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As a meteorologist and former storm chaser, I'm offering a blow-by-blow of the various degrees of far-fetchedness featured in our first 2½-minute glimpse Into the Storm:

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2014

To him is due the far-fetchedness of some of Chesterton's pleading in support of the miraculous element in religion.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius

It is not a grandeur of effort and far-fetchedness like that of Jesuit Spain, still less of achievement and restrained force like that of Tuscany.

From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon