Sentence examples for improbable what from inspiring English sources

The contingency we have not considered seriously looks strange; what looks strange is thought improbable; what is improbable need not be considered seriously".

The contingency we have not considered seriously looks strange; what looks strange is thought improbable; what is improbable need not be considered seriously". Wohlstetter's work revealed that Pearl Harbor was not much of a surprise at all.

In The Almost Moon, what initially seems so grounded in relatable-to feelings turns out to be a kind of fantasy in its extremes: instead of mere dissatisfaction and divorce, the father's madness and suicide; instead of resentment and placing the mother in a hospice, murder - an acting out of improbable what-ifs that is less and less realistic, but disguisedly so.

A Japanese-style ordeal remains unlikely, but an immediate and enduring recovery is also improbable, despite what Wall Street is saying.

THE IMPROBABLE MACHINE: What New Discoveries in Artificial Intelligence Reveal About How the Mind Really Works, by Jeremy Campbell.

It may sound improbable, given what followed, but on that morning I had no thoughts of causing Jocelyn any harm.

When I think about Squeeze going on the road again I think about the improbable dream – what will those things mean anymore?

At first glance it might seem like an improbable celebrity, what with its Quasimodo-like hump, its massive drooping nose and its prickly crust of barnacles.

And yet even that seems less improbable than what's happening on the stage tonight: three sixtysomething actors are performing a selection of songs from a film 25 years old to a response verging on mild hysteria.

He is an adventurer who does not present himself as adventurous; he is a Victorian Englishman abroad with all the self-assurance but without the lordly superiority of the coloniser; he is the chronicler of wonders who refuses to exaggerate, or to believe anybody else's improbable marvels: what he can see and examine (and, very often, shoot) is wonder enough for him.

Then he hit upon a clever, improbable solution: What if he could convert all his doubts into artistry?