Sentence examples for plausible doubts from inspiring English sources

This feature of the features does argue for Leonardo's authorship — or auteurship, anyhow, if the handiwork that we see isn't fully his own — despite some more or less plausible doubts that Jerry Saltz, in New York, ticked through, with entertaining zest, before the auction.

For those who aren't conspiracy-minded, this is the more plausible doubt to harbor about McMullin: that taking a stand was also a way of kickstarting his career.

In principle, that seems perfectly plausible, and no doubt there is interdependence between the two sides of a payment system.

Most epidemiologists and biologists do not find such a tissue-skipping mechanism plausible and most doubt that there is any causal link between frontal tumors and phones.

Many scientists think that wormholes are physically plausible, but most doubt that spaceships would be able to cross the bridge.

After all that had transpired, Thomas' doubt is plausible; but Jesus' response to that doubt is not shame or rejection, but an acceptance that beautifully leads Thomas to belief.

He says this in a way that sounds not just plausible but hard to doubt.

However, in many cases, the instrumental variable assumptions are not plausible, or are in doubt.

The idea of a real possibility is best illustrated by what a TV lawyer would call an "alternative theory of the crime" (van Inwagen, in discussion) which is plausible enough to cause doubt, in the sense of inability to assent, to the proposition that the accused is guilty.

This assumption is plausible but not beyond doubt.

In addition, if you do broach your fears with your partner, but he or she denies what happened, and gives you a plausible explanation to mitigate your doubts, you may find yourself dismissing the facts and instead buying into their take on the situation because you really want to believe them.