To make the relationship between Ann Darrow and Kong plausible, the writers studied hours of gorilla footage.
Her work as both a poet and scholar is based largely on making emotionally plausible connections between subjects, writers -- even entire epochs -- that seem as if they couldn't possibly inform one another.
But on the other, "no modern reader can find her emotionally plausible," and even ancient writers gave her lovers or, like Ovid, realistically filled in the psychological gaps, tilting the Homeric perspective on the Penelope-Odysseus marriage and anticipating modern efforts large and small, like Dorothy Parker's short poem "Penelope" or Margaret Atwood's 2005 novel "The Penelopiad".
Another plausible explanation is that many writers and readers like feel-good — or conversely, tear-jerking — stories about migrants because many of us have been migrants ourselves or have a relative or close friend who is.
Josh Lawson is plausible as Shawn, an aspiring fiction writer who sponges off Perry.
I worked backward and invented what would be a plausible dream for a needy, liberal writer like me.
Indeed, for other items, where specifying more than two plausible options would be difficult, item writers would not be obliged to spend excessive time trying to construct additional, potentially poor quality options.
Giordano's invitation led directly to Bolland working with writer Alan Moore to create a plausible background story for the Joker.
A healthy and plausible solution might be two-tiered: let writers have a crack at the album when it leaks, as we saw above with Spin and Pitchfork.
In the end, I find myself charmed by this writer, or at least by some plausible iteration of him.
