Like Ms Tomalin, he has allowed himself to imagine likely situations, but there are too many of them and he does it less convincingly.This is partly because his voice is so fragmented.
Usually when reconstructing an animal, paleoartists research the creature's anatomy, then the habitat it lived in, and use modern analogues to imagine likely colouration that matches the extinct animal's lifestyle.
Politically, however, that outcome is hard to imagine.More likely is rotation.
Not all his listeners agree, but they're hard pressed to offer a better explanation for the recent exodus, or imagine its likely consequences.
Imagining the likely chaos of moving the same set of games two months earlier, say, did nothing to recommend a winter schedule.
Imagine how likely they would be to seek immediate help for a temperature and, if they did turn out to have Ebola, how many people they might infect before they did.
So I think we can imagine the likely outcome of Fifa's "investigation" into the arrest of the BBC team and, incidentally, the arrest and interrogation of German journalists the week before.
Can you imagine?" As likely to send up Obama in the form of a "middle-aged rap" as imagine Nixon in heaven on Le Show (his weekly public radio programme, which last year celebrated its 30th anniversary), Shearer is an equal-opportunities satirist, insisting that Nixon's the One is a "non-political" proposition.
There is no avoiding the fact that Nabokov was prejudiced against homosexuality, and it was fortunate for his academic reputation that queer theory did not emerge until well after his death (fortunate perhaps for queer theory too, if one imagines his likely reaction to it).
"I would imagine the likely solution is that Stuart Pearce will be in temporary charge, because he is in the building and with the under-21s," he said.
