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Probability concerns events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger...

companion, Trillian. The Heart of Gold is equipped with an "Infinite Improbability Drive" that allows it to travel instantaneously to any point in space...

There are many common idioms of improbability, or adynata, used to denote that a given event is impossible or extremely unlikely to occur. As a response...

his counter argument to the argument from improbability by that same name: The argument from improbability is the big one. In the traditional guise of...

The Day After Roswell is a memoir that claims the U.S. government made use of extraterrestrial technology it recovered from the 1947 Roswell incident....

spite of the disgusting coarsness of much of the dialogue, and the improbabilities of much of the plot, we are spellbound. The English poet and painter...

In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (more technically known as the Mitochondrial-Most Recent Common Ancestor, shortened to mt-Eve or mt-MRCA) is the...

After Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued...

explained by whether they seem rude, and by the property of entropy: the improbability of certain letters being used together in a word. Vaudeville words can...

the news following the plane crash), and questions the statistical improbability of that sequence of events, but stops shy of revealing his involvement...

ensures The Kid's guilt for practical purposes, [...] is the sheer improbability that all the evidence is erroneous. You'd have to be the jurisprudential...

fiction did not exist in the early sixteenth century and the grossest improbabilities pervade many historical accounts found in the early modern print market...

Conservation (NZ). Retrieved 25 January 2026. Atholl, Anderson (2022). "On the improbability of pre-European Polynesian voyages to Antarctica: a response to Priscilla...

network television science fiction" and mentions the many scientific improbabilities in the first episode such as the "statistically unlikely number of...

that the Pontic pronunciation of η as ε is an archaism. Apart from the improbability that the sound change /ɛː/>/e̝(ː)/>/i/ did not occur in this important...

insurance fraud, but managed to escape again. However, there are "numerous improbabilities", in Duquesne's story, and "no records" to corroborate any part of...

treated well by the impostor. Davis noted as evidence for this theory the improbability of a woman's mistaking a stranger for her husband, Bertrande's support...

Essays. Ohnemus, Alexander (2023). "Respectfully and Unfortunately, The Improbability of, and Danger in Believing in, Reincarnation". Ohnemus University....

as such by the French media. In 2020, after various sources revealed improbability in his biography, he was forced to admit that he lied about several...

say goodbye to his body. In a flashback, Yang and Kyra discuss the improbability of an afterlife. Jake tracks down Nancy, whom he believes to be Yang's...

the belief that they can achieve large returns, while the statistical improbability of this is de-emphasized. MLM companies have been made illegal or otherwise...

photographs capturing singular events in U.S. history and remarked on the improbability of capturing a bullet speeding past the subject of an attempted assassination...

character, novelty, curiosity of) any such coincidence; from the sheer improbability of the coincidence, having no apparent causal link (hence Jung's essay...

wearing a mask and clothes that cover every inch of his body. Due to the improbability of not having any leaked details about his identity for decades, the...

taken this legend particularly seriously, not least because of the improbability that such a weapon could be forged by a village smith, as well as there...

is only accessible through trial and error using the Heart of Gold's improbability drives. During one attempt, the ship arrives at Viltvodle VI, where...

must have been guided if it occurred, has formalized and revised the improbability argument as the evolutionary argument against naturalism, which asserts...

The triple-alpha process is a set of nuclear fusion reactions by which three helium-4 nuclei (alpha particles) are transformed into carbon. Helium accumulates...

has little or no chance at success, synonymous with similar idioms of improbability such as a snowball's chance in hell or when pigs fly. While the origin...

"The Anthropic Principle Does Not Support Supernaturalism," in The Improbability of God, Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier, editors, pp. 150–66. Amherst...

advertisements. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the infinite improbability drive of the Heart of Gold is represented by a still motion sequence...

American. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Hand writing: The Improbability Principle". Mirsky, Steve (May 1, 2014). "Statistician David J. Hand...

extra-sensory perception (ESP). His calculations were based on the improbability of these few subjects guessing the Zener cards shown to a partner by...

network to do a same-day Main Event broadcast. In a stunning statistical improbability, Justin Phillips knocked out Motoyuki Mabuchi in the Main Event. Phillips...

descriptive label that refers to an event's positivity, negativity, or improbability. Supernatural interpretations of luck consider it to be an attribute...

confidence". Noting that, "The leading feature of this case is its improb­a­bil­i­ty ... This is the sort of accident that happens in the pantomime at...

ISBN 978-1-59102-120-9. Michael Martin & Ricki Monnier, ed. (2006). The Improbability of God. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-59102-381-4...

his works promoting intelligent design. It is defined as A degree of improbability below which a specified event of that probability cannot reasonably...

victory. The shot was named the "Memorial Day Miracle" because of its improbability and the date on which it was made. Elliott finished the game with 22...

to steal the Heart of Gold, a spaceship taking advantage of Infinite Improbability Drive, at its unveiling. Early in Zaphod's career (whilst heading The...

Arslanian, Mickey's forensics expert, uses a mannequin to demonstrate the improbability of Lisa killing the much taller Bondurant. Mickey comforts his mother...

concludes that the argument from design is the most convincing. The extreme improbability of life and a universe capable of hosting it requires explanation, but...

well as decreasing the amounts of defensive chemicals produced. The improbability of island fires also results in a loss of fire-resistance in bark, fruits...

I deliberately set out to crowd as much race chauvinism and sheer improbability into it as my fertile imagination could conjure. The result vindicates...

international observers and the opposition" who found statistical improbabilities in the results. The opposition showed evidence and vote tallies that...

remedying of injustice the non-existence of perfect justice (due to the improbability of an afterlife or similar). Russell then moves on to Christ, and argues...

Espectador interpreted this as likely fraud. Infobae also stated that improbability raised suspicion about the 29 July CNE statement of the results. Tao...

Dawkins explains Dollo's law as being simply a statement about the improbability of evolution's following precisely the same path twice. The idea of...

development of civil aircraft" stating that, "the greatest doubt lies in the improbability that the SST will be able to be profitable." He maintained an interest...

