| 单词 | plausible |
| 例句 | It is not a plausible source of raw materials: the freightage from Mars to Earth would be too expensive for many centuries to come. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The straightforward example of the discovery of the moons of Jupiter shows that these claims are superficially plausible, but mistaken. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Office of Misinformation will in such a case liaise directly with the Muggle prime minister to seek a plausible non-magical explanation for the event. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll ask you to imagine another scenario—you tell me if it sounds plausible. If this sort of thing could have happened, sir, or if it’s just another sea yarn.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was processed behind the locked door, so, when pressed for an explanation, all Maier’s subjects could do was make up what seemed to them the most plausible one. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For the first time, the Colonel’s theory seemed plausible. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Many seconds had passed, and it was no longer plausible to be staring fixedly at the sheet of paper. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Down on the ground the prairies unscroll, vast and mundane and plausible as hallucinations, dusted already with snow and scrawled with sinuous rivers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s my left wrist, so this is plausible. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Supreme Court reversed, holding that when a pattern of race-based strikes has been identified by the defense, the prosecutor need not provide “an explanation that is persuasive, or even plausible.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She had thought carefully about a plausible excuse and, after much thought, had come up with a topic that no one would have questions about. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is not difficult to imagine plausible causes for Waterman’s instability. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the crucible of the moment, another quite plausible definition of leadership was circulating in the upper reaches of the government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Enough strange things began happening to the men who brought him to justice to make his claim seem almost plausible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a difficult version to believe, but there was no other more plausible, and no one could think of any motive for Rebeca to murder the man who had made her happy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z While hardly true, this explanation had the demonstrable advantage of permitting Jefferson’s vision of a Federalist conspiracy to congeal in a plausible pattern that formed around Washington without touching him directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a very touch-and-go business, in 1955, to get a wholly plausible reading from Mrs. Glass’s face, and especially from her enormous blue eyes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He is plausible, convincing, likable, and far and away the most wily, subtle, and shrewd of all the inhabitants of Asgard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z For every one of these questions Viking has provided definitive or at least plausible answers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The more his staff talked out the concept that Saturday morning, the more it coalesced into a plausible scheme. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If only a network of canals existed, the lack would be remedied, the habitability of Mars would become plausible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The critical issue is the quality of the purported evidence, rigorously and skeptically scrutinized—not what sounds plausible, not the unsubstantiated testimony of one or two self-professed eyewitnesses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The land was useless for agriculture but had four plausible seaports and huge underground deposits of prehistoric guano, which Chilean companies mined and shipped to Europe for fertilizer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The possibility that Gregor might fail made the whole prophecy more plausible. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When Neville Chamberlain addressed the House of Commons on September 1,1939, his statement of the facts was brief, clear, and plausible, but suffused with moral and emotional judgment. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z All this history seems both plausible and creditable, good reading for doctors, but there is always that other leech, the worm. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The only plausible explanation for his remark in the boat about the pistol still being loaded is that he was semiconscious, in shock, and did not know what he was saying. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The most plausible explanation was that any lions out there—if lions they were—were released pets, bought in haste and later regretted. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z With the new theories it became possible at last to construct plausible scenarios for how we got here. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By comparison with similar transitions elsewhere in the world, the second or third theory seems to me more plausible than the first theory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is a plausible and quite persuasive answer to the second question, which will then lead us to a plausible but more speculative answer to the first. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As White scrutinized the data in reports, one plausible story line after another seemed to cohere. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The answer is that negation is easy to understand when the proposition being negated is plausible or tempting.23 Compare the negations in these two columns: A whale is not a fish. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In fact, various contemporaries of Newton had raised the problem, and the Olbers article was not even the first to contain plausible arguments against it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The increasingly plausible idea that Blue Eyes was not a hallucination at all, and never had been. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I read carefully through the descriptions, looking for anything that sounded familiar, let alone plausible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The lack of women or minorities among the top executive ranks at least has a plausible explanation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I sat there in the police station—arrested for suspicion of grand theft auto, a plausible suspect for carjacking or murder—and debated whether I should call my parents or go to jail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The cosmic rays notion, though considered plausible, hasn’t been verified yet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That has continued to be the central complaint against rhetoric ever since: that it gives the plausible ignoramus or the self- interested dissembler—the knave or the fool—power over the good and the wise. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was a lie, but a plausible lie. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But when the eighth came round, a certain Phoinikian adventurer came too, a plausible rat, who had already done plenty of devilry in the world. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z What had they discovered that could not be interpreted as plausible, though exceptional, coincidence? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her that the idea that someone on that jury thought it plausible there was a gun in the car baffled the mind. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I wanted to know the rest, wanted the story of Miigwans’ escape, because I thought just by knowing about it, somehow, it would make our escape seem all the more plausible. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Nowadays, in English, we can no more have a merely plausible proof than we can have a false fact; but Boyle is using ‘proof’ differently from us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Variants of the model exist with more romantically plausible constraints. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the potential enemy is tempted to submit on points of dispute rather than unleash a global confrontation, which the aura of irrationality has made plausible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After a moment, she either seemed to find this plausible or decided to pretend she did. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He exceeded all plausible expectations of landings, putting us just nine meters from the target. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But for a range of plausible initial conditions, planetary systems—about ten planets, terrestrials close to the star, Jovians on the exterior—recognizably like ours are generated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The absence of explicitly racist rhetoric afforded the racial nature of his coded appeals a certain plausible deniability. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Strange things began to happen that made Holmes’s claims about being the devil seem almost plausible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She was too tired for music, she couldn’t play cards alone, and—well, billiards seemed to be the only plausible activity. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Howard challenged the anonymous writer to produce proof of his charges and angrily defied anyone in the room to give him a plausible argument for how the allegations could have been possible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As an expert on American ways, Kappe ordered Dasch to take charge and help create plausible cover stories that would stand up under intense scrutiny. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z His name was Sinon, and he was a most plausible speaker. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t grasp how plausible the idea was to some people. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z All the regional voting blocs—New England, the Middle Atlantic, and the South—could cite plausible reasons for claiming primacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Lord Cardan told us to be more observant,” I say, hoping that the plausible confusion of an ambiguous command will help to explain the way she’s acting. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She had to be careful not to say anything obviously impossible; she had to be vague in some places and invent plausible details in others; she had to be an artist, in short. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Experiments have shown that statements like the ones in the left column, which deny a plausible belief, are easier to understand than statements in the right column, which deny an implausible belief. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I said, my mind racing for a plausible lie. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Very little effort was made to calibrate the experiments with plausible inorganic Martian surface materials. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z From that they can work out plausible scenarios of what it must have been like–or, more chillingly, would be like if it happened now. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He had us drop him off at his apartment—he had some excuse, plausible enough, I can’t remember what it was—and when he got out of the car he gave me a hundred-dollar bill. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The best ones contain enough truth to seem plausible. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But other scenarios involve potato seeds of an entirely different variety, and these scenarios are more plausible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Tommy’s facility for making a far-out idea seem plausible set Francis to wondering whether an argument could be made for a “perfect biological principle.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z More often, the context makes it clear which affirmative statement was plausible in the first place, and hence which one the writer is going to the trouble of denying. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Although she had only a vague sense of how insurance worked, this seemed plausible. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But everything was unlikely these days, and Reynie preferred almost any explanation to the one that seemed most plausible: For some awful, unknown reason, Mr. Benedict had tricked them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The most plausible hypothesis for the TMV structure was a central RNA core surrounded by a large number of identical small protein subunits. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z This does seem a very plausible explanation the more I think about it; for it is true, nothing vexes me more these days than to hear this sort of nonsense being repeated. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z After much thought, the Alvarezes concluded that the most plausible explanation–plausible to them, at any rate–was that the Earth had been struck by an asteroid or comet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Thus in 1660 Boyle describes one experiment ‘as a plausible, though not demonstrative proof, that Water may be transmuted into Air’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ophie searched for some plausible lie to tell Penelope but found none. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In order to make my resignation to the first hypothesis more plausible, I had to be level-headed about this one as well. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z When Elizebeth shared her guess about “cable reply,” Chen thought it was plausible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Not even the courtesy of a plausible excuse! From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This theory, too, is plausible, but no concrete evidence exists to prove it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When an author has to negate something that a reader doesn’t already believe, she has to set it up as a plausible belief on his mental stage before she knocks it down. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He looks like a plausible Mr. Patel, face rounder than his son’s. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Galileo’s telescope made two ideas that had previously seemed abstract and theoretical suddenly seem plausible and perfectly realistic: there might indeed be other inhabited worlds, and space might indeed be infinite. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But as the months passed and I had the opportunity to ponder McCandless’s death at greater length, this consensus came to seem less and less plausible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Administrators met their angriest critics’ demands by promoting any plausible Hispanic on hand. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “No way could we have patched together a plausible story from this. Good Lord. It was weeks before I got over it. Camilla couldn’t even talk for three days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We are told elsewhere that 70 percent to 90 percent of murder confessions are false, a fact that seems both shocking and plausible but is unsupported here by any evidence. Books of The Times: Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder 2011-06-02T21:24:11Z It was mischievous but loyal to the source material; and, crucially, it felt plausible. Sherlock is slowly and perversely morphing into Bond. This cannot stand 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z This is no melodramatic stage villain but a plausible leader who has given himself over to vengeance. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Park was equally impressive, bringing a steely delicacy and aerial lightness to Naïla; she had plenty of backbone, but also the grandeur of spirit to make her martyrdom plausible. Guillaume Bart’s ‘La Source,’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z How about a reasonable facsimile of one, something just plausible enough to fool the visitors from out of town? Opera-on-wheels 'Hopscotch' drives home the complicated pull of downtown L.A. 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z If the Fifth offers an idealist corollary to the defiance of Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony, its finest interpreters make that idealism sound plausible. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Though there was plenty of cause of skepticism, the warning still sounded plausible, given the plethora of photos of nude female celebrities that fell from the clouds earlier this month. The Emma Watson threat was an offensive hoax 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z But it is the most plausible experience of a global pandemic plague you’re likely to see until the real thing strikes. Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z She’s pragmatically contemplating a possibility, of dying at the hands of the police, that seems all too plausible in this country, at this moment. Review: In ‘Eve’s Song,’ the Ghosts Are Not the Scariest Part 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Some plots are plausible and some plots are not. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z “One of the most delightful things about ‘To Rome With Love’ is how casually it blends the plausible and the surreal,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Thursday 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Curtis-Newton contends that the switch, from a traditionally white set of characters in an Ohio town to an interracial one in Seattle's Central District, is historically plausible. Review: A thoughtful, thought-provoking 'All My Sons' at Intiman 2011-03-28T16:52:06Z My doctor declared that it was essential to find more concrete data rather than theories, as so many others seemed plausible. When cancer took chocolate away, this ice cream got me by 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The same tendency to skew the narrative to fit a conclusion that would be wholly plausible without such misfires is also evident when Gessen turns toward more recent events. Is Donald Trump a Danger to Democracy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Taleb says the least antifragile state in the world at the moment is Saudi Arabia, a plausible claim though one it would be nice to see argued out. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z A track like “The Pearls” starts off as a plausible imitation of decorum, with a string quartet shown onscreen in the entryway to a dining room. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Her 2002 retrospective at Tate Modern was a revelation of enigmatic dramas that slipped bewilderingly between apparent reality and plausible apparition. Kutlug Ataman 2010-04-10T23:06:00Z Way back in 2009, “Avatar” arrived on screens as a plausible and exciting vision of the movie future. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: Big Blue Marvel 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Dangerous androids have played influential roles throughout film and pop culture history, especially recently, as the rapid advancements of the computer age have made robot-apocalypse scenarios feel more and more plausible. ‘M3GAN’ Makes Us Ask (Again): Who’s Afraid of Dancing Robots? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But plenty of people found it all too plausible. High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z As for the rest of the film, "As the action mounts toward the end, any sense of plausible logistics and physical realities are tossed aside." 'Chappie': Artificial intelligence tale lacks brainpower, reviews say 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z He meant that in a book, play or movie, all characters, no matter how dastardly their actions, should be guided by their own plausible logic. The Well Digger's Daughter: Scandal in the Sunlight 2012-07-20T17:00:07Z It turns out such a scenario is plausible. Hollywood teams up with scientists to make sci-fi more believable 2012-06-09T04:32:03Z “There’s a category I would call plausible predictions, which Trump would fall under,” he said. ‘The Simpsons’ Has Predicted a Lot. Most of It Can Be Explained. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z But it seems equally plausible that jazz was just like every other corner of culture in 2014. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Maybe what are often thought of as their flaws – the coldly unknowable quality of their characters, the absence of plausible emotions, or any kind of inner depth – might in fact be their genius. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z Camped in his dressing room, Mr. McCormack said that he saw the back-to-basics setup — Will and Grace as roommates, even while pushing 50 — as perfectly plausible. ‘Will & Grace’ Is Back. Will Its Portrait of Gay Life Hold Up? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It proffers no constructive alternative, no plausible policy or path. Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Conspiracies are real, but with every one of these very real conspiracies and plausible potential conspiracy there are a slew of false conspiracy theories. How to pull a friend out of the conspiracy theory rabbit hole 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z His pregnancy makes him not into a joke, but a father, and a plausible love interest for Emma Thompson. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z But there was still more to do to translate this photograph into a plausible 3-D sculpture. A London Monument to Equality, Inspired by an Act of Defiance 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z But to succeed, he said, “it’s going to have to find that fine line of saying things that are shockingly counter-consensus, but plausible enough they aren’t written off as cranks or irrelevant.” Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z One plausible explanation is that zombies physicalize our fear of mortality and decay. The power of "Evil" compels us to celebrate the monstrous reasons it speaks to us right now 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Given the havoc that introduced species cause in today's ecosystems, the latter seems more plausible, albeit improbable. Questions about Noah's Ark that may bug creationists 2011-01-18T14:15:10Z There's no plausible deniability about their knowledge in the crimes and that's why I think it's certainly like the Genovese situation. Meet the lawyer trying to bring down "Jersey Shore" 2010-09-01T00:57:00Z Despite the book’s sobering title, she sprinkles in delightful esoterica along the way, while providing a guide to some of the most plausible scenarios about the end of the universe. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Part of the great political crisis we face in the world today is a failure to imagine plausible desirable futures. This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid on the Migrants in All of Us 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Seb’s fussy jazzman antiquarianism is, in any case, an entirely plausible millennial affectation. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z As a professor with a recent book on forgery, I’ve made a study of how criminals construct plausible lies. The art of the lie: The art forgery guide to Donald Trump’s tall tales 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Over the second half of the season, Ms. Zellner develops a set of plausible alternative theories and suspects that provide the kind of sensational twists — in theory at least — that drew people into the original. Review: ‘Making a Murderer Part 2’: What’s Next for Steven Avery 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z This account is plausible and moving, at once a defense of genre fiction and of female creativity. Review: ‘Mary Shelley’ Twists Pain and Passion Into a Monster 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z That this line of argument seems like a plausible next step for contemporary feminism reflects the recent and rapid leftward turn of liberal politics. The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Zack seems charming yet terrified, desperately trying to keep up appearances while making barely plausible excuses for things that aren't quite right. Review: Marriage deflates in Herzog's 'Belleville' 2013-03-04T03:23:07Z The director is "in many ways contemporary cinema's preeminent creator of exotic worlds," and here "he has turned the spectacle of ancient Egypt into the film's most plausible reason for being." 