Sentence examples for historically plausible from inspiring English sources

The company sent the Sherlock producers a number of diaries to choose from and Holmes himself would deduce that the diary's use is, at least, historically plausible.

"I felt my job was not simply to be accurate about things that actually happened, but to make this as historically plausible as possible.

The biblical account may not be provable but it seems historically plausible, and foreshadows what happened in the region many centuries later when Jews and Arabs again occupied the same territory.

Although the scenario is entirely fictitious, there is a commitment (if the students develop an investment in the project) for the work to be both coherent and historically plausible.

The film's protagonist -- a fictitious young woman named Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau), whose life Mr. Schlondorff and Mr. Kohlhaase have taken pains to make historically plausible -- is sometimes ridiculous and occasionally frightening, but she is also thoroughly human and at times convincingly heroic.

Largely set against the background of a cholera epidemic in the 1850s, the play concerned a historically plausible but undocumented struggle between Henry Moule, the evangelical, teetotal parson of Dorchester's slum district, and Sarah Eldridge, the female founder of the local brewery.

The Jesus of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — jealous, demanding, apocalyptic — may not be congenial to contemporary sensibilities, but he's the only historically-plausible Jesus there is.

What Cameron and Bay recognise is that the public is willing to do without a plausible, historically accurate or even intelligible storyline so long as a major nautical disaster is depicted in a viscerally compelling fashion.

Historically, it may be plausible that the notorious perplexities of the traditional problem of how mind relates to body motivated both the phenomenalistic positivists as well as the behaviourists and physicalists.

All of which is not just dramatically plausible but historically accurate, based on the testimony of John Colville, who served two terms as Churchill's private secretary during the war and kept a diary, assessing, from the closest quarters, every wrinkle in his master's temperament: Sometimes it took him weeks of cogitation before he reached an answer which satisfied him.

It's not surprising, however, that investors question whether this is a plausible scenario.Historically the bond market vigilantes have proved victorious in such wars between politics and finance (remember Black Wednesday), and I wouldn't bet on the politicians this time.