PMID 30715341. Retrieved 23 May 2024. Meacham, William (1984–1985). "On the improbability of Austronesian origins in South China" (PDF). Asian Perspective. 26:...

measuring wellbeing, as well as science popularisation books including The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every...

(ISBN 0-7195-5375-X), and Virago at 40. Rothschild's first novel, The Improbability of Love, was published in May 2015. The story follows a female protagonist...

Biggelaar, J.A.M.; Edsinger-Gonzales, E.; Schram, F.R. (2002). "The improbability of dorso-ventral axis inversion during animal evolution, as presumed...

reminiscences of the Italian Renaissance in an action of consummate improbability: the plot had to be amended several times to counter criticism. From...

Elbow Room (where he calls it the touting pyramid); David Hand in The Improbability Principle; and Jordan Ellenberg in How Not to Be Wrong. Ellenberg reports...

debate between Nathaniel Shaler and William James over whether the improbability of our having evolved necessitates divine intervention (Gould, like...

argued that President Trump should meet with Kim Jong Un despite the improbability of North Korea abandoning its nuclear weapons because the meeting could...

the cast. Théophile Gautier, an uncompromising critic, raised many improbabilities that did not prevent the public to give a triumphant welcome to the...

raŭmistoj, from Rauma, Finland, where a declaration on the short-term improbability of the fina venko and the value of Esperanto culture was made at the...

commenting "The yarn has its share of gaping holes and jaw-dropping improbabilities, but director Michael Bay sweeps them all aside with his never-take-a-breath...

a little serious and sober the fun wagon derails into clichés and improbabilities". Mannath, Malini (14 May 2005). "Englishkaran". Chennai Online. Archived...

recognized his real worth by his ready obedience—has, in spite of its improbability, a certain historical interest since it shows the natural antipathy...

compared to the Zeno Map hoax. However Olshin made no mention on the improbability they are real. According to The Telegraph, a radiocarbon study of the...

model results for being based on successive worst-case events: The improbability of a string of 40 such coin tosses coming up heads approaches that of...

likable characters and floats a show that is, to be frank, riddled with improbability and simplicity". Monk is ranked number 99 on Bravo's list of The 100...

the historical tradition, his work contains a number of statistical improbabilities, such as the sizable crowd addressed by Peter in Acts 4:4. He has also...

setting an example for the genre); but the opening section, despite some improbabilities, has been much admired for its rigour and compelling narrative. Critics...

current pulse returns to those adjacent, as well as calculating return improbabilities. Radar jamming refers to radio frequency signals originating from sources...

ethics and values, but ultimately gives in to plot contrivances and improbabilities. David Stratton of At the Movies opined, "It's decently made, decently...

wrote, "Nath shows some spark. Jividha doesn't. Despite laughable improbabilities, a watchable film." Ronjita Kulkarni of Rediff.com wrote, "What does...

by his contemporaries and later scholars for deliberately pursuing improbability and for his penchant toward "trick endings". In his later stories, apparently...

blackest of Vilianys, Altho the designe was laid with the greatest Improbability of Success." Martha Farley (sometimes referred to as Mary Farlee or...

night's comedy thriller was intended as a pilot". Noting "an armful of improbabilities", he suggested, "you will either have switched off or settled back...

series. Marvin rejoins the crew on the Heart of Gold, and using the improbability drive programmed by Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth, takes them to the...

"Anything Goes" into a mysterious "subspace fold". It produces an "improbability field" that causes the Enterprise crew to begin singing about their...

the plot "ultimately preposterous". Multiple critics called out the improbabilities and cliches of the script and negatively compared the film to similar...

offensive Spa Conference (13–15 August 1918), which recognized the improbability of victory Spa Conference (29 September 1918), the final wartime meeting...

scrutinizing the numbers, which led to him advocating for statistical improbabilities. In 1997, the Museum of Genocide Victims in Belgrade identified 10...

throw them into the airlock and shoot them out into space. By a huge improbability, they are picked up in the last moment before they die of asphyxiation...

specimen and considered various aspects including the circumstantial improbability of a collection label misassignment, the uniqueness of ectoparasites...

Twelfth of Never", a song by Johnny Mathis Twelfth of Never, an idiom of improbability This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title 12th...

pp. 278. ISBN 9781461660408. Hand, David J. (11 February 2014). The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every...

symbolism in the tauroctony: A statistical demonstration of the extreme improbability of unintended coincidence in the selection of elements in the composition"...

Richmond of Variety called the film "a holiday grab bag of improbability stacked atop improbability." List of Christmas films List of films about angels @evesolaris_;...

happen next … you don't much mind. Nor do the many plot holes and improbabilities … undermine its silly, raucous spirit." The film was largely panned...

Washington Post wrote, "The script is moronic and so riddled with improbabilities that the suspense element never takes root. Director Simon Wincer has...

begins to doubt So-eun's words, but is slowly convinced despite the improbability of what is happening to him. Meanwhile, So-eun's relationship with Dong-hee...

speculation that it could have been one of the escapees, emphasizing the improbability that a body would still be floating after more than a month; instead...

become known as the 'flight of the curiales'. Flechner also asserts the improbability of an escape from servitude and a journey of the kind that Patrick purports...

particularly aimed his attention at the Communist old guard. The very improbability of the charges was cited as evidence, since more plausible charges could...

of Southend (a consequence of the starship Heart of Gold's Infinite Improbability Drive). Dent briefly feared that both he and Prefect did in fact die...

courts] must ask whether the gravity of the 'evil', discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the...

fraction of this communication phase, Kardashev hypothesized the high improbability that we will meet "brothers in intelligence" who are at the same stage...

means to avoid invasion, however, underlying Seleucus' decision was the improbability of success. In later years, Seleucus' successors maintained diplomatic...

Nyquist was viewed as vulnerable, in part because of the statistical improbability of the race favorite winning for four years in a row. Pundits also noted...

which critics called a "happy blend of unanswerable logic and wild improbability. HarperCollins Publishers released a 50th-anniversary edition of Harry...

mandatory for the conclusion of a Franco–Soviet non–aggression pact. The improbability of an imminent signing of a Soviet–French non–aggression pact became...

