The $15 billion bailout plan is a plausible beginning.
As Ms. Sultan writes in the catalog, her inspiration came from Thomas L. Dumm's 1998 essay "Resignation" in the journal Critical Inquiry, in which Mr. Dumm cast disappointment as "a plausible beginning, rather than a certain ending".
The poet Martial describes serving a more plausible dinner, beginning with the gustatio ("tasting" or "appetizer"), which was a composed salad of mallow leaves, lettuce, chopped leeks, mint, arugula, mackerel garnished with rue, sliced eggs, and marinated sow udder.
The reasoning was certainly plausible, but cracks began to show Tuesday night, when Manager Jerry Manuel raised the possibility that he might lift John Maine from the rotation after just two starts.
"The apocalypse appeared to have arrived," Hamid writes toward the end, "and yet it was not apocalyptic… While the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief".
Among the speculations about its origin, the more plausible are that it began as a primitive form of communication, that it grew out of a device to expedite communal labour, or that it originated as a powerful adjunct to religious ceremonies.
Even S.& P. noted that given the difficult compromises ahead, the earliest plausible date to begin deficit reduction is late 2013, when the budget for fiscal year 2014 is due.
He peers at us from a backdrop so rich in gloom that it might as well be the nether depths of Hell — which, for anyone wishing to pinpoint Rochester's current location, remains the most plausible place to begin.
Since earlier work showed that mated males have decreased immunity that is correlated with the number of matings [ 38], it is plausible that males begin down-regulating immune response genes once mating appears likely.
Then it began to seem plausible again.
