Sentence examples for implausible with from inspiring English sources

Several people familiar with the affair said they thought Safonov's claims implausible, with one saying he had never heard it aired within London intelligence circles before.

Stoppard sought to link this story, true but implausible, with the hypothesis, plausible but untrue, that Joyce, Tzara, and Lenin had known one another in Zurich.

My column, however, explicitly grants this--but refuses to equate "implausible" with "impossible". For example, Israel's Operation Focus in the Six-Day War would have been held to be completely impossible until it happened (and US-North Korea is much more lopsided (in the other direction) than Israel-Egypt+Jordan+Syria).

This position might be thought to have the disadvantage that it can only be put forward as true or justified relative to some conceptual framework (the suggestion is usually that this framework is our own), and many find it implausible with regard to common sense judgments and judgments in the natural sciences.

Many scientific theories of the past become weirdly implausible with the passage of time, just like religions.

This is biologically implausible, with pattern associators being the most typical known classifier in the cerebral cortex (Rolls 2008).

Williams even discerns a similar, and probably for many readers an implausible, identification with blacks in "Gone With the Wind," which she sees as affirming not the lost racist world of the plantation but the earthy hunger for land of Scarlett O'Hara's Irish immigrant forebears.

But that too happens to be in keeping with Górecki, who came to implausible fame with a 1992 Nonesuch recording of his 1977 Third Symphony.

He instantly starts a wildly implausible affair with Carole Bouquet, playing the estate agent who rented him his pad.

The report says "the argument that coal holds the key to eliminating Africa's energy poverty combines implausible economics with unsubstantiated evidence".

Prem Shekar, a cardiac-transplant surgeon at Harvard Medical School, told me that Adrian's tale was medically implausible, starting with the rubbing-alcohol detail.