Mr. Morgenthau's report stated they were so full of discrepancies and errors regarding the rape as to make them implausible as evidence.
Thus, for some of these distracters, we took the approach of making them implausible in some other way.
The alternative strategy, categorizing time on ART [ 2, 10– 15, 15, 43, 49, 50], produces risk estimates that change abruptly, making them biologically implausible [ 14], and may poorly represent the underlying data.
The Danish show can get a bit slow and melodramatic at points — and clarity of structure does not make implausible coincidences more believable, it just makes them more obvious — but it offers a kind of formal, old-school satisfaction that the jumpier, more cryptic (as opposed to more mysterious) American adaptation has lacked.
Daytime TV gets a lot of flack for its crazy, unbelievable story lines, but as a writer you get to make seemingly implausible plot lines work and make them believable and make the audience take that journey with you.
But there are millions of them, each one a sculpture, many of them making implausible shapes, with columns and arches and if you look hard enough there are probably aqueduct icebergs and Colosseum icebergs and an iceberg in the shape of the ring road around Norwich.
It's to Mr. Rhodes's credit that he gently makes this implausible story plausible.
Where Homeland makes the implausible irresistible, Kidnap and Ransom does almost the opposite – it renders the possible unbelievable.
Some deny the existence of them at all, saying that they can be explained by changes in the discount rate investors apply to future cashflows; but the scale of disciount rate changes required makes this implausible.
As the character who makes this implausible and otherwise creaky old story work, he has been a star longer than anyone can remember.
