Sentence examples for improbable project from inspiring English sources

(Sisario) RASPUTINA (Wednesday) Rasputina is a charmingly improbable project: part Marie Antoinette, part metal.

During the late 1960s Mr. Seeger started an improbable project: a sailing ship that would crusade for cleaner water on the Hudson River.

And for the more avant-garde-minded, there is "NOVEL," the typically improbable project of a group of irreverent conceptualists who call themselves FLUX FACTORY.

As an Austrian scientist living in England, he was rounded up and put in an internment camp; later, he worked for the British government on the improbable Project Habakkuk, which aimed to build aircraft carriers out of giant icebergs.

Navarro's "unwinding and repatriating" is, to say no more, part of an improbable project: making America greater by making Apple, Boeing and many other corporations much less efficient and less competitive.

The gallery spaces display some of the work that has been created here: ceramic musical jewelry from Christie Wright and Arjen Noordeman; a clay kimono from Karen LaMonte, whose glass dresses are in several museum collections around the world; and the most improbable project of all, Filip Jonker's "Dante GT ceramic," a 1985 Pontiac Fiero with a frame that's been covered with a ceramic body.

After a hard day of dreaming up increasingly improbable projects, the kids did what kids do — headed for the bar and looked for a hookup.

Between dedicated cable stations, an Internet where everything can happen and a community of comic actors and writers who all seem to have one another on speed dial, a lot of improbable projects, some of them seemingly the product of a random thought, drunken conversation or dare, are coming to life.

Using this improbable literary project as a pretext, he calls on his old boss, the beautiful senior prosecutor Irene Menéndez Hastings, played by Soledad Villamil, a woman with whom he has been hopelessly in love for decades.

Their haul on that March day was no more than a pocketful of singles and silver from the poor boxes and a table saw belonging to one of the carpenters working on a slow, improbable restoration project of a church that seemed near closing just a few years ago.

He sponsored grand public works, such as the improbable Great Man-Made River project, a massive endeavour inspired, perhaps, by ancient Bedouin water procurement techniques, that brought sweet, fresh water from aquifers in the south to the arid north of his country.