Two more improbable characters entered the HP story.
But that case is even more improbable than case (b) above.
As it is, watching The Anniversary is like watching a tag-wrestling bout, in which increasingly unlikely characters deploy ever more improbable manoeuvres to manipulate and abuse one another.
The classic case is that of a monkey typing Hamlet by randomly striking the keyboard; that is an event remarkable but no more improbable than any other sequence of characters the monkey might have produced.
Gardner-Webb's victory was more improbable.
If this sounds an improbable match, the circumstances in which they met are significantly more improbable.
Mr. Baker writes: No American president was more improbable than Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
No American president was more improbable than Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
More improbable things have happened in her life.
Bridge players sometimes have the more difficult task of distinguishing the more improbable from the less improbable.
