"Hey buddy!" he shouted at no one, in a plausible New Jersey cop accent.
Ms. Oates makes no effort to ground these absurdly melodramatic events in a plausible psychological matrix.
Since it is still committed to admitting Cambodia, it has an interest in a plausible election.
Far from being whimsical or tricksy, this roots the action in a plausible world of escalating terror to which England provides a tonal contrast.
Maybe what we and Mr. Sondheim need is a summer festival in a plausible theater devoted to the best in operas and musical theater, irrespective of genre.
In a plausible way using those narrators she builds up real details which amount to a context that is inimical to humane living.
In between the flip-outs and benders, we see Pollock gradually inspired in a plausible sense to invent a new way of painting, not just in the usual melodramatic Hollywood sense that an artist is inspired.
What stops it toppling into gothic absurdity is King's sharp sense of humour, narrative drive and realism: she locates her dark fable in a plausible world where cattle have to be fed, leeks harvested and meals cooked.
For an actor, it's a meaty challenge like no other: How to project gravitas (or whatever quality we expect in a plausible President) while revealing the human side of someone thrust into an awe-inspiring position of power and responsibility?
As great as he had been on Tuesday in works by Schoenberg, Mahler and Noam Sheriff, he was even more remarkable here, declaiming in a plausible cantorial style: more, virtually embodying an Old Testament prophet.
As the financier Henry Clews put it, "It is marvelous how the idea of large profits when presented to the mind in a plausible light has the effect of stifling suspicion".
