Except for a rushed, somewhat implausible conclusion, "The Edge of the Earth" is skillful storytelling given welcome weight by the author's knowledge of lighthouse technology, tide-pool ecology, Native American ethnology and her narrator's proto-feminist psychology.
But if this temple really is located in Vaes Dothrak, as many believe, that seems somewhat implausible; it's the Dothraki holy city, and would be hard for a saboteur to infiltrate. .
And also, in the end, somewhat implausible.
The first presents a somewhat implausible way to embrace change; the second imagines a downright fantastical way to avoid it.
As with most murder mysteries, the densely woven narrative of "Mystic River" is a skein of coincidences and somewhat implausible connections.
A complicated (and somewhat implausible) web of bureaucratic glitches and regulations strands him at the airport, where he remains for nearly a year, unable to board a flight home or hop a cab into Manhattan but innocent of anything that would warrant his detention.
"It seems somewhat implausible," he said, that the government's witness saw the event and was "right about one and mistaken about the other".
But back in the garret Mimì's death scene seemed stilted, marred by Ms. Marambio's hackneyed coughs and Mr. Villazón's somewhat implausible sobs.
For if God is valuable and God is identical to the universe then we might seem committed to the somewhat implausible thought that everything in the universe is equally valuable; a leveling off which gave rise to Coleridge's complaint that 'everything God' and 'no God' are in effect identical positions.
Tino told me a somewhat implausible story about walking in on someone raping Destiny.
