How To Use Implausibly In A Sentence
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You might think that a weta is a special effects company, but in fact it's an implausibly large, shiny, scary-looking insect, whose natural habitats do not usually include my kitchen appliances.
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I actually have more of a problem with the plotting in The Da Vinci Code than anything else (characters are so implausibly motivated I think I laughed out loud at their actions more than once) but Browne’s actual word-smithery is just as noxious.
The telegraph tells it how it is « paper fruit
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Finally, insofar as President Bush has exercised his powers to engage in surreptitious electronic surveillance without court-issued warrants in violation of the FISA, on the basis of an implausibly broad construction of his inherent Article II powers and a reading of the AUMF that was rightly repudiated in a slightly different context by the Supreme Court's recent Hamdan decision, the "fix" reportedly negotiated between The White House and Senator Arlen Specter, in which the legality of the NSA program of warrantless surveillance would be submitted for adjudication on the basis of a one-sided presentation to the FISA court by the Executive Branch -- which alone would be authorized to control the evidence to be considered, the forum for its consideration, whether the proceedings would be public or secret, and whether the result would be published or kept under wraps, and which alone would be authorized to appeal an adverse ruling to an Article III court including the Supreme Court -- is as transparently phony and futile as is the suggestion of a congressionally enacted vehicle to confer standing on someone to obtain a judicial ruling on the legality of this President's signing statements.
Balkinization
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To see who is doing what at the end of which implausibly narrow lane.
Times, Sunday Times
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To see who is doing what at the end of which implausibly narrow lane.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your claim that they are 'intrinsically functionless' is implausibly strong, given that functionality is always ... er, a function of contexts, which is to say, out and out extrinsic), and the radical transformation of contexts is the very thing at issue.
More Aesthetics
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It being the first tour of the day, the group is small -- two shortish, stoutish men with implausibly dark hair and Eurasian mustaches.
The Fruits of Clear Creek Distillery's Labor
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But images of Irvine impossibly and implausibly running the ball from deep and kicking unlikely goals from halfway will remain in the memory.
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The giraffe gazed downwards at us with a stupidly benign expression on its face and slowly stalked away, balanced on its implausibly spindly legs.
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If this kind of thing is your cup of tea, you'll be pleased to know (via the same link) that Aurum Press is to publish a book celebrating 30 years of The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, asmall-format hardback gift book, How to Avoid Huge Ships and Other Implausibly Titled Books, out in September.
Legs, pygmy love queen and cheese
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To see who is doing what at the end of which implausibly narrow lane.
Times, Sunday Times
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Marr professes - rather implausibly - not to be too aware of the issues, but gives a broad hint that he would be against the idea.
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You know that the contributions were seminal and shaped the future in the genre, but everything is dated, implausibly created and hokey in comparison to modern examples of the genre.
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With his sleeve having fallen away from it a couple of inches, Parlabane could now more clearly see the grey twiglet of arm that was implausibly supporting Sliver's head.
Boiling a frog
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The conversation as recorded is, to anybody who has done real business, implausibly vague, unbusinesslike and frankly unlikely.
Times, Sunday Times
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He argued, somewhat implausibly, that the accident could not have been prevented.
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With their tracksuit tops, lank hair and implausibly fresh faces, they look more like teenage scallies than harbingers of a musical revolution, but their enthusiasm is infectious.
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President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stands erect and unsmiling, sports a helmet of implausibly jet-black hair and wears a long dress-coat, studded with medals.
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Science fiction cinema is no stranger to implausible robots, running the full gamut from implausibly cool to implausibly terrible.
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Bertus, an implausibly mature 16-year-old, rides at the rear as second guide and helps wrangle the loose horses.
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Trying to portray herself as an ingénue, lost in the world of politics, came implausibly from the woman who had first fought a by-election as long ago as 1981, before her husband had mounted his first soap-box.
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Her journey to an implausibly remote and impenetrable part of Wales, presided over by a strange and dangerous cult, is pacey and exhilarating enough, if a tad formulaic.
Crime roundup – reviews
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The budget forecast, implausibly, assumes the number of AMT payers will soar again in 2008.
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Theobald Tanqueray Thompkinson, leaning unsteadily forwards, jocular and rotund; rubicund, reckless and implausibly optimistic.
Pigeon Post
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To see who is doing what at the end of which implausibly narrow lane.
Times, Sunday Times
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Second, they implausibly erase much of the cost by assuming the Kerry plan would so increase efficiency that taxpayers would get back 30 cents of every dollar spent.
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With their tracksuit tops, lank hair and implausibly fresh faces, they look more like teenage scallies than harbingers of a musical revolution, but their enthusiasm is infectious.
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It is truly terrible: leadenly paced, datedly filmed, implausibly plotted and lazily acted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Noticeably larger effects are only likely to be elicited under implausibly high values of the short-run trade price elasticity.