Is the statement of Murphy's Law valid? David J. Hand ( 2014). The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every...

place of one of the missiles targeting the Heart of Gold after its Improbability Drive is used, and begins falling, having only time to think "Oh, no...

who has stolen the Heart of Gold, a spacecraft equipped with Infinite Improbability Drive), the depressed robot Marvin the Paranoid Android, and Trillian...

concludes that the exact numbers will never be known, pointing out the improbability of the initial estimate in the official reports of 110 fatalities that...

answer, invent one. When you pick out some inconsistency or marvelous improbability, satisfy your curiosity like the old Indian folk: 'Well, that's the...

Critics generally concede that the second half of the novel suffers from improbability but still find the book a vivid and attractive example of James's early...

Elizabeth McKenzie The Portable Veblen Shortlist Hannah Rothschild The Improbability of Love Shortlist Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Shortlist 2017 Naomi...

as peppermint and spearmint. These diseases are flagged due to the improbability of controlling once it starts in a mint farm. They are typically cut...

Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote "All of [the] absurdities and improbabilities somehow do not diminish the film's appeal. They may even add to it"...

fast-paced enough that you don't stop to bother with inconsistencies or improbabilities." In his introduction in the 1967 Four Square paperback reprint of...

defended Paley's design argument with computer calculations of the improbability of genetic sequences, which he said could not be explained by evolution...

cast comes off less effectively." While mentioning the plot twists' "improbability" and comparing the film unfavorably to Clue (1985), he went on to say...

failure of each bit in a word of memory is independent, resulting in improbability of two simultaneous errors. This used to be the case when memory chips...

murderer' romantic 'melodrama. Although built on the shifting sands of improbability, it has in it much that is unexpected, cleverly cultivated by the principal...

in the universe is thought to be extremely unlikely, because of the improbability of the required conditions occurring by chance. Orbital mechanics or...

Boisot as children The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Apart from the improbabilities – accounted for by the fact that the film is a dream – this thriller...

mostly on the actors' established screen presences while pointing out improbabilities in the plot, such as how the mafia manages to support itself without...

Dawkins, the law is "really just a statement about the statistical improbability of following exactly the same evolutionary trajectory twice (or, indeed...

remainder of the season. Their postseason run further underscored the improbability of their success, as they won five elimination games—trailing in all...

and buy each product. Under this system, problems arise through the improbability of the wants, needs, or events that cause or motivate a transaction...

sense of romanticism thoroughly banishes even the most far-fetched improbabilities." In his review for The Telegraph, Robbie Collins gave the film three...

described Then She Was Gone as a "gripping novel transcends its plot improbabilities to connect with an emotionally resonant story of loss, grief, and renewal"...

recording of the song "Anything Goes" into it. The fold produces an "improbability field" that causes science officer Spock, and then the rest of the Enterprise...

Creationists often quote mine Darwin, especially with regard to the seeming improbability of the evolution of the eye, to give support to their views. The creation–evolution...

inverted, reason and unreason are interchanged and the probable defined by improbability". Contributors to The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (1997) variously...

that the film "raises questions about digital obsession but falters in improbability," citing plot conveniences. A reviewer for ABP Live noted that the thriller...

Central Powers' approach, with civil officials beginning to recognize the improbability of a military victory. The German Empire and its allies were increasingly...

and improbable ..." Baxter, 1971. p. 103: "... the story's growing improbability." Baxter, 1971. p. 102: "... a strong thread of autobiography in the...

and that his own account of the occurrence, in spite of the glaring improbabilities which it involved, was substantially true. Alexander Courtney, James...

attempts to evade the missiles fail, Arthur uses the ship's Infinite Improbability Drive which ends up turning the missiles into a very surprised looking...

pedantry. Marmion was also criticised for its style, the obscurity and improbability of the plot, the immorality of its main character, and the lack of connection...

Wayback Machine Are You Going to be Drafted? by Rod Powers. Discusses the improbability of the draft returning. Archived February 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine...

wrote to Obama requesting that his nomination be withdrawn due to the improbability that he would receive a floor vote. On July 26, 2011, Governor Jerry...

have their charms" but the film "creaks under the weight of a pile of improbabilities". "About Fate (2022)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 14, 2023...

Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities (e.g., planning to cross the River Severn by running the ram down a...

political activist and columnist for The Guardian, wrote an article on the improbability of the conspiracies cited in Loose Change, and then wrote a follow-up...

of conspiracy theories, a can-you-top-this of arbitrarily conjoined improbabilities." The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations noted...

Heart of Gold under Zarniwoop's control, where he is using the ship's Improbability Drive to penetrate the Unprobability Field that is protecting the home...

of 1936, Spencer-Churchill, just turned 21, proclaimed with patent improbability that she had three favourites, Edward VIII, Leopold III of Belgium and...

traditional weapons as opposed to the Sengoku jūjutsu systems that did. The improbability of confronting an armor-clad attacker and using traditional weapons...

confirmation bias, poor estimations of likelihoods by chance (see the Improbability Principle by David J. Hand), and false positives (e.g. the movie's fictional...

York Times wrote that the "flaw at the heart" of the film was the "improbability of such cross sections of humanity ever cohering in real life." Roger...

the alleged birth of Jesus from a virgin might make us overlook the improbability that the form παρθενος [parthenos/virgin] should be Hebraized into the...

contest in overtime". Other soldiers and historians have noted the improbability of the lieutenants' heroics, which entailed killing enemy after enemy...

serious consideration, the confessions themselves contain such inherent improbabilities as to convince the Commission that they do not represent the truth...

revealing that Eljigidei killed her. Because of these contradictions and improbabilities, Broadbridge considers the Persian narratives untrustworthy. Women...

daughter-in-law Vijaya. In fact, such an identification results in chronological improbabilities: the poet whose works mention the 8th century poet Dandin could not...

unfamiliar subject. John Bull commented, "We do not greatly object to mere improbability in the story of a drama especially a musical one; but, though a Drury-Lane...

