Sentence examples for implausible name from inspiring English sources

To flesh out the corpse's fictional identity, a truly eclectic group of talents was assembled, including a brilliant barrister, an eccentric 25-year-old Royal Air Force officer, a future thriller writer, a pretty secretary and a coroner with the implausible name of Bentley Purchase.

Yes, the earlier title was "The Secret Life of Willa Mitty," (even as the only Willas I know are either under age five, or long dead, thus making Willa an implausible name for an adult in a contemporary story — so a problem already, never minding that the classic James Thurber story is too overpowering to play with in a title).

Since U and O are both back vowels, there is no reason for the U to be fronted... "To put it another way, Bruno - without the dots - is a fairly common German name, whereas Brüno - with the dots - is a made-up, and slightly implausible name - a bit like spelling Gordon with a U".

He bestows his antagonists with annoyingly implausible names like William Worldweight and Arnold Adverse.

Put another way, how could manufacturers come up with such ambitious and/or implausible names?

But it seems intuitively implausible to suppose that the name 'Aristotle' — as we in fact use that name in the actual world — could be used to refer to anyone other than its referent in the actual world, namely Aristotle.

It is implausible that the Senate will name its own negotiators, much less hash out a compromise, before much of the government closes down on Tuesday.

It had housing, and even quite modest shops – now all that's left of the commercial activity that once gave the capital its distinctive street life is a Tesco Express, a Waterstone's and, further along towards Pall Mall, the offices of various implausible Central Asian airlines with names like GhengisAir.

The idea that an innocent man, especially one as preternaturally competitive as Lance Armstrong, would surrender rather than fight to clear his name wasn't just implausible, it was impossible.

There is also the story of Raffi (David Alpay), who goes to Turkey in search of footage for the movie, and who is stopped on the way back to Canada and interviewed, at implausible length, by a customs officer named David Christopher Plummerr).

Then along comes Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, he of the implausible hair and the hard to pronounce name.