Sentences with phrase «into improbable»

The painted surfaces have a slick and sensuous quality, inviting the viewer into an improbable hybrid environment.

Does the word «yoga» conjure up images of willowy young women and men meditating serenely or contorting their bodies into improbable, pretzellike shapes?

Since its publication in 1916, the theory has been yielding insights into the improbable nature of the universe and revelations of its exotic denizens

(We may seek to distinguish the phases or pulsations of the cosmic rise into complexity (that is to say, into the Improbable) as follows:

One might put it that determinism appears at either end of the process of cosmic evolution, but in antithetically opposed forms: at the lower end it is forced along the line of the most probable for lack of freedom; at the upper end it is an ascent into the improbable through the triumph of freedom.

Not exact matches

It's put billions of dollars to work in ride - hailing companies across the globe, including Uber and China's Didi Chuxing, and hundreds of millions into start - ups in many other categories, including dog - walking company Wag (it invested $ 300 million), food delivery provider DoorDash (it led a $ 535 million round), and virtual reality infrastructure provider Improbable (it led a $ 502 million round).

The French president has forged an improbable bond with the volatile Trump, and hopes to leverage their friendship into progress on not only Iran but exempting Europe from steel tariffs, and protecting the 2016 Paris climate accord.

As compromise on the gun issue remained improbable, Sen. Chris Murphy stood on the Senate floor for most of Wednesday and into Thursday, saying he would remain there «until we get some signal, some sign that we can come together.»

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.

NYT: Monks in California Breathe Life Into a Monastery From Spain The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on a patch of rural Northern California land was, of course, improbable.

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.»

This chronological parallelism notwithstanding, nothing would seem more improbable than a bringing into dialogue of these two works, for not only do they spring from disciplines breathtakingly remote from one another (political theory, neurology), they appear to have radically different centers of interest.

[Dennett's] limited and superficial book reads like a caricature of a caricature - for if Richard Dawkins has trivialized Darwin's richness by adhering to the strictest form of adaptationist argument in a maximally reductionist mode, then Dennett, as Dawkins» publicist, manages to convert an already vitiated and improbable account into an even more simplistic and uncompromising doctrine.

The problem with religion is the installation of a «God Based Reality» into a young child or adolescent mind which is not challenged over a significant period of time resulting in improbable, or nearly impossible rational judgment at later stages in life with respect to religious claims.

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.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

This has two unfortunate results: it makes the regnant society, or as we would perhaps more loosely say, «the mind,» into an «ego» — in which case the self becomes less a «lived - body» than a Cartesian cogito — and it gives the presiding occasion of the regnant society the impossible, or at least, improbable, job of coordinating all bodily data all the time, pre-reflectively and reflectively, into an organizational unity.

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

Here's the improbable shot that breathed life back into the Rockets» playoff chances:

And it is a child's country, which is described by the water's soft, ambiguous edge, and it is bewildering to stand sentry there, unsuccessfully disguised as a heron, with your large white feet sticking out, to listen to (and wistfully try to recall) the wild laughter, the shrieks, the singular tuneless tunes children drone as they march in intent circles; and to watch them groping into their shadows for shells on the roily bottom or building improbable fortifications to keep the ocean where it belongs («What arc - you doing?»

But, that's when an improbable chain of events would kick into motion.

To the dawgs, those bone - throwing crazies in the bleachers at the east end of Cleveland Stadium, whose lunatic barking and terrierlike razzing of the Jets» Mark Gastineau helped spark the Browns» wildly improbable comeback, a 23 - 20 thriller that officially ended at 2:02 of the second overtime, when Moseley's 27 - yarder sailed straight through the uprights and into Cleveland history.

After Georgia pulled off a massive comeback and forced Auburn into a 4th and forever, Nick Marshall found Ricardo Louis on the most improbable of tipped Hail Marys for the go - ahead score with 25 seconds left.

We already saw Sergio Garcia hit his ball into a marshall's pocket, but this somehow seems even more improbable.

Florida 26, Tennessee 20 (Sept. 16): Feleipe Franks's Hail Mary seemed to have an insurmountable clubhouse lead as the season's biggest heartbreaker, from the improbable arc of the deep ball that fell into Tyrie Cleveland's cradled arms behind Tennessee's shorthanded secondary to the self - flagellation defensive coordinator Bob Shoop subjected himself to in front of the media the next week.

