Joyce writes with the kind of facility that eases the reader's acceptance of the most implausible statements.
"Joyce writes with the kind of facility that eases the reader's acceptance of the most implausible statements," Gerald Jonas wrote here last year.
The candidate's response was unconvincing: she and her aides issued a string of implausible and contradictory statements about why the firm had held so much cash.
The report also said that the convicted youths' confessions -- videotaped, written and so powerful that they persuaded two juries who had heard almost no other evidence -- were actually so full of discrepancies and errors regarding the rape, even about where, when and how it took place and who was involved, as to make the statements implausible as evidence of the rape.
Ms. Feinstein also suggested that she found implausible Mr. Ashcroft's statements in last week's hearings that he would enforce the laws, even those with which he disagreed.
The judge dismissed as implausible Ms. Lewinsky's statements to the court in December about why she was certain that a specific conversation secretly tape-recorded by Mrs. Tripp had occurred on Dec. 22, 1997.
That statement would have sounded implausible two years ago.
Finally, the precedent is that motions to dismiss are "viewed with disfavor and are properly granted only in exceptional cases…A complaint satisfies Twombly [is only eligible for dismissal] if the allegations, taken as a whole, are not 'facially implausible'" according to the plaintiffs' statement.
AS implausible as it may seem, here is a statement that almost everyone in Washington can agree with: Congress has self-control problems.
Interviewers had been instructed that if a respondent raised the issue of an implausible state, they were to respond with a statement explaining that some people do find that some of the states are difficult to imagine and to encourage respondents to carry out the valuation (or ranking task) for the state to the best of their ability.
As we responded, they are so logistically implausible that one cannot conclude that the source's statements are reliable".
