"We have, in a sober and clear-eyed way, assessed risk, set priorities, made tradeoffs and identified requirements based on plausible, real-world threats, scenarios and potential adversaries," he said.
The behaviors and conversations are plausible and real," she said.
I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real.
While this sounds perfectly plausible, the real lyrics use more complicated grammar – and a fancier adverb: "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming".
Alice's impulsive affairs, including one with the doctor tending to her dying mother, verge on melodrama, while Nick's flings with a succession of hookers never feel plausible or real.
One chief delight, for me anyway, of the high-end cable drama is the opportunity to become enveloped in a lushly conjured world with its own history, geography, and social codes — a world which, over years of watching, can begin to seem not just plausible, but real.
By Patrick Radden Keefe July 13 , 2012One chief delight, for me anyway, of the high-end cable drama is the opportunity to become enveloped in a lushly conjured world with its own history, geography, and social codes — a world which, over years of watching, can begin to seem not just plausible, but real.
Fifteen native Chinese speakers completed the questionnaire for which they (a) wrote out their interpretations of the underlined turn (which contained a targeted implicature) and (b) rated the degree of real-life authenticity for each dialog on a 5-point scale (i.e., 1 point being least plausible in real life and 5 points being truly authentic).
In finance, such a cut-off is more than plausible as real markets do suspend trading when large price fluctuations occur.
