Sentence examples for implausible on from inspiring English sources

The claim that an elite university would tolerate open religious bigotry is implausible on its face.

The defendants were accused of stealing every drop of oil Yukos produced from 1998 to 2001 for their personal gain — implausible on its face.

That the Secret Intelligence Service should turn to Radio 1 for its next intake of "operational officers" seems implausible on a number of levels.

That magic works well enough to make the end, which appears a bit implausible on paper, as natural as sudden lightning in a tropical summer.

Robert Fine Emeritus professor of sociology, University of Warwick Nick Clegg is right on principle, but implausible on the likelihood of 434 MPs voting turkey-like for Christmas (section 2 of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011).

That would be implausible on two counts.

Sentimental, implausible lunchtime-on-BBC2 tosh, eh? Absolutely.

Of course, if you were one of the dozens of people prosecuted in these cases, one of those who spent years in jails and prisons on wildly implausible charges, one of those separated from your own children, forgetting would not be an option.

They would dangle from the nomological net of physical science and should strike one as implausible excrescences on the fair face of science.

There are moments when the characterisation teeters a little to caricature on one side and to an implausible pathos on the other.

One noteworthy feature of the congruous versions of abduction considered here is that they do not rely on the assumption of an implausible privilege on the reasoner's part that, we saw, ABD1 implicitly relies on.