It's hard to overstate the sheer implausibility of this find.
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Perhaps recognizing the implausibility of the acting solicitor's analysis, Rep.
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But from this close, implausibility is overcome by raw scale.
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Despite (and perhaps because of) its implausibility, the recital was a triumph.
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Here again is the shift from implausibility to something that feels real.
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The prose is crisp and clean, and the fighting is realistic within its implausibility.
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Wildebeests are referred to collectively as "an implausibility"The itinerant enigmas, referred to collectively as — no joke — an implausibility of wildebeests, have traveled in a giant African loop that has come to be called the Great Migration for nearly a million years.
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But if so, those disgusting acts are also valuable to the predator for their very implausibility.
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Its implausibility may be as important to its appeal as any range of textures or tastes.
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" The "relative implausibility" of running for president, Yang added with a chuckle, "actually added to its appeal.
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It is a true, organic passion project, the likes of which bridged any gaps of inconvenience or implausibility.
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I relished the implausibility of contorting and catapulting my body in the air above this narrow little plank.
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These shows give American teen dramas a bad name on account of their innate implausibility and overdone narratives.
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Too much implausibility as well: It is full of historical information delivered as if it were natural dialogue.
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If a writer gave that name to a character in a political novel, readers might bristle at its implausibility.
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All politicians promise too much, of course, but Mr Trump's plans differ in the sheer scale of their implausibility.
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That's pretty fair; the cuts necessary to make that work would be genuinely massive to the point of utter implausibility.
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The bustle of activity mitigates a central implausibility of earlier versions, whose characters seemed slow to notice the missing women.
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Beyond the specific implausibility of Trump's official story, there is the more general fact that Trump is a notorious liar.
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The results were immediately questioned by CENCO, and other credible stakeholders who released data showing the implausibility of the CENI count.
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Although the flaws in logic and general implausibility of the proceedings have to be laid at Mr. Greenberg's feet as well.
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The implausibility of this claim would be made plain in 2004, when banks valued that same real estate at nearly $900 million.
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"The Turkish government likes to blame everything bad on the Gülen movement, sometimes to the point of implausibility," Pipes told The Hill.
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What adds to the implausibility of the current deal is the time frame and lack of impartial brokers trusted by all sides.
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These are compounded by the show's establishing twist, which won't be spoiled here because its brazen implausibility needs to be experienced firsthand.
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Setting aside the implausibility of a Brazilian bank as a target for anti-Semites, the nationalist case deserves a fairer hearing than that.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson certainly enjoys schooling us about the implausibility of our beloved entertainment using cold hard facts — and sometimes we can't deal.
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Today, nearly every word of that last sentence feels as if it were ripped from a political fiction of "West Wing"-level implausibility.
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What had for so long been viewed as a hard right, political implausibility, is now being characterized by Democrats as a compromise position.
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No one bothered to follow-up on this finding owing to its apparent implausibility, and because there was no good way to confirm it.
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It's also possible that the impending vote has concentrated U.K. voters' minds on the sheer implausibility of going it alone in today's interconnected world.
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This is where many lesser action films have faltered, unable to ferry their hero from fisticuff to fisticuff without lapsing into implausibility or stupidity.
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If something makes our disbelief become unsuspended—one implausibility too many, a series of narratorial bum notes—then the whole fiction comes crashing down.
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For one thing, all my instincts are honing in on the sloppiness, if not the sheer implausibility, of the plot the SBU maintains it uncovered.
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The amazing thing is that for all the ego and the implausibility of some of the exploits he claims, you can't help liking the guy.
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If anything, Biden scored on her, questioning the transparent implausibility of her plans to push Medicare for all without raising taxes on the middle class.
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The yanking together of the Elizabethan court and a Cold War sensibility is a bold endeavor, and almost succeeds, though it's finally undone by its implausibility.
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But this reason is bad, because, aside from its implausibility (Trump banking on the incompetence of the IRS), it is just a matter of Trump's money.
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As it spun Brody's story into a second season, then killed him off in a third, it began to suffer from implausibility and plot one-upmanship.
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It can feel facile, this ostensible shortcut to empathy, and requires a certain authority to prevent the whole enterprise from tipping into implausibility or soppy sentimentality.
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And although viewers were recently able to watch a live video of the migration on YouTube, you may need to experience the implausibility firsthand to truly believe it.
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If anything, it's the way in which Torque utilizes music that heightens the absurdity and implausibility of this compulsory marriage of overproduced B-movies with galumphing hard rock.
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It takes willful blindness not to acknowledge either the lack of direct evidence of collusion or the implausibility of many of the theories abounding on cable news programs.
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It would have made fertile terrain for one of Johnson's own songs, many of which frankly and masterfully tilled the everyday hopelessness and implausibility of segregated African-American life.
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The plot of "Forest Dark" often oscillates between lofty concepts and shaggy implausibility, but the feelings Epstein and Nicole have about their lives and loves feel hard-earned and true.
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Many Democratic voters are also as cleareyed as their elected leaders about the Republican Party's wide-scale deference to Mr. Trump — and the implausibility of congressional Republicans aiding his ouster.
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Instead, Ngom argued that Cyrus is afraid she could be embarrassed by the "implausibility of her own testimony," despite her willingness to accommodate Cyrus and her three lawyers for the deposition.
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Less Quick Comment: Mark Trumbo is tied with Bryce Harper for the fifth-best WAR in baseball, which is the sort of implausibility that does something to answer those questions above.
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But his basic claim about the legal drinking age at the time is also provably false, a small fact that he probably neglected amid the larger implausibility of the overall argument.
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Set aside the complete and utter implausibility of Tyrion only deciding to tell all his best pals about his secret plan to defeat Casterly Rock until weeks after the Unsullied set sail.
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The sheer implausibility of this situation should have us shaking our heads, but it will have you on the edge of your seat, breath catching at every arm touch or knuckle brush.
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As a graduate student working in AI in the mid-1980s, I recall that the general public reception of it was mild derision, with multiple books on the implausibility of the very field.
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When the ending arrives, however, it does so with jarring implausibility while the story sometimes falls flat, underlining the challenge of satirizing a president whose daily outrages have made him immune to parody.
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Here was proof of the extent to which our nascent wellness culture had finally matured: a woman whose lifestyle was extreme to the point of inscrutability and expensive to the point of implausibility.
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Setting aside the implausibility of the whole affair, "The One That Holds Everything" also has the weird effect of being a story featuring a twist where the twist is only effective for the characters onscreen.
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Despite the wild implausibility and unverifiable foundation of its stories of grisly abuse and sex orgies, Michelle Remembers was presented during the '80s and early '90s as a textbook for legal professionals and other authorities.
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For all the implausibility, the motivations for the July 30 gathering in Jeddah between Moqtada al-Sadr and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman run deep, and center on a shared interest in countering Iranian influence in Iraq.
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This kind of thing simply isn't meant to happen at his age, although the fact that Beltre has been one of the best hitters on his team for seven years running does soften the implausibility a bit.
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This inevitability was reinforced by the implausibility of the administration's varying rationales for a continued troop presence in Syria: pressuring Assad by taking control of Syrian oil fields; intimidating Iran; facilitating humanitarian assistance; or protecting the Kurds.
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It trafficked in many of the same big moments and plot lines as other teen soaps, but added a knowing twist, merrily tipping its hat to its own implausibility while cranking the drama dial way past 11.
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The family stuff is seriously hampered by the fact that none of them seem like real people — not even the father, despite Farrell's literal sad clown routine — and the business stuff by the head-scratching implausibility of everyone's plans.
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And at the same time, Oprah's story reminds us of the implausibility of such success, the hurdles that so many must overcome and which cause many more to stumble, of the injustices and inequities that also plague our nation.
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The second and third sections of the novel become nothing more than clunky melodrama laced with ever-greater implausibility and snarled in repetitive references to the two classic stories of patricide and filicide until the foreshadowing becomes positively penumbral.
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They claimed the models wrongly assumed that hydroelectricity output could continue for hours on end at many times the capacity available today, and pointed to the implausibility of replacing the current aviation system with yet-to-be-developed hydrogen-powered planes.