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' hit by plague of ho-hum reviews 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The books and papers under their arms didn't look at all plausible to me. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z There are many possible and plausible theories as to why that may be, if you cared enough to indulge in them. Let's have a cringey talk about multiracial identity, from "Ginny & Georgia" to Harry and Meghan 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z I don’t know what kind of year that guy had, but for most of us 2018 was the year all of those apocalyptic cinematic fantasies became that much more plausible. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z It is plausible to believe that Betjeman would have associated himself with the “Leave” camp, which campaigned on a platform of stronger borders and greater sovereignty. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But it fell upon Sondheim to depict the inchoate yearnings of a street youth, played by Larry Kert, and offer a plausible glimpse into a mind barely able to glimpse it himself. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z This theory seems plausible considering Jon recently came into an entire mine's worth of dragonglass that needs to be forged into viable weapons. The Possible Hidden Meaning Behind Gendry's Fake Name on Game of Thrones 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Dewar managed to put a tank of gas in his car, then got out a map and found the most plausible route to safety: a regional airport west of the mountain ranges adjacent to Yamagata. Back to Fukushima: “It was all very apocalyptic” 2013-05-28T17:18:00Z The decades of paranoia following the Korean War, present uncertainties, or a plausible future? Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Wadlow, a good horror director, seems hamstrung by the family-friendly context and struggles to develop tension in the absence of a plausible threat of violence. ‘The Curse of Bridge Hollow’ Review: Attack of the Halloween Décor 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z There’s another possibility, maybe more plausible, definitely more depressing. Community Without Dan Harmon? Suits Axe Auteur, and Fans Lose 2012-05-19T21:30:18Z When forensic analysis indicates murder instead, two investigations begin, one aimed at uncovering the truth, the other designed to frame an innocent but plausible suspect who will help solidify anti-Japanese sentiment. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor Made in Australia back in 2007 for not much money, the movie looks both distinctive and plausible. 2010-01-09T05:10:00Z Considered beside the earlier Lastman-inspired work by Rembrandt that preceded it, the ranking of this picture as his first masterpiece seems plausible enough. ‘Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece,’ a Portrait of a Biblical Betrayal 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Thus, religious supernatural beliefs are irrational, but emotionally plausible and satisfying. Jared Diamond: It’s irrational to be religious 2013-01-13T12:00:00Z At the same time, he explores the desires and frustrations of a motley collection of plausible human beings with amused compassion. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Characters, although always entertaining and sharply drawn, occasionally feel more like a collection of outrageous quirks than plausible human beings. A' life-affirming romp through death in 'All My Puny Sorrows' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Police work is as necessary and plausible an endeavor as it’s ever been. ‘The Wire’ at 20: ‘This Show Will Live Forever’ 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z So his brain fills in the gap with a plausible narrative. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Thomas Schnauz, who both wrote and directed this episode, lets Chuck make a plausible enough case for his actions in the final scene. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: A Chimp With a Machine Gun 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z As a strong-willed, blue-collared, straight-acting barber, Richie might be seen as “Looking’s” least plausible character, but so be it: He is also the show’s most easily identifiable and necessary moral center. HBO’s ‘Girls,’ ‘Looking’ and the delicate balance of vignette 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z What keeps the work a rarity rather than a classic is the libretto, which is filled to bursting with spirits and serpents while lacking motivations and plausible relationships. Opera & Classical Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z To educators and advocates who work with vast and varied prison populations, the win was perfectly plausible on a generalized and specific level. The prisoners who kicked Harvard’s ass: Only people who think Ivy Leaguers are smarter than felons were surprised 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “Mrs. America” paints its leading lady not as a villain but a plausible female version of that hoariest of contemporary TV conventions: the antihero. ‘Mrs. America’ Depicts a Different Kind of Feminist: The Anti- Kind 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z If 101 seems a rather small number to sum up the history of so vast a metropolis, just 30 might seem even less plausible. ‘A Brief History’ Depicts City’s Story at Historical Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The dialogue is precise and the acting is captivatingly plausible, even from the kid actors playing the young Crains. Review | Until the final episode, ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is the perfect horror show 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Another reason is that, as everyone who's read about the film knows, director Darren Aronofsky insisted she practice for six arduous months to become a plausible dancer. No Strings Attached Review: The Thawing of Natalie Portman 2011-01-21T16:35:00Z Miranda Raison, directly addressing the Globe audience whom she sees as "godless demons", creates a rivetingly plausible Anne more concerned with evangelical zeal than missionary positions. Anne Boleyn 2010-07-29T20:29:00Z Since Jack has spent every minute of his life in the company of his mother, his precocity is plausible, up to a point. Room by Emma Donoghue and Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z That much is true, or at least highly plausible. The Curious Case of Kanye West's 'Stolen' Laptop 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z But the point is, after years of his increasingly freaky behaviour and the rumours about his relationships with actress Nazanin Boniadi, then Holmes, it sounds sufficiently plausible for no one to question it. How weird does a celebrity have to be before we stop watching their films? 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z I thought I might find out why classical music is declining in popularity and – even – a plausible explanation as to why David Guetta has a musical career. Rewind Radio: Amanda Vickery On… Men; Wheel and Come Again: 50 Years of Jamaican Music; Darwin's Tunes – review 2012-08-11T23:05:43Z They persisted in seeing it as the solidest, most plausible candidate. Oscars 2011: The Academy and the elderly genuflect to The King's Speech 2011-02-28T09:20:46Z Yet time and again Bach has restored text that was far from clearly missing, or has changed perfectly plausible sounding, but in fact unattested, wording to the standard Lutheran rendering. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z As a novel inspired by tragic real-life events, “Little Deaths” is atmospheric and plausible. Still unsolved, a child-murder case inspires a gripping new novel 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Perhaps McNaughton is trying a little bit to have it both ways — to benefit from the fervor of Trump’s supporters, while leaving himself some plausible deniability about whether he’s a supporter himself. The most famous pro-Trump artist in the U.S. has moved into his ‘Mueller’ phase. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z When a climactic sequence of events arises — big bets, revealed secrets, a flurry of punches — it all feels fresh, surprising and plausible. Review: ‘Mississippi Grind’ Keeps Its Cards Close 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z He creates tremendous images using painterly, washed-out colour tones, framing dream-like tableaux, but also creating plausible action sequences. Film review: Women Without Men 2010-06-10T21:56:00Z According to the report, the scenarios “span a range of plausible future changes in key environmental parameters” including variations in temperature, sea-level rise and population. ‘Between Bodies’ at Henry Art Gallery asks us to consider the natural world through different lenses 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z His more moderate suggestions include requiring banks to hold vastly more capital and the creation of insurance schemes that allow emerging economies, the most plausible engines of demand, to import capital safely and sustainably. How to fix a broken system 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Rhodes offers a number of possibilities, none plausible. 'Hedy's Folly': Screen siren had more than looks 2011-12-22T00:52:05Z There is individuality of a kind, but not a very plausible kind. The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z In a Hollywood ruled by anything-for-a-buck pawnbrokers, that possibility seems as remote as a plausible explanation for anything that happens in "The Losers." "The Losers": Big explosions, little surprises 2010-04-23T00:23:00Z Since we pump our athletes full of steroids, human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing drugs, the super-soldier serum that created Captain America seems plausible. The most absurd scientific explanations for comic book superpowers 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Not only do Sheridan's fictional critics "still sound plausible", but apparently they even resemble the modern-day, real-life equivalent. What to say about ? The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound 2010-07-14T16:17:00Z The wonder is that Neal's precocious craft makes Dominique a creature as plausible as she is passionate. Patricia Neal (1926-2010): A Life of Tragedy and Triumph 2010-08-11T08:40:00Z Among the biggest challenges were finding enough participants to make plausible matches — both shows said they had far more women apply than men — and ensuring that interactions on the dates were entertaining to listen to. On New Podcasts, the Sound of Falling in Love 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z But the claim became more plausible today, when the Met decided that it prefers to be large but local rather than public and preeminent. Perspective | The Metropolitan Museum’s new admission policy sticks it to tourists 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The hard part about making a movie from Louis Zamperini’s life story is that his life was barely plausible enough to be a movie in the first place. The Lady And The Scamp: Angelina Jolie Finds Her Equal 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Chiang explores a terrifyingly plausible scenario for the arrival of a new form of life in our midst. Is the Robopocalypse nigh? 2011-07-12T16:24:22Z The writing and acting are plausible imaginings of people struggling to assimilate the incredible, and tensions are deftly tweaked: this leaves key questions tantalisingly unanswered without resort-ing to crass cliffhangers. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-17T08:00:02Z “Well, maybe Trump is going to change everything way too little. That seems like the much more plausible risk to me.” Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z One thing “The Rescue” thoroughly captures is just how difficult it was to find and reach the boys, and harder still to come up with a plausible path of rescue. ‘Free Solo’ filmmakers swap peaks for depths in ‘The Rescue’ 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z None of this is the least bit plausible, of course. Books Of the Times: ‘Back to Blood’ by Tom Wolfe 2012-10-18T12:00:00Z “These are deeply researched, plausible futures he’s writing about,” said Nigel Topping, the United Kingdom’s high-level climate action champion, who invited Robinson to the summit. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z But that would have been about as plausible as what was actually happening: A famous auteur was asking Haim, who had never been in a movie before, to carry his next feature. Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z But if Sebastian and Grace need to be obtuse a little longer than feels plausible, it’s worth it to draw out this delight. Four Winter Romance Novels Find Love in Hopeless Places 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Few leaders give voice to the notion of decline even as it becomes quite plausible to some of us. Video Game Review: Defending America, the Underdog 2011-03-24T22:00:11Z Like a Dilly Boy trolling the pavement outside Swan and Edgar, Wilde will entertain any plausible suggestion. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z A plausible title for the paperback editions that will soon be in bookstores might be, “We Didn’t Not Find Anything.” The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Shrewdly imagined and persuasively made, "Ex Machina" is a spooky piece of speculative fiction that's completely plausible, capable of both thinking big thoughts and providing pulp thrills. Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Rousseau’s “Emile” supplies Neiman with some plausible answers, and also with some cautionary lessons. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The result is a costume drama that pleasantly mimics Dickens’s tone and presents a plausible backstory to his most familiar creation but fails to generate enough of its own energy. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The truth is, there’s no plausible reason for Superman to battle Batman, in large part because the classic Superman should be above petty conflicts like that. The Real Reason 'Batman v Superman' Was Doomed 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z She makes Claire more plausible than she might have been as written, because the “Strangelove” girl is in many ways too good. ‘Alex Strangelove’: Boy Meets Boy. Awkwardness Ensues. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Played to perfection by Tom Hollander, with a sympathetic vulnerability as well as an occasional steeliness, both Smallbone and the show as a whole are winning and highly plausible. Six to watch: TV priests and vicars 2013-01-24T15:00:00Z Stuart Skelton was the suavely plausible Oedipus, perfectly calibrating his change from swaggering self-confidence, to horror-struck despair. LSO/Gardiner – review 2013-04-26T16:56:55Z But Espinosa botches the climax, with four of the principles rolling in the Rostov mud, and the bad guys given more strength and fighting skills than is remotely plausible. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Many theories have been advanced to explain this Marie Celeste-like discovery, and Davies' fictional take, if less plausible than some, nevertheless provides a solid dramatic foundation for his work. The Lighthouse – review 2012-10-12T17:10:14Z But for other scientists, the most plausible explanation for why acupuncture helps some patients is the placebo effect. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z “The show might not be real, but it’s plausible.” ‘The Bureau’ Is an International Hit. Why Did Its Creator Hand It Off? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z In character-driven comedies, funny people say funny things and fall into funny situations, but it’s all contained within the realm of plausible realism; nothing absurd or unbelievable occurs. Riff: ?The Hangover? and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy 2011-05-28T03:33:02Z Built around a performance by Meryl Streep, giving what looks to be a very plausible, fingernails-down-a-blackboard turn, The Iron Lady may turn out to be hagiography, hatchet job or, more likely, something in-between. Shooting the Iron Lady 2011-07-10T21:50:01Z Anonymous: So, a “major issue” the writer isn’t privy to — plausible explanation, thanks. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Keeping the grandparents at a distance 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Only in its last lap does the film lose something when it ramps up the action and trades its ambiguities for an over-explicit and not quite plausible plot wrap-up. Colin Farrell shines in Neil Jordan's 'Ondine' 2010-06-17T21:47:00Z My friends and I spend hours every winter searching the Web for open courses within plausible driving distance of where we live. The Joys of Golf, No Matter the Weather or the President 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “It’s plausible, but it’s not at all clear what the precise mechanism might be,” says Hughes. Why neglecting your teeth could be seriously bad for your health 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z The year is 2019, but “near future” might be a more accurate delineation for this terrifyingly plausible work of dystopian fiction. Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z That’s the first of many family stories that initially sound plausible but then curl into dubiousness. Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Any one of these films could have been a plausible winner, but Considine's intestinally powerful social-realist drama about rage, despair and redemption has enforced a notable consensus. Bafta missed their chance to break The Artist's silence 2012-02-12T22:55:19Z Much of Butler’s work is frightening because it feels so plausible and true, even when she’s writing about aliens or vampires. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z What pushes her over the limit is a nasty episode with Old Nick, coupled with the realisation that Jack has reached an age at which he is a plausible ally in an escape. Room by Emma Donoghue and Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Set in 2026, "Homefront" creates an eerie and mildly plausible future in which the United States, with its deteriorating military and fragile economy, is overtaken by a unified Korea. Game On: 'Crysis 2' bites Big Apple; 'Homefront' just bites 2011-03-29T20:30:06Z The ambition gap goes away, and even reverses itself, if the odds of success are plausible. Why are men so foolish? 2013-02-17T18:00:00Z I said “consider Satan” because the more you consider him, the less plausible he becomes. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z For now, at least, cosmic rays remain a less plausible culprit in climate change. 7 ways to shut down a climate change denier 2013-12-18T13:00:00Z Creating new electronic music that sounds relatively plausible, even enjoyable and provisionally radical, is getting closer and closer to being as easy as it is to actually listening to music. Paul Morley introduces Marshall Jefferson and Orlando of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 2010-05-28T12:21:00Z So it's entirely plausible that red sells art. Red is the colour of sex – and the colour of money when it comes to selling art 2013-06-12T14:16:24Z In his latest collection, the ever inventive Marcus delivers taut, bleak, dystopian stories that are disturbing and outlandish yet somehow eminently plausible. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z However, Zeh's clarity of thought, plausible characterisation and ability to conjure up a world where everything that is possible happens make Dark Matter a thrilling read as well as a terrific mental workout. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Or, given his longstanding admiration for Mr. Carson, who essentially rode into the sunset, Mr. Shaffer said it was plausible Mr. Letterman might follow that route. David Letterman (and His Beard) Shop at Target These Days 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The most profound—as well as profoundly good—Pixar movies are the ones that seem the least plausible as story pitches. Review: 'Inside Out' Is the Craziest Movie Pixar Has Ever Come Up With 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Very funny and entirely plausible, since there were serious divisions between the two women over issues ranging from the miners' strike to US use of British airbases for raids on Libya. Women, Power and Politics 2010-06-13T17:56:00Z It is, however, entirely plausible that a person who gravitates toward being on TV and working in the intense, high-pressure world of restaurants is a person who is likelier than average to have those tendencies. Did chef Gordon Ramsay drive a man to suicide? 2010-09-29T15:14:00Z That primordial urge to fulfill bodily hungers, “purchased at the price of plausible deniability,” leads to “intentionally putting oneself in unpredictable situations in a world full of gnarly people.” Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z It was risky of the writers to get rid of Brody, even though the character outlived his plausible usefulness as a spy and as a romantic hero. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z However, it is perfectly plausible that at least some of these actors do end up appearing in the series, as I wouldn’t put it past Twin Peaks to keep at least a few secrets. Everything we know about the new season of Twin Peaks so far 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z A more plausible idea, backed by Mr Legrain, is to restore greater freedom to national governments but reinstate the principle that they will not be rescued by the centre if they get into trouble. A troubled union 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z As much as I like me some superheroes, that's really a lot more plausible — and more effective — than pulling on a mask and fighting bank robbers. Comics: "Hybrid Bastards" provides some good, dirty fun 2010-09-21T19:27:00Z There are enough stories about the wrongfully convicted to make the circumstances that land the titular hero of "Andor" in prison seem entirely plausible. From bureaucratic drudgery to prison labor, “Andor” shows how exploitation leads to the Dark Side 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Not much plausible family resemblance there, maybe, but no shortage of opportunities for sparks to fly. Fractious Family Mourns in ‘This Is Where I Leave You’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z By no means the only recent works in this vein, these books contain complex and entirely plausible portraits of fiercely intelligent African American fathers. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z With no immediately plausible suspects, the police threw a wide net, taking thousands of DNA samples from people who might have been in the area at the time. Weekend Reading: A Tech-Free Town, Boehner’s Zen, and More 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z That appears to be the only plausible explanation until a Taliban commander shows up looking for his missing fighters. Review: ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ Engages the Horrors of War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The fabular quality that makes Green’s clothes feel like plausible garb for the interstellar colonists of the early twenty-second century has also endeared them to the pop stars of the early twenty-first. A Workwear Jacket Worthy of Drake and “Alien: Covenant” 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z His excuses were “all plausible,” said Bruce A. Bradburn, the board president. Prestige Can?t Halt Downfall of Theater 2011-05-18T22:00:52Z Sherrie Noble, Quincy, Mass. I’m not aware of any direct study on this in musicians, but it seems plausible to me. ArtsBeat: Gary Marcus, Cognitive Psychologist, Answers Readers' Questions 2012-01-30T12:00:07Z Despite the prearranged news narrative, there was a plausible argument to be made that all was not lost. