Unfortunately, Reagan's cheerleaders carry their argument too far, painting an implausible picture of a deft master that calls to mind nothing so much as the hyper-studious, take-charge Reagan of a memorable "Saturday Night Live" skit.
Historian Michel Rouche published a dull, erudite, admiring biography - which became an unlikely bestseller--entitled "Clovis," which poked around in the archives to produce a somewhat implausible picture of a French king who had a "project," just like a professor; the invention of France... Tells about other books published on the subject..
He became the most original of fakers when, starting in 1936, he put aside mere canny simulations, mostly of the work of Johannes Vermeer, to create wildly implausible pictures which were presented as discoveries of a missing phase in the artist's conveniently spotty, little-documented opus.
Paint an implausible mental picture to reinforce a topic.
Here's Peter Bradshaw's view: After the glossy and faintly implausible Oscar-bait picture, The Descendants, director Alexander Payne has returned to a more natural and personal movie language for his new film in the Cannes competition.
Seems modestly implausible.
3 However, this hypothesis generates a rather puzzling picture which seems implausible as a general notion of the relationship between goal- and preference-attributions.
As the tale unfolds, unfortunately, Maxwell Sim's story becomes implausible and what began as a sharp picture of the emptiness of modern life ends up becoming vacuous.
Perhaps none, but the result of airbrushing death, disememberment and human error from this picture was that it became implausible, a triumphalist narrative, uncritical PR for advances in patient care.
Of all the complaints that have been levelled against it, from hammy acting to implausible storylines, perhaps the most compelling is that it gives a false picture of an S&M relationship.
By the defense's lights, that made it implausible as the setting for criminal behavior, as though it's only picture-book couples who sit and chat about ways to abuse the public trust.
