Sentence examples for improbable situations from inspiring English sources

Certainly Ramsland shares Irving's frank disregard for taboos and his fondness for extravagantly improbable situations.

Farce, a comic dramatic piece that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay.

The odds don't look great, but then again, a good writer, like a clever sociopath, can talk people into all kinds of improbable situations.

The scenes shared by the two performers are electric, and the comic timing of their often nonsensical banter and their reactions to wildly improbable situations resulted in among the most memorable moments in the history of film comedy.

Williams makes observations about being drunk and having sex, he gives his opinion of the president of the day (Reagan; not good), he decorates proceedings with a range of voices and improbable situations, slaloming around some readymade good lines.

Spelled out in his 1999 book, "The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief," his theory is implicit in the term he coined for what he dislikes most about modern fiction, "hysterical realism": cartoonish characters, hyped-up prose, long lists of political and pop culture references, improbable situations, the essayistic presentation of ideas about politics and culture.

It was an improbable problem, but this was an improbable situation.

The place, the weather, the scale of the projects make for an improbable situation.

That left him envisaging an improbable situation in which moderates from both major parties formed "a major modern party with the reactionary factions being squeezed out".

If Clarett wanted to play again for the Buckeyes -- a highly improbable situation -- the university would first have to apply to the N.C.A.A. for his reinstatement.

Nobody would know quite what to make of such an improbable situation; yet, here we are, with two unlikely would-be champions squaring off in what surely will be an historic finale.