Wiktionary List of idioms attributed to Shakespeare List of idioms of improbability List of English-language metaphors List of Latin phrases Anti-proverb –...

Han Solo's response to Leia in The Empire Strikes Back. Facing the improbability that she will ever have a daughter, Liz offers the child-sized Leia...

out how the modern setting of a Shakespeare adaptation emphasizes the improbability of plot events. Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, "In modernizing this...

Bickerton (1977) points out that relexification postulates too many improbabilities and that it is unlikely that a language "could be disseminated round...

acceptance speech, Agnew told the convention he had "a deep sense of the improbability of this moment". Agnew was not yet a national figure, and a widespread...

organs. The Lancet rejected Baxter's theory, criticising its "certain improbabilities and absurdities", and calling it "a grave error of judgement". The...

smothering them during periods of frustration. Their case relied on the improbability of all four children dying of natural causes, citing the now-dubious...

Gold works on the basis of infinite improbability, allowing its drive to do anything for which the improbability factor is known. Also onboard are Trillian...

be said that the book emerged from a vacuum. For example, among the improbabilities that question the historical accuracy of the Book of Esther are: the...

mostly negative reviews, with criticisms centered on some of the plot's improbabilities, particularly when the boys arrive in Hollywood and begin tracking...

Hillary Clinton (Nicole Sullivan) sing a duet about the insanity and improbability of both of them running for U.S. President; an episode of The Tonight...

sense required it.” Id. § 267. He noted further that where there is “improbability of a contrary design[,]… an independent proposition” may apply alike...

accomplished guitar players after finding a guitar near Ceará, in spite of the improbability of the story. They found success in Rio de Janeiro, performing as Natalicio...

present at the death to ensure no manipulation of the body Because of the improbability that all of these requirements may be examined in one subject, cadaveric...

away, though this explanation might be seen as unlikely due to the improbability of waterspouts collecting fish in the open sea every year in May or...

minor issue." The many deliberate (and easily spotted) inaccuracies, improbabilities and contradictions were meant to be indicative that the article was...

absurd" or "worth asking" considering her "suspiciously good luck, the improbability of the boy's death, and the context of a civil war which had already...

) The Monthly Film Bulletin said: "Though the story has plenty of improbabilities when considered in cold blood, this thriller holds one well when on...

catastrophes occurred. In 2023, a paper by Cionco et al. demonstrated the improbability that the suspected tidal effect on the Sun driven by Venus and Jupiter...

Snowball clause may refer to: Snowball clause, about an idiom of improbability Snowball clause, a term used in deletion of articles on Wikipedia This...

Pinschers before being raped by a couple of louts." Time Out wrote "The improbabilities of this awkward period sexploiter (which vainly attempts to emulate...

2010), ISBN 9783642141584. Alex C. Michalos, "Acceptability and Logical Improbability", The Popper-Carnap Controversy (2012), p. 3. Abraham Leo Gitlow, Economics...

film that veers wildly between documentary-style naturalism and total improbability." Harvey, Dennis (2 September 2002). "The Nature of Nicholas". Variety...

1952-2017 (2018/2019 Parkview Museum, Beijing - China) Uncertainties / Improbabilities (Sep 7th – Oct 27th 2018 Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels - Belgium) "Viennaline"...

scorned such beliefs held in ancient Greek religion, writing, "many such improbabilities do your fabulous writers relate, deifying creatures naturally mortal...

author writing on history and theology, published Americans no Jews, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that Race in response to the tract by Thorowgood...

no answer". Whatever legitimate reservations there may be about "the improbability of our speculations. A queer instinct, indeed, directed to the destruction...

Phillips of the Chicago Tribune had issues with the "coincidence and improbability" of Tucker's script. In January 2019, he wrote a script for a biopic...

William D. Leahy stating that, "The entire experiment pointed to the improbability of a modern battleship being either destroyed or completely put out...

filmmakers and subject deny this. Various publications discussed the improbability of Bruce's story, which centers around being the only documented example...

"manipulative tearjerker", and "a fraudulent yarn riddled with plot holes and improbabilities and topped by a cynical final twist that pulls the rug out from under...

and therefore judging of the rarity of the event and the consequent improbability of foretelling it, after it has happened, and then transferring the...

Morality, and Meaning (2002), The Impossibility of God (2003), The Improbability of God (2006), and The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (2006). He sat...

(1996), noting the apparent set ranking of the letters and mathematical improbability that they were either random or referred to words or phrases, argued...

Marine Corps Times began an investigation of these claims based on the improbability of the claim of receiving Purple Hearts in the Chosin Reservoir campaign...

abandoned on the morning of 18 February, due to a bad northeast storm, the improbability of Paolina being afloat, and the need for the services of Coast Guard...

Can't Do That on Broadway!: A Raisin in the Sun and Other Theatrical Improbabilities. Limelight Editions. ISBN 978-0-87910-960-8. Sainer, Albert (1998)...

Wayward Bus, and (instead) consisting of "a sophomoric humor of grotesque improbability and wordplay." British comic Viz has been described as schoolboy humor...

piece and allowed it to be fully reassembled. Prosecutors cite the improbability of being able to collect so many shards from the same artifact from...

positives before dissecting "a bad movie idea" and its predictable improbability. Drop Zone currently holds a 39% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on...

"[courts] must ask whether the gravity of the 'evil', discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the...

Yellow Jumper Movie Review: Ugandan Thriller Thrives on a Story of Improbabilities and Suspense - Afrocritik". 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2024-09-29. Ruby...

selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability." Fisher's fame grew, and he began to travel and lecture widely. In...

the vessel. These images invite the reader to consider the incredible improbability of a large but finite number of monkeys working for a large but finite...

theology published an exegetical tract called Americans no Jews, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that Race in response to the tract by Thorowgood...

3-8105-1714-3. Sex as a Heap of Malfunctioning Rubble (and further improbabilities): More of the Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Marc Abrahams...

