Sentences with phrase «with implausible»

The premise is, of course, ridiculous and the dialogue is a frankly hilarious mashup of sword - and - board movie cliches combined with implausible American dialog.

I like mysteries, but often feel let down at the end with implausible endings or with the author tying up every loose thread.

Rich, powerful, handsome men seem to always go dropping into the protagonists» laps with implausible ease, so people assume that women who grow up reading shojo manga... Read more»

Unfortunately, where San Andreas excels in visuals, it disappoints with its implausible script and one - dimensional characters.

At least it's well - acted by a game cast which does its best to sell a script riddled with implausible twists and turns.

A kid with an implausible dream, a neo-conservative Batman and Robin and a social network combine in unexpected ways to provide Kick - Ass [both the film and the character] with an eager - to - please rambunctiousness that makes it both infectious and scary.

Rookie director Sergio Sanchez tosses around some intriguing ideas, but the result feels uneven and emotionally detached, with some implausible third - act twists causing the tension to dwindle.

... an action adventure film, complete with implausible situations, and perfectly timed rescues and escapes.

But where some designers set lofty prices with implausible fabrics, Madden's shoes have broad appeal.

Not exact matches

There are huge risks here, as many of the startups launching ICOs are getting regular people to buy into thin or implausible business plans — or, worse, outright scamming them with pump - and - dump schemes.

The BLS replaces IRR values it deems implausible with an internationally accepted alternative.

As I have argued before, except under implausible scenarios (at least 2 - 4 % of GDP transferred every year from the state to households) I can not work out arithmetically any meaningful rebalancing process that is consistent with average GDP growth much above 3 - 4 % during President Xi's 2013 - 23 term in office.

It's difficult to get around this conclusion without making assumptions that are both implausible and inconsistent with all historical experience.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

Only someone arching to believe that, straining with only one eye open, fearful that he or she will see the reality with clarity they won't be able to deny, someone who is frantic to cling to what they desperately want to believe is true, would lower themselves to accept so plainly implausible a suggestion.

Religions of today, at least the Western ones I am most familiar with, seem to hold on to the old stories without understanding their original dynamic value and rather look to them for creating rules and reconstructing an ever more implausible history.

It seems bizarre and completely implausible to me that there would exist a lake of flames with a little red man who sports a tail and horns guarding the gate; where people would «go» to burn forever.

I think Bob has stated perfectly why people are leaving this faith, because many aspects of it are implausible and unreasonable... which many Christians fully admit (God doesn't want us to use the brain he gifted us with, He just wants simple obedience / faith — like a drone or slave).

If we identify subjectivity with conscious subjectivity, this is highly implausible.

Thus to pose «conciliarism» as an all - purpose tool with which to fix what ails the Church would be, to Newman, an implausible idea, given the historical record.

And if that standard is not met, if the explanations are not provided, we can bet with confidence that these cases, now rare, will cease to be rare, precisely as the notion of same - sex marriage has shifted from the unthinkable to the implausible to the realities springing up all around now and demanding acceptance.

Accordingly, when Griffin contends that it is implausible for FWTs to believe «that every basic structural aspect of the world can be justified as necessary to the promotion of creatures with moral and spiritual qualities» (ER 16), he is attacking a straw man.

However, this does not solve the problem of action, it is incongruent with the theory of societies, and it gives me a very implausible account of my experience.

One can imagine few more wrong headed, implausible and self - defeating strategies than for the several million Muslims in America to join with alienated blacks in blaming their problems on the consequences of slavery and segregation.

While LaHeye and Jenkins took that concept in a fantastical and often implausible direction with Left Behind, Perotta plays the whole thing much straighter.

It is not implausible, accordingly, to account for the major sources of natural evil by appeal to creaturely freedom (along with, of course, other metaphysical principles).

The hop, step and jump boys were clearly too remarkable to miss but, the camera seemed to think, too implausible for attentive study; so they made their screen appearances (and disappearances) with the impromptu of interloping kangaroos.

The suggestion that Bilic also felt Iheanacho was not sufficiently proven is implausible for the exact same reasons but it also speaks volumes about his mindset with regard to young players.

We are allegedly trying to buy Lemar a very highly rated young midfielder — and blow me down — the same «negotiating» tactic is being used with the lowest, and most implausible bid offered to start with, which predictably gets refused and is currently creeping up in incremental bands.

«Even small proportionate losses in trade (or lost growth in trade) with the EU would require quite dramatic — and probably implausible — increases in trade with such countries.»

One a hideous weapon that is specifically intended for assassination, the other an implausible theatrical prop with a mysterious buzz.

The simple truth is that UKIP is an implausible party with a reputation for red - faced buffoonery.

«With the tax - cap, to ask for a larger percent on raises is implausible,» he said, and added that comparable salaries in Ulster County place Onteora somewhere in the middle.

Despite the recordings she made, the federal government did not ultimately agree to a cooperation agreement with her because, according to prosecutors, she repeatedly «provided answers which were false, implausible and inconsistent» in meetings with them about her case.

Larsen, along with virtually every physicist on the planet, knew that was implausible: Fusion requires enormous temperatures and pressures, which is why it occurs only in stars and bombs.

In addition, it has long been argued that the lighting and shadows in the photo are inconsistent; that Oswald's facial features are inconsistent with other photos of him; that the size of the rifle is inconsistent with the known length of that type of rifle; and that Oswald's pose is physically implausible (it appears as if he is standing off balance).

But when we showed the results for two cases from 2008 involving male fetuses to specialists on the Y chromosome's evolutionary history, it became clear that something was awry: the combinations of SNP variants reported were inconsistent with the Y chromosome's known ancestry (see «Implausible chromosomes»).

But such destruction of information also conflicts with the law of energy conservation, making this possibility implausible.

Based on past observations, Held, who was not involved with the study, said the climate sensitivity of 5 °C or more shown by the new research may be implausible.

Linking a soft - bodied terrestrial animal with a marine fossil that lived more than 500 million years earlier may seem an implausible notion.

Many of the experts responded with doubt, some noting that it was highly implausible for humans to acquire something like telepathy through genetic mutations.

«It seems implausible that the number of patients with the most complex spinal pathology [has] increased 15-fold in just six years».

He did a run of films in which he was more and more subdued or withdrawn: Onegin, directed by his sister; the lover in a listless version of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair; implausible with Jennifer Lopez in Maid in Manhattan (why be on screen with J. Lo if you're not very pleased to see her?)

«Hellion» pads its slender, commonplace, but potentially rewarding premise with contrivances, clichés, repetitiousness, and, when all else fails, implausible, arbitrary melodrama.

After an unfortunate twist, the plot deteriorates into an implausible scheme with gaping gaps in the logic.

After Johnny has nearly blown things with Gheorge by reverting to his bad habits, Lee, who won a directing prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, finds a way to end the film on a hopeful, if somewhat implausible, note.

They story has a few implausible moments but outweighs them with heapings of great dramatic depth.

It's kind of hard to know where to begin with what's wrong in Traffik, a movie where every scene takes about twice as long as it feels like it should, and the characters far too often make an escalating series of implausible and / or stupid decisions.

Street Kings wastes a moderately intriguing premise by filling it with laughably clichéd dialogue, one - dimensional characters and implausible turns of events.

The story is wildly implausible with some twists that had me smirking.