning lies, a confluence of dramatic and believable events leads him to abandon his plans to destroy the nutcracker men.
If the scarcely believable events against Real Madrid at the Bernebeu on Tuesday night had left City deflated and leggy, Arsenal did their best to exploit it during a frantic first half.
Gertrude Stein called mysteries the most demanding form of fiction, because a good mystery requires a watertight plot with believable events and logical characters.
Characters returned to their sensible, believable roots, events hurtled along but not with unseemly haste and everything was rooted in reality and a believability more akin to drama than the consequence-free world of Peyton Place it had descended into.
Therefore, when building a character, try building a set of beliefs that the character has and a matrix of his/her possible actions in reaction to events and thoughts to come up with truly believable flows of events.
(Courtroom scenes in which the defense argues that the case is based on pure fabrication are nicely offset by the plaintiffs relating their harrowing, decidedly believable version of events from home).
Ultimately, Nicolau found Glass's version of events more believable than the explanations given by Douby, Miller and Ringel, which he found inconsistent.
Then you move to figuring out how believable her version of events is versus his.
Earlier, a police spokesman said Elisabeth was "psychologically extremely disturbed", but that her version of events was "completely believable".
It is, however, the way in which Zusak combines such terrible events with such believable characters and the minutiae of everyday life in Nazi Germany that makes this book so special.
There were now, openly, two sides, and the vote was 5 to 4. The pace of events, already scarcely believable by the Supreme Court's stately standards, was to become amazingly compressed: state court decision Friday afternoon; Supreme Court appeal filed Friday night; case accepted Saturday; briefs due Sunday; argument Monday; decision Tuesday.