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Spelling out the potential collective impacts of such individual decisions along with the scope of the challenge and the implausibility of progress under our current broken democracy offers ample impetus for voluntarily choosing to realize this limited yet empowering potential.
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Since that subpoena was issued, the impeachment of Donald Trump has gone from implausibility to near certainty; I at least find it hard to see how the House can fail to impeach given what we already know about Trump's actions.
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The volunteers were warned to keep their destination a secret while in transit—recruitment into a foreign army was and still is illegal for Americans—but on the steamer to France their matching suitcases and general implausibility as tourists gave them away.
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Stephen Westland, a professor of color science at the University of Leeds in England, said that despite the implausibility of a link between color and suit physics, a large body of research showed that color could affect performance from a purely psychological standpoint.
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Ms. Wallace, a former communications director under George W. Bush and a campaign strategist for John McCain's unsuccessful run for the presidency in 2008, thanked the roughly 20 people in the room for their hard work and noted the implausibility of the moment.
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It's difficult to imagine the tough-talking authorial scourge that has brought the still-vigorous, 77-year-old Oscar winner to the West End for the first time in 21 years sanctioning the pileup of implausibility that courses through this 80-minute play (no intermission).
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Despite much ink spilled, the non-cultural explanations for chronic under-development — and here it's everything from colonialism, the all-purpose favorite, to geography to lack of salt — are routinely trotted out despite their evident implausibility and their obvious foundation in PC strictures rather than facts.
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Whenever I got to a place in my journey that flirted with implausibility or took me beyond the bounds of grammar or language, I simply turned to the reader, much like an actor breaking the fourth wall, and frankly acknowledged the narrative pickle in which we found ourselves.
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Large and expensive works, like Magid's The Proposal (2016) and Raad's Walkthrough, Part I (173-2018), were represented in posters and wall-prints due to the exhibition's shoe-string budget and the implausibility of shipping art works into the walled-off and checkpoint-controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank.
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He asked why Sanders opposes reparations even as he, unlike Clinton, backs all other sorts of politically extreme policies: The spectacle of a socialist candidate opposing reparations as "divisive" (there are few political labels more divisive in the minds of Americans than socialist) is only rivaled by the implausibility of Sanders posing as a pragmatist.
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"Line of Duty" works through a careful balancing act — Mercurio can overplay the tension, and get away with a high degree of ambient implausibility (how many times can Kate go undercover in one medium-sized city?), as long as he underplays the longer sequences of investigation and the dips into the cops' private lives.
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"Yesterday, after more than two hours of expert witnesses testifying about the fundamental flaws and implausibility of the Green New Deal, a young supporter of the Green Deal, posing as a reporter during our press conference, went on a tirade, questioned the facts that had been presented and asked me what I was doing to reduce C02 emissions," Gosar said.
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She's a kooky, overtalkative eccentric and there's a breathless implausibility to the way the romance develops.
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Haddan and Stubbs merely note its implausibility, while Skene (who quotes and translates Richard's passage) provides a credible reason as to where the confusion lay.
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Critics have deemed Carmella as one of the series' most popular characters. Blair's versatility has attracted praise, though several publications have highlighted the implausibility of many of Carmella's storylines.
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The "Casey the Alien" storyline was met with very mixed reviews. It received criticism for its implausibility, but was able to keep some level of fan interest due to the popular actors involved in the storyline.
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Supporters of evolution generally respond by arguing that evolution is not based on "chance," but on predictable chemical interactions: natural processes, rather than supernatural beings, are the "designer." Although the process involves some random elements, it is the non-random selection of survival-enhancing genes that drives evolution along an ordered trajectory. The fact that the results are ordered and seem "designed" is no more evidence for a supernatural intelligence than the appearance of complex natural phenomena (e.g. snowflakes). It is also argued that there is insufficient evidence to make statements about the plausibility or implausibility of abiogenesis, that certain structures demonstrate poor design, and that the implausibility of life evolving exactly as it did is no more evidence for an intelligence than the implausibility of a deck of cards being shuffled and dealt in a certain random order.
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The implausibility that a composite might have been unintentionally introduced where a prime number is required has led to the suspicion of sabotage to introduce a backdoor software vulnerability. This socat bug affected version 1.7.3.0 and 2.0.
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The lack of physical evidence and the inconsistencies and implausibility of the alien abduction stories lead some critics, including Carl Sagan and author Jodi Dean, to question whether these memories are the product of internal, rather than external experiences.
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The first factor (factor 1) explains the content of the delusion and strives to determine why the delusional idea developed. The second factor (factor 2) identifies why the delusion persists rather than being rejected based on implausibility or bizarreness.
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One columnist observed that the rumor campaign's persistence, despite its complete implausibility, is "a matter of style over substance".Calhoun, B. (February 23, 2016). Is Ted Cruz Any Number of Serial Killers — Or Every Serial Killer? SF Weekly, retrieved April 18, 2016.
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While Benveniste's study demonstrated a mechanism by which homeopathic remedies could operate, the mechanism defied conventional scientific understanding of physical chemistry knowledge. A paper about hydrogen bond dynamics is mentioned by some secondary sources in connection to the implausibility of water memory.
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Entertainment Weekly Tim Stack praised the Bree storyline, calling its scenes the best of the episode. He was critical of the Lynette storyline and highlighted its implausibility, calling it "a cop-out and just an excuse for drama."Stack, Tim (October 2, 2007). "The Menopause Button".
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The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality. Oxford: Clarendon.—utilizes a modal theory including "impossible worlds" to deal with supposed objects, like the "round square." Sylvan's formulation is logically consistent, and avoids certain paradoxes associated with Meinong's original ontology; although, like many Meinongian views, it faces criticism due to its presumed ontological implausibility.
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Samuele Riva, an Italian blogger, wrote an article about the implausibility of homeopathy, including images of Boiron's products "Homeopathy, myth and legend" (in Italian): Part 1, Part 2 The company sent a letter to the Internet provider of the blog, but the result was a backlash in favor of freedom of speech.
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Contemporary chroniclers catalogued his various anti- religious habits at length, including his failure to take communion, his blasphemous remarks, and his witty but scandalous jokes about church doctrine, including jokes about the implausibility of the Resurrection of Jesus. They commented on the paucity of John's charitable donations to the Church.McLynn, pp. 78, 290.
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Reception to The Mahdi was mixed, with many reviewers criticizing the book's implausibility. The New York Times gave The Mahdi an overall positive review, calling the plot "elegant" while stating that the lack of a defined villain makes it seem as if there were "less at stake here than there ought to be".
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Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club wrote that Woo's style makes up for the film's implausibility and lack of logic. Kevin Lee DVD Verdict wrote that the film has "a lack of focus and an uneven tone". Chris Gould of DVDactive.com rated the film 5/10 and wrote that there was too much slapstick.
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Because of such cranial impairments, TH was unable to use logic to reject his delusional beliefs based on implausibility. From this case study, researchers concluded that while not all patients with mirror agnosia develop mirrored-self misidentification, when mirror agnosia is paired with right hemisphere damage of the belief evaluation system, the delusion will develop.
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'The Growth of Opposition', p. 105 Academic scholars such as William Montgomery Watt and Alfred Guillaume argued for its authenticity based upon the implausibility of Muslims fabricating a story so unflattering to their prophet. Watt says that "the story is so strange that it must be true in essentials." On the other hand, John Burton rejected the tradition.
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How much of the Brothers Poem has been lost is unknown. An overlap between P. Oxy. 2289 and P. Sapph. Obbink, the apparent alphabetic arrangement in the Alexandrian edition of her works, and the implausibility of any poem beginning with the word ἀλλά (meaning "but" or "and yet"), suggest that at least one opening stanza is missing.
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His writing style has been characterized for artfully conveying history to the general reader with pith, wit, and clarity. The Japanese government awarded him the Imperial decoration of the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his contributions to US-Japan relations. Perry's latest book Singapore: Unlikely Power, which explores the implausibility of Singapore's success, was published in January 2017.