Gilbert, in his best work, has always shown a tendency to present improbabilities from a probable point of view, and in one sense, therefore, he can...

illusions borne from a dream-state of euphoria were to be blamed for the improbabilities and inconsistencies inherent in her stories. However, both Hind and...

common to everyday speech include conditional phrases used as idioms of improbability like "when hell freezes over ..." and "when pigs can fly ...", indicating...

falls back asleep. The narrator then imagines, while commenting on the improbability of this happening on this particular day, the death of George and how...

Leahy stated in his report: "The entire experiment pointed to the improbability of a modern battleship being either destroyed or completely put out...

can't do that on Broadway! A raisin in the sun and other theatrical improbabilities: a memoir. Limelight Editions. pp. 91–94. ISBN 978-0-87910-960-8. Cassidy...

by Sir Hamon L'Estrange, in his book entitled Americans no Jews, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that Race. For the staying power of Thorowgood's...

help, and ferried back to Albania within days if not hours. When the improbability of such a plan emerged, other measures were haphazardly put in place...

score, there is no true limit to potential game score. The fantastic improbability of this can be illustrated by the fact that there has never, in the...

that "the narrative thread slackens somewhat as Cumming piles improbability upon improbability." Kirkus Reviews described it as "characterized by a gripping...

a story, which has in almost every sentence a ring of falsehood and improbability. Whatever immediate advantage Atkyns may have gained by its publication...

"human error." However, the French press remained skeptical, noting the improbability of a nearly-identical 28% increase in votes for all seven candidates...

of Polycarp", Moss claims that it contains "many wild coincidences, improbabilities and illegalities". While not denying that Polycarp really suffered...

of the ships named, the organization notes on its blog the extreme improbability that an aircraft carrier's crew would not realize they were off the...

" Whispering Wind magazine, Vol. 34, #3, 2004. A discussion on the improbability of the Garryowen photo being that of Crazy Horse (the same photo shown...

The correlation of registration records to census data also revealed improbabilities, with discrepancies suggesting that 60 percent or more of life events...

scorned such beliefs held in ancient Greek religion, writing, "many such improbabilities do your fabulous writers relate, deifying creatures naturally mortal...

2023-08-15. Retrieved 2020-05-17. Grunbaum, Adolf (2013). "Science and the Improbability of God". In Meister, Chad V.; Copan, Paul (eds.). The Routledge Companion...

street, the barber's shop permanently empty of customers, the sheer improbability of some of the acting (notably Beatrix Lehmann's grotesque cameo as...

at all at the time of the Arab conquest (Y. Nevo and J. Koren). the improbability that the Arab conquest could have swallowed up such a large number of...

at which Casey becomes adept at skating and pointed out some other improbabilities and clichés, but strongly praised Cusack's and Cattrall's performances...

occasion, Astruc dared the anger of the pope. Having pointed out the improbability of the haggadic legend that the Messiah was born on the day of the destruction...

"Though derivative of other Slasher Movies, plagued by the annoying improbabilities of all A-to-B horror efforts, filled with bickering dorks, and pretty...

vanished from Hong Kong on 30 December. Lee's disappearance, due to the improbability that Lee had gone to Shenzhen while his mainland travel permit was left...

the ancient and the modern. In the former all was imagination and improbability: in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been...

Instead, he pleaded insanity, as his counsel put it: "an antecedent improbability in the deed which would lead everyone in the first instance to seek...

where the testimony of the prosecutrix bears on its face indications of improbability or unreliability and particularly when it is contradicted by other evidence...

and mother becomes a widow who is trapped in a series of Hollywood improbabilities. The movie opens with enormous appeal and then spends its last hour...

however—standard science can explain them. That's really the point of the improbability principle. What I have tried to do is pull out and make explicit how...

devising a plausible intrigue, and shocks the reader with monstrous improbabilities such as all that portion of the denouement in which old Mrs Brown and...

emotional trajectory described and analysed. Breaking away from the improbabilities of heroic and pastoral romances, believable characters live through...

it as having an "autumnal glow", but criticizes the "coincidence and improbability" of the script, which lets down the able cast. Richard Roeper gave it...

BSO from the 1920s appears tenuous at the very least and borders on improbability, although some of the musicians may have played in both. The British...

contest in overtime". Other soldiers and historians have noted the improbability of the lieutenants' heroics, which entailed killing enemy after enemy...

largely with oaths and flash songs – Boil him in a cauldron of crime and improbabilities. Season equally with good and bad qualities ...". The attacks were...

December (an important aspect of the traditional narrative), and the improbability that "Guadalupe" was a Nahuatl name. He further cited inconsistencies...

then seized and handed over to Henry at Pontefract on 3 January. The improbabilities of this narrative have led some writers to think, in face of contemporary...

courses and course keeping in Ming Dynasty seafaring: probabilities and improbabilities, "Mapping Ming China's Maritime World", Hong Kong: Hong Kong Maritime...

Kanye West's The Life of Pablo). The name of the album refers to the improbability of a rock band from Natal having achieved international success. As...

creating a most entertaining and humorous fantasy which, with all its improbabilities, will succeed in casting a spell on its audiences. Best Film on Family...

discovering his blog. Because of the sheer magnitude of Serin's debt and the improbability of his story, some observers had initially questioned its veracity,...

Gallic charm – the kind you can squeeze from a tube – and whimsical improbability." List of French films of 2010 "De vrais mensonges (2010)". JP Box-Office...

inspired numerous internet memes, with users humorously highlighting the improbability of Ghostface standing a real chance in a fight against the roster of...

stationed on the extreme right of the battle line. This, together with the improbability that a head-on cavalry charge against the spear-armed Thebans could...

adaptive as his claim of low probability assumes. Even if his claims of improbability were correct, that need not affect belief in evolution, and they considered...

PMC 6061870. PMID 29741686. Meacham, William (1984–1985). "On the improbability of Austronesian origins in South China" (PDF). Asian Perspective. 26:...

the American B picture market, The Lost Hours has its full share of improbabilities of character and action. The actors can make little of their roles...

formulas in Nadel's "black box" computer program." Despite the statistical improbability of the stated returns, Rowe's article offers a glowing recommendation...

judgment of not guilty, saying that the "case by the State is beset by improbabilities and uncertainties". The full reasons for the verdict were published...

