Sentence examples for improbable notion from inspiring English sources

It seems an improbable notion, but he treated everything so lightly that it worked.

A circling helicopter and the enthusiastic squeals of riverfront revelers interfered with pale slivers of sound played on muted instruments at dynamics sometimes marked at quintuple piano: an improbable notion of near-silence.

I traveled to Poky early in January with the slightly improbable notion of visiting one particular resident: a young black steer that I'd met in the fall on a ranch in Vale, S.D. The steer, in fact, belonged to me.

This view rests on the improbable notion that guidelines for design and judgment are one and the same, related though they may be in connecting style and critical frameworks.

Reviewing for The Listener, Simon Raven believed that Fleming was a "kind of supersonic John Buchan", but he was somewhat dismissive of the plot, observing that it is "a brilliant but improbable notion" that includes "a deal of champagne-drinking, bomb-throwing, relentless pitting of wits etc ... with a cretinous love-affair".

Koch assured me that he had long ago abandoned such improbable notions.

@BuckThunderThrust came up with the tantalising-but-improbable notion that Missy is the sister of Dervla Kerwan's character Miss Hartigan in the 2008 Christmas special The Next Doctor, and that's the link with the Cybermen in the finale.

Of all the consumer fantasies that arose during the Internet boom, one of the most improbable was the notion that the home would soon be transformed into a digital machine for living.

That idea is almost as improbable as the notion that a comedy adapted from a British sitcom and initially poised for oblivion (after NBC's screening of the pilot, it was headed for exile on Bravo, one executive related) would become a bellwether of many of the changes that have overtaken television today.

AS IMPROBABLE AS the notion of an ex-ballplayer buying a major-league team may sound, it's important to keep in mind how much Nolan Ryan, whose likeness seems to stare down at you from every corner of the Arlington ballpark, means to the Texas Rangers.

As improbable as such notions are, they epitomize Kessler's belief in the primacy of mercurial human relationships.