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In his review for the New York Times, Frank S. Nugent described the film as "incredibly romantic, glossily produced, expertly directed and peopled by the sort of players most often encountered on the covers of the fan magazines". But despite this "triumph of machine-made art", Nugent criticized the story for its "romantic absurdity" and "outrageous implausibility".
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He initially struggled with the implausibility of the character, but learned to "unfocus my eyes, to react to smells and sounds" after meeting with blind judo practitioner Lynn Manning during his research for the role. Hauer returned to science fiction in 1989 with The Blood of Heroes, in which he played a gladiator in a post-apocalyptic world.
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It's not everyone's cup of tea, but this is pure entertainment which doesn't need to fall under a specific category." Louisa Mellor from Den of Geek attacked some of the complaints against the show saying: "The complaint about implausibility in comedy always baffles me. No, you wouldn't meet people like these in real life. Yes, they are unrealistic.
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He also wrote some narrative pieces in prose, "Narraciones", which are loaded with imagination and implausibility, such as "Memorias de un Pavo" (Memoirs of a Turkey) in which, as the title implies, he describes the trip of a turkey from its home farm to the city, and its purchase to be eaten, when its writings are discovered inside the already cooked body.
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The episode received positive reviews from critics. Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club gave the episode an A- rating, saying the episode played its strengths by "using pop culture conventions to provide a jumping-off point for meta-riffs on their implausibility." In 2015, the episode was ranked by Rolling Stone as the fifth best It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode.
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While some scholars have tried to offer possible explanations for the origins of the flood myth including a legendary retelling of a possible Black Sea deluge, the general mythological exaggeration and implausibility of the story are widely recognized by relevant academic fields. The acknowledgement of this follows closely the development of understanding of the natural history and especially the geology and paleontology of the planet.
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If you examine the story closely, you can find soft spots of implausibility and cliché. But the shakiness of some of the film's central ideas . . . matters far less than it might . . . The Door in the Floor nimbly shifts between melodrama and comedy, with a delightful and perfectly executed excursion into high farce near the end, and it seems perpetually to be discovering new possibilities for its characters . . .
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Criticism of cold fusion claims generally take one of two forms: either pointing out the theoretical implausibility that fusion reactions have occurred in electrolysis setups or criticizing the excess heat measurements as being spurious, erroneous, or due to poor methodology or controls. There are a couple of reasons why known fusion reactions are an unlikely explanation for the excess heat and associated cold fusion claims.
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Patients can no longer logically reject delusional beliefs. Injury to the right frontal lobe is found in 35% of cases and can also inhibit one's ability to reject delusional beliefs on the basis of implausibility. Patients with this delusion also tend to have larger right anterior horns than the typical person. These cranial distortions point to right frontal atrophy and general right hemisphere dysfunction.
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Similarly, in the Quran: "(Joseph) said: 'Give me charge of the granaries () of the land. I shall husband them wisely'" (12:55).Trans. N. J. Dawood (Penguin Books 1999). The designation was used throughout the Middle Ages and only really abated in the Renaissance when travel to the region became easier and closer investigation revealed the implausibility of the structures serving as storehouses for foodstuffs.
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He also served as a director of the Japan America Society of New Hampshire, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society since 1990. He is a senior advisor and director of the Japan Society of Boston. In 2015 Perry retired from active teaching, while continuing to pursue other academic activities. That same year it was announced that he was finishing a book about the implausibility of Singapore's success.
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Against Tycho: The final part of the Discourse is an assault on Tycho and his arguments. First he points out the implausibility of there being a celestial sphere devoted to comets, as they move in different directions and at different speeds. Next he argues from the apparent motion and speed of comets that they are more likely to travel in straight lines than in a circle, as Tycho had suggested.
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The book received mixed reviews. Entertainment Weekly praised the novel's "sprawling, Bondesque plot" as well as its action scenes that are "vivid and cinematic — and notably lacking in the clichés and B-movie tone of his dialogue". Publishers Weekly also hailed the scenes as "immensely suspenseful, breathtaking combos of expertly detailed combat and primal emotion". On the other hand, criticism was focused on flat characters and the implausibility of the plot.
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He says that the track officials asked him to leave, and now he protects the zoo's flamingos from fanatics. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous. The director states that the film is intended to be humorous, and Herzog's official website describes the film as an "Elaborate on-camera practical joke."Werner Herzog.
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Jewish professor Deborah Lipstadt had already denounced the story in her personal blog in December 2007. Other Holocaust survivors like Peter Kubicek also denounced the implausibility of the story. Jewish-American blogger Danny Bloom started emailing several historians for help, one of them being Holocaust historian Kenneth Waltzer. Waltzer had been interviewing survivors for a new book, and he had been told that the story was probably false.
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The fundamental implausibility of homeopathy as well as a lack of demonstrable effectiveness has led to it being characterized within the scientific and medical communities as quackery and nonsense. Homeopathy achieved its greatest popularity in the 19th century. It was introduced to the United States in 1825 with the first homeopathic school opening in 1835. Throughout the 19th century, dozens of homeopathic institutions appeared in Europe and the United States.
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77–78 In Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Michael Sandel has criticized Rawls's notion of a veil of ignorance, pointing out that it is impossible, for an individual, to completely prescind from her beliefs and convictions (from her Me ultimately), as is required by Rawls's thought experiment. More recently, the psychological implausibility of Rawls's theory has been highlighted using possible worlds, in a paper that stresses some problematic points of Rawls's proposal.
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No one else from the town stepped forward with such testimony either. This is all to say nothing of the implausibility of a 16-year-old high school student following an older man she did not know into a forest in the first place. The confession states that Ishikawa killed the girl because she started to scream. In an attempt to silence her, he choked her, and before he knew it, she was dead.
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This makes his recollections of his relationships deeply personal and thereby potentially unreliable. Although the conversations may not be recorded verbatim, he gives a sense of the personalities and opinions of each figure. The very literary nature of his encounters and conversations are sometimes strained and point towards a certain degree of implausibility. For example, in chapter eighteen, Anand asks "is it about India?" as his first question of a new novel.
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Georges de Scudéry, another dramatist, wrote a critique of the play as well. He claimed Corneille was "deifying" himself. He intended to prove that the play's plot was worthless, abused the basic rules of dramatic poetry, pursues an erratic course, and all of the play's beauties are stolen. Jean Chapelain wrote the document for the Académie, which particularly criticizes the implausibility of Chimène's continued affection for Rodrigue after he kills her father.
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He also cited examples drawn from other points of philosophical history, citing the works of Augustine, Averoes, Thomas Aquinas, and Baruch Spinoza, among others. In response to the critique about the implausibility of the KK thesis, Hintikka stated that it is not an important point because what matters is that the principle is able "to capture a strong sense of knowledge". After Hintikka's work involving epistemic logic, the status of the KK thesis and its interpretations has been disputed.
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While the scientist is away, his brother and the model get married. His Brother's Wife was produced by Lawrence Weingarten for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was released on August 7, 1936 in the United States. Upon its theatrical release, the film received mixed reviews that praised its expert direction and glossy production, but criticized its "outrageous implausibility". His Brother's Wife was the first of three films starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor; the couple married in 1939.
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Keeping Miley's secret involves a two sided effort. As Hannah, she must keep her fans unaware that she is really a normal kid, and as Miley, she must keep her friends unaware that she is really Hannah Montana. In interviews, Miley Cyrus spoke of the implausibility of being able to keep a secret such as Miley and her family do in the show in a world of intense media scrutiny. The show however, remains workable primarily based on suspension of disbelief.
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However, this was toned down in light of historical resistance to any foreign occupation of Spanish soil as well as the implausibility of invading France via the Pyrenees. On 5 June the British ambassador reinforced the request, and after some discussion the Spanish government agreed but only after an invasion had occurred, and under the supervision of the Red Cross. To emphasise the change in objective, the Allies followed this up with Operation Ferdinand which threatened an invasion in Italy.
