Sentence examples for rather plausible from inspiring English sources

But both now look rather plausible.

Rather plausible, for example, was the extension of atomism to the phenomena of electricity.

The alternative explanation that any politician seen to thumb his nose at the establishment delights disenchanted voters—seems rather plausible.

It seems to me rather plausible that Mr Applebaum has been hassled in this way simply on the basis of information about who he has been talking to.

I set out to visit all the dusty museums, all the dark churches, and see all 50 or so securely attributed works by him, a figure that can never be quite final because numerous contested candidates seek admission to the corpus, from hamfisted pastiches to the Prado's rather plausible David and Goliath (click here to see the work).

Such considerations would seem to cast into doubt whether there is just one way in which referential terms refer; in other words, such considerations make it look rather plausible that there is more than one basic mechanism of linguistic reference.

He was outrageously confident and had a talent for telling vaguely plausible lies – or rather, plausibly vague lies.

A few threads, especially that involving Dawson's boyfriend, feel like punchline setups rather than plausible plots.

The results do not form a prediction or a business as usual scenario, but rather a plausible and salient thought-experiment of a possible future based on the consistent integration of current conceptual and quantitative models.

Miserly Mr Scrooge and the boozy Mrs Gamp, ever-optimistic Mr Micawber and the faded Miss Havisham are theatrical figures, it is said, rather than plausible personalities.

These findings suggest that people may find it easier to detect physically implausible, rather than plausible, manipulations, but this is not the case when it comes to locating the manipulation.