"Double Trouble Cannell Produces Another Series, 'Two,' - With Inherent Improbability". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved February 12, 2024.{{cite news}}:...

illuminate and come to life in spellbinding set-pieces of physical improbabilities. The show led the British Theatre guide to remark "Quirki "Quirki proves...

Greek is the original language of the New Testament claim logical improbabilities in the Greek text compared to the Syriac/Hebrew texts and vocabulary...

the Mets' title is his favorite human history moment for "all the improbabilities that helped". In the TV show Growing Pains, the family's name was the...

December in a leap year. Ides of March List of calendars List of idioms of improbability, including various nonexistent dates Time formatting and storage bugs...

notably called it "a wonderful and clever tour de force, in which improbabilities and impossibilities disappear, under an air that is irresistible."...

include a worst case analysis and an indication of the probability or improbability of its occurrence. It led to a 1989 SCOTUS decision, written by John...

have a very narrow or non-existent Habitable zone, and thus a high improbability of containing a planet capable of sustaining life (particularly life...

reliable" and their testimony as "riddled with inconsistencies and improbabilities". During their time together on the British reality television show...

Krenzelok E (1997). "Toxic inhalation of ethylene glycol: a pharmacological improbability". Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology. 35 (1): 109–11. doi:10...

Dubois, both published in 1907, the year of his execution. However, the improbability of the narrated facts, the total discordance between the two and the...

presidential vote, experts say government results are a 'statistical improbability'". CNN. Retrieved 13 August 2024. "Venezuela opposition leader Machado...

chance to win before the match). On September 10, a finish noted for its improbability happened when Central Michigan defeated Oklahoma State 30–27 on a Hail...

selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability". Sewall G. Wright developed F-statistics and methods of computing them...

the Claimant's true identity must remain. Woodruff argues the sheer improbability of anyone conceiving such an imposture from scratch and at such a distance:...

devote his energies to full-time composition. Green Old Age, a "musical improbability", with a libretto by Robert Reece (1874) to which Clay contributed some...

Gordon Harker is splendid as the imperturbable Inspector and the improbabilities of the plot do not spoil its many exciting moments." Kine Weekly wrote:...

have been Roger Tichborne. Woodruff's principal argument is the sheer improbability that anyone could conceive such an imposture from scratch, at such a...

the CAB concluded that it would involve such an extreme mathematical improbability that it chose to reject the theory of a simultaneous failure, and it...

ban. Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote, "Despite its share of improbabilities, if Vaamanan (U/A) manages to impact the viewer to a certain extent...

2021.1917633. PMC 11485871. PMID 39440197. Anderson, A (2021). "On the improbability of pre-European Polynesian voyages to Antarctica: a response to Priscilla...

Informant must, to any sane objective person, appear the height of improbability but it is a fact. MacStíofáin was recruited in good faith in approximately...

serious consideration, the confessions themselves contain such inherent improbabilities as to convince the Commission that they do not represent the truth...

data furnished by tradition, without question as to probability or improbability of these. — W. Geiger, The Culavamsa, 1930, Introduction That there...

is of the old-fashioned type but we accept it uncritically with its improbabilities, its hectic race at the end, its tears, its laughter - it is so very...

and "poignant". Concerning the storyline, the critic wrote that "the improbability is outweighed by the performances of the cast and adeptness of direction...

In East New York, for unknown reasons, life has become dictated by improbability and superstition. The most unlikely events have become the most likely...

p. 109: Same quote from Shakespeare here. Giles, 1983 p. 119: “...improbabilities of characterization...the only time in Shaw’s career [that] the difficulties...

Meanwhile, the Krikkit robots steal the last two pieces, the Infinite Improbability Drive core from the spaceship Heart of Gold and a peg leg used by Marvin...

probrum probr- opprobrium probus prob- approbation, approval, approve, improbability, improbable, probability, probable, proband, probate, probation, probationary...

deliberate design, stating, "[T]he candidate solutions to the riddle of improbability are not, as falsely implied, design and chance. They are design and...

Lover is conscientious and good-hearted, but for all its class-crossing improbability, still rather timid." For Mallon, the novel does not treat Brooke during...

and the contract as a whole, and (ii) the degree of probability or improbability, that the omission might be repeated. In this case, the 16th delivery...

face of uncertainty. The agency also is to indicate the probability or improbability of the worst case's occurrence.  This article incorporates public domain...

and dance, so that the audience would feel more comfortable with the improbability of such a thing happening on the show. It is part of the fascination...

It suggests that the film's light and fast pace distracts from the improbability of some events, and that the "shift toward lighthearted magical realism...

Africa. The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Not just a succession of improbabilities and melodramatics but a nice old tangle to boot, the film has among...

chapters of Genesis. He enumerates what he considers the principal improbabilities of the narrative: an invisible God tending a garden, a woman conversing...

Strategic Defense Initiative - later called 'Star Wars' because of its improbability - which simultaneously brought the Americans to the brink of war against...

Biggelaar, J.A.M.; Edsinger-Gonzales, E.; Schram, F.R. (2002). "The improbability of dorso-ventral axis inversion during animal evolution, as presumed...

plot is largely routine, with the usual quota of coincidences and improbabilities, the film nevertheless has a quality of freshness in the bright and...

have faked his own Departure), confides to Nora his torment over the improbability of his survival among his co-stars, and argues that he and the other...

unrestrained freedom of life, its very verisimilitude contiguous with improbability. Zhivago (Живаго): the Russian root zhiv means "alive". Larissa: a Greek...

containing No Chance in Hell A snowball's chance in hell, an idiom of improbability This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title No...

pointed out the wrong scale of the film's Dilophosaurus, as well as the improbability of its venom and frill. Bakker pointed out in 2014 that the movie's...

there are no other totals over a substantial area that compare for improbability of being repeated. The extreme absence of westerly winds meant that...