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Tenembaum, Baruch. "Giovanni Palatucci, an Italian hero in the Holocaust" , The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. Already Marco Coslovich in 1994 had demonstrated through extensive documentation that Palatucci and the Police of Fiume had no power to decide internment location for the Jews. More recently the database of foreign Jews interned in Italy curated by Anna Pizzuti provided unequivocal evidence of the implausibility of this theory. As published in Pizzuti's documentary resource, the Jews deported from Fiume to Campagna are 40.
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It is set during The Original Series, and attempts to flesh out that particular period of fictional Star Trek history. I.K.S. Gorkon was a brief series of novels by Keith R. A. DeCandido, the first Star Trek novel series to feature the Klingons instead of Starfleet. This series tells of the adventures of an all-new Qang (Chancellor)-class war cruiser, on a mission to conquer new planets for the Klingon Empire. The series grew from DeCandido's TNG Ambassador Worf-focused novel Diplomatic Implausibility.
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The book takes place in New York and examines how different people in a relationship can have disparate views on the relationship. Groff has said that she originally envisioned the novel as two separate books, but she was encouraged by her agent to rewrite the two books as one integrated work . The novel is influenced by Greek Mythology as deities and vengeance are themes throughout. Positive reviews noted the novel as "masterful", while negative reviews focused on moments of implausibility in the novel's second half.
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Stephen Wright (born 13 December 1962), known by his stage name Stevie Starr, is a Scottish performance artist who focuses on professional regurgitation. In his act, he swallows various items, such as coins, lightbulbs, balloons, nails, billiard balls, dry sugar, lighter fluid and goldfish, and then regurgitates them. The implausibility of some of his performances, such as regurgitating a "solved" Rubik's cube, have resulted in some observers believing that he is an illusionist. Starr has a busy international touring schedule for his solo act.
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Factor 2 is responsible for identifying why the delusion is an accepted belief rather than rejected due to implausibility or bizarreness. Damage to the right hemisphere, specifically the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, impairs the patient's belief evaluation system. The patient loses the ability to use logic to reject the delusional belief that the mirrored reflection is another person. Only patients who have both factor 1 (impaired facial processing or mirror agnosia) and factor 2 (cranial damage to the right hemisphere) will develop the mirrored-self misidentification delusion.
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Realising the implausibility of this intinerary (Cervera → Zaragoza → Burgos) Lévi-Provençal subsequently revised his identification, equating Kashtila with Estella. Nevertheless, the German scholar Wilhelm Hoenerbach expanded Lévi- Provençal's initial proposal, suggesting that Almanzor subsequent to his visit to Burgos went to Pamplona before returning to Córdoba after 109 days. on the road from Zaragoza to Pamplona, just inside the Pamplonese kingdom. He returned to Córdoba on 7 October after an absence of 109 days, probably the longest of his 56 razzias he waged during his life.
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The group accept Wyatt's immediate offer of a major record deal despite its seeming implausibility, and they are flown to New York City with their manager Alexander (Paul Costanzo), his sister Alexandra (Missi Pyle), and Josie's friend Alan M (Gabriel Mann). Wyatt renames the band "Josie and the Pussycats" without their permission. Meanwhile, MegaRecords CEO Fiona (Parker Posey) meets with world government representatives. She details how the United States government has conspired with the music industry to hide subliminal messages in pop music to brainwash teenagers into buying consumer products.
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Arthur George, 3rd Earl of Onslow, who had a large Napoleonic collection, was visiting the Louvre with Paul Delaroche in 1848 and commented on the implausibility and theatricality of David's painting. He commissioned Delaroche to produce a more accurate version which featured Napoleon on a mule; the final painting, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, was completed in 1850. While Delaroche's painting is more realistic than the symbolic heroic representation of David, it was not meant to be demeaning - Delaroche admired Bonaparte and thought that the achievement was not diminished by depicting it in a realistic fashion.
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Henry the Minstrel (Blind Harry) The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace 1470 These poems depict their heroes tracked by sleuth hounds. Bruce escapes by crossing water, and Wallace by killing one of his party, whom he suspects of treachery, and leaving the corpse to distract the hound. The poems are romances, not histories, but there is no implausibility about the use of sleuth hounds. John Barbour, who wrote The Bruce, was born before his hero died, and the year in which the Bruce was supposedly pursued was 1307.
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She also wants to make her first communion. The scene in which Tina enters her former school where she sang as the soloist at church and confronts Father Constantino, the priest who abused her when she was a boy, formed a partial genesis for Almodóvar's later film Bad Education. The character of Pablo serves as an alter ego for Almodóvar. Pablo is working on his new film whose main character is Laura P. The implausibility of its plot reflects the intricate and outrageous plot of Almodóvar's own film.
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In self-categorization theory contextual changes to the salient social category are sometimes referred to as shifting prototypicality. Although the theory accepts that prior categorization behaviour impacts present perception (i.e., as part of perceiver readiness), self-categorization theory has key advantages over descriptions of social categorization where categories are rigid and invariant cognitive structures that are stored in comparative isolation prior to application. One advantage is that this perspective removes the implausibility of storing enough categorical information to account for all the nuanced categorization that humans use daily.
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DeepStar Six was poorly received by critics and audience members. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a very negative rating of 10%, based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 3.75/10. Variety gave the film a negative review, calling the film "diluted by implausibility" due to the monster's appearance being unrealistic rather than threatening, also criticizing the lack of centralized characters. Time Out criticized the film's predictability and dialogue, stating that the only inventive aspect of the film was the design of the monster.
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Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+. She said the episode exposed a different angle on Ted's love story by showing where his future family would live. She noted the execution of Marshall's Drunk or Kid game and Barney's exaggerated recollections were a bit off. Cindy McClellan of Television Without Pity also gave the episode a B+ score, citing the implausibility of having a real-estate inspector study the house when Ted's architecture skills can determine the flaws as well. IGN gave the episode 8.3 out of 10.
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Venusians appearing in works of fiction are usually fanciful, rather than plausible inhabitants of the planet. Before the mid 20th century, little was generally known about the planet except that it was solid and comparable in size to Earth; its cloud cover obscured remote observation of its environment. This allowed writers to speculate that Venusians might be similar to humans or other Earth species, much as they did for fictional Martians. As more was learned about Venus and the implausibility of humanoid or other life on it, Venusians became increasingly uncommon in science fiction.
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Some reviewers have said that the Quintaglios act too human,Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Are the Quintaglios Too Human? while others point out the implausibility of a technological civilisation developing from a nomadic hunting society.Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Are the Quintaglios Too Clever? Sawyer defends his work by stating that the human-like behavior of the Quintaglios was necessary for readers to connect with the characters, and that agriculture isn't necessarily a pre-requisite for a developed civilisation (a point he explores in greater detail with his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy).
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Homeopathic "overdose" by members of the Hungarian Skeptic Society in Szeged, 5 February 2011 In 2011 the HSS joined the 10:23 Campaign, a worldwide challenge to raise awareness about the ineffectiveness of homeopathic remedies and the implausibility of the mechanisms they claim to work in the background of it. As part of the campaign, members and supporters of the organisation executed a homeopathic overdose in 3 Hungarian cities: Budapest, Székesfehérvár, Szeged, As part of the campaign, a "Hungarian 10:23 Homeopathy - There's nothing in it" webpage and a Facebook page was launched as well.
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The Herald Suns head reviewer Leigh Paatsch gave the film no stars, claiming the film tried to match the edginess of the 2007 comedy film Juno but was, "way, way off the mark". He wrote, "If you think the title screams 'Go watch something else', just wait until you get a load of this lame local production." Jim Schembri of The Age opined that the film was an example of "just how bad local [Australian] films can get". In particular, he criticised the "stiff" performances, the "woeful" directing and the plot's implausibility.
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The question of perfection, of a harmonious situation where nothing can be added without worsening conditions for individuals and set relationships, drives the narrative of the Polifemo. Essentially, the poem exposits the implausibility of Arcadia, of an ideal world, given the persistent problem of evil. It presents evil not as an unjustified primordial element independent of humankind, but as a corollary to the finite nature of the material universe. The zero-sum metaphysical assumptions maintained throughout the narrative foment a pervasive sense of competition that prompt egocentric feelings of vanity and jealousy, which together predicate violence and destruction.
