Example Sentences

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What it lacks is twofold: the abundance of charm that propelled the original over and beyond any narrative implausibility and made it sing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw said the "energy and heartfelt good humour offset the moments of cliche and implausibility".

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2024

When Will tells his buddies that Sylvia’s back in the picture, the men debate the implausibility of a platonic male-female friendship, and soon the conversation shifts to the 1989 film “When Harry Met Sally.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2023

This framing of the protagonists is essential to “Jerry & Marge”; the dopey comedy uses the sheer implausibility of its scenario as a selling point.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2022

I saw neither implausibility nor contradiction in this story.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela