Sentence examples for once plausible from inspiring English sources

Things happen that were at once plausible and distressingly odd: a rotting goat is found floating in a rich man's swimming pool like some satanic parody of a Hockney painting; a man is shot at a dining table by a besuited dwarf in a Tony Blair mask – Tiny Blair; a perpetually smiling female cop interrogates one of our hapless heroes while giving him a head massage.

Unfortunately, this premise is "extremely difficult to state so that it shall be at once plausible and non-tautologous" (1918, p. 389).

The establishment is not a monolith; it is more fragmented and contested than that, so much so that a much-mocked billionaire real-estate developer and a millionaire nationalist Goldman Sachs executive can consider themselves outsiders, and that can be at once completely plausible and not plausible at all.

Once a plausible stepping stone to perhaps even the White House, the job was coveted for all sorts of nonmonetary reasons.

The crimes in "The Night Season" are at once less plausible and less deliciously perverse than Gretchen's drawn-out butcheries.

The bittersweet paradox of this franchise is that while the stories have grown progressively less interesting the special effects have improved tremendously, becoming at once more plausible — when Spider-Man swings through the urban canyons he finally looks almost real — and more spectacular.

According to this script, Mr McCain is heading for a fall in Arizona's primary on August 24th no less humiliating than the one Utah's Republicans inflicted on their long-serving senator, Bob Bennett, by refusing to reselect him in May.It is easy to see why this once looked plausible.

Condorcet anticipated a key theme of modern social choice theory: majority rule is at once a plausible method of collective decision making and yet subject to some surprising problems.

Congress was once a plausible institution for this kind of investigation, but these days the American public can be forgiven for lacking faith in Capitol Hill.

PDZ and RING domains are abundant in metazoan genomes and so the independent evolution of a RING-PDZn architecture more than once is plausible.

Once something is plausible in a semi-democratic society, it has a natural momentum toward becoming real.