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He noted that the revelation that Lucy was just an innocent girl was a "nice twist", and deemed it a "great choice" to have Gordon turned into a vampire. Love was sad to see Gordon depart from the series, finding the "outstanding" Brown to be "so intense and committed" to the role. However, he considered Bela's appearance to be unnecessary, and pointed out the implausibility of it being easier for Gordon to track down Bela than it would have been to just track down the Winchesters. Like Love, Julie Pyle of Airlock Alpha believed Bela's appearance "[felt] forced".
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His defence was handled by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who tried to make a case that the prussic acid that killed Sarah Hart was ingested accidentally, from eating the pips of apples (a large barrel of apples was in the house). The implausibility of this argument led the distinguished barrister to be known as "Apple-pip" Kelly for the rest of his life. Tawell himself also tried to convince the jury that Sarah had poisoned herself. Tawell was nevertheless convicted at Aylesbury Courthouse, and was hanged in public on 28 March 1845 in the Market Square at Aylesbury with huge crowds watching.
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Meloy and Ellis first conceived the idea for the book before Meloy formed the indie folk-rock band The Decemberists in 2000. When they first moved to Portland, Meloy and Ellis were living in a warehouse where they "had this idea of working on a novel together ... because we enjoyed making up stories and playing off one another's creative impulses." Meloy was influenced by books that he read growing up, including Tolkien, and Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain. Meloy cites Piers Anthony's Xanth novels as a "direct influence", noting the "world within the real world and the implausibility of the whole enterprise".
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" Katsoulis concludes by praising Morrissey as both "inimitable and irreplaceable." The Independent's Adam Sherwin described it as "a leaden festival of self-pity" but conceded that it was "lifted, however, by the occasional brilliant Wildean epigram." For The Guardian, Michael Hann urged his readers "Do not read this book", due to the lack of engaging dialogue, and implausibility of the premise. In The Telegraph's 1/5 star review, Charlotte Runcie wrote that "List of the Lost is terrible and, at only 118 pages, still feels overlong," going on to describe the novel as "poorly conceived, awkwardly expressed and lazily imagined.
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Author Stanley C. Pelkey notes the marked influence of the Western genre on the Firefly franchise. He says that in contrast to most westerns, the central civilising force (The Alliance) is portrayed as evil. He goes on to say that little concrete evidence is given to support this, especially in the series as opposed to the movie. He notes an example where the Alliance gave medical aid to a Serenity crew member, and then let the ship go, and contrasts it with the implausibility of similar treatment being afforded to the rebels by an Imperial Star Destroyer from the Star Wars milieu.
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The young naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1862 The concept of speciation by reinforcement has a complex history, with its popularity among scholars changing significantly over time. The theory of reinforcement experienced three phases of historical development: # plausibility based on unfit hybrids # implausibility based on the finding that hybrids may have some fitness # plausibility based on empirical studies and biologically complex and realistic models It was originally proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1889, termed the Wallace effect—a term rarely used by scientists today. Wallace's hypothesis differed from the modern conception in that it focused on post-zygotic isolation, strengthened by group selection.Littlejohn, M. J. (1981).
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Production sought to portray front-line life of combat troops in the Red Army as authentically as possible, and mostly succeeds. Problems do arise though, such as the seeming disordered slaughter of Soviet troops by a German machine-gun position at the start of the film. Though dramatic, it is highly unlikely in 1944, as is the likelihood of German troops remaining deep in the Soviet rear as suicide squads. There is a further implausibility of a former convicted criminal being accepted into a reconnaissance squad, and his love pursuit of a sniper who is his ranking senior, and also a clearly older woman.
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He contends that the biggest hurdle to Arrows success will be the network in which it airs. Varietys Brian Lowry also said the pilot felt more like a lite version of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight saga, but believed the action could not hide the two-dimensional characters that were introduced. Lowry further commented that the series would have an "uphill climb" when it comes to mainstream appeal because of the "second-tier" nature of its primary comic book character. The Hollywood Reporters Tim Goodman stated, if you can get past the implausibility, Arrow is entertaining and matches the type of brand The CW is creating.
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It also said that Begg had confessed to being part of a plot to spray the Palace of Westminster with anthrax, a plan which had "caused hilarity" among security experts because of its implausibility, but, the article claimed, detainees were not allowed access to a lawyer until they had confessed to a crime. Begg was held in Guantanamo Bay for just under two years, the first almost 600 days of which were spent in solitary confinement. The US government considered Begg an enemy combatant, and claimed that he trained at al-Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan."Guantanamo Four are too dangerous to free, says US", The Daily Telegraph, 8 March 2004.
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However, the Directory makes no mention of what kind of store it was, and there is no cross-listing for any store at that location in the business section of the Directory. None of the state or federal censuses ever describe Amos' occupation as anything other than a stonemason. So, given the implausibility that Amos chose the worst economic crisis of the period to experiment in retail trade, one is compelled to conclude that the "store" description in the Directory may not be accurate. The Directory's use of the term may reflect nothing more than the compilers’ conjecture based on the building’s obvious (former) storefront appearance.
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When he arrives in Battle Creek, O'Shaugnessy discovers his rude dealings with Sedaine and Tandy were a mistake, because "Tandy" turns out to be a false name used in New York by his new fiancée's father. Similarly, "Sedaine" is also from Battle Creek, where she is the wife of a local judge. In a complication borrowed from the French original without regard to its implausibility in American law, O'Shaugnessy and Singleton have already wed in a civil ceremony, but need to go through a religious ceremony to complete their marriage. The joint arrival of O'Shaugnessy's lover and his mentor threatens to disrupt this plan.
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Reinforcement has had a complex history in that its popularity among scholars has changed over time. Jerry Coyne and H. Allen Orr contend that the theory of reinforcement went through three phases of historical development: # plausibility based on unfit hybrids # implausibility based on hybrids having some fitness # plausibility based on empirical studies and biologically complex and realistic models Alfred Russel Wallace proposed in 1889 that isolation could be strengthened by a form of selection. Sometimes called the Wallace effect, reinforcement was originally proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1889. His hypothesis differed markedly from the modern conception in that it focused on post-zygotic isolation, strengthened by group selection.
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" Most of the recipes in the book are Crick's own, although some, such as the chocolate cake, came from his friends. Crick notes the implausibility of some of his authors cooking their stated dishes (for example he states that John Steinbeck "would never have eaten [mushroom risotto]" and "I certainly accept any challenge that Kafka would not have eaten miso soup"). He says that he selected the recipes based on the ability of each dish to allow him to use the language he wished to use. Chocolate cake was selected for Irvine Welsh because "people become terribly selfish when there's chocolate cake around, just as they do with drugs.
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He admits that Dolcino denies any physical relationship, claiming that he treated Margaret "in the manner of a sister in Christ, modestly and honestly". According to Gui, when Margaret became pregnant Dolcino claimed that she was impregnated by the Holy Spirit. Gui heightens the implausibility of Dolcino's claim by describing Margaret, in Italian in an otherwise Latin text, as "the beauty" (la bella), a description picked up by the anonymous Historia fratris Dulcini and by Benvenuto da Imola, who writes of her "immense beauty". In 1306, Pope Clement V declared a crusade against the followers of Fra Dolcino, who took refuge in the Val Sesia.
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The novel's final chapter has been heavily criticised for excessive implausibility, but it can be read as deliberate wishful thinking: it epitomises Baxter's moral that if the human race is to survive indefinitely, it must become more proactive in its approach to space travel, and not resort to shallow militarism or nationalist isolationism. The Titanian beetles represent Baxter's dream of what the human race should be. Conceivably, the final chapter can be read as the dying dream of the astronauts, rather than a realistic evocation of Titan's future. Baxter wrote a short story, "Sun God", that features the final sequence of Titan from the point of view of the Titanian beetles.
