improbability

How To Use improbability In A Sentence

• Some of these stories seem to be collapsing out of sheer improbability.
• The cryptic whimsy with which this idea is introduced cannot conceal its improbability.
• Even if you discount the improbability of such poetically contrived melodrama, there are difficulties with this.
• Note that Heddle* refers to unity or near unity probability while Collins refers to "improbability". David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument
• Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
• Still less is the notion tenable of any special improbability applying to this particular pretension. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
• impossibility should never be confused with improbability
• Now, as this merely alleges the improbability of a Greek original, it is enough to place against it the evidence already adduced, which is positive, in favor of the sole originality of our Greek Matthew. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• But his improbabilities are rarely psychological, and in some of his plays there occurs one kind of improbability which is no defect, but simply a characteristic which has lost in our day much of its former attraction. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
• An aching back makes smiling a physical improbability.