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z Give the family hour what it wants, give the late-night gossipers what they want, and keep it all firmly separate with plausible deniability. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z That's how intelligent people with good principles and upright intentions can put together a string of completely unrelated events to create an entirely plausible assumption of malign intent that just happens to be totally wrong. Running the Park Slope Food Coop newsletter taught me not to believe in conspiracy theories 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z It was “plausible, almost appropriate,” he wrote in his memoir, for families like his to be vigilant about the Nazi regime but also determined to maintain a relatively normal private life. Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The economy was sinking, crime was spiking, nuclear war was plausible, divorce rates were soaring and helicopter parenting was anomalous. Gen X Women: More Opportunities, Less Satisfaction? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z And beyond its artfully chilly atmosphere and its surprisingly plausible and suspenseful narrative, the main attraction in Season 2 remains J.K. On ‘Counterpart’ and ‘Berlin Station,’ Spies to Keep You Company in the Cold 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Berg focuses on providing a plausible, in-the-moment account of what happened, rather than reflecting on its larger meanings or political implications. Movie Review: Mark Wahlberg Stars in ‘Lone Survivor’ by Peter Berg 2013-12-24T21:55:24Z Instead, our assertions of ownership are value-laden, inconsistent and regularly in conflict with others’ equally plausible claims of right. Who Owns the Space Behind Your Airplane Seat? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z By extension, it feels plausible that gene-editing therapies, or even designer babies, may seem normal in just a few years. Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z These look plausible, if drab, on unencumbered, level sites. Architects do matter, Mr Gove 2011-03-06T00:09:40Z The conversation continues with Phillips always saying the right thing – and for some reason I find this plausible. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2013-07-09T11:19:15Z It is not clear if the excavation Jōmon man was a fisherman but it is plausible. World's oldest shark victim on record gets decoded by scientists 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z "It was what I was good at; somebody would sit down with me and next thing you'd know I'd got a contract," he says. "I was charming and plausible, fortunately not dangerous." Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults' 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z But by placing blame on the wives, these commentators get to spread harmful messages against the president and senator while having plausible deniability against charges of ableism. Perspective | How Gisele Fetterman became the right wing’s favorite super villain 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z This is creepily plausible, but most haunting is the rooftop garden where the lawless "naturals" lead a life of carnivalesque abandon. Huxley's Lab 2010-04-07T21:30:00Z That’s plausible, but from here the musical careers into increasingly preposterous territory. ‘Family Album,’ a Musical From Heidi Rodewald and Stew 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z But Allen has often said that his movie-starring days were through once he couldn't play a plausible romantic lead opposite an attractive actress. Turturro lands an unlikely co-star: Woody Allen 2013-09-09T17:59:52Z He takes a plausible explanation for some of our woes and makes them the universal cause. Back from the Brink by Peter Snowdon; Red Tory by Phillip Blond 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z He argues that the economic upheavals that start there are “made plausible and made to seem inevitable” by these tightly codified marketing strategies he calls “ideals.” ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Once again, the events recounted seem more plausible from Alison’s perspective. 'The Affair' Recap: Does Noah Sound Like a Writer? 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z And did any of the characters do or say anything remotely plausible for the entire episode? Game of Thrones: the best show on TV just became the silliest 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z None, however, hurts as deeply as creator Russell T Davies’s eerily plausible “Years and Years,” a six-episode British drama that concluded Monday on HBO. Perspective | How HBO’s ‘Years and Years’ triumphed at personalizing a global sense of doom 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “Little Eyes” is a novel-in-stories about these keepers and dwellers — a brisk survey of 21st-century life as seen through the inscrutable camera eyes of a plausible and revealing consumer fad. The Cute Little Devices Are Watching You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z I see plausible explanations in the way we’ve evolved and, paradoxically, in the way we try to manage anxiety. Could our efforts to avoid anxiety only be making it worse? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z “But I knew something really bad had to happen to him to make the plot plausible.” A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z As written, Anthony’s platonic lovingness may reflect some degree of wish fulfillment, but as played it seems beautifully plausible: the kind of wish that opens a door to the future. Review: Raising a Joyful New Voice in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z A plausible thing for a white Southern male to have done in the early 19th century. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z Now most everyone in the art world is divided over whether the story is plausible or a larksome prank. Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z There is instead a fealty to fact and to strict cause-and-effect, with an abiding preference for the historically plausible over the fictionally possible in both plot and characterization. Jess Walter’s New Novel Revisits a Turbulent Era Much Like Our Own 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z For one thing, Miller is not remotely plausible as a child, no matter how clever he’s said to be. Books of The Times: A 9-Year-Old Fan of ?A Fan?s Notes,? Finding Truth in His Own Fiction 2010-09-29T20:52:00Z However, the more Zeman started digging into Terry's work, including his book about Berkowitz called "The Ultimate Evil," the more plausible it became. "The moment blew my mind": Son of Sam serial killer may not have acted alone, says new Netflix show 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z But as I have argued in previous misbegotten campaign obituaries, sooner or later the Bernie Sanders movement has to get over Bernie Sanders, at least as a plausible candidate for the Democratic nomination. After Bernie, now what? To mean anything, the Sanders campaign must outlast its figurehead 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z And like Reagan, he made a startling career switch, using that straight-arrow technique and plausible manner for something different: in Nielsen's case comedy. The strange screen life of Ronald Reagan 2011-02-09T14:26:55Z Lovers of camp and cannabis are the most plausible audience for “Sabotage,” given the giggle-to-bullet ratio in this extravagantly silly movie about a gang of marauding Drug Enforcement Administration undercover thugs. Movie Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Back in ‘Sabotage’ 2014-03-27T22:49:41Z It may sound plausible, but it is wrong. Perspective | By giving Trump a town hall to rival Biden’s, NBC is playing into his ratings obsession — again 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z To put it bluntly, The Corrections made it plausible to speak of Franzen in the company of Philip Roth. Jonathan Franzen's Freedom: the novel of the century 2010-08-23T11:18:00Z Mr. Allen denied this, though his leading man thought it was plausible. For Woody Allen's Next Trick, Shrugging Off Bad Publicity 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The comedy was largely visual, and Mr. Willis created the kind of plausible imagery that allowed the comedic ideas to work. Gordon Willis, ‘Godfather’ Cinematographer, Dies at 82 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Anything is plausible — his delicate eyes seem destined for stones before long. 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Premiere Recap: Stannis Emerging, Tyrion Unboxed 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z “The much more plausible explanation has to do with what contemporary men and women think of contemporary sexual orientation.” Studied: Lipstick on Her Collar? Men Say, ?O.K.? 2011-02-25T18:00:07Z But the idea everyone should learn how to code is as plausible as saying that everyone should learn how to plumb. Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances' 2013-03-09T19:20:02Z The question is whether any single group — Gotham seems the most plausible — will emerge from the pack as New York’s “other” company in this diverse but uncertain landscape. Critic's Notebook: With City Opera?s Woes, Other Small Companies Step Up 2012-01-04T14:47:57Z The resulting portrait of a world stumbling toward the unthinkable is credibly detailed and alarmingly plausible. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The others gain and lose our affections as the plot heats up, sometimes in ways more pulpy than plausible. In ‘Our New Girl,’ a Household Is Under Stress 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z But the solution Noone comes up with for the play's harrying farcical demands neither sufficiently compresses the action nor establishes a plausible theatrical cosmos. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The scene in the train station was perhaps the highlight of the episode — gripping and surprising, yet plausible and coherently shot. 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Much of the music on the soundtrack is being heard by the characters as well as us, even if the dialogue sometimes has to work hard to make this plausible. Film-makers need to trust the audience 2013-05-24T13:00:01Z Instead it’s moody and emotional, a real world nudged just a few degrees surreal, and it’s grounded by some excellent, plausible performances. TV Review: The Returned 2013-10-30T09:30:40Z By the 2000s, Max Brooks’s “World War Z” and related “The Zombie Survival Guide” were deemed so plausible for emergency scenarios that Brooks now consults for the military. Review | Coronavirus feels like something out of a sci-fi novel. Here’s how writers have imagined similar scenarios. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Foer’s first novel in 11 years is a divorce novel and a state-of-the-Jewish-soul novel and running below the narrative, like a headline news ticker, is a plausible dystopian nightmare. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Yet even when she offers them a plausible match based on intuition honed through years of experience, they find a way to push back the plate dissatisfied. The Mating Game 2010-10-22T22:20:00Z To make his situation plausible, I kept trying to invent a back story for him that bore some resemblance to my own, but I couldn't stop hating my own innocence. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z By the time that became plausible, in the 1990s, there was substantial neighborhood opposition to moving the house. Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z In this, he is aided by a cast of plausible 20- or 30-somethings. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z If not, wait until the margins are plausible before you think about it and in the meantime carry on selling books.12. Independent bookshops: share your survival strategies 2013-07-04T14:52:35Z And anyway, I thought, I was becoming a much more plausible octogenarian up onstage, wasn’t I? Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z After all, the whole reason that Belfer’s scenario is compelling is that it’s plausible. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Interesting snaps of sodden property in the Wye valley is the closest thing to reassurance that feels plausible in these troubled times. Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots 2013-01-27T00:04:04Z One of the most delightful things about “To Rome With Love” is how casually it blends the plausible and the surreal, and how unabashedly it revels in pure silliness. Movie Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, ‘To Rome With Love’ 2012-06-21T12:00:00Z It takes the form of an extended cinematic essay, blending fictionalized re-enactments of plausible events with excursions into scholarship and fantasy. Review: ‘Francofonia,’ About World War II Foes Turned Allies, for the Sake of Art 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Because, presumably, ice zombies and dragons are perfectly plausible, but fully rounded non-white characters would be a stretch too far? ‘There are no black people on GoT’: why is fantasy TV so white? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z That theory is more plausible than many others, but no one knows for sure. Charles Manson’s Musical Ambitions 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z There's a plausible argument that a state funeral, in its gravity and finality, should not be chopped into lumps interrupted by shopping. TV matters: An ad-free royal wedding 2011-04-07T07:00:02Z This is an obvious thing to say, but Nolan departs from the more fantastical universe of Tim Burton’s Batman movies in numerous ways, mostly by making Gotham more … let’s not say realistic, let’s say plausible. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Does Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” hold up? 2012-07-14T19:00:00Z But normally, he appeared too eager to please and too pleasing to be plausible. Chuck Todd Begins as Host of NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The intriguing question of Kenny’s character — not his guilt or innocence, but the quicksilver temperament that makes both seem plausible — fades as the story of Betty Anne’s hard work and sacrifice gains momentum. | 'Conviction': Her Brother?s Keeper, No Matter the Cost 2010-10-14T23:03:00Z But I think the most plausible explanation is this one: I think he meant to message Jane. Perspective | Did he just harass you or are you imagining it? You might be a victim of ‘crasslighting.’ 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Fassbender won the acting award at Venice for this role, and an Oscar nod is completely plausible. Best of Toronto: Oscar candidates and indie breakouts 2011-09-16T00:30:00Z This is a plausible interpretation, except that the presumed date of 1689 for the opera’s premiere no longer holds a valid claim. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Together they created a plausible, unforgettable origin not just for Batman, but for his entire milieu, most of which has been adopted by DC Comics as the official story. Comics: 'Batman: Year One' adaptation true to original 2011-10-18T17:37:04Z But haunted house stories are different, because they feel more plausible. "It's blood memory": Jurnee Smollett on how the horrors in "Lovecraft Country" are felt in real life 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z With “The Plot Against America,” Roth is playing the speculator’s game at its most sophisticated level, pulling us deep into a reality that is at once impossible and plausible. What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z So many popular notions of what constitutes a telling detail or plausible character flow from his work. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The film wants to leave the question of its judgment on Joker tantalizingly unresolved, allowing enough room for plausible deniability of any toxic influence even as it puts a bad example on a pedestal. Why so stupid: how Joker is too juvenile to be provocative 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The key murders in The Calling are so repulsive and their perpetrator so plausible that at times I had to force myself to keep reading. Thrillers: John O'Connell's choice ?reviews 2011-08-12T21:55:12Z Real and plausible are not the same thing. Trump is stranger than fiction: John Altman on writing thrillers today 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z It would be equally plausible to present the Polonius of tradition, a man devoid of self-knowledge, puffed up with self-regard. Nicholas Hytner: With Shakespeare, the play is just a starting point 2013-04-12T09:01:01Z Despite all the facts, there is a deafening silence on the part of world leadership over the plausible relationship between extreme weather events and human-induced climate disruption. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z It’s a divorce novel and a state-of-the-Jewish-soul novel and running below it, like a headline news ticker, is a plausible dystopian nightmare. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Both seem plausible, but what happens is more unsettling. ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Winters tried to ground the narrative in research to make the wild premise plausible. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z “Both are plausible conclusions. I made one rather than the other.” TV station backs off accusation that CNN played politics 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z He’s in a rock band that's a plausible contender for a record contract. "Scott Pilgrim": The end of the nerd as we know him 2010-08-12T15:01:00Z Cleverly, some of the elements of this story do seem reasonably plausible, which, as we’ve learned, is the key to any abominable conspiracy theory. Review | A great Bigfoot novel may be lurking out there. Max Brooks’s ‘Devolution’ isn’t it. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z On one hand, their new constraints on the plausible masses and interactions of WIMPs are priming plans for next-generation detectors that could offer better chances of success. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But recently, a number of philosophers, futurists, science-fiction writers, and technologists—people who share a near-religious faith in technological progress—have come to believe that the simulation argument is not just plausible, but inescapable. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The courtship of Christian and Anastasia is many things, not all of them palatable or plausible. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Worse, when he realized she was dead, he left her there for nearly 20 minutes in order to fabricate what was a plausible alibi. In a fitting series finale, "BoJack Horseman" finds out what it truly means to be canceled 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Regardless, I say, it is important, at least, for fiction to be plausible even if it stretches the bounds of credibility. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z I considered backtracking, going over all the options and letting her decide for herself which one seemed the most plausible, but I didn’t really feel qualified to give her a comprehensive overview. I’m glad my dog is dying 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z It is a flight of fancy, not strictly plausible, but very effective in establishing a mood music that swells progressively throughout the picture. Lincoln – review 2013-01-24T15:30:01Z The first seems plausible, sadly inevitable; the second merely cruel and insensitive. Broadway’s Big Fish: Small Potatoes 2013-10-10T09:45:50Z We want our games to have that plausible, grounded feeling, but make no mistake; we'll err on the side of entertainment every time. 'Call of Duty: Black Ops II' aims toward future 2012-11-09T14:52:09Z Those sound like interesting and plausible plot developments! ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Regan’s back-stabbing is perfectly plausible for a character of her type, but the viciousness with which she lashes out at her putative friend just doesn’t ring true. | 'Bachelorette': Wedding Trash Talk in Leslye Headland?s Comedy 2010-07-27T02:04:00Z How plausible is it that, a few years from now, men on the streets of New York will be wearing capes designed by Antonio Banderas? It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z When literally anything is visually possible, almost nothing is plausible, or truly scary. Forty years later, revisiting the original summer blockbuster: 'Jaws' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z The film business has been convinced it is about to be struck down ever since it started, although some threats have been more plausible than others. Over the hills: Quentin Tarantino and the end of Hollywood as we know it 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z This adds up to a truly chilling and horribly plausible story. Lesley Glaister's top 10 books about incarceration 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z “The wonder of the series,” Frazier Moore of The A.P. wrote, “is that it feels fully plausible, authentic and delightful, unfolding in a multicultural world.” ‘Jane the Virgin’ Aims Beyond Its Latin Ethnicity 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z And in fact, even to me, the Coop members' suspicions would have seemed plausible — except I knew the actual causes were poor judgment, incompetence, lousy communications and carelessness instead. Running the Park Slope Food Coop newsletter taught me not to believe in conspiracy theories 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z It was a plausible solution to a host of practical problems. Against security 2012-09-02T18:00:00Z Haigh’s ideas about society and human nature are legible and convincing, and his adventure tale is, moment by moment, plausible and engrossing. Review: In ‘The North Water,’ There’s Blood on the Ice 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Murray’s future, full of bizarre yet plausible changes, is suffused with a palpable grittiness. Review | There’s no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. ‘The Last Day’ may set a new standard. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Sort of create a plausible explanation why Robin Hood became Robin Hood and why the Merry Men became the Merry Men. Crowe pals form band of Merry Men in `Robin Hood' 2010-05-14T11:31:00Z An entirely plausible answer would be: Who cares? Movie Review: ‘This Is 40,’ From Judd Apatow and Starring Paul Rudd 2012-12-20T18:32:19Z But, liberated from conventional speech and historical fact, Bartlett pushes his characters to extremes he wouldn’t have accessed otherwise—the implausible illuminates the plausible. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z It was “plausible” in the clinical sense–conditions like that do erupt that way–but that didn’t make it more effective as a narrative choice. Girls Watch: You Call That a Happy Ending? 2013-03-18T14:56:59Z Here he's both a plausible romantic lead and a bona fide action hero. When the alpha nerds kicked ass 2010-12-16T22:01:00Z It is plausible that our disillusionment with once-revered directors could hasten an end to the auteur worship that has dominated cinema since the 60s. The end of the auteur? 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The connection between colour and energy is plausible, though. Spectrum colour yoga and meditation – like being stuck inside a traffic light 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Their pillow talk is painfully funny but also plausible. Bridesmaids: Kristin Wiig's Merry Band of Party Poopers 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z So while it's more than plausible that the Enquirer's story is politically motivated, given the ongoing feud Trump has been engaged in with Bezos, it's still impossible to ignore. Jeff Bezos' divorce drama and those awful sexts: Why we can't look away 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z No, he says – there was some research involved, but only as much as was needed to make the film plausible. