Sentence examples for have been plausible from inspiring English sources

A scornful James Agee, reviewing it at the time, said that the story might have been "plausible enough in a dramatically lighted black-and-white picture"; but plausibility is not the issue, and color is the lifeblood of the film.

And if he thought he had six cards in that suit, an opening bid would have been plausible.

It was close-run enough for that to have been plausible, I think, but it didn't happen.

It would never have been plausible for her to go back to a normal life – she was getting the best of both worlds as it was.

The explanation would have been plausible except for one fact: the first reported cases of foot-and-mouth in Britain were in February 2001, a month after the Harrods financial year ended.

Professor Czitrom acknowledged that the 69th Regiment would have been more likely but said that the 71st, which began early in the 1850s as a Know Nothing outfit, by the early 1860s would still have been plausible.

Or until there had been plausible and convincing evidence that the most important elements of the story were false.

The famous "progressive coalition" might have been politically plausible had it made arithmetic sense.

If this had been the initial announcement from the Interior Ministry on June 12th, it would have been entirely plausible.

Newspeak may have been a plausible invention in 1948, when totalitarian thought control still seemed an imminent possibility.

Implicating a second officer, the judges said yesterday, would have been a plausible alternative defense strategy, but they said Mr. Worth had a reason for avoiding it.