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113–114 For this episode, actor Chris Owens reprised his role as The Smoking Man; he had previously played him in the season's earlier episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man".Meilser, p. 74 The episode is based around the idea that Geschwind syndrome (a group of behavioral phenomena, of which one is the ability to recall every memory of one's younger life) can be self-induced by using a unique combination of technology and drugssomething that is not supported by modern medicine. When writing the episode, Goodwin was aware of the idea's implausibility and admitted that he took significant creative liberties with the disorder.
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She now came into contact with the Weißensee Peace Circle ("Friedenskreis Weißensee"), one of the opposition groups emerging in East Germany in response to the changing political mood coming out of Moscow. By 1987 she was a member of the Weißensee Peace Circle. For the local government elections held on 7 May 1989 a number of East German opposition groups co- ordinated their activities to evaluate the fairness of the process, through simple observation at the polling stations and counting. The implausibility of reported election results in East Germany was nothing new, but the mood of openness and the increase in citizen dissatisfaction with the system supported a move to identify and publicise what was done.
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Another German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, rejected Le Sage's model because its mechanistic materialism was incompatible with Schelling's very idealistic and anti-materialistic philosophy. ;Laplace: Partly in consideration of Le Sage's theory, Pierre-Simon Laplace undertook to determine the necessary speed of gravity in order to be consistent with astronomical observations. He calculated that the speed must be “at least a hundred millions of times greater than that of light”, in order to avoid unacceptably large inequalities due to aberration effects in the lunar motion. This was taken by most researchers, including Laplace, as support for the Newtonian concept of instantaneous action at a distance, and to indicate the implausibility of any model such as Le Sage's.
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Satanic Verses refers to words of "satanic suggestion" which the Islamic prophet Muhammad is alleged to have mistaken for divine revelation. The alleged verses can be read in early biographies of Muhammad by al-Wāqidī, Ibn Sa'd and Ibn Ishaq, and the tafsir of al-Tabarī. The first use of the expression is attributed to Sir William Muir in 1858. While the historicity of the incident is rejected today by Muslim scholars on the basis of the theological doctrine of moral infallibility ('isma) of Muhammad (that is, Muhammad would have never been fooled by Satan), some secular scholars have accepted it, citing the implausibility of early Muslim biographers fabricating a story so unflattering about their prophet.
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Film historian Paul Meehan considered The Atomic Submarine as "something of a departure from the usual saucer movie formula".Meehan 1998, p. 94. Reviewer David Blakeslee, in a later assessment, commented that "once you get past the wooden acting, creaky scripts, stilted narration, corny humor, low-budget props and sheer implausibility of The Atomic Submarines story line, you'll find themes and ideas worth pondering a bit longer than it takes to laugh away at the non-stop unraveling of sci-fi B-movie conventions". Chief among the unusual elements is "a headier-than-expected socio-political debate between a young principled pacifist and the career military man and WWII veteran sub captain over the merits of war and peace".
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Pet Sounds is sometimes considered a Brian Wilson solo album, including by Wilson himself, who later referred to it as his "first solo album" and "a chance to step outside the group and shine". When the other Beach Boys returned to the studio on February 9, they were presented with a substantial portion of a new album, with music that was in many ways a jarring departure from their earlier style. Jardine explained that "it took us quite a while to adjust to [the new material] because it wasn't music you could necessarily dance to—it was more like music you could make love to." Adding to their concerns was the album's complexity and the implausibility of recreating the music in their live performances.
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Otherwise the film was received negatively, with critics arguing that it portrayed the purported MMR-autism link in a mistakenly sympathetic light as scientific evidence supporting the connection was lacking. It was said to idealize Wakefield and vilify the physicians who dismissed the vaccine-autism link by depicting them as "blatant caricatures" (British Medical Journal). Jon Joseph in The Times wrote "there are definitely no shades of grey" with Wakefield's assertions treated as if they are "a law of nature, like gravity". Of the supposed plot presumed to originate with the drug companies as a means to discredit Wakefield, Ben Goldacre wrote in The Guardian of its utter implausibility as the patent on the MMR vaccine had lapsed, it was now generic and no longer highly profitable.
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Charlie Jane Anders of io9 "mostly loved 'Planet Of The Dead'", commenting that it was a standard Russell T Davies script: She compared it to two previous episodes, "The Impossible Planet" and "Midnight", both of which she enjoyed. She criticised three aspects of the episode: Lady Christina, who was the "first [Russell T Davies] heroine who actually filled [her] with revulsion", leaving her hoping that the character would be killed off-screen, Malcolm's reluctance to close the wormhole and the implausibility of only three stingrays travelling through it. She thought that the episode was "a pretty solid adventure with a cool set of monsters". Ben Rawson-Jones of entertainment website Digital Spy gave the episode two stars out of five.
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126 mph was seen for a single second but Gresley would not accept this as a reliable measurement and 125 miles an hour was the figure published. Ten years later, at the time of the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges, plaques were fixed to the sides of the locomotive, these stated 126 miles an hour, which has been the speed generally accepted ever since. Some writers have commented on the implausibility of the rapid changes in speed. A recent analysis has claimed that the paper roll in the dynamometer car was not moving at a constant rate and the peaks and troughs in the speed curve were just a result of this, the maximum speed being a sustained 124 mph for almost a mile.
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A 2013 paper published in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics reviewed the "scientific implausibility" of its principles and "ungrounded claims of the aggressive propaganda from sellers of voice stress analysis gadgets". Confession made following a voice stress examination was allowed to be used as evidence in a case in Wisconsin in 2014. In the case of the murder of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe confessions were made while three suspects were undergoing VSA which were later found to be false by a judge; the manufacturer of the VSA equipment later settled a lawsuit that alleged that it was liable for the harm the three suspects suffered. In a similar case, Donovan Allen falsely confessed to killing his mother after failing a VSA test.
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Moving the Goalposts, despite the gloomy prognosis of Ace's doctors, gave her character Mattie a new lease of life, charting the frustrations, comedy and medical implausibility of her intellectual and physical survival beyond the predictions of concerned consultants. With Cheryl Campbell taking the role of Mattie for the stage, and directed by Nancy Meckler, it was a triumph of wit over malady. Ace joined Campbell and Meckler on to the stage to discuss the process of writing and realising the play. Jude Kelly, who chaired the discussion as one her last acts as departing Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre, gave warm praise to the honesty and resilience of Ace's writing, citing her recognition of its truth through her own experience with a family member.
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The book was highly popular in the early Twentieth Century, and Hancock is likely to have read it. In Hancock's far more extensive version, constituting no less than four books, it is the Germans who launch a surprise attack in 1920, capture Boston despite heroic resistance by "Uncle Sam's boys", overrun all of New England and New York and reach as far as Pittsburgh—but are at last are gloriously crushed by fresh American forces. From the present-day point of view, it can be considered as "retroactive" alternate history. Hancok's plot has a basic implausibility in that it assumes either an overwhelming German victory over the British, giving them mastery of the seas, or a British "friendly neutrality" and a free hand to invade America.
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In 2005, the Taiwan government provided emails to Dhar that it has no records of a plane crash during the period of 14 August to 25 October 1945, at the old Matsuyama Airport (now Taipei Domestic Airport). These records played a major role in the final assertion of Mukherjee Commission about the implausibility of Bose dying from an air crash. Historian Sugata Bose has rejected the analysis in light of the fact that the region and the airport was under Japanese occupation until 1946 and it was around 1949 when the Taiwaniese government finally consolidated itself. In the book No Secrets, Dhar states that, according to a newspaper article published by Bose's elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose in The Nation, Bose was in China in October 1949.
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Hopkins partnered with David M. Jacobs, history professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, and John Mack, psychiatry professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, to design a Roper poll to find out how many of the nearly 6,000 respondents surveyed had experienced what the three believed to be symptoms indicative of alien abductions. The poll was released in 1991. If generalized to the population at large, the survey results indicated that several million Americans are regularly affected by alien abductions. Critics of the survey questioned the validity of the survey questions themselves and pointed out the implausibility that an average of 340 Americans could be abducted daily, given the fact that no physical evidence to date exists for any UFO abduction.