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Kazan brings to the role a sweet and dignified vulnerability, keeping rigorously to plausible human behaviour. Ruby Sparks – review 2012-10-11T19:25:01Z But those questions don't in any plausible way substitute for the earlier, more momentous political questions. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – review 2012-08-23T07:00:02Z Unlike Jones, Browne usually leans in the end towards the standard supernatural interpretation, even though he is fully aware of a plausible physical explanation. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z The professional challenges that Robyn faces are often plausible, and far more compelling than their resolutions, which are mostly stupid. “Flack,” Reviewed: Anna Paquin Has Plenty of Cocaine But Only One Pair of Shoes 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z But as the company amassed global influence, he began to be seen as a kind of dark online prince, and he labored to restyle himself as a plausible civic leader. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z While Jean’s spoiler-ish reason for not returning then is surprisingly plausible, his estrangement in the intervening time is less so. Review: ‘Back to Burgundy,’ a Lightheaded Ode to Winemaking 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z More recently, in the 1980s and 1990s, laboratory scientists started to explore several plausible explanations for these benefits. Cranberry juice can prevent recurrent UTIs, but only for some people 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The nephew also recorded that Pliny had raw and narrow airways, so asphyxiation seems a plausible cause of death. What One Woman Packed and Another Woman Thought 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Depardieu's rendering was quite plausible, better than many an inveterate learner of the tongue. My night with Gérard Depardieu: pipes, poems and a skinful ... of haggis 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z “So that’s why his health effects, I think, are completely plausible.” Can’t Let Go of ‘S-Town’? Here’s What to Read Next 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s a tribute to Fisher’s powers of performance that she renders such a synthetic character in such a hermetic context vibrantly plausible for the duration of the film. Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” Reviewed: A Teen Coming-of-Age Story Plagued by Niceness 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s a caper movie, a modern-day Robin Hood tale organized around an elaborate, improbable but curiously plausible heist. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z I have had those moments of slow-mo horror, where I simultaneously realize my mistake, smash my keyboard and try to concoct the mostly plausible lie possible, while hyperventilating at my desk. The Perils of Email Auto-Fill 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z He says Mr. Trump’s foes want to cast the president-elect “as this uniquely evil person, Trump as Hitler; that doesn’t strike me as remotely plausible.” Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Such was the plausible idea behind “Tap Lab,” the Bang Group’s contribution to the Harkness Dance Festival. Review: ‘Tap Lab,’ From the Bang Group, Conveys Musical Scores Through Footwork 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z That these readings and others seem plausible -- even persuasive -- is a testament to the film's concision. "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z It’s not that the book is plausible, exactly, but that it’s full of texture and detail, both forensic and psychological. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z To maintain hated symbols as a teaching lesson and warning to future generations would be plausible if we were, as a society, fully and finally done with things like the myth of the Lost Cause. Perspective | Statues make definitive statements. That’s why Confederate memorials must come down. 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The Englishman didn't just deliver a plausible origin story, he followed it through with two chronologically cohesive sequels that successfully stage-managed an evolution in the Bruce Wayne character. The Dark Knight and Marvel: the blockbuster franchise comes of age 2012-11-14T12:42:52Z Instead, she describes her futuristic stories as works of “speculative fiction,” and argues that her plots depict plausible scenarios rather than fantasy tales. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z If you find that argument plausible, it’s most likely because you’ve heard it before. No Light at the End of This Tunnel 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z They also seem like plausible staples of the popular literary canon in late-19th-century America. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Review: The Coens Go Darkly West Again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Happiness, it would seem, is the most plausible of our aims in life. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z But is it plausible, or wise, to end another season with Dexter confronting the loss of yet another blond lover? ArtsBeat: 'Dexter' Watch: Love Blooms and Blood Spills 2010-12-06T15:50:00Z “Little Voice” makes Bess’s efforts economically plausible — she spends as much time in her storage unit as in her small, shared apartment; she walks dogs, teaches piano and tends bar to pay the rent. Perspective | Here are six new summer shows to watch as the TV pool begins to dry up 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z No one much over the age of six thinks there is a remotely plausible argument for the existence of Santa Claus. Can we prove that God exists? Richard Dawkins and the limits of faith and atheism 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Armed with what he thought was a plausible extortion theory and with his taped evidence, Dershowitz went to war. It’s Alan Dershowitz vs. David Boies, again and again 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z At this year’s show, virtual reality transitioned from a glimpse of the future to a plausible holiday gift. Virtual Reality’s Potential Displayed at Game Developers Conference 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z This leads him to a number of plausible suspects, from the piggish local squire to a shifty antiques dealer to a roustabout gardener. From the creator of ‘Foyle’s War,’ a delightful homage to Agatha Christie 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Yet the creatures are rendered so deftly that they seem almost plausible. Review | In the galleries: For ‘Inheritance,’ a wealth of compelling large-scale portraits 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z I don't think Catfish is a fake: the hidden story is all too plausible. Catfish 2010-12-16T15:00:01Z “To be honest,” Mr. Regan said, “I always suspected that Adam had created the drink, but I really, really loved it, his story was almost plausible, and I needed recipes for ‘New Classic Cocktails.’” That Historic Cocktail? Turns Out It’s a Fake 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The persistence of Franck’s interest in Michel — which begins to resemble love — at times feels arbitrary and baffling, the result of a narrative experiment rather than the exploration of a plausible motive. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z Ayckbourn's production vividly endorses the key point: that we are watching plausible people in improbable situations. Taking Steps | Theatre review 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z You will be able to decide relatively fast how plausible a goal this is. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg 2013-03-13T11:18:53Z These outfits offer fake news stories that seem plausible enough, playing to confirmation bias for the purpose of generating outrage clicks. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It doesn’t hurt that he has an excellent sense of composition that helps suggest a scarily plausible future. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z In the key role of Francis, Wilder comes up with a plausible, swaggering, cocksure persona. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at 1st Stage But it surely seems plausible, too, that his relationship with Sand devolved into platonic companionship because Chopin just wasn’t wired that way. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Today, rather than Roanoke Island, two spots have excited historians and archaeologists as plausible destinations of the lost colonists. ‘The Secret Token’ Review: America’s First Unsolved Mystery 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s plausible that he might inject new life into the subjects at hand here. Books of The Times: In ‘Across the Pond,’ Terry Eagleton Explains the U.S. 2013-07-11T19:40:24Z It was a plausible plan, and it strained credulity just once. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 8 Recap: Showdown 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Whether this meet cute of radicalism and conservatism is historically plausible, it is compelling as part of the playwright’s mission. Review: In ‘This Land Was Made,’ Huey Newton Walks Into a Bar 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z He is indeed a persuasive advocate, and he made the best possible case for the work’s being plausible if hardly definitive Mahler. Review: We Held Our Breath Through Simon Rattle’s Mahler 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Let’s start with the most plausible: Arthur lives in Pennsylvania. Marc Brown on the End of ‘Arthur’ and His Favorite Fan Theories 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z This sounds plausible until you start to demand details, whereupon it becomes extraordinarily hard to grasp what this might actually mean. SXSW 2011: The internet is over 2011-03-15T08:00:03Z It conjures a bare-bones, moderately plausible near future in which criminals and other undesirables are subjected to a modern variant of the ancient practice of ostracism. Review: Cannibalism, Hallucinogens and Keanu: ‘The Bad Batch’ Has It All 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z No one confirmed it, but it was plausible enough. Natalie Portman Makes Her Couture Debut at Dior 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Banks cultivated plausible deniability, their internal oversight systems too feeble to pin responsibility on any individual; Goldman executives used the abbreviation LDL — “let’s discuss live” — to hide their traces. America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z It hardly seems plausible that another terrible thing would happen to a child. 'The Affair' Recap: When 'She Said' Is More Believable Than 'He Said' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Granted, the outcome and how the final installment got us there is plausible. "Game of Thrones" recap: The Iron Throne apparently goes to the person with the best story 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z In the molten concert performance Mr. Gilbert led, “Senza Sangue” seemed a plausible candidate for a double bill with Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z All that insider info allows him to put together plausible if not exactly astonishing reports on the process — how the big decisions got made. 'The Promise': Jonathan Alter's chronicle of Obama's first year in office 2010-06-03T20:07:00Z It is also a serious presentation of one plausible portrait of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Books of The Times: Reza Aslan’s ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’ 2013-08-05T19:15:02Z Lapine cast this production mostly with actors in their 30s, who can be plausible as young strivers or as broken souls approaching middle age. A Sondheim Musical Rolls Back to Life 2012-02-15T16:40:10Z It’s tempting to assert that, unlike the swastika, there are no plausible alternative meanings of the Confederate flag. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z I don’t know if Sittenfeld ever met the real Hillary, but in “Rodham,” she paints a post-Bill life for her that seems perfectly plausible, one that becomes richer with the passage of time. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The last episode uses the teamwork of dolphins that drive fish into one another’s jaws to support a plausible contention: that intelligence tends to evolve in animals that collaborate and compete in complex social groups. The Scan: How Animals Think and Harmonic Stars 2014-03-31T21:22:13Z It seems doubtful that Mr. Legend would have shown up to perform music that he thought was bad, and Keith’s unapologetic commercialism is less a strawman for Seb’s high-mindedness than a plausible counterargument. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “I want to do just enough to make the character plausible, but I don’t create an elaborate back story.” Rodney Graham, Conceptual Artist Who Starred in His Work, Dies at 73 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z This is Chabon at his magical best, stitching his grandfather into the fabric of the 20th century in a way that seems either ludicrous or plausible depending on how the light hits. Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Her investigation takes twists, turns and detours past all the genre’s signposts while pragmatic characters offer more plausible explanations for the gruesome events. Review | Stephen Graham Jones’s ‘My Heart Is a Chainsaw’ will delight horror movie fans 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The plotting of “Poetic License” is completely plausible, but squeezing all the revelations and accusations into one evening pretty much defies credibility. Theater Review: ?Poetic License,? by Jack Canfora, at 59E59 Theaters 2012-02-20T23:15:11Z You suspect that she was picked partly because she’s a plausible physical match to a younger Helen Mirren, and that that kind of cautious thinking carried through the production. Review: ‘Prime Suspect’ After Helen Mirren. (Before, Actually.) 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z One slightly more plausible explanation is that she is an outsider, not a participant of the international music promotion business. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Martin Freeman in both acts becomes the horrifically plausible spokesman for white resentment, while Sarah Goldberg looks on as his appalled wife. Clybourne Park 2010-09-03T09:35:00Z It would be a horrific violation of judicial obligations, and Turow doesn't offer any plausible explanation for it. 'Innocent': Scott Turow's sequel to 'Presumed Innocent' 2010-04-28T23:47:00Z Thanks to a board book’s simple and spare language, ambiguity reigns, releasing other, equally plausible meanings. The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Its absurd plot is oddly plausible to anyone familiar with the grand schemes and great scandals of Chinese officialdom. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z He chooses acquaintances, though neither scenario seems plausible, given their history. ‘Insecure’ Season 3 Premiere: The Bad Decision Index 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z He inspired me to search for remotely plausible theories of the afterlife. Love, sex and death: What my fiancé’s death taught me about the afterlife 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “They’re plausible, at least at first, and then crazy elements introduce themselves,” she said of the plots. Julie Klausner’s Comic Success With ‘Difficult People’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Luckily, the tireless Ms. Hedwall dives into her pinwheeling character with relish, papering over some less plausible moments as she demonstrates how Fay simultaneously attracts and repels anyone in her orbit. | 'The Fall to Earth': ?The Fall to Earth? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2012-01-19T22:40:42Z Either of these would be more plausible reasons for people to form a queue. Hey, talk show gatekeepers: Let’s not enable Sean Spicer 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z A more plausible hypothesis is that the diplomats were exposed to some kind of toxin. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The idea of an unbridgeable gap between the academic and the public historian is becoming less and less plausible. 'From PhD to BBC': are academic historians too hungry for fame? 2012-07-12T16:38:00Z Donald Trump’s absurd yet frighteningly real campaign for the presidency is hard for anyone with a moral compass to see to its somehow plausible conclusion. We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Clearly written from experience, the play offers a wincingly plausible picture of life at the bottom of the educational heap. The Knowledge - review 2011-01-18T00:18:24Z Though the characters are fictional, the portrayal of a politically divided country makes this twisty thriller feel all too plausible. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z I returned home on New Year’s Day and did exactly what one should not do when faced with plausible toe cancer: I shuffled through photos of diseased feet on the Internet for the next week. Is it cancer?: My paranoid health scares 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z In 1502, in an Italian castle, a plausible, explosive interaction occurs between three men who will shape the Renaissance – Cesare Borgia, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci. First novels: Catherine Taylor's roundup - reviews 2011-02-26T00:07:44Z It's gorgeous, but it's also plausible postcard material. Adams, Namkung: nature at Woodside/Braseth 2011-09-29T20:05:03Z Because Trump does not drink, and “certainly does not do drugs,” the only plausible explanation for the president’s slurred speech is that he is being involuntarily medicated, according to Stone. Alex Jones, Roger Stone agree: Someone may be drugging President Trump 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z At a minimum, Santorum needs wins in Oklahoma and Tennessee to remain a plausible threat. Five questions for Super Tuesday 2012-03-06T19:41:00Z I looked away from the debate, feeling awkward and was rather amazed to hear what sounded like Obama debating Reagan, not Romney – a plausible, slightly folksy voice pushing moderate conservatism. Has a disillusioned Barack Obama lost the will to win? 2012-10-06T23:06:37Z And even if Susan Lynch is too attractive to be entirely plausible as a wallflower, she captures superbly the hints of Maureen's mental fragility. Review 2010-07-21T23:59:00Z He would be plausible, and he'd be better looking than I ever was. Q&A: Michael Boyd, artistic director of the RSC 2010-07-06T12:42:00Z The production does feature some entertaining, if perhaps not plausible, set-piece sequences, such as an episode in which Lionel, shedding his inhibitions, waxes passionate on the subject of Pollock’s creative process. A potential Jackson Pollock painting sparks an exaggerated class war 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z That third-person omniscient narrator dramatizes Fitzgerald’s characteristic insider-outsider stance and allows readers access to his imagined thoughts without overstepping the bounds of the plausible. Book review: ‘West of Sunset,’ a novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald by Stewart O’Nan 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Blame the Google search, which pretty much sapped all plausible life out of a comedy premise in which a guy can get away with pretending to be somebody else. ‘The Jim Gaffigan Show’: A sunnier ‘Louie’ in the form of a stale Hot Pocket 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z And so, Moorhead is convinced, the only plausible explanation for how they ended up in the field is that the hoard was a ritual offering to the gods. Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z It seems highly plausible, as South African archaeologist David Lewis-Williams argues in his book The Mind in the Cave, that these artists were shamans who worked in a trance. Ice Age Art at the British Museum: 'Not even Da Vinci surpassed this' 2013-02-05T16:44:01Z After The Washington Post called his candidacy “weirdly plausible,” Johnson—who is a registered Republican—posted a screenshot from the article and called it “interesting.” Can you smell what The Rock is floating? Dwayne Johnson calls a run for the White House “a real possibility” 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z As I have written in previous columns, sleep paralysis and false memories provide plausible explanations for many such accounts. Confessions of an Alien Abductee exploited its unfortunate subjects 2013-06-18T06:00:11Z The Tooth Fairy was a plausible bit of nonsense. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Meet Fred, the Tooth Fairy 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Also, people are still living in the era of plausible deniability. Cathy O'Neil, author of 'Weapons of Math Destruction,' on the dark side of big data 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z You and your sister offer plausible readings of an encounter. My Brother-in-Law Vilified Us Online. Should We Still Have Him Over? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Charyn makes the real and the imagined sound equally plausible, with prose that evokes Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49” in its rapid-fire energy. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The ostensible reason is that he spotted a deer, but more plausible explanations might be tact or embarrassment. Movie Review: ?Darling Companion? From Lawrence and Meg Kasdan 2012-04-19T22:35:40Z And while most historians assume that after abandoning Roanoke the colonists went to their intended landing site at Chesapeake Bay, Horn makes a plausible case that they went inland instead. 'A Kingdom Strange': A new look at the Lost Colony of Roanoke 2010-04-28T23:50:00Z Fortunately, the book comes alive when bringing the reader into the heart of the late-’60s scene, where revolution seemed not just possible but plausible. ‘The Hard Stuff’ Review: Motor City Mayhem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z There is a core group of three movies on the Oscars best picture nominee list with a plausible slam-dunk claim on the title. Why La La Land should win the best picture Oscar 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z “Defensible” homicides—killings with plausible defense theories such as self-defense—are almost always plea-bargained, simply because the stakes are too high for either side to roll the dice with an unpredictable jury trial. “Would we even be here if Julian Acox was white?” Race, self-defense and making of a murder charge 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Even if this prediction were plausible — which it isn’t — the conclusion hardly seems justified. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z Which isn't to say that I find Veda wholly plausible or implausible. As is the case with Iago, this is not an either-or proposition. A grand finale for "Mildred Pierce" 2011-04-11T13:01:00Z Two unusually plausible points also stand out here: that neither the North nor the South can afford to lose Texas, and that the first president of a C.S.A. might well be Gov. Books of The Times: ‘Better Off Without ’Em,’ by Chuck Thompson 2012-08-21T22:05:37Z Sounding a bit like an Aussie Bob Hoskins, it quickly turns into a plausible manifestation of Walter’s tortured, divided mind. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z At 19 this seemed plausible to me and I went for it, pawing at him in the dark, remembering her. Modern Love: A Free Spirit Who Couldn?t Be Tethered 2010-07-29T21:55:00Z A more plausible analogy for the architect is with the screenwriter, whose work is rewritten until everything that made it distinctive has dissolved under layer upon layer of mush. Building an audience for architecture 2011-01-20T21:45:01Z What makes the best alternate histories effective is how plausible they are. Some alternate Americas for the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The most difficult part of writing science fiction is making the story feel plausible. Reader reviews roundup 2012-06-29T14:44:12Z The genetically modified, hybrid dinosaur in Jurassic World is “scientifically more plausible” than the dinosaurs in former films, according to palaeontologist Jack Horner in an interview with the BBC on Friday. New Dinosaur in 'Jurassic World' is 'Scientifically More Plausible' Than Previous Dinosaurs 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z “I think it’s very plausible that your microbes are influencing your immune system responses,” Guillemin said. Tiny bacteria impact our health in big ways 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Prescott uses her deep knowledge of the past to provide plausible links to the present in the killer's mind. 