called in by Roberts’ son Peter to investigate the murder due to the improbability of an assailant being able to access the office. Steed and Peel are...

streak in minor league baseball history, 61 games, set in 1933. The improbability of DiMaggio's hitting streak ever being broken has been attributed to...

critic], in spite of all the obstacles and constraints, in spite of the improbability and possible futility of it all, is to find and found new ways of looking...

unsurprising and overly sentimental. She found the film to be "full of odd improbabilities," though she commended director Joseph Hanwright in his debut for drawing...

really couldn't have understood what he was about, dug him... are improbabilities too staggering to deal with." Mitchell, Kurt; Thomas, Roy (2019). American...

the order of magnitude of sextillions. He went on to observe: So vast improbability is practically an impossibility. Such evanescent shadows of probability...

was imposed on audiences. It's a movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend...

the film as a "lightweight effort" that was unable to overcome the "improbabilities" of its storyline. The reviewer was equally unimpressed by the performances...

Onfray states that among the "incalculable number of contradictions and improbabilities in the body of the text of the synoptic Gospels" two claims are made:...

occasionally contradict each other and contain obvious errors and improbabilities, so devaluing their accounts. The most important consequence for the...

minority who judged the publication a failure added accusations of improbability, narrative vagueness, disgust, dubious morality, and tastelessness....

which reached the conclusion that "the entire experiment pointed to the improbability of a modern battleship being either destroyed or completely put out...

into inanity with its strident morality-play storyline and escalating improbability factor." Brett Gallman from Oh the Horror gave the film a positive review...

[establishing] a crime scene". He concluded "The case for the State is beset by improbabilities and uncertainties. Crucial evidence is lacking and the absence of evidence...

completely wrong (again)". Mar 19, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2020. The Improbability Pump, Jerry Coyne, The Nation, 10 May 2010 Fodor, Jerry, and Massimo...

evolution (which can be explained without orthogenesis as a statistical improbability that a path should be exactly reversed) Lwoff Physiological degradation...

problem we started out with was the problem of explaining statistical improbability. It is obviously no solution to postulate something even more improbable"...

characters, the embarrassing dialogue, the extreme coincidences and the improbability that make my eyes roll" Despite the film being marketed as the Nordic...

errors from the original Catalan from Valencia. It is also based on the improbability of the characters' journey through peninsular lands which, according...

type of religious rite. This hypothesis has been criticised for its improbability. A study involving the statistical reconstruction of hominin evolutionary...

swimming 20 miles across Lake Superior from the nearest mainland. The improbability of these theories received little scrutiny until recent years. Although...

"The anthropic principle does not support supernaturalism", in The improbability of God, Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier, editors, pp. 150–166. Amherst...

Jaramillo Caro, "No one like him has brought to our attention the 'improbability of Colombia': "the fact that in isolated, vast, mountainous lands without...

Can't Do that on Broadway!: A Raisin in the Sun and Other Theatrical Improbabilities; a Memoir. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 21. ISBN 9780879109608. Corley...

Barton commented that "In short, just too many ideas and too many improbabilities are crammed into The Journey for it to really stand as a viable extension...

realistic satire and move it further and further into the realm of improbability, with giant radioactive rats, hordes of bats and a lab-made railgun...

"Among many rich strangenesses it also includes a critique of its own improbabilities (as seen through twentieth-century eyes)." John Scalzi, one-time president...

works include: N. Mohanan Award Sambasivan Award "Kerala: Multiple Improbabilities – World Policy". World Policy. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 15 October...

Can't Do that on Broadway!: A Raisin in the Sun and Other Theatrical Improbabilities : a Memoir. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879109608. Shen, Ted...

end." In the summary of the review it was written that "despite the improbability of some adventures, the book can be read with interest, and the bravery...

Can't Do that on Broadway! A Raisin in the Sun and Other Theatrical Improbabilities. Limelight Editions. p. 41. "The Berkshire's Camp Unity Holds Negro...

three girls or four guys and two girls), it would add more dynamic and improbability to the equation: there won't be any fixed couples. The writer also had...

though the film is "rife with audacious conjecture and titillating improbabilities", it is nonetheless a "wonderfully gossipy biography". The film grossed...

about the story to commend him on his talent for "making horrible improbabilities seem near and familiar". The Virginia poet Philip Pendleton Cooke also...

where the player has to "use a probability function to cross a field of improbability to get to a vortex." Sadly the article was never finished, although...

Robert Hoapili Baker, referencing the small scale of the guard and its improbability to properly defend the nation, reported the conditions of the state...

A Space Odyssey Heart of Gold – A spaceship powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive, stolen by the then-President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox...

World War I. Lawrence, Jerome; Lee, Robert Edwin (1974). Jabberwock: Improbabilities Lived and Imagined by James Thurber in the Fictional City of Columbus...

"This moderately tense crime thriller distracts attention from the improbability of the escape preparations by skilful handing of background and detail...

Lika 2015 — Adult Daughter (TV series) as Natalia 2015 — The Theory of Improbability as Alvina 2017 — Light Up! as Alevtina 2019 — Saving Leningrad as Galochka...

art, much of which was found in museums around the world. Given the improbability of the task, illustrator Cyril Van der Haegen was hired to paint Keely's...

Experiments and Speculations. Hutchinson. p. 198. David J. Hand, (2014), The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every...

insisted that he could not set the "lozenge plot". In addition to the "improbability" of it, it was too similar to the plot of their 1877 opera, The Sorcerer...

Retrieved 7 December 2018 – via Internet Archive. Americans no Jews, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that Race, London, 1651 (October 1651). This...

opportunities to bring about an event of T's descriptive complexity and improbability by multiple agents witnessing multiple events. According to Dembski...

described the characters as unrealistic, and says the novel has too many improbabilities. Russell Galen, a literary agent at Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency...

compelled to say that the story is surrounded by such an atmosphere of improbability that, until it shall have been thoroughly sifted and sustained upon...

once, there's a moment of delicate ridiculousness, of utterly credible improbability, that signals what Kathleen Marshall, the production's director and...

conviction in U.S. history. However, Duquesne's story contains "numerous improbabilities", and there are "no records" to corroborate any part of it. The wreck...

conventional with aggressive determination, and in riding ronghshod over improbabilities it finds many openings for romance comedy and variety, all of which...

comic-book heroine movie that makes it easy to ignore the plot holes and improbabilities. It's also that the rest of the story is so solid. Lines like the above-noted...