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The anti-Scientology website Operation Clambake prominently uses space opera doctrines in their criticisms of the church, casting the implausibility of the stories as a clear reason to reject the group. Anti-cult critics of Scientology argue that the content of these teachings demonstrates that Scientology misleads its followers; many aspects of the narratives, such as the age of the volcanoes that Xenu is said to have used, contradict scientific consensus. The space opera teachings are, in fact, incompatible with scientific consensus on the age of the universe: around 14 billion years. Rothstein notes that scholars of religion usually do not pursue this line of analysis because all myths contain unscientific content; he notes that cultural conditioning determines whether religious narratives appear reasonable.
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The Plot to Kill the Pope, Holiday House, 1985. American journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave claimed that the Bulgarians chose Ağca to supply themselves with plausible deniability; choosing a member of the Grey Wolves that had allegedly been involved with the local KGB in drug smuggling routes through Bulgaria to Western Europe would distance themselves because of the implausibility of the link.Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Attempted Assassination of John Paul II , 6 April 2005. Some writers, including Edward S. Herman, co-author with Frank Brodhead of The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection (1986), and Michael Parenti, believed Ağca's story was dubious as Ağca made no claims of Bulgarian involvement until he had been isolated in solitary confinement and visited by Italian Military Intelligence (SISMI) agents.
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He wrote several comedies, alone (e.g. Le Fat en province ou Le plan de comédie, a 3-act comedy ; Inès et Pédrille ou La cousine supposée, a 3-act comedy ; Spectacle demandé ou Rien qu'en famille, a one-act divertissement "mêlée de couplets" ; Les Anglais supposés ou Lequel est mon gendre ?, at Théâtre de la Porte Saint- Martin, 1815), or in collaboration with Eugène Scribe and Mélesville (such as La Petite Pinson ou Une nuit à Beaune, a one-act folie-vaudeville, with Mélesville, put on at the Théâtre des Variétés from 20 February 1819). He also wrote a novel, Un Ladre, récit d’un vieux professeur émérite (Paris, Lenormant, 1859), a touching and moral book whose excellent intentions excuse its implausibility.
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Voice stress analysis is a controversial product because of the "scientific implausibility" of its principles and "ungrounded claims of the aggressive propaganda from sellers of voice stress analysis gadgets". During a bond hearing on April 20, 2012, Investigator Dale Gilbreath testified under oath that he did not know whether Zimmerman or Martin started the fight and that there is no evidence to contradict Zimmerman's claim that he was walking back to his vehicle when Martin confronted him. Gilbreath, however, questioned Zimmerman's statement that Martin was slamming his head against the sidewalk just before he shot the teenager, saying it was "not consistent with the evidence we found." Gilbreath was one of two investigators who attested to the facts stated in the probable cause affidavit.
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Hypnotic delusions are very similar to clinical delusions, in that both subjects exhibit delusional resistance to challenge and autobiographical memory during delusions. When their beliefs are challenged, both clinical and hypnotic patients will defend their delusional beliefs, will refuse to reject their beliefs, and will provide fabricated explanations to account for them. Because hypnosis can recreate the false beliefs (accounting for factor 1 of the two-factor theory of delusional belief above) and disrupt the ability to reject a belief on implausibility (accounting for factor 2) with no lasting consequences, it is a good model to study monothematic delusions, particularly mirrored-self misidentification. Cognitive-delusory hypnosis is the most difficult type of hypnotic suggestion to enter and is required to study mirrored-self misidentification.
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The poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term "suspension of disbelief" in 1817 and suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgement concerning the implausibility of the narrative. Coleridge sought to revive the use of fantastic elements in poetry and developed a concept to support how a modern, enlightened audience might continue to enjoy such types of literature. The term resulted from a philosophical experiment, which Coleridge conducted with William Wordsworth within the context of the creation and reading of poetry. It involved an attempt to explain the supernatural persons or characters so that these creatures of imagination constitute some semblance of truth.
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Analysis of causation, particularly for injury or other conditions with a relatively short latency period between exposure and outcome, is accomplished using a 3-step approach, as follows: # Plausibility: This first step addresses whether it is biologically possible for the injury event to have caused the condition (a.k.a. general causation), and follows a special application of the viewpoints set forth by Hill (see below). A finding of plausibility is unrelated to the frequency of the injury, because even if the injury occurs in only 1 in 100 or fewer cases of exposure to the event, it is still plausibly caused by the event. Plausibility is a relatively low hurdle to clear in a causal analysis, and is largely satisfied by the lack of evidence of implausibility of the relationship.
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Objections to prioritarianism include many of the standard objections that adhere to aggregative consequentialism, for instance, the repugnant conclusionRyberg, Jesper, Tännsjö, Torbjörn, Arrhenius, Gustaf, "The Repugnant Conclusion", in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (fall 2008 edition). and related objections based on the apparent implausibility of certain trade-offs (if there is some very large number of mild headaches such that it would be worse to bring about these mild headaches than the protracted and intense torture of an innocent person). There are also objections to quantifying, measuring, or making interpersonal comparisons of well-being, that strike against most if not all forms of aggregative consequentialism, including prioritarianism. Another objection to prioritarianism concerns how much weight should be given to the well-being of the worse off.
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The novel was well received by The New York Times, with reviewer Lorna Sage stating "Miller's Casanova, ingeniously translated to our own fin de siècle, is a New Age narcissist -- so observant, so chastened, that self-love can save him after all."; and, while commenting on the implausibility of the novels premise, stating "that's precisely the confidence trick Miller is so good at, conjuring the phrases that get sensation onto the page, keeping you in obsessive, close-up focus". The novel was praised in the Seattle Times also, with reviewer Michael Upchurch praising the novels "extravagant humor" and "wealth of period detail", while stating "Miller, born in 1961, seems a mite too young to have passed this particular threshold of experience himself. But he sure gets it painfully and hilariously right.".
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Cage has been rated among the top Mortal Kombat characters by various gaming media publications, and his Fatality finishing moves over the course of his series appearances have been positively received. Brad Nicholson of Destructoid enthused in 2008 that Cage was "easily the best character in a fighting game ever," and Marcin Górecki of Polish gaming magazine Secret Service ranked Cage the second-best male fighting-game character in 1996, behind Ryu from the Street Fighter franchise. However, Shea Serrano of Grantland rated Cage the second-worst of Mortal Kombat II's twelve characters in 2012, on the basis of his skill being "overtaken almost entirely by his own ego." In her 2015 review of Mortal Kombat X, Maddy Myers of Eurogamer questioned what she felt was the implausibility of the "white-as- snow" union of Cage and Sonya.
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Was Dean, now happily married to Jenna, really a murderer called Paul West? And before that, had he been a murderer called something else? You might have thought that wandering into an A&E; department claiming you didn't know who you were would attract a tiny bit of attention, possibly from the News of the World, but no - luckily for those who promulgate Extreme Plot Implausibility, nobody other than a fusty old professor was remotely interested in Dean's bonkers old brain until Mac came along. However, in a denouement that would have been rejected by the producers of Acorn Antiques as being a wee bit on the wobbly side, Dean's guilt was established by a series of random character traits: he liked the Pretenders, he had a nut allergy and he was red-green colour blind.
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Third was the fact that his 1905 paper introducing light quanta and his two 1909 papers that argued for a wave- particle fusion theory approached their subjects via statistical arguments that his contemporaries "might accept as theoretical exercise—crazy, perhaps, but harmless". Most of Einstein's contemporaries adopted the position that light is ultimately a wave, but appears particulate in certain circumstances only because atoms absorb wave energy in discrete units. Bubble paradox Among the thought experiments that Einstein presented in his 1909 lecture on the nature and constitution of radiation was one that he used to point out the implausibility of the above argument. He used this thought experiment to argue that atoms emit light as discrete particles rather than as continuous waves: (a) An electron in a cathode ray beam strikes an atom in a target.