In theory, Wenger could be here many years from now, but I will consider it highly improbable that he will still be managing into his mid-seventies.

Coming into the bottom of the 6th inning late Monday Night, Team Maione found themselves down 9 - 3 but they battled and rallied and battled some more and made an improbable comeback to win 11 - 9.

The improbable 93 - yard touchdown play sealed the Bulldogs 26 - 21 victory as Georgia moved into the No. 1 ranking and went on to win the 1980 National Championship.

At the HSBC Champions in Shanghai in October, he went into the final day trailing by eight shots but stormed back to overhaul world number one Dustin Johnson on the final day to claim an improbable victory.

Not that the story of the season would ever have made it past a director and gone into production — it would have been binned as ludicrously improbable and the scriptwriter instantly dismissed as a hack.

It is improbable that we have been able to address the lack of relative fitness in our squad over the past three days but it is fingers crossed that we go into the match with some sort of game - plan that is then executed with hard work, effort and commitment.

Even his moniker «Scouse Cafu»... was made up by a scouser no less... as an insult at his ability... which has morphed into something completely improbable and insane... that it beggars belief anyone who has ever seen the real Cafu... would laugh at the comparison!!!

Chris Smalling completed the comeback that looked so improbable when City were well on course to round off a resounding march towards the title by racing into a 2 - 0 first - half lead.

Keylor Navas failed to collect a cross into the box and Matuidi was in the right place at the right time to poke the ball home for an improbable equaliser.

The President says due diligence was done before the ex-detainees were allowed into the country, hence the possibility of them causing any havoc in the country is almost improbable.

A Syracuse team that barely made it into the NCAA Tournament field pulled off the improbable yesterday as the Orange shocked No. 3 seed Michigan State 55 - 53 to advance to the Sweet 16.

Clinton paints a picture of a highly improbable president, born famously into impoverished circumstances in Hope, Arkansas, with a father who died before his birth and an alcoholic stepfather who beat his mother in front of the children.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

BRIDGEPORT — Joe Ganim's improbable victory in the Democratic mayoral primary had many throughout the state wondering: How did a former mayor driven from office and into prison for corruption pull it off?

But, as frequently happens in medicine, a few of today's improbable approaches may evolve into tomorrow's miraculous cures.

In frank and poignant prose, Elsayed recounts his tightrope walk through the U.S. immigration system and his improbable ascent into the academic stratosphere before crashing and burning.

The other opsins might do the trick, but because his goal — putting them into a brain and getting that brain to respond — was so tricky and success so improbable, he needed to try as many options as possible.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve and UT Southwestern Medical Center this week announced that they have taken significant steps toward turning this once - improbable idea into a vivid reality.

But it wasn't until after World War II, at the improbable site of the General Electric Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, that a plan went into effect.

The solution to all their problems seems to be diving back into adolescence, complete with a beer blast (featuring an improbable performance by Snoop Doggy Dogg) and plenty of underage coeds.

Incorporating moments of both heart - pounding suspense and improbable beauty, the documentary draws viewers into the lives of three of its founders — Khaled, Subhi, and Mahmoud — as they grapple with the chaos around them and struggle with an ever - present dilemma: do they flee or stay and fight for their country.

As a sequel to a movie with a twist ending so over-the-top and improbable that it crossed over into the sublime, Now You See Me 2 has no option but to go bigger; if it can't top Now You See Me's reveal, which seemed like it came from the mind of Adaptation's Donald Kaufman, it can at least up the ludicrous quotient,...

Despite annoying characters, the film does retain a modicum of mystery as we watch a lot of improbable sleuthing on the part of these teenagers, following a string of clues that even Dan Brown would deem too ludicrous to inject into his stories and expect us to swallow, such as highlighted poetry quotes, thirty - year - old road maps in secret locations, and edits to Wikipedia - style entries to towns that don't really exist.

Unfortunately trying to wriggle a love story into the impassionate world of technology doesn't work and the movie's conclusion ends up being highly improbable, even for a sci - fi.

A quandary for anyone who's choked down the filmic fecal matter of this improbable franchise: Doesn't going public with your hatred for The Human Centipede just play right into the turd - splattered hands of its creator?