'The Truth of All Things': a wicked string of murders in Maine 2012-03-28T19:27:06Z Koryta’s plotting is sure-footed, and the secrets he discloses, one by one, at the novel’s end are both surprising and plausible. Review | ‘How it Happened’ starts with a confession, but is it true? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Most of the new album is so vertiginously layered that it’s plausible the band spent nearly four years in the studio making it. Critic?s Notebook: Radiohead Surprises With Early Release 2011-02-18T23:25:50Z Concern for Hector’s loved ones didn’t seem very plausible. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 7: Jimmy Goes Backward 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z How could I make this psychologically plausible, and not utterly discreditable? David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z This illuminating new exhibition, “WWII & NYC,” even makes it seem plausible that the waging of the entire war was a kind of Manhattan Project, at least in part. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z Strategically, it was a good move because I wasn’t ready to come out to my family, and this gave me a little bit of plausible deniability. 'One of us knew roughly what to do' – six celebrities on losing their virginity 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z The ninth US circuit court of appeals did not rule on the merits of Philip Rosati’s case, but it said her allegations were plausible and sufficient to warrant further review by a court. Transgender inmate's rights violated through surgery denial, US court says 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Elster and Hitchcock's story isn't real or even fictionally plausible, but something about it runs deeper than the excuse for a satisfying ghost story. My favourite Hitchcock: Vertigo 2012-08-10T14:28:09Z It would be a feat of engineering that might end up costing $1 billion — which is a plausible price tag for building a spanking-new, state-of-the-art Garden on some other site. How to Transform Penn Station: Move the Garden 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Instead, Burt’s chapter headings name six plausible reasons for reading poems. Review | ‘Don’t Read Poetry’ is a literary manual for the Instagram era 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “I push myself into the realm of the absurd so that whatever my audience considers impossible suddenly by comparison seems plausible and achievable,” Mr. Ferriss said. The World According to Tim Ferriss 2011-03-25T21:44:29Z After all, we’re surrounded by jerks – if you don’t believe me, glance at the headlines, drive home during rush hour, or check Twitter – so, statistically, it’s entirely plausible that one of them is you. How do you know if you’re a jerk? | Oliver Burkeman 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Then there is the sheer outlandishness of the Trump era: When most anything is plausible it is also printable, but that does not necessarily mean you are getting it right. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Art forgers succeed when they create an object that is carefully and tightly woven into true history, so that its existence is plausible. The art of the lie: The art forgery guide to Donald Trump’s tall tales 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Hardy’s relatively low profile here is probably because he is not fully plausible as a pretty-boy figure and had yet to grow into a his bulkier, more macho looks. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z It was, maybe, a little more plausible in the British media culture that a documentary about a paper company could have that kind of effect, could get people recognized on the street. The Office Watch: That’s What She Said 2013-05-17T13:18:33Z Rooted in folklore, they were symbols of epidemics — and a plausible explanation for disease, at least for the time. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Weiss and David Benioff are activating a plausible, historically accurate loophole Martin intends to use in future “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels, or employing the concept as a matter of plotting convenience. How legitimate is the annulment shocker that “Game of Thrones” tossed at us? 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Now that elite complacency has been shattered, the time is ripe for a closer look at more plausible if less pleasing stories. The moral foundations of fascism: Warring psychological theories struggle to make sense of Hitler, Mussolini and you-know-who 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It takes research and wile to lace these lying objects with threads of truth that make them plausible, even to experts, who in theory should know better. The art of the lie: The art forgery guide to Donald Trump’s tall tales 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s plausible as an approach, but troublesome in practice. Berlin Philharmonic Goes to London in Simon Rattle Homecoming 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Beckham has suggested, through proxies, a plausible motive for his nutter: various Panthers hurled gay slurs at him. Odell Beckham and the NFL’s fear of of gay men: “Football is the most homophobic subculture this side of the Westboro Baptist Church” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Wegener stumbles, however, in supplying a plausible engine for continental drift. How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in 'The Great Quake' 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z It sounded amusing yet plausible, everyone has faced some kind of situation where they are late for an important event and then it seems the world is against them. Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z "She had unerring skill to make the daftest, silliest thing sound absolutely real and absolutely plausible," he added. Robinson leads tributes to Byrne 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Four of the past eight best drama winners also won for best cast, making “The Crown” a plausible upset contender. John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Join the EGOT Club 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The finest running joke in “Radio Free Vermont” — not least for being so plausible — is that Barclay and his supporters are a supremely pleasant group of separatists. A Polite Drive for Secession in ‘Radio Free Vermont’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The challenge for Soderbergh and the more-than-game cast is to turn the artful verbiage into persuasive human speech and the plot machinery into a plausible slice of organic reality. ‘High Flying Bird’ Review: A Thrilling Dunk on Capitalism 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In the hands of twenty-one orthodox Shakespeare scholars, the case for William Shakespeare of Stratford sounds plausible enough, and will reassure the already convinced as well as those who would like to be. Reader reviews roundup 2013-05-10T18:21:25Z The ultimate early adopter, Charlie uses a recent inheritance to buy “the first truly viable manufactured human with plausible intelligence and looks, believable motion and shifts of expression.” Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Fox has done everything it can to make Ms. Bunbury, who plays the first woman to reach the big leagues, a plausible Major League pitcher. That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Grossman portrays the secretary of state as “a thousand-year-old necromancer,” which may be the most plausible explanation yet for his Nobel Peace Prize. ‘Crooked’ review: Nixon narrates his story in this comic alt-history 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z So … with one eye on the plausible, and the other on your fantasy line-up, who would you like to see in the new transatlantic Torchwood team? Torchwood team 2010-06-08T12:49:00Z A plausible account of what might have happened did eventually emerge, but too late to bring the culprit to justice. Midnight in Peking by Paul French - review 2012-06-08T21:55:15Z Reynolds' singular style, however, taps into a plausible, palpable sadness that "The Adam Project" capitalizes upon tremendously. "The Adam Project" digs into the essential sadness of Ryan Reynolds' heroes 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z It’s a scarily plausible impersonation from Christian Bale, whose bald-capped head has been enlarged to the size of a pale pink, bespectacled beachball. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z It is one of those places where you could set just about any story and it would seem plausible. 'America beats on you so hard the whole time' 2012-06-16T23:05:27Z They tease because they remain impossible, but so plausible the reader believes that she or he can somehow acquire the secret of their making. The real appeal of fantastic food in children's books 2013-01-10T10:33:54Z It will be a sharp step away from the plausible pseudo-science, first broached by Iron Man, that dominates the Marvel movies and will introduce the more strange and fantastical elements of the Marvel Universe. Benedict Cumberbatch Confirmed to Play Doctor Strange 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z I felt free to place the Paddington episode in the early summer of 1907, a much more plausible date for several other reasons. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z Even so, Miliband's view that the state is constrained, reactive and hemmed in by market forces has become increasingly plausible with the passage of time. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z I enlisted my friend Robert M. Price to see if there was any plausible theological solution. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z Movies need an arc, preferably a redemptive one – and what Alpha Papa offers is Partridge's plausible reinvention as a real hero. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa – first look review 2013-07-24T14:26:31Z But its only real virtue is that it gives Tracie Bennett a chance to offer an impressively plausible portrait of the doomed star both on and off stage. End of the Rainbow - review 2010-11-23T01:04:00Z All the while, few if any handicappers recognized TBS as a plausible destination. Conan O'Brien heads to TBS, not Fox 2010-04-13T17:20:00Z The question is plausible, but the likely answer is unsatisfying: It depends — on multiple, unpredictable factors. Is this the end of Bill O’Reilly? That’s a complicated question. 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Nuclear terrorism, nuclear war in the Middle East or South Asia, or grotesque accident — all are unfortunately plausible. "Countdown to Zero": Valerie Plame Wilson's new anti-nuke crusade 2010-07-23T01:02:00Z It is plausible that the Kochs and some members of their network are participating in politics largely to keep their fortunes intact. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z This popular myth, embraced in video games and comic books, is actually a plausible conclusion when one considers a thicket of facts that weave around it. Did Nazis really try to make zombies? The real history behind one of our weirdest WWII obsessions 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Carion's version of events is sentimental and not entirely plausible – it seems the Germans had a famous opera singer serving as a lowly private in their ranks – but nevertheless poignant. TV highlights 20/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:01:02Z That diversity is the result of carefully managed optics, to be sure, but it also felt like a plausible representation of reality. What ‘Green Book’ Says About the Academy. Our Critics on the Oscars. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z One biologically plausible reason is to do with growth hormone, Greaves said. Taller people more likely to get cancer, say researchers 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But just when we’ve settled into that comfort, Davies plunges the brood into a nightmare ride through 15 years of upheaval that is as brutal as it is plausible. The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Given that Duchamp probably intended Fountain to be a critique of greedy, speculative collectors, it is an interpretation that would appear plausible. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z Now it's starting to sound more plausible, I say. Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z “What it does really well is sound plausible,” Dr. Shane said. Can A.I. Write Recipes Better Than Humans? We Put It to the Ultimate Test. 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Wilson brings feisty charm and earthy intelligence to Cynthia, making it plausible that she would harbor ambitions beyond physical labor. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z So many popular notions of what constitutes a telling detail or plausible character, or why we think stories move us, flow from his criticism and his stylish craft manual, “How Fiction Works.” In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z He was operating in a world of plausible deniability and limited liability. Perspective | Andrew Cuomo and the old ‘I was just being playful’ excuse 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Its future seems plausible because we live in its unsettling present. ‘The Peripheral’ Isn’t Really About the Future 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Josh Lawson is plausible as Shawn, an aspiring fiction writer who sponges off Perry. | 'Romantically Challenged': Alyssa Milano as a Lovelorn Single Mom With Pals 2010-04-18T22:48:00Z These are plausible mechanisms that deserve careful scrutiny. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Hallucinations and disordered thinking among the characters is now distorting our reality as viewers, and this makes even the most out-there guesswork seem curiously plausible. Mad Men season six: Megan Draper as Sharon Tate, and other theories 2013-06-06T15:59:56Z Ryan's tense, tightly plotted whodunnits feel gloriously plausible, a function of the intimate link he forges between his readers and his characters, never mind that those characters are living through extraordinary times. Thrillers roundup – reviews 2013-07-04T09:00:00Z The new episodes expose hardships each experienced at a young age, but those revelations advance the plot rather than shed plausible light on their psyches. The TV Watch: ‘The Americans’ Returns, With New Secrets, on FX 2014-02-25T22:39:11Z From the first frame of the original Toy Story, 15 years ago, the marriage of eerily realistic computer animation and old-fashioned, emotionally plausible storytelling was a bountiful one. Living dolls 2010-06-30T19:00:00Z As Thomas says in his acknowledgments, the book “imagines connections between known sets of facts that add up to an alternative, plausible interpretation and explanation of the financial crisis and its aftermath.” ‘Fixers’: A financial thriller with cameos by Hillary Clinton and Obama 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z With the help of some friends, I’ve compiled some other disturbingly plausible presidential news stories: Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Spot the fake news headline 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z “These facts … are a plausible reason for the financial problems our community is facing,” he said. $30M theft wakes up 'sleepy little town' 2012-04-18T17:16:00Z It is plausible that there are, by now, actual owners of Buckingham Palace tea towels unable to stand any more jubilee-oriented broadcasting, but this is worth sticking with. TV highlights 03/06/2013 2013-06-03T06:00:11Z Keep in mind that “some episode in Season Four” is every bit as plausible. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Premiere: Danglin’ Jimmy 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z When Pete stopped taking the train from purgatory and committed to pseudo-Bachelor pad living, a future of TV dinners and the occasional one-night stand seemed plausible. Mad Men Recap: You Can’t Stop Cold Like That 2013-06-24T14:13:10Z That seemed quite plausible from what you could see in the pre-cleaned version. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z Richardson takes up that idea but gives it a very refined and nuanced elaboration that makes it much more plausible than it ever was in Heidegger. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z When you’re writing a scene between two characters, do you try to err on the side of keeping things totally plausible, or do you say, “YEAH, this is fiction!” and go for it? “How accidentally a fate is made”: Ed Tarkington on love and its complications, the toll of mental and physical illness — and how dark episodes become the seeds of story 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Yew might have more carefully choreographed the moments between scenes, but he and his actors create a convincing, plausible work space. ‘My Mañana Comes’ Depicts Busboys on the Upper East Side 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The book is a fascinating exploration of an ancient text that many Americans believe they know but often don’t and an attempt to ascertain the most plausible interpretations of Scripture. Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don’t know anything about the Bible 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z “So it’s wholly plausible that her recollection of the period genuinely reflected well on the Reagans, at least on this issue.” Don’t rewrite LGBT history: If we erase the truths of our past struggles, we’re doomed to repeat them 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z He is not, of course, a disinterested judge, but I have heard things from the chorus over the last year that make the argument at least plausible. Critic?s Notebook: Trinity Church, a Sanctuary for Music, Cuts Back 2012-01-10T23:20:05Z And does the story have a plausible lace-valentine heart at its center? Rio: Birds of a Fabulous Feather 2011-04-14T08:45:00Z The final-page stunner is the most plausible, and it bodes ill for the happy islanders. ‘Little Black Lies’ by Sharon Bolton 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z And how plausible is this theory as a practical matter? John Oliver on coronavirus conspiracy theories: 'People are going to get burned' 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Stripped of animals, allegory and visual pleasure, this account is more plausible, though much darker. ‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z But Ms. Phillips acted with a delicate combination of pluck and reserve; she was plausible as a woman who both resists the status quo and, eventually, accedes to it. Review: The Met’s ‘Figaro’ Looks Darker Than It Feels 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z "A thriller is incomparably more arresting when it involves plausible people doing plausible things, rather than archetypes co-starring with animation." The Girl Who Played With Fire: is the Millennium trilogy still burning bright? 2010-08-23T16:00:00Z That seemed a plausible enough explanation for his years-long campaign to establish hot dogs as "the best meat." "My favorite meat": Mitt Romney goes viral in an alien-like ode to hot dogs 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z That interpretation seems both plausible and intriguing, but I was aware of it only after reading the show’s press materials and playbill notes. Two classic Shakespeares, each with ups and downs 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z It's better made, more plausible than the original, the sexual violations less drawn out, the vengeance more violent and elaborate. I Spit on Your Grave ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:39Z Hébert seems as if he has a more plausible chance with this dish than other Vanyas because he retains a debonair quality where many Vanyas have gone nearly totally to seed. Chekhov’s ‘Vanya’ rides again, with uncertain feeling 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Giuliani has since claimed that he was merely tucking his shirt back in, and a plausible case could be made from the footage that he’s doing just that. The ‘Borat’ Sequel’s 3 Wildest Scenes: Here’s What Happens 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z There are known knowns, there are known unknowns and then there is a musical offering an absurd yet apparently plausible explanation for how the United States went to war in Iraq. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z When Toscanini resigned from the New York Philharmonic in 1936, Rodzinski was asked to conduct eight weeks of the following season, and was widely seen as a plausible heir to the maestro’s throne. The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Is this a dystopian vision or an all too plausible one? T. Coraghessan Boyle on Man and Machines 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z But in describing morality as an act of witness, she provides a plausible definition of one ethical position for the writer. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The comedians said in a telephone interview that the aspiration to bring these adenoidal, self-deluded characters to Broadway arose only in the last couple of years and never appeared to be totally plausible. ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Brings Kibitzers to Broadway 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z In Mr. Berger’s telling, Crabb’s claim to have been the only white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where Custer met his downfall in 1876, seems not just plausible but somehow inevitable. Thomas Berger, author of ‘Little Big Man’ and other novels, dies at 89 These set pieces carry a perverse kick, and the three actors come shockingly close to making it all seem plausible. Theater Review: ?Botanica,? a Drama Directed by Jim Findlay 2012-02-15T21:56:25Z Interpretation is a swan-dive into an ocean of possibilities, all of them entrancingly plausible, and none quite reconcilable. Mulholland Drive: David Lynch’s masterpiece is a wide-open work of art 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Ashwin, too, is eventually removed from the case — his tactics include beating witnesses — but not before constructing a plausible, evidentiary theory of the murders. Review: ‘Talvar,’ With Irrfan Khan, Depicts a Double Murder’s Muddied Waters 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The scientists could not prove whether viruses actively contribute to the onset of disease, but they discovered a plausible mechanism for how this could happen. Alzheimer's link to herpes virus in brain, say scientists 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Gurney springs a few surprises, some more plausible than others. Review: In A. R. Gurney’s ‘Love & Money,’ a Grandson Materializes to Claim His Fortune 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z “Life — my life — is rich with gay ‘characters’; how can any fiction that hopes to pass itself off as plausible neglect to be the same?” Gay Parties in New York Attract the Superhero Crowd 2010-04-17T03:47:00Z There is a wiry tenseness to Hille that makes her confession of the character's depression totally plausible. The Effect - review 2012-11-14T01:20:30Z There are biologically plausible reasons why smoking may be linked to psychosis. Smoking tobacco might increase risk of schizophrenia, say researchers 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The gist of their argument is, as one headline boiled it down, "Beowulf and Iliad are more plausible than Shakespeare". Beowulf, Shakespeare and the plausibility of fiction 2012-07-25T17:04:25Z In this slim, tricky novel, she’s less concerned with plausible motivations than with the emotions that consume us when we force ourselves to confront our past and our secrets. Review | Geling Yan’s twisty thriller ‘The Secret Talker’ begins with a creepy but alluring text 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z That was a stillborn exercise compared with Gone Girl, which brings Nick and Amy to attractive, plausible life, and surrounds them with exemplary character actors. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The settings and the décor are done with an equally plausible naturalism, making it easy at times to forget that the movie is in fact animated and not a drama with actors. The Condescending Compassion of Charlie Kaufman’s “Anomalisa” 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s not that all of them offer equally plausible or positive images — they’re not all good movies! — but that filmmakers seem interested in the politics of women’s experiences in a way that feels different. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z In nearly three decades on TV and in the movies, Harrelson has proved himself equally plausible as either the friendly rural mailman or the letter-sorter who goes postal. Rampart: Woody Harrelson Shines as L.A.'s Dirtiest Cop 2011-11-26T14:00:46Z Any business minds in the audience are invited to weigh in on how plausible this plot wrinkle was. 'The Newsroom' Recap: The Wedding and Then the Slammer 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z A more plausible explanation is that Hermès wants more of those brand-driven customers with money to throw around, and is willing to strain its image to get them. Fashion Review: Feeding Dreams of a Better Life 2011-01-26T23:51:16Z Its dimly lit, cozy room puts you in mind of another time and place, making this voyage concept seems slightly plausible. A boozy maritime journey at Grog in Ballard 2014-01-22T23:29:23Z She told me that she found the network’s explanation plausible. CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z In the land of homeopathic pharmacies and verbena tisanes, Margaux’s insistence on home-brewed, herbal potions seems entirely plausible. Television Review: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is Remade Into a Mini-Series 2014-05-08T21:12:18Z “Such is the power of persuasion, or the need to believe, or something, that we tried to fit his announcement into some plausible context,” Powers writes. One Family’s Story of Mental Illness and What Came After 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z That would be a plausible psychological interpretation, in any case, but Mr. Malick has always been more interested in states of being than in cause and effect. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Ultimately, for Christie, the true solution to Ackroyd’s murder needn’t be plausible, merely possible. Review | Who is the greatest fictional detective? A new book reminds us why it’s Poirot. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Far from not caring what his reader thinks, Charlie has the discomfiting, not quite plausible voice of a narrator who is trying very hard to persuade his reader of something. The Gamal by Ciarán Collins – review 2013-04-27T10:00:01Z Looking ahead, the approach Gates offers would be a plausible way to begin repairing the damage to America’s international position wreaked by the Trump administration. How Can the U.S. Fix Its Foreign Policy? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z “I don’t really see any plausible way of interpreting this as anything other than third-party malice,” he wrote. Someone Mailed Feces to Four Philosophers: A Disquisition 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z There may be less plausible creative teams for this project, but at the moment I can't think of any. Broadway's 'School of Rock' is saved by the students 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z In some of the most plausible doomsday flicks — “Meteor,” “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon” — a big space rock threatens annihilation. ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The second feature film by Delaporte, who got her start in documentaries, avoids slipping into sentimentality while making its unlikely plot seem plausible, largely on the strength of understated, nuanced performances by its three principles. Classical music meets soccer in 'Last Hammer Blow' at Venice 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Prum makes an elegant, plausible argument that rather than having evolved for flight, feathers may actually have first evolved as a decorative surface for sexual display: fitness as a downstream benefit of beauty. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Some of the specifics have been changed to maintain plausible deniability — instead of one daughter, Elaine and Buddy have two sons. “Political Animals”: Hillary Clinton gets her starring role 2012-07-12T17:50:00Z After 95 minutes of plausible arguments on each side, the play ends with a shrug. Review: A Three-Way Smackdown Over ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z From a distance, the two "life forms" seem to exist in plausible symbiosis. Lines between nature and artifice blurred in outdoor exhibit 2010-07-01T20:46:00Z While it is certainly colorful, not all of this is made plausible. Review: ‘Amazing Grace,’ the Story of a Slave Trader’s Moral Awakening 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But there is something oddly plausible about the lack of a conventional dramatic falling-out-among-thieves. Cannes review: The Bling Ring 2013-05-16T11:11:33Z The latter can be plausible only if she takes everyone's breath away: here Genevieve O'Reilly is too bland and too badly costumed – for half the play swathed in a sort of Quaker bandage. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z Hofmann credits the show’s casting department with choosing actors who are naturally plausible as the same person, particularly himself and Pietschmann. One character, three actors: meet the stars of knotty Netflix smash Dark 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Jennifer's ordeal is convincing enough, but nothing about her revenge is adequately explained or even remotely plausible. "I Spit on Your Grave": Bogus feminist torture porn lives! 2010-10-07T18:30:00Z The Republican convention will need to create a narrative that posits Atlantic City and the cover of Playboy as a plausible road to the White House. Battle of the Network Stars: Trump vs. Clinton 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Special-effects experts know that water is among the hardest computer-generated elements to render accurately, but this tsunami's power is utterly plausible. 'Hereafter' Review: Clint Eastwood Goes Supernatural 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z Never before in American politics has there been so plausible a reason for exclusion from the common meal as the act of working for Donald Trump. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z But it's less plausible to imagine him ordering a freshly killed deer dragged into his wife's bedroom. Modern 'Figaro,' timeless 'Turandot' in Sydney 2012-03-11T05:02:10Z After Lopez and Tyler enjoyed a boost to their flagging careers by appearing on the show, many A-listers now seem like plausible replacements. Aretha Franklin wants to be a judge on American Idol 2012-07-16T09:01:12Z Either way, it’s been a heady ride through the valley of potential failure and plausible death. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z A more plausible hypothesis, however, is that she's following an established strategic playbook. Internet titans who see a rosy future… in our love for nostalgia 2013-05-25T23:05:52Z He knew that his job was to make the impossible sound plausible, and that not every actor has to be Brando. Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 2010-04-03T05:20:00Z The idea seemed vaguely plausible on the evidence of excited audience members at this large West End theater on Friday. In ‘Rasputin,’ Sergei Polunin Plays a Troubled Outsider. Sound Familiar? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z What, after all, is so wrong with the plausible notion that continuous magnitudes, like all smooth objects, are made of tiny atomic particles? Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z Based on interviews with his closest friends, this seems the most plausible explanation for his suicide. Friends Reflect on the Designer Alexander McQueen?s Death 2010-04-03T04:11:00Z “The Perplexed,” directed by Lynne Meadow for Manhattan Theater Club, wants so much to be important that it forgets to be plausible first. Review: In ‘The Perplexed,’ Moral Gridlock on Fifth Avenue 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z With our generational advent of plausible problems in AI, questions at the intersections of democratic posterity and dangerous technology persist despite being very, very old. From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z King’s woods were generic, and the little girl’s thoughts, feelings, and sensations, while sometimes plausible, lacked authenticity and singularity. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z We are beginning to develop plausible "histories" of some of these happenings. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z Helen and, by plausible extension, her creator feel pain on being told how easily inflicting pain comes to them. Life During Wartime: The Year's Best Indie Film 2010-07-25T21:45:00Z Each character occupies a fixed spot on the spectrum from decent to evil, crazy to rational and smart to dumb, and then shifts just enough to produce a plausible surprise. ‘The Drop’ Unfolds in a Brooklyn Underworld 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Witherspoon is a very plausible dream benefactor, swooping in to do something entirely unexpected and joy-giving. Reese Witherspoon’s Fashion Line Offered Free Dresses to Teachers. They Didn’t Mean Every Teacher. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The continued sequence in which Murielle begins to cry as she sings along to a sad song on the car radio is all too convincingly real, and the situation itself, though bizarre, is chillingly plausible. À Perdre la Raison (Our Children) – review 2013-05-09T20:30:01Z I was lying, but the point is, they both found it plausible. Gene Weingarten: Our columnist hits his ‘cell by’ date and finally gets a smartphone Something that wasn't plausible but wound up actually happening was the aforementioned wedding, a video of which was posted to YouTube on Thursday. 'San Andreas' star Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson marries longtime fan 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z To that end it is set in a possible future world that looks distant enough to seem exotic and familiar enough to seem plausible. Review: In ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ a Cyborg With Soul 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The suggestion is of a Colonial Williamsburg for the era of Handmaids: a darkly plausible phenomenon. Margaret Atwood’s Grimly Relevant Additions to the “Handmaid’s Tale” Audiobook 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In fact there is nothing the least bit plausible about the premise of mistaken identity served up in this novel. Books of The Times: ‘Skios’ by Michael Frayn 2012-06-27T21:35:39Z We want a disruptive revelation; instead, we get a plausible alibi. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z And “The Martian” would have made a perfectly plausible vehicle for the academy to show some serious love to a big-budget film that people actually liked. Oscar 2016 is almost here: Here’s who will win — and who should 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The meteorological cataclysms envisaged by his first four novels still look plausible. The Drowned World by JG Ballard 2012-07-13T07:00:07Z This weaponization of racial animus to win votes seems quite plausible now as we see the Democratic party face a slow-burning racial conflagration of its own construction in Virginia. Documentary Now! An ode to the funniest spoof on television 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Hogan is eager to share the details of his life, although he papers over the truth with plausible lies. ‘Lost Lake,’ a Two-Character Play by David Auburn 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z My suspicion is that “Suicide Squad” was always more of a package, a conceptual wheeze, or a half-developed pitch than a plausible story. “Suicide Squad” Reviewed 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z It would surprise exactly no one if Mr. Sheen did not make good on this pledge, but his interactions with Taylor Estevez, his nephew, made it seem almost plausible. Television: Charlie Sheen Stars in ‘Anger Management’ on FX 2012-06-13T12:00:00Z Find a plausible excuse to extract her from their home and take her somewhere conducive to frank conversation – so nowhere too noisy or too quiet. My father believes the world is ending – and is abusive to my mother | Mariella Frostrup 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s too bad, then, that Matt Smith, as the reporter who breaks the story, isn’t given enough to create a plausible, rounded character. ‘Official Secrets’ Review: Betraying Her Government for Her Country 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Also, sustaining one mystery over so many hours, particularly with the first series, means that what seems plausible in instalments begins to look a bit ridiculous viewed back-to-back. Your next box set: The Killing I-III 2012-12-20T17:55:01Z I don’t think going back is really plausible. Conservative William Kristol: ‘We’re really going to pay a price for this terrible failure in leadership’ 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z If you’re on board an eighteen-hour flight from Singapore to New York, you have multiple plausible answers for simple questions—where you are, what time it is. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z There are reasonable or plausible answers to all of these, but it is the possibility of unreasonable answers that makes El Greco’s works so exciting. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death It also seems plausible for a media Web site to ask its employees to stoke those viral fires. Social Q?s: Bottle of Cristal, Please 2010-10-22T16:51:00Z Rather, they are whispering a curated plausible deniability, the kind that purports to be just asking reasonable questions with simple answers. Perspective | Listening to ‘The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling’ is exhausting work 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Both versions of last night’s Oscars seem plausible; what unites them is the fact that every detail of the awards show was weighted with racial, cultural, and political meaning that it couldn’t possibly sustain. The Awkward Politics of the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z But the Vietnam scenes are more plausible and moving, and the production adds emotional weight to the Asia-set story with bold, artful touches of movement, lighting and sound. War drama hits home 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The middle is an impressionistic collage of memories, fantasies and wishes loosely attached to plausible real-world events. ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z But that also meant grounding the violence and make it plausible. Sebastian Stan on the twisted psyche of his "Fresh" role: "What he is seeking is a willing partner" 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z In other words, it was a pretty plausible depiction of life on Hollywood’s A-list. Entourage: farewell to the show where nothing bad happens 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The second scene, set five years before and even less plausible, features Hamlin and Powers as the brother and sister who crashed the plane that obsesses Ralph. ‘One November Yankee’ Review: TV Stars on a Bumpy Flight 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z All this is perfectly plausible and entertainingly presented in Philip Franks's carnivalesque production. Rattigan's Nijinsky ? review 2011-07-26T17:33:42Z And Olly Alexander is touchingly plausible as Evan, torn between his own Jewish family work ethic and awe at his new friends' ability simply to exist from day to day. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z Surely it is more plausible to suppose that they were the work of one of his betters. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z Then I really liked what they're trying to do with the series, which is to explore people who have these neurological anomalies that are very plausible. 'Alphas' star David Strathairn on why he continues to act 2011-07-06T17:35:05Z The argument is plausible but would require a more focused show than this to make the case. Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It really is the most lame and unthought-through script; family comedies about Martians don't need to be plausible exactly, but they need to be smart and entertaining. Mars Needs Moms ? review 2011-04-07T21:10:00Z So I think the setup of the idea of that spill is very plausible. "Crazies" remake influenced by post-9/11 world 2010-03-02T04:09:00Z Each doctor finds plausible reasons to dismiss the other as a fantasy figure. Television Review: ?Awake,? Starring Jason Isaacs, on NBC 2012-02-29T22:00:52Z The former seems plausible if you study the face of the infant Christ, who wears a small, tight smile, and an impish look of mischief. Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met Here is where Skarsgård's talent for sinister seduction weaves beautifully with Snook's way of making Shiv's false self-assurance plausible. The Roys never had a chance: "Succession" sells Alexander Skarsgård as TV's finest Viking conqueror 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z This seemed plausible the first time, but after six more, not so much. The Friend Who Diagnoses Too Much 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z One vaguely plausible reason for this is that she has lived in Munich since 1969. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It can be escapist or aspirational, extravagantly hyperbolic or easily plausible, but it’s still idealized. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The legal battles could chip away at the finances of one of the wealthiest entertainers in American history, so rich that he reportedly once considered buying the NBC television network — and it seemed entirely plausible. At 78, Bill Cosby’s life is a blur of legal minutiae, lawyers and judges 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z As Mr. Sampson tries to get brainier, the program gets less plausible. ‘Hack My Brain,’ Self-Improvement on Science Channel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Her Presidency was less plausible, even in humor, than the political ascendance of a gas-station attendant. Hillary for President: No Joke 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z His inventiveness might come off as more plausible, and less mansplainy, if we hadn’t seen him barely paying attention to the play. Review: In ‘Romeo & Bernadette,’ It’s Off to Brooklyn for This Tale of Joy 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Personally, I hope that it does the reverse—that it imagines, within its world, a route to plausible happiness for Alicia. The Question at the Heart of “The Good Wife” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The way the film is structured, coherence of any kind — why people are literally doing what they’re doing, or what the plausible psychological explanations are for what they're doing — seem beside the point. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and the rise of post-plot cinema 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Taking on the major challenge of Siegfried, Andreas Schager generally acquitted himself with distinction, if occasionally sounding stretched; physically, he registered as an unusually plausible young hero. Prom 20: Götterdämmerung – review 2013-07-29T11:54:00Z Until now, the only plausible ways to do that involved attacks on critical generation, transmission and distribution assets, which are increasingly well defended. John Naughton on the internet of things 2011-03-20T00:05:15Z For many, the story will seem sadly too plausible. Review | David Simon’s take on ‘The Plot Against America’ nails the fear, but not the emotions 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It took until 2001, and the reconstruction of the image by an Australian art historian, Malcolm Park, before the scene was shown to be perfectly plausible. Manet's portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography 2013-01-12T09:01:01Z There are plausible biological mechanisms, they say, because a big sugar intake from a drink pushes up blood glucose levels very quickly, making it harder for the body to cope. Sugary drinks may cause type 2 diabetes regardless of size, research says 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z But, when I asked sleep experts if that sounded plausible, they dismissed the idea. The Podcast That Tells Ingeniously Boring Bedtime Stories to Help You Fall Asleep 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z But, honestly, that Netflix-reported number is a bit more plausible than that for two reasons. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The music stayed loud and the crowd got drunker, a plausible simulation of barroom conditions. Big Buck Hunter: Meet the world’s best fake marksmen 2012-11-25T16:00:00Z But "Lights Out" seemed to want to have it both ways -- to be a 1940s B-movie and be a down-to-earth drama about modern boxing and crime, with plausible psychology and real-world details about the sport. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z One of the great achievements of this show’s first season has been its creation of a character so fully three dimensional that both answers seem plausible. 'Better Call Saul' Season 1 Finale Recap: It's Never Stopping Me Again 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z This strikes me as plausible, since somebody having this much fun in such proximity to horror may not be completely trustworthy. Movie Review: ‘The Ambassador,’ Directed by Mads Brugger 2012-08-28T20:47:59Z The first five are highly plausible or possible Oscar contenders and likely box-office winners, and the second tier consists of "specialty audience" films, as they diplomatically say in the biz. Best of Toronto: Oscar candidates and indie breakouts 2011-09-16T00:30:00Z However plausible it is to see the world that way, my own view relies less on organized and capable conspiracy. Against security 2012-09-02T18:00:00Z It manages to be both scientifically and poetically plausible. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z He has a way of making these men plausible and compelling, however obnoxious. Jeremy Shamos Prepares for ‘The Qualms’ 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z It's merely acknowledging that, if a jury were to find these allegations plausible, her contradictory backstage behavior reveals a lack of awareness that made such a stumble inevitable. Can fans accept the new reality of Lizzo? 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z In reading “The Long Way Home,” I sometimes grew impatient with the digressions on art and artists, the frequent complexities of the plot and an ending that I found more dramatic than plausible. Louise Penny’s ‘The Long Way Home’ is an artful mystery featuring Armand Gamache But actors shouldn’t have to do all the work, or to work against the script, in trying to bring their characters to plausible life. Review: Men, Women & Children Shows How Sexting Is Ruining America 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z So they are two very different views in terms of investigation, and they're both very plausible at certain points — despite being far from plausible at others. "I'm still flip-flopping" on Oscar Pistorius' guilt or innocence, says "30 for 30" director 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The avatar will be a picture of you, automatically Photoshopped for maximum plausible flattery. Gene Weingarten’s column is on your favorite subject: You. 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z That’s certainly a plausible outcome, given Brown’s newfound success and Emmy nomination. Sterling K Brown: 'I allow myself to think about winning an Emmy' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Carrying a shoeshine kit, which gave him plausible access to local saloons, he sang for change. Jimmy Roselli, Italian-American Singer, Dies at 85 2011-07-10T20:30:58Z Watching the fifth season, one’s first thought is that it all seems newly plausible—but that, of course, suggests the degree to which our ideas about spycraft come from movies and television shows. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Writing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Wade deemed the theory plausible and worthy of further investigation. The media called the ‘lab leak’ story a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now it’s prompted corrections — and serious new reporting. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Sweet wrote that though the case is “not an archetypal sex trafficking action”, Noble had a plausible case that Weinstein may have broken the sex trafficking law. Harvey Weinstein: judge allows sex trafficking case to move to trial 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But, a question lingers: Is all this plausible? Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z For her, transformation, liberation, comeuppance, exhaustion, nihilism, despair, and rebellion were all plausible. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Singh certainly knows his way around a sleek visual, and Reynolds proves a plausible action hero. Review: 'Self/less' sells the soul of its story to slick moviemaking 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In dealing with the central question, Arnold offers an alternative and surprising scenario that manages to be both entirely plausible and psychologically fascinating. After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold – review 2012-08-10T21:55:02Z Months later, reopening after many people fled cities because of the pandemic, it seems much more plausible. Museums Are Still Open in New York. Here’s What’s on View (for Now). 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z James is a 30ish freelance writer who finds that, after the publishing industry tanks, his only plausible route to supporting his family is to become a drug runner. Tony D'Souza's 'Mule': Have drugs, will travel 2011-10-26T21:53:04Z Then, there may be women who never have been in a setting where that’s even plausible. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z The blogs and medical journals are filled with potential solutions—new helmets and altered rules, none of them promising a perfect resolution, but many plausible. In Defense of the Super Bowl 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z When her narrator, a novelist, wondered if perhaps what she most wanted was to be a celebrity, it seemed at once a plausible confession and a cultural indictment. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Back then, in the first half of the 20th century, it was ballet that required fantasy sequences to seem plausible in a musical. Ridiculous! Fabulous! On Broadway, Tapping in Quotation Marks 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Pullman parses these images, making a plausible case that Powell was not seriously affected by the Philadelphia beating and that it was not necessarily inspired by racism. ‘Wail’: A biography of Bebop piano pioneer Bud Powell 2013-06-26T22:25:54Z Hence a popular, and plausible, idea in conservative circles is to maintain the ACA high-risk pools if the overall law is struck down by the Supremes. What Should Congress Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare? 2012-05-19T16:24:07Z At the end of his life, he’s said to have disappeared into Mexico; it seems plausible that he left in disgust. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z For example, it is plausible that we could instead tip the planet into an ice age. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z She plays Virginia as solemn and severe, but with a dry wit; if anything, she comes off as almost too robust to make paralyzing depression entirely plausible. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z What seems more plausible is that China overtook Japan as the biggest cinema market outside the US this year. Avengers, Skyfall and China's rise … the After Hollywood 2012 cinema review 2012-12-18T11:22:06Z What there hasn’t been is a plausible theory about what’s driving this explosion of diagnoses — 40 percent over the last decade and more than 50 percent over 25 years. The truth about ADHD: Over-diagnosis linked to cause championed by Michelle Rhee 2014-03-01T19:00:00Z At college, Jenko and Schmidt masquerade as students and siblings, neither role remotely plausible. '22 Jump Street' pokes its R-rated finger at everything — hilariously 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z As that exchange suggests, the language of these stories is not quite plausible. Rachel Cusk is returning fiction to its roots in storytelling 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Post-apocalyptic or no, the setup of “Mixed Signals” seems eerily plausible, and the entwined love story will satisfy sci-fi and romance readers alike. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for November 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Now, two descendants are threatening to sue MI6 over the wrongful deaths of their respective parents, an event totally plausible in our litigious times. John le Carré is back in fine form — with George Smiley — in 'A Legacy of Spies' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Nuclear terrorism, nuclear war in the Middle East or South Asia, or grotesque accident -- all are unfortunately plausible. Valerie Plame on Naomi Watts and nuclear doom 2010-05-17T19:45:00Z It is comically plausible, and concretely evoked; the surrealism lies in the systematic elaboration of the image. Revisiting Roberto Bolaño — ‘the Visceral Realist’ 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Unless the Freudian implication of pneumatic suspension and buffed rims is that rappers actually want to have full sex with their cars, which is sort of plausible. Sweet Baboo, Nelly, Nadine Shah: this week's new tracks 2013-04-15T05:00:00Z Roth’s “Divergent” series, in particular, shamelessly rips off its allegorical, post-apocalyptic world from “The Giver,” while remaining barely within the realm of plausible deniability. “The Giver”: A lukewarm dystopia that arrives years too late 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z This Richard, a cauldron of interwar fascist malice, is a much more plausible figure, even if the setting is far removed from the late middle ages. Richard III – a career in clips 2013-02-04T17:28:00Z Ishmael Randall-Weeks lifts architectural images from a range of sources, cuts them up and arranges the pieces into fractured, hybrid structures just wild-enough-looking to be plausible. ‘Beyond the Supersquare’ Looks at South American Modernism 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s the only plausible endpoint for this album, poised between music and entropy. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Other guests included the always amazing vocalist Bobby McFerrin, who bantered with instrumentalists on their own terms, producing plausible imitations of percussion, pizzicato cellos and trumpet. Music Review: Trolling Heaven and Earth for Sounds 2011-06-08T21:24:16Z Beyond that, Dan Brown asked plausible questions about familiar aspects of Western culture. I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Both subscribe to Mr. Jacobs’s plausible theory that the best countertenors gain body and weight of voice if their falsetto is built on a firm tenorial foundation. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z But what psychoanalysis can chip in with here is that we are at our most defensive when we are at our most plausible. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z The plot twists here are satisfyingly surprising and plausible, but it’s Slaughter’s prodigious gifts of characterization that make her stand out among thriller writers. The horrific night that changed a family’s life forever 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z "Redux" covers the same narrative ground as the first cut, but the characters are more psychologically plausible and Vietnam feels like a geographic rather than figurative space. When should a director stop messing with a movie? 2010-08-17T00:20:00Z Would this matter less if his proposed film sounded better or more plausible? Review: ‘Fire in Dreamland’ Is a Parable of Love and Licorice 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s entirely plausible to imagine that much of the envelope writing was done fast, with the aesthetics of placement a secondary consideration. Books of The Times: ‘The Gorgeous Nothings’ Shows Dickinson’s ‘Envelope Poems’ 2013-12-05T21:53:47Z And it had Robert Stack, who could make anything—even little green men — sound plausible. A brief history of "Unsolved Mysteries" 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z The movie hit me squarely in my entertainment cortex, this funny, scary, stylish, soapy, plausible speculation of life during a global outbreak. For Me, Rewatching ‘Contagion’ Was Fun, Until It Wasn’t 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z There are a number of different plausible answers to the first question, including the following from the course’s main web page: Explosive growth in bulls**t studies! The latest academic frontier in the age of You Know Who 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z “So theoretically it’s plausible that might have been his plan here: to keep it off the market and out of sight for a number of years.” Stolen Stradivarius violin recovered in Milwaukee attic 2014-02-07T04:32:23Z Diao can rev up the octane in chase and action sequences, but the movie almost always stays grounded in the physically plausible. ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Review: A Noir Thriller in Wuhan 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It sounded plausible to me when the story broke. The year of the suicide 2012-12-31T15:30:00Z Of course, it is a terrifically confident, plausible performance, but unlike almost any other Day-Lewis movie, it is slightly generic. Daniel Day-Lewis: an extraordinary career of acting artistry – is it really all over? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The orchestra did not immediately respond to an email asking about the hunt for his successor; there are a number of plausible candidates. Chailly to Leave Leipzig Orchestra Early 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z When Caesar scowls, as he increasingly does, you don’t see just digital wizardry at its most expressive; you also see a plausible, angry, thinking character. Looking Apocalypse in the Eye 2011-08-04T14:59:55Z That a novel whose subject is more or less "M. is executed for going to the cinema the day after his mother's death" should be plausible and, what is more, compelling, is already sufficient. Rouge et noir 2011-03-26T00:05:23Z On the contrary, he makes it the man’s responsibility to behave appropriately, and hazards two plausible and compassionate guesses for why she’s drunk: “she’s either a bachelorette or coming off a breakup.” Chris Janson’s “Drunk Girl” and the Ever-Dropping Bar for Male Behavior 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The film finds its most plausible, exciting life in the camper, where Tom can detect a cowboy bravado in the voice from Langley telling him to drop the big one and don’t ask why. The Venice-Toronto Express: Three Films at Two Festivals 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Her affair with Al summons Blue Jasmine’s most plausible, affecting scenes. Blue Jasmine: A Woody Allen Woman Under the Influence 2013-07-25T15:03:54Z But the more I flirted with the dare, the more plausible Mr. Moore’s dramatic speculation felt. Review: In ‘Fahrenheit 11/9,’ Michael Moore Targets Trump, and Us 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He recommends calling in sick as often as is plausible. Celebrating Literature’s Slacker Heroes, Idlers and Liers-In 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z It was a kind of piggybacking, a leveraging of an assertion that rested on a narrow and plausible but unsupported claim into a ringing defense. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z "The better course would be to allow people that have a plausible connection to him to have a blood test," he said. Court order sharply narrows Prince's potential heirs 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z In 2000, it is quite plausible to argue George W. Bush was elected president over Al Gore not because of the quirks of election technology in Florida, but because of the Assault Weapons Ban. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z These earnest conversations seem oddly less plausible than the stylized banter. Review: ‘Perfect Arrangement,’ a Comic Tale of Closeted Lives 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z “These are plausible hypotheses regarding the mechanisms underlying the observed differences between diets,” said Hall. It’s trendy to scorn processed food. Now there’s research to back up that attitude. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Other bits of substantiation are even less plausible. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z Yet, for all the lingering on hillside vineyards, what's missing is a plausible plot. Movies: Italy Porn (For Ladies Only) 2010-06-05T01:57:00Z It is to Alex North’s credit, in this assured thriller, that both options seem plausible. After a Copycat Murder, Reopening an Old Case and Old Wounds 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z When the different documentary sources I consulted gave different versions of the same event, I favoured the one that seemed most plausible to me as a novelist. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z You couldn't have invented a plausible character in fiction as outrageous, unqualified and unintentionally comical as she is. 'My humour has always come from anger' 2011-03-06T00:02:01Z It’s as plausible a reason as any to make a creative statement. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z That Dan and others see Gingrich as a remotely plausible vehicle for substantive entitlement reform, in light of this fact, is telling. Combativeness Doesn't Equal Seriousness about Entitlement Reform 2012-01-26T04:17:11Z But where I was expecting a twist on our world, what I got was a terrifyingly plausible version of what already exists. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z It took a few attempts, but hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage discovered that there was a plausible way to fit two people on top of the wood. Analysis | After 20 years, these 8 ‘Titanic’ moments still won’t die. Unlike Jack. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z In the most plausible beat in this movie, Elle’s answer is laden with platitudes. ‘The Kissing Booth 2’ Review: Another Dose of Prep School Drama 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z But "Abbott Elementary" earned its place in conversations about shows people need to be watching, or simply need, mainly due to its consistently hilarious writing and plausible, lovable characters. The joy of "Abbott Elementary" is in its lesson about working hard for a fulfilling purpose 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In recent seasons, “Homeland” has calibrated its plot to bring together its far-flung cast of C.I.A. diaspora at some new and plausible point around the globe. It’s Home Sweet ‘Homeland’ for Season 6 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z No, this isn’t remotely plausible – but it might be a good thing, right? “Get Hard” is a bloated, lazy prison rape-joke trainwreck 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It isn't an easy read however I found the characters realistic and the plot plausible and harsh, like a real war. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - review 2012-08-14T08:00:00Z Even in rehearsal, their duets are flushed and furious, their feverish kisses becoming plausible simulacrums of the ones you imagine dotting actual affairs. Romeo and Juliet, Flushed and Feverish at the Met Opera 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Norman, who strides through Midtown in a tweed cap and a camel coat, connected to the world through the earbuds of his iPhone, is an utterly plausible denizen of a city on the move. Review: Richard Gere as ‘Norman,’ an Aspirational Jewish Fixer 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The totals differ by species and variety, but it’s plausible that many fruit trees at home in Washington may now be moving into the margins of their comfort zone. Perspective | How hotter summers and warmer winters are changing the garden 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z But Christianity scholar Yisca Harani explains it may be plausible in at least a literary way, if there was a translation inaccuracy of the word “gold”. Smells like heaven: Israeli farm recreates Magi's gifts to Jesus 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z But even capable actors can’t make this play plausible or mend the contrived and sentimental conclusion. Review: A Priceless Violin, a Cut-Rate Caper 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z When the annual pièce de inspiration appeared in December 2019, visiting these places seemed plausible. Every December, Frommer’s publishes its best places list. This year will be different. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z It’s plausible that I would be that person. Q. and A. With Tina Fey: Live From Kabul, It’s a Feminist Comedy 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Perhaps that sounds melodramatic, but anyone who reads Hubbard’s clear and convincing narrative will find the concern all too plausible. ‘MBS’ Chronicles the Shockingly Young, Powerful and Ruthless Saudi Crown Prince 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z It's too much, but hey, if O'Connor wants to go Biblical, at least he's being bold, and what he delivers in the home stretch is, if not plausible, touching. Warrior: The Pugilists Are Restless 2011-09-09T14:30:00Z One plausible scenario: “Rocky” is passed over but its director, Alex Timbers, is nominated and goes on to win in that wide-open category. ArtsBeat: Tony Awards 2014: With No Sure Things, Here Come the Nominations 2014-04-29T11:30:01Z But after discussing his work in both classical and pop music, a more plausible explanation emerges: He's been preparing for this his entire life. Bryce Dessner talks about his 'double life' as a classical, rock musician 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The fact that they accumulate to render it in plausible three dimensions is a genuine delight. The human figure, in all its beauty, at Prographica 2011-12-29T21:19:07Z And no, I don’t believe the audience is meant to find this at all plausible. ‘Diamantino’ Review: The Fairy Tale Life of a Soccer Star 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “Nowhere Boy” is elegantly structured, plausible in its improbable plot and studded with moments of rapturous prose. Stories for Kids About Heroic Young Refugees 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z But they wondered if this was plausible: Didn’t the military close off its computers to public telephone lines? ‘WarGames’ and Cybersecurity’s Debt to a Hollywood Hack 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Ambitious setups like this don’t always hold up, but “Revolution” has the potential to be a more disciplined “Lost” — not necessarily more plausible but with any luck less preposterous and pretentious. Television Review: ‘Revolution,’ From J. J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, on NBC 2012-09-16T22:07:53Z This “engrossing, character-driven” book by a former New York Times labor reporter “spans a century of worker strikes, without overcondensing or oversimplifying, and with plausible suggestions for the future,” Zephyr Teachout, our reviewer, declared. New in Paperback: ‘Wildhood’ and ‘Beaten Down, Worked Up’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z That was cutting-edge science, and was all real and plausible. Chris Carter Expects More ‘X-Files,’ Definitely Reads Reviews 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z As the writer of a brutal, esteemed film that remains the slight favorite for the Best Picture prize, he has the most plausible shot at winning the Adapted Screenplay award. Oscars 2014: Why 12 Years a Slave Will Win Best Adapted Screenplay 2014-02-27T16:35:05Z That would sound plausible enough – if it weren't for the fact that books with male protagonists allow men to keep on dreaming about a life less ordinary. Where are all the daring women's heroines? 2011-03-08T10:57:47Z The other contenders are The Good Dinosaur, Shaun the Sheep Movie and Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie — all perfectly plausible candidates in their way, but surely outclassed by those two frontrunners. Golden Globes nominations 2016: will it be a Blanchett/DiCaprio one-two? | Peter Bradshaw 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z That seems plausible, but also perhaps a little broad, so the movie settles on the demographic subcategory of married white people with children and recreational vehicles. Movie Review: ‘We’re the Millers,’ With Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis 2013-08-06T22:54:28Z It's the speculation about the church and all that kind of stuff, and there's a lot of information certainly seems plausible. In Cruise divorce, tabloids siding with Holmes 2012-07-09T15:56:29Z This, in a nutshell, is South Carolina a week before the highly contested Republican primary: a cloudy tincture of desperation, paranoia and umbrage, with plausible deniability for everyone. ‘You didn’t hear this from me, but . . . ’: Why South Carolina primary politics are so dirty. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z To give himself “plausible deniability,” he concocted a plan to do so “in a circuitous way by asking a favor.” Slow to Take Off, After a First Date They Cruised 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “So I went home and Googled and read a bunch about it because I wanted to prove to him why he was wrong. But I did the research and it seemed plausible.” The Silicon Valley execs who don't eat for days: 'It's not dieting, it's biohacking' 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Although Maynard is the more seasoned writer, in this case Jensen tells the better tale — or, at least, the more plausible one. Novelists Beverly Jensen and Joyce Maynard write about sisters 2010-08-25T23:20:00Z It seems equally plausible to say that it simply explodes it, revealing the immensity of art before the narrowing and ordering of the historicizing process. Arts & Leisure: ?Pacific Standard Time? Art Exhibitions in L.A. ? Review 2011-11-10T16:57:42Z His role is not exactly that of a cipher, but Forster was a plausible conventional leading man who nonetheless could carry off the more self-effacing unshowbiz style of a professional journalist. Robert Forster: a coolly charismatic character actor with an intensely sympathetic air 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z That same uncertainty is what allows for situations like the Subway "Tunagate" scandal, in which plaintiffs alleged that there's no actual discernible trace of tuna in the sandwich chain's tuna salad sub, to seem plausible. Impasta! How the Barilla "pasta fraud" allegations illustrate America's food illiteracy 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Liana Liberato is excellent as the teenager who thinks she's found a soulmate online and whose emotional turmoil and sense of personal uncertainty are used by her abuser for horribly plausible ends. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2011-08-27T23:05:46Z Florman said Picasso signed so many prints, it's very plausible the piece ended up at a thrift store in the Midwest. Ohio man's luck changes with signed Picasso print 2012-05-10T15:17:55Z “It’s plausible,” says the writer, “though the math is a stretch, and my mother always did like a good story.” For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z So long as you have plausible deniability, it’s possible to say and do the most outrageous things in plain sight. Perspective | LGBT artists sent messages from the closet to survive before Stonewall. Now, homophobes are coopting the technique. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z It's a modern horror, one that seems plausible, and this is by far the most unsettling piece of the trio of films, grotesque and disturbing. What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z And in the extended family’s presence the question of how much of the show depicts the Robertsons’ actual lives and how much is a plausible variation thereof starts to seem irrelevant. ‘Duck Dynasty’ Lures a Growing Audience on A&E 2012-10-07T22:05:13Z If nothing else one can appreciate the physical exertion and dedication it must have taken to carve himself into a plausible version of an elite soldier. Is Chris Pratt really The Worst Chris? 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z There are some racist hooligans in the village, and one in Madame Mallory’s kitchen, which is plausible enough. In ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey,’ Kitchen Wars Break Out 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Either way, it seems entirely plausible, which makes whether or not it’s true kind of irrelevant. John Oliver: 'David Cameron can't attack a hotdog' 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z It doesn’t seem plausible that Teddy would be quite so forthcoming in detailing all of Maya’s many objections to his parents on the eve of the wedding. | 'Black Tie': Patrician Clan That Clings to Its Foibles 2011-02-09T03:01:04Z That sounded as plausible as just about any other explanation. Tokaj, Hungary, a Little-Known Wine Trail 2010-07-24T04:45:00Z This doesn’t make “Her” better than “Ex Machina,” but it does mean that, while “Her” seems to present a plausible vision of the future, “Ex Machina” feels more like a fable. Sympathetic Sci-Fi 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z So if he can't see any plausible possibility of a film being of some benefit to a subject, he wouldn't want to make it? Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic' 2011-01-30T20:30:00Z One veteran New York journalist said it was plausible that Page Six could enjoy improved access to a Trump White House. Will a gossipy tabloid be the new paper of record in the Trump administration? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The theocratic, authoritarian Republic of Gilead in “Handmaid” isn’t meant to be another world, but an at least arguably plausible extrapolation of the one we already inhabit. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z In Pintado’s works, drab backdrops and luminescent figures are plausible individually; together they’re eerily incongruous. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The selfish reasons are more plausible, I figure. Asymmetric love, part four: the view from the other side 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The No. 3 blockbuster, Deathly Hallows 2 at $1.3 billion, would then be within plausible reach. The Avengers Storms the Billion Dollar Club ? In Just 19 Days 2012-05-13T19:48:28Z There’s an effort to ground the hoopla in facts: The opening is a 2003 clip of President George W. Bush pitching the dream of homeownership, and the deal-making scenes are peppered with plausible jargon. ‘Americons,’ on the Subprime Mortgage Disaster 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The novel’s depiction of the ease with which the forced internment is implemented, the complicity of neighbors and the risks to those who resist feels chillingly plausible. 6 Thought-Provoking Y.A. Thrillers That Tackle Social Issues 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z And, although her “life” is more than plausible, Ms. Leonard’s documentation of it, on display at the Whitney, is entirely staged. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z When you look at what we might call the big mythological picture, meaning the most successful movies of the last 10 years, I think it becomes a highly plausible interpretation. Why Hollywood's response to 9/11 involved Harry Potter and Spider-Man 2011-09-09T18:51:00Z Or is it more plausible that their violence, which obsesses the world, feeds a craving for attention that they clothe in phoney zealotry? Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The only way to read a book like this one, packed as it is with gimmicks on every page, is to filter it for advice that seems plausible and might fit how you live. Books of The Times: Clark Howard?s ?Living Large In Lean Times? - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:10Z But it hews to Mr. Kelley’s “character based” formula, which is to say it emphasizes eccentricity, emotion and convoluted humor over plausible legal procedure or scannable plots. Television Review: From Law School to a Frat House? 2011-05-31T22:09:37Z Egan has a gift for combining the outrageous and the plausible without ejecting us from the narrative. In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z According to Munich Reinsurance America, the number of natural disasters has tripled over the past 20 years, and “it would seem that the only plausible explanation for the rise in weather-related catastrophes is climate change.” 50 shades of Shutterstock 2012-05-29T01:00:00Z The new film is not especially plausible either, but it's hard to find the breathing room to care as lightning-fast editing by Dirk Westervelt compels attention. In fast-paced 'Run All Night,' Liam Neeson and Ed Harris shine 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Godard’s charisma is made plausible partly by the fact that he is played by Louis Garrel, whose casting is a bit of a French film in-joke. Review: If You Love Godard, You’ll Hate-Watch ‘Godard Mon Amour’ 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z But Christianity scholar Yisca Harani explains it may be plausible in at least a literary way, if there was a translation inaccuracy of the word “gold”. Smells like heaven: Israeli farm recreates Magi's gifts to Jesus 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z It's valuable to be reminded of this troubling if plausible assessment. The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State edited by Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero-Guillamón 2012-07-31T10:45:01Z It’s not hard to believe that he’d develop a big crush on Kat, and it’s also just plausible that she would like him back. Review: ‘Results’ Tracks Exertions in Matters of the Cardio 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In this past weekend’s Arts & Leisure section, I write that the ensemble has “a plausible claim to being simply the best in America.” Classical Music This Week: Sounds of Cleveland’s Past and P.D.Q. Bach 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z It is painfully plausible and all too real. Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Donald Trump is a "sociopath" and "a very sick individual" 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z She’s a plausible, enthusiastic partner for a little kid as, for instance, they scrounge for spare change to buy ingredients for Christmas fruitcakes. Truman Capote done right in ‘Holiday Memories’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “If ‘25th Hour’ does not quite work as a plausible and coherent story, it produces a wrenching, dazzling succession of moods,” A.O. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Spy’ and ‘In the Shadow of the Towers’ 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z For sheer beefy swagger, Yoon’s only plausible rival is 12 blocks to the south: Cote, which splices some American steakhouse DNA into the Korean barbecue genome. A New Champion of Short Ribs in Koreatown 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “Everything Nicotra does is plausible; there are no jarring anachronisms,” he said. Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z They often appear plausible but it’s impossible to be sure. The Mysteries of the American-Saudi Alliance 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z The apocalypse itself is scarily plausible, with mega-tsunamis, large earthquakes and a chemical spill which affects each blood type differently. Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne - review 2013-04-16T08:00:00Z And that made it all the more plausible. Brian Williams, in Raw Form, Delivers an Apology on ‘Today’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The movie casually blends the plausible and the surreal, A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, and its limitations, “as frothy as the milk atop a cappuccino, are finally inseparable from its delights.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour’ and ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Mack organizes the current thinking into a handful of scenarios, some more plausible than others. This Is How It All Ends 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z At first, he had backup and a plausible way out if people held their promises, but as things escalate, he descends into chaos. "The Informer" star on the "aggressive nature" of filming in prison 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z King and Brown bring reason—or reasons, plural and plausible—to insanity. 'The Leftovers' Season Finale Denied Us Answers, and It Felt Great 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z “The degree to which this person had gone to create a really plausible character was remarkable,” she said. The Inappropriately Intimate Exchanges of Barbara Browning 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z But one possible, and infuriatingly plausible, reason is the one suggested by Rasenberger’s report. Kitty Genovese’s Brother Reëxamines Her Famous Murder 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet, after reading Hudson's book, it's more than plausible that financial gangsters will rise from the ashes and find new ways to prey on unsuspecting borrowers. 'The Monster': How the subprime lending industry almost brought down the economy's house 2011-01-19T21:57:04Z It sounds plausible, but in reality, we have print evidence that the term has been around since at least 1870, and began to be used more regularly during the 1950s. 17 facts about conspiracy theories 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s a seamless composite, transforming disparate images into a plausible landscape featuring a shack and a crumbling pier in a desolate arid setting. Photography is the star of the show at Henry Art Gallery exhibition 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z “A preference for certainty over doubt, for the plausible over the proved, for drama over accuracy, for hunch and intuition over the hard-to-assemble facts, is a common human tendency,” he wrote. Perspective | Trump won, and Northam crushed Gillespie. Why believe polls ever again? 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Personally I think both theories are very plausible. Botticelli's love drug 2010-05-28T09:31:00Z That “gives women plausible deniability for their potential feelings of attraction/arousal,” he says. Male strippers: Please, just leave it on 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z But most of them stretch your notion of what, in another universe, might be plausible. Bodies sprout drawers, antlers, more at Seattle galleries 2011-09-08T20:38:04Z Or must the dangerous Mary, whose ties to Catholic Europe and plausible claim to the English throne inspire zealots to target Elizabeth, be executed? To kill a queen: Mary vs. Elizabeth in Schiller classic ‘Mary Stuart’ at the Folger 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z It seems about as plausible as actually transcending time and space in a Brooklyn church on a week night. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Kuttner’s sadly plausible argument is that the renewed global economic order based on free trade, competitive labor markets and the dollar standard is now pushing politics in a similar direction. How Rampant Globalization Brought Us Trump 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z No other plausible leader existed who could take the fight to the Vietcong. The War That Never Goes Away 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Second, Tang Dynasty law allowed animal sacrifice only for “a plausible special reason, like polo,” says Marshall. A tomb find in China may give the donkey added respect 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z They’re also a ton of fun, thanks to Murrow’s knack for making the fantastical look plausible. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Wilson, who died in 2005, spent so much time lingering in diners that “Writing in Restaurants” is a plausible alternative subtitle for Hartigan’s “August Wilson: A Life.” August Wilson, a Theater Titan Who Spun Gold in Diners 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z MIA says that it's not a direct comment on a particular political situation – and since much of her lyrics touch on real situations of conflict and ethnic cleansing, that's completely plausible. Does MIA's Born Free video overstep the mark? 2010-04-28T10:30:00Z “We don't see a plausible argument for why Hasbro would pay 41% of its current market capitalization for a company which ... is facing serious challenges.” Wall Street cheers possible Hasbro-DreamWorks Animation deal 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z “It’s certainly plausible that they didn’t want it for the viewpoint, or they just didn’t want it,” he said. TV station backs off accusation that CNN played politics 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z And he needs to make these developments gradual, plausible and even sequential. Books of The Times: Stephen King?s ?11/23/63? - Review 2011-10-30T22:44:25Z Like many of the better suspense thrillers, from “Psycho” to “Jaws” to “The Silence of the Lambs,” the original “Crazies” was based on a plausible premise as well as one with an ecological subtext. Film: Homicidally Unhinged, but for a Cause 2010-02-19T23:58:00Z While I enjoyed the ex-wives conversation and observations about that cad Noah, I wish the writers had made the event a bit more plausible in terms of the meet up. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Hundreds of “right” answers with plausible justifications — for both up and down. Perspective | Ask Amy: Boyfriend has elaborate explanation for suspected cheating 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Rather, runners become adept at making quick and calculated judgments to inform them about which tactic would be the best, most appropriate and plausible in any given encounter. Runners v pedestrians: who should give way to whom? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z But Mr. Lucas and Mr. Wheeldon have set the story just after World War II, rather than in the early 1950s of the film, to create a more plausible context for Lise’s decisions. Christopher Wheeldon Directs ‘An American in Paris’ for Broadway 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The more plausible future dystopia is related to the nature of America as a geographically large, culturally heterogeneous and politically decentralized country. The Divisions That Are Destroying the Country 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The evidence is plausible enough, and his family struggles to interpret the news. Paperback Row 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z At the moment, the Oscars reflect the Academy, but the Academy reflects nothing but its august name; plausible deniability and the shunning of responsibility are built into the current system. How to Make the Oscars Relevant Again 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Then the unimaginable – that the country's film-makers would one day challenge Hollywood for global influence – might look plausible. Lost in Thailand: did China's comedy hit get lost in translation? 2013-02-13T16:50:12Z Both films have grungily plausible elements, but in no way can the experience of watching them be described as “fun”. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z As far as origin stories go, it was plausible enough. Review | Little Big Town mixes searing and saccharine at the Anthem 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z “I will let you,” he writes, “judge for yourself if the following pages seem reasonably plausible.” Review | A great Bigfoot novel may be lurking out there. Max Brooks’s ‘Devolution’ isn’t it. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Schenkkan methodically walks us through a series of policy initiatives and plausible public catastrophes to cook up a gruesome dystopia akin to the 20th and 21st century’s cruelest atrocities. Review | Schenkkan’s ‘Wall’ imagines Trump consequences. Disaster! 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Close did her own research into psychiatry to reassure herself that Alex’s behaviour was remotely plausible. Glenn Close: critical acclaim built on strength of character 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z He knows whereof he speaks; and his description, in The Fix, of a society sliding down a slope of multiple addictions – where human interaction is replaced by interaction with things – is hugely plausible. Ninety Days by Bill Clegg; Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis; The Fix by Damian Thompson – review 2012-07-07T23:05:03Z Like I said, there’s plausible deniability, but let’s be for real. Adam McKay on the Veracity of “Vice” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Willard’s gentle style made the fantasy interactions feel almost plausible; it was like celebrity hobnobbing at a never-ending White House Correspondents Dinner. Best in Show: Watch Fred Willard’s Most Memorable Roles 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z While it was plausible that we had wandered into an area dense with steaming thermal features, we hadn’t. Trekking through fire and ice on Greenland’s 102-mile Arctic Circle Trail 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But without them, the show couldn’t faithfully represent the art world — or offer a plausible alternative to the system of value judgments that runs the commercial side of it. Art: Abdi Farah?s Bravo TV Prize Is a Brooklyn Museum Show 2010-08-18T22:18:00Z The other day, I researched male sex dolls, with their still eyes and soft mouths, their cold and plausible skin. Intimacy in Isolation 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z First things first: I do not care whether the premise of NBC’s Revolution—all electricity, even batteries, ceases functioning, and civilization collapses—is physically plausible. TV Tonight: Revolution 2012-09-17T12:00:09Z So this is a big what-if, but it seems entirely plausible. Analysis | Golden Globes: 11 things to watch, from Oprah’s speech to Seth Meyers’s monologue 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Bill explains the whole not very interesting or plausible fairy situation to Sookie. "True Blood" recap: Trust no one 2010-08-23T12:30:00Z The scene where the family's attempt to watch a Dark Knight video ends in disarray is horribly plausible. Review 2010-07-20T23:05:00Z Even though it’s one of the least exciting races this year, the Best Supporting Actress category is notable for the paucity of plausible winners—and that’s important. The Best Supporting Actress Race at the Oscars Reveals an Uncomfortable Truth 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z If they have a plausible manner, the dim children of the well connected can go a long way before they are found out. Is nepotism ever acceptable? 2011-04-09T23:05:55Z A company should either offer a plausible one — or change its answer. Tactics for when travel companies behave like unruly toddlers Part of the requirement for the Parsons students was that their projects be plausible—designed to fit into real spaces in New York, and built within reasonable budgets. Making Space for the Homeless 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Messy, complicated, and yes, just north of plausible. Review | In ‘Mary Kills People,’ assisted suicide becomes a dangerous side business 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Most fantasies evade opportunities to make the impossible plausible, to give magic accountability in a realistic setting and moral and emotional weight in a modern novel. Among Others by Jo Walton – review 2013-03-30T10:01:01Z Given the real author's prolific output, the premise hardly seems plausible. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z But by and large, it is a plausible scenario -- and it's also something in the way of a wake-up call. The smart science of "Contagion" 2011-09-03T17:01:00Z François appears to believe so, and the idea is far from improbable, in fact I find it quite plausible. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Thus the only plausible strategy is to restrict the weapons that let shooters rapidly fire large numbers of bullets. Barrel of deaths 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z I’m not saying it’s the way things are, but it’s certainly plausible. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z The situation Rudnick constructs is all too plausible in an age when mass violence and displays of intolerance are regularly in the news, but the change in dramatic register isn’t smoothly pulled off. Paul Rudnick's 'Big Night': Comedy and crisis in the awards machine of Hollywood 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The six dancers provided good electricity, and Mr. Stafford’s choreography seemed, to the untrained eye, a plausible reinterpretation and extension of Baroque dance. Review: Ahead of ‘My Fair Lady,’ Two Operatic Pygmalions 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The central challenge in staging “Othello” lies in making the eponymous general’s psychological unraveling seem plausible. Two classic Shakespeares, each with ups and downs 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z You write, in the final paragraph, that "the supersession of capitalism still sounds plausible to me". From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z And now there is a plausible plan, albeit in its infancy, to fight this conspiracy. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10 Finale: Our Struggle 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Germany’s 1940 attack through the Ardennes had been its greatest success of the war, and for a moment Hitler’s fantasy of repeating this triumph seemed plausible. Review: In ‘Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge,’ Antony Beevor Is on Familiar Ground 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z She exits his cab for a late work night until the movie finds a plausible excuse to revisit her. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Of course, in strict realist terms, his escape is not quite plausible, and the manner in which he appears to break the single chain connecting the cuffs on his wrists is not entirely believable. Essential Killing ? review 2011-03-31T21:51:00Z More than ever, writers and directors are turning to scientists to make their fantasies more plausible. Hollywood teams up with scientists to make sci-fi more believable 2012-06-09T04:32:03Z The spin, the leak, the plausible denial; rinse and repeat endlessly. Perspective | Kellyanne Conway undermined the truth like no other Trump official. And journalists enabled her. 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z That Hannah would smoothly tumble into this without it exploding her world is about as plausible as the idea that this guy – a young, black, hipster New Yorker – is a Republican. Girls season two premiere review: 'These people are not meant to be loved' 2013-01-14T16:19:00Z Bernstine is always a revelation and always a gift, a sandpaper-voiced actress of good sense and great humanity with an ability to make the absurd seem perfectly plausible. Review: In ‘Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,’ Co-Workers Weather the Storm 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z But it is plausible and based on a heap of archaeological material. Sheffield university helps to crack the mystery of Stonehenge - possibly 2012-06-22T16:57:00Z It was not his least plausible celebrity update. Kenny Kingston, ‘Psychic to the Stars,’ Dies at 87 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Plainly she is suffering delusions, yet her manuscript proves compelling, its story all too plausible. Review | Johannes Anyuru’s latest novel is an award winner in Sweden. If there’s any justice, some of that success will cross the Atlantic. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z |
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