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Further adding to the implausibility of Hersh's theory, according to Rashid, is the unlikeliness that either the US would have "calmly accepted" Pakistan's hiding/protecting bin Laden, or that the dozens of Pakistani military, police, fire and bureaucrats—whose silence/complicity would have been required for a successful conspiracy—would have cooperated with the American incursion. While there was little or no disapproval by the Pakistan public over Bin Laden's long residency in Pakistan, the US attack on the compound of bin Laden was so unpopular that just the failure of the military to detect and go after the US helicopters ignited outrage among the media, the public and the civilian government. Andrew Anthony in The Guardian called Hersh's theories "forceful but unconvincing". Zach Dorfman in the Los Angeles Times called Hersh's judgment "mixed, at best".
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Modern scholars generally doubt that Agnodice was a real historical figure. Problems with accepting Agnodice as historical include questions over her date, and the implausibility of Hyginus' claim that there were no "obstetrices" in Athens before Agnodice, when literary and epigraphic evidence shows that midwives were known. Hyginus claims that Agnodice was taught medicine by "a certain Herophilus" – generally identified with Herophilus of Chalcedon, an ancient physician known for his work on gynaecology who was credited with the discovery of the ovaries. If this is the case, Agnodice would have lived in the late fourth or early third century BC. Stories similar to that of Agnodice can be found in various different contexts, including other stories of the display of the female body in Greco-Roman culture as well as ancient Mediterranean, Western folk, or world ethnography.
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The notion of using expected utility theory's approach to risk aversion to analyze small stakes decisions has come under criticism from behavioral economics. Matthew Rabin has showed that a risk-averse, expected- utility-maximizing individual who, from any initial wealth level [...] turns down gambles where she loses $100 or gains $110, each with 50% probability [...] will turn down 50–50 bets of losing $1,000 or gaining any sum of money. Rabin criticizes this implication of expected utility theory on grounds of implausibility—individuals who are risk averse for small gambles due to diminishing marginal utility would exhibit extreme forms of risk aversion in risky decisions under larger stakes. One solution to the problem observed by Rabin is that proposed by prospect theory and cumulative prospect theory, where outcomes are considered relative to a reference point (usually the status quo), rather than to consider only the final wealth.
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Starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh, Tenet grossed more than $330million at the worldwide box office, and received generally positive reviews from critics. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian awarded the film a full five stars, calling it "preposterous in the tradition of Boorman's Point Blank, or even Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, a deadpan jeu d'esprit, a cerebral cadenza, a deadpan flourish of crazy implausibility—but supercharged with steroidal energy and imagination." Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "a chilly, cerebral film—easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity." Nolan cooperated with Tom Shone for an in-depth look at his own work, called The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan (2020).
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In or before 2012, Baron Jean-Claude Pierre Ferdinand Gunther Andre and his wife Jane Andre brought a lawsuit in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, London, against Clydesdale Bank PLC, claiming that he had stored a locked trunk at the bank in which there allegedly were six covers bearing a total of nine Treskilling Yellow stamps, along with other less valuable items. Andre claimed that he had left the trunk undisturbed from 1986 to 2004, but when he sought to retrieve it the lock had been removed and the covers and stamps taken. Philatelic dealer David Feldman testified that the covers would have been worth some 3.7 million pounds sterling. After a lengthy trial, the court issued a judgment dated January 31 – February 1, 2013, in which it rejected Andre's claim, finding him and his wife unreliable witnesses and their claim suffering from "sheer inherent implausibility".
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Around new year 806, Zheng Yin was promoted to be Zhongshu Shilang (中書侍郎), the deputy head of the legislative bureau, and given the de facto chancellor title of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (同中書門下平章事). It was said, however, that at the time fellow chancellor Du Huangchang, who was advising Emperor Xianzong on reforms, especially the wresting of control back from regional warlords, made most of the decisions, and that Zheng was often silent.New Book of Tang, vol. 165. There was an occasion after Du left office and was replaced by Li Jifu where Li Jifu secretly accused Zheng of having leaked secrets to the warlord Lu Congshi (盧從史), but the imperial scholar Li Jiang pointed out to Emperor Xianzong the implausibility of the accusation, and Emperor Xianzong agreed and did not act on the accusation.
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However, Observer television reviewer Kathryn Flett criticised the plot as unrealistic: > As an obsessive new mother who has spent many an hour hovering over my son > with a thermometer and a pre-emptive bottle of Calpol, Rachel's contention > that she didn't want to go out for dinner with Adam because she couldn't > bear to leave three-month-old Matthew in the care of their best friend's > children's nanny was just one niggling implausibility too far. After three > months of being on baby duty 24 hours a day, every woman I've ever come > across has, ordinary guilt aside, all but wept with joy at the prospect of a > bowl of pasta and a glass of wine consumed somewhere other than Babyville. > None of which would matter a jot, of course, had Cold Feet not been feted > for reflecting the lives of its target audience.Flett, Kathryn (2 March > 2003).
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" Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter expressed similar sentiments, particularly of the direction, for which he says that Moore "has directed these sequences in a way that makes the incidents look so far-fetched and essentially unsurvivable that you can only laugh". Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a 2/5 and remarked that it lacked "inspiration", and that the onscreen rivalry of Willis and Courtney was "more irritant than enticement." Richard Roeper, standing in for Roger Ebert on Ebert's website, rated the film one and a half stars out of four, criticizing the implausibility of the action sequences, as well as the film's lack of sufficient characterization for McClane and the villains as compared to the other films in the series. He says that "McClane has been stripped of any real traces of an actual three-dimensional character," and that the film "never giv[es] us a chance to get the least bit involved with any of these characters.
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Although the Arab campaigns after Ardabil may indeed have discouraged the Khazars from further warfare, any recognition of Islam or of Arab supremacy by the khagan was evidently conditional upon the presence of Arab troops deep in Khazar territory, and such presence could not be sustained for long. Furthermore, the credibility of the conversion of the khagan to Islam is disputed: al-Baladhuri's account, which probably is closer the original sources, suggests that it was not the khagan but a minor lord who converted to Islam and was placed in charge of the Khazars at al-Lakz—in itself, according to Blankinship, an indication of the implausibility of the conversion of the khagan, if the Khazar Muslim converts had to be removed to safety in Umayyad territory. The conversion of the khagan is also apparently contradicted by the fact that the Khazar court embraced Judaism as its official faith, a decision which clearly owed a great deal to the determination of the Khazars to avoid assimilation by, and emphasize their independence from, both the Christian Byzantine and the Muslim Arab empires.
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The Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam was founded in India in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, who claimed to be the Promised Messiah ("Second Coming of Christ"), the Mahdi awaited by the Muslims as well as a "subordinate" prophet to the Prophet Muhammad. Ahmadis believed that it was Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's job restore the original Sharia given to Muhammad by guiding Ummah back to the "true" Islam and defeat the attacks on Islam by other religions. Ahmadis claim to practice the pristine form of Islam as followed by Muhammad and his Earliest Followers. There are a wide variety of distinct teaching of Ahmadis compared to most other Muslims which include the interpretation of the term of Khatam an Nabiyyin, Interpretation of the Messiah's Second Coming , complete Rejection of Abrogation/cancellation of Quranic verses, belief that Jesus has died, conditions of the Jihad of the Sword are no longer met, belief that revelation (as long as no new Shariat) will never end, belief in cyclical nature of history until Muhammad, and belief in the implausibility of a contradiction between Islam and science.
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Citizen Action Regarding the Skopjan Matter: Report Sent to International Organizations macedoniansaregreeksen.blogspot.gr (April 12, 2008) In 2008, after a spoken statement to her personally by the then PM K. Karamanlis that he was not interested in upholding the Hellenic Constitution, she files charges against him on High Treason. In 2009, during the pre-election period that yielded G. A. Papandreou in the PM seat, realizing not only the real situation in Greece but also the level of risk posed by G. A. Papandreou based on his pre-election campaign program she sent him letters warning him of the imminent danger for Greece as well as the implausibility of his program, on which G. A. Papandreou refuses to reply even after an injunction filed against him to force him to do so, claiming governmental action and that he is above the law, something the court did not accept. With the onset of political events in Greece leading up to the Memorandum, and given the capacity to legally prove malicious intent, she filed a lawsuit against the PM G. A. Papandreou and his cabinet on High Treason.
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