Sentences with phrase «improbable things»

Bill Becker, head of the Presidential Climate Action Project, summed up this thinking in an essay earlier this year: «Geo - engineering is rooted in the idea that although we're too stupid to do the simple things that would slow climate change, we're smart enough to do the improbable things.»

Lauren Ipsum: A Story about Computer Science and Other Improbable Things.

John McClane has always been an ordinary guy stuck in extraordinary circumstances, yet in this movie, he's almost to the level of a superhero, sensing a keen understanding of his environment and being able to do physically improbable things — even when seriously injured.

Let's take a look at how Cleveland did the impossible by coming back from a 3 - 1 series deficit against Golden State and focus on fun, improbable things like:

I recall vividly, as a would - be intellectual, wondering how the major thinkers of the twenties through the forties had managed to believe in such improbable things.

It is more probable that he should assume an appearance of ease, than that so very improbable a thing should be, as a man not afraid of going... into an unknown state.»

«The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less can we believe that it just happened by blind chance.

«The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance.

If the numbers get big enough any outrageously improbable thing is bound to happen.

He knows how to create an emotional universe in which this kind of improbable thing doesn't seem a matter of screenwriting convenience, but destiny.

Not exact matches

An article published by Bloomberg — LINK — this morning started off with a rather improbable assertion: «The new fixed - income haven is, of all things, the market for junk bonds.»

Since that time, he has written a long - form essay broken into three books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

While I have little to offer in support of speculative delusions about paper wealth, improbable growth expectations, or Bitcoin, I'd be remiss to write a commentary without acknowledging the many things that can be fully embraced.

There are infinite things that have no proof or evidence, that does not make them equal, it makes them infinitely improbable.

You listed things that are not proven, improbable maybe, impossible... prove it.

Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

It's the same thing as your story, or any Christian testimonial, but sometimes the improbable really does happen.

«Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.»

I was given a Bible by improbable coincidence after which I was given a new perspective and see the hand of God in all things where before there was no God.

We not only assume / hope / wish into existence this most improbable of beings, we then unilaterally decide that it made the whole thing for us.

As utterly improbable as it is, our only answer at this point is to say it's possible that all of those things just popped out of nothing via random combination of molecules»

The offended consciousness holds aloof from the Paradox and keeps to the probable, since the Paradox is the most improbable of things.

A controversial play involving Tony Allen and Manu Ginobili allowed the Memphis Grizzlies to complete an improbable comeback and take things into overtime.

I kind of try to stay as close to the present moment as I can, I guess — in the golf game, at least — and try to take one thing at a time, and so I really don't look ahead too much,» said Stricker, who cruised to a three - stroke victory in 2009, won by two shots in 2010 and clinched last year's title by one shot with an improbable birdie on the 72nd hole.

There is nothing impossible on this world even though some things are improbable.

However, stranger things did occur last season, with both Blackpool and Wolves victorious at Liverpool, as were Newcastle and West Brom at Arsenal — so this is by no means mission impossible, more like improbable.

Downing Street have now come out to slap down Davis, suggesting the «improbable» comment was merely his opinion - a frankly incredibly thing given his job title.

The storm This is the only thing I noticed that was completely impossible, as opposed to improbable or sub-optimal.

As in so many films of its ilk, we observe as the improbable wads of cash are amassed and then, at the point where things just get a little too loco, everything goes to shit.

(Though Cannes, as ever, was still on their side, awarding Hall — who is, in her defense, the best thing in the movie — a nonetheless improbable jury prize.)

It's a farce, of sorts, if one's impression of farce is that the humor comes from dumb people doing unlikely things in improbable situations.

Surely this cliché holds true of most things, but the men and women at Ford SVT managed to pull off the improbable: taking the impressive SVT Raptor pickup and making it an even meaner off - road machine.

One of the strangest things about today's twenty - four - hour news cycle of cable television and nonstop Internet blather is how it's made possible a veritable explosion of improbable, sometimes amusing, often absurd nonfacts, misnomers, and false narratives — e.g., President Obama is a Muslim from Kenya

The mere thought of it was perplexing, but stranger things have happened within FCA, so the thought of a Hellcat - powered 300 sedan, as improbable as it was, didn't seem too far - fetched for FCA.

Berlin, where this ominous thing happened, had always been an improbable metropolis.

Working up from tiny little raptors to giant birds and vicious amphibious lions through huge poisonous worm - things to full - on enormous dragons — all are confronted with your brilliantly varied selection of improbable weaponry.

That movement's postmodern all - things - go design philosophy disavowed «good taste» and touted improbable shapes and outrageous colors instead.

The thing is that the public's perception of risk is distorted, and they tend to over-react to catastrophic but improbable risks that are imminent while discounting very real risks in the «distant» (read > 5 years) future.

Suffice to say that I consider it improbable to the extreme to assume high - flying dreams things like space colonization will seriously get underway in the next centuries (if not in this millennium or at all, because if push really comes to shove, we'd have to start everything anew from the late middle ages, only this time without oil).

Facts, being pesky things, have shown that nothing can account for the change in our climate — from paleo records, to ice records, to dendro records, and to heliological studies — and the only thing left, as Sherlock would say, however improbable, is the answer.

It doesn't take a very large particle size before the statistics make it vastly improbable for such a thing to occur.

There are so many weird things about Faraday Future, from the mind - blowing claims made at the 2016 CES debut to demo cars packed with improbable technology to the fact that it's never really had a true CEO, but rather shots are called by LeEco boss Jia Yueting.

(Missing, though, are the company's signature female leads with improbable bustlines; I'll say that's a good thing, but your mileage may vary.)

I guess it's tempting to thing that such things are improbable, but my own house burned down 10 moths after I bought it, and were it not for my boyfriends» parents stepping in with an «emergency fund» things would have turned out differently for us.