How To Use Improbability In A Sentence
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Some of these stories seem to be collapsing out of sheer improbability.
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The cryptic whimsy with which this idea is introduced cannot conceal its improbability.
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Even if you discount the improbability of such poetically contrived melodrama, there are difficulties with this.
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Note that Heddle* refers to unity or near unity probability while Collins refers to "improbability".
David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument
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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
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Still less is the notion tenable of any special improbability applying to this particular pretension.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
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impossibility should never be confused with improbability
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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
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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
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An aching back makes smiling a physical improbability.
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Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability, or impossibility.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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(Compare a creationist's anti-evolution argument based on the "improbability" of human existence.)
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The separation and this litigation have made that an improbability just as in the Poole case.
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She must have got hold of some kind of improbability generator as, suddenly, the unexpected became a daily event.
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Despite the fact of the improbability of interplanetary travel, it is not impossible.
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Probabilities serve only and exclusively to determine the degree of improbability of the catastrophes that actually take place.
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This improbability underscores the impossible circumstances in which England puts its poor orphans.
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The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment.
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Without the stellar writing that fueled the books/radio show/etc., you're left with an empty shell of banal surreality, which is unforgivable given that this series has -- built right in -- the greatest plot contrivance in the history of storytelling: the Infinite Improbability Drive.
May 2nd, 2005
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The Yankees don't want to trade either, making a deal for him an improbability.
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No account had been taken of the inherent probability or improbability of what was alleged.
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Given the improbability of a hard landing in China, the swings of sentiment towards its economy are difficult to understand.
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And Chullunder Ghose describes it as "the inside-out-ishness of paradox pursued to ultimate improbability, which is the essence of the quest for truth.
Jimgrim
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That such intervention is an extreme improbability must be reckoned as another cost of the Iraq war.
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Crowds, being incapable both of reflection and of reasoning, are devoid of the notion of improbability; and it is to be noted that in a general way it is the most improbable things that are the most striking.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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inevitableness" which sometimes amounts to improbability, as in the case particularly of that most vivid and racy of books, _Cripps the
The English Novel
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One day I’d like to walk in, to, you know, a real live store, and buy a copy of “Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service”, except that I suspect it might cause the universe to collapse inwardly from the sheer improbability of this event.
Friday nattering
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In reality, the improbability that Bush will now decide to acknowledge any mistakes whatsoever, much less take full responsibility for the torture he knowingly authorized, means that unless we as a country are resigned to live with the stain of dishonor Sullivan so compellingly describes, it will be left to someone else to demand atonement for this ignoble legacy.
Letters to the Editor
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The statements of Jerome have been questioned or disbelieved on the ground of their intrinsic improbability.
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Thus, I have resigned myself to the improbability of finding such a wife.
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_If, in a story, the characters and the events are truly convincing; if the former are appealingly human and the latter are so carefully devised and described as never to evoke the idea of improbability, then it can make no difference in the_ intellectual pleasure _of the reader whether what he is made to realise so vividly is a record of fact or of mere fancy.
The Light of Scarthey
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And improbability without breaking out of realm of possibilities.
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The first is the improbability, the second is the excessive price, of success.
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Goneril would have met it; nor, if her father had been already dead, would there have been any great improbability in the false story that was to be told of her death, that, like Goneril, she 'fordid herself.'
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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the improbability of such rare coincidences
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The improbability will be the greater, the more complicated the routes; and it will become impossibility, if the zigzags are infinitely complicated.
Evolution créatrice. English
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It all depends how these things actually occur as to whether or not that is an improbability about this account.
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Arguments of improbability thus become subjective claims.
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Scientists with tenured faculty positions and NSF grants ridiculed these visions, noting that their fundamental improbability made them an absurd projection of what the future holds.
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Even assuming the improbability that all the wounded died, the overall picture does not change.
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They pointed to the improbability of her escape, bound and tied, from a vicious gunman with a dog.
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If there is a scale to determine the degree of improbability then this has to be there right at the top.
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The paradox of narrative politics is that it is the very improbability of the campaign that gives it plausibility.
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Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part.
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The first thing to note about this story is the high improbability factor in many of its key claims.
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Heddle's argument is more sound since it involves, in practical terms, one single probability, while Collins's use of the word "improbability" implies multiple values of probabilities that can be used and thus a means to calculate them.
David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument
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Another point to be made is the psychological improbability of the tale as Krauss relates it.
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These values extend well into the boundaries of improbability.
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I believe that the very concept of complexity as disguised improbability is contrary to facts and logic.
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Despite the improbability of the union, they stayed together – after a long period of tantrums, trial separations and retaliatory sexual bouts with third parties, all part of a power struggle between two very self-willed men – until Isherwood's death in 1986.
Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young'
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A third reason is the improbability of the success rate the Raelians claim.
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The physical improbability of the two men having been in the area is pondered.
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The improbability and feebleness of the interaction are offset by the sheer number of particles. After all, dark matter is thought to dominate the galaxy.
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After the improbability of all that recently transpired, he couldn't see fit to doubt Aarrl's veracity.
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The first component is the criterion of complexity or improbability.
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A hundred years ago, French mathematician Émile Borel suggested this particular Gedankenexperiment as a means of envisioning events of close to infinite improbability.
Dustbury.com » Meanwhile on the tapioca tundra
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From this evidence I draw the conclusion that there is no intrinsic improbability in either method.
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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
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The improbability and feebleness of the interaction are offset by the sheer number of particles. After all, dark matter is thought to dominate the galaxy.
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I walked on, met, and passed Tom, who remarked upon the improbability of the copperskin showing up again; and then I continued my patrol slowly round the house, past the court-yard, where all was still, and at last found Tom where we had parted from my uncle.
The Golden Magnet