Mannix discusses this research. To defend his novel against charges of improbability, he recounts his observations of wild foxes and discusses other people's...

cause or prevent a tornado in Indonesia. This of course illustrates the improbability of predicting any event in a highly complex system due to the difficulty...

November 2, 2015. Retrieved November 1, 2015. "Royals crowned kings of improbability and MLB". ESPN. November 1, 2015. Archived from the original on August...

Mark and the Void Penguin Books Winner (tie) Hannah Rothschild The Improbability of Love Bloomsbury Paul Beatty The Sellout Oneworld Publications Shortlisted...

"Laszlo Laszlo Revesz is operating on the stage of the theater of improbabilities and obscure dramaturgies, while offering destabilizing images and movie-like...

pistons packed with gunpowder and wet sand and an electric ignition system, which demonstrated the improbability of such a blast under normal conditions....

inviting guffaws rather than sympathy. The story itself is riddled with improbabilities, and the dialogue seems out of touch with the contemporary teenage...

positive review, criticizing the film's predictable beginning and the improbability of the film's conclusion, but also complimented the film's surprisingly...

Perhaps even Joseph Smith, uneducated as he was, did not appreciate the improbability of Helaman's narrative." A major theme and stated purpose of the Book...

2008. Paradoxes of the Global Marketing Communication (Peculiarities, Improbabilities, Opposing Attitudes), (as co-author), Power of Communication 2013,...

Critical Review referred to the narrative as having “little art, and great improbability”, whilst other reviewers in the late-eighteenth century considered the...

Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh Burnt Paper Sky by Gilly Macmillan The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild 2016/17 Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker...

Archived from the original on 2018-05-05. Hand, David J. (2014-02-11). The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every...

confines the first to the most perfunctory development. The grotesque improbability of the relationships (Atreus' house was no match for this) is further...

was unimpressed, saying: "The plot is paper-thin, and the pile-up of improbabilities is too great. This is a lost opportunity: the theme deserves a far...

economic or political expansion. In the telegram, Hoffmann confirms the improbability of a German offensive attack along the Eastern Front, which would threaten...

much, and is not sufticiently entertaining in herself to outweigh the improbabilities. The by-play, however, is at times most amusing, and there is a love...

in the task of detecting the targets. Its amplitude varies with the improbability of the targets. Its latency varies with the difficulty of discriminating...

Seacole told her of her "dread of the night journey by caïque" and the improbability of being able to find the Hollander in the dark. A bed was then found...

Gilbert, in his best work, has always shown a tendency to present improbabilities from a probable point of view, and in one sense, therefore, he can...

contest in overtime". Other soldiers and historians have noted the improbability of the lieutenants' heroics, which entailed killing enemy after enemy...

error because of the inability to survey the entire population and the improbability of surveying a perfectly random cross-section of the population. For...

second act, it is too little too late, and at the cost of some whopping improbabilities. Hit-and-miss directorial bravura and an expensive production are not...

a reasonable doubt as to the applicant's guilt. ...the compounding improbabilities caused by the unchallenged evidence...nonetheless required the jury...

called the film "a good debut, but it's undermined by several vast improbabilities in the script and by the painfully inept performance of one of its...

"A modest mystery thriller, competently made except for a few wild improbabilities in the plot and a five-figure London telephone number. There are good...

Some creaking in the machinery, and rather a lot of melodrama and improbabilities, prevent this from being one of the very best of the classic specimens...

scene, a "code 601" appears on the computer screen, indicating the improbability of analysis. The code is a tribute to a similar scene from The Andromeda...

emphasis. For example, in Northanger Abbey, she ridicules the plot improbabilities and rigid conventions of the Gothic novel. However, she does not categorically...

"'We got Heads on Sticks/You got Ventriloquists': Radiohead and the Improbability of Resistance" by Davis Schneiderman, Lake Forest College "The Aura...

this saint the inventors of legends have compiled a vast farrago of improbabilities." Nevertheless, Wace did not find reason to doubt that Claudius had...

way he or she wants it to be. The user is not bounded by physics or improbabilities that he or she faces in the real world. Virtual art is made with many...

easy comic role. Good as the acting is, it does not cover up several improbabilities in the plot. It takes the hero a marvelously short time to find out...

serious consideration, the confessions themselves contain such inherent improbabilities as to convince the Commission that they do not represent the truth...

I've read in years". Another The New York Times review remarked on the improbability of the plot, but considering the book as primarily a novel of ideas...

Italian literature, by dramas of which extravagance in the sentiments and improbability in the action were the chief characteristics. The prodigious success...

sequence of the DNA (the genetic material of the organism). Due to the improbability of this being random chance, and its consistency too long to be attributed...

"There are some pretty bits of skulduggery, shrewd guessing, and also improbability in this well-told item in the D.A. series." The first Saturday Evening...

difficulties (the vocalism, the loss of the rhotic, and a betacism) and the improbability that a people, rather than a city, would have struck the coinage. The...

all costs. They pointed out the natural behavior of sharks, the high improbability of being attacked, and the large numbers that are killed every year...

challenged, and the incredulity of belief in the statistical cosmic improbability of speciation is insisted by some biblical creationists. Notable Pauline...

Fiction Studies 40.2 (July 2013): 263-85. 2015: Graeme MacDonald, “Improbability Drives: The Energy of SF,” Paradoxa 26: “SF Now” (2015): 111-144. 2016:...

kidnapped by A.L.A.D.D.I.N. (A Logistical Analytical Dream Drive with Improbability Neurons), a sentient reality-altering computer that requires the feeding...

narrative is "open to the gravest suspicion, and the letter abounds with improbabilities and is now generally regarded as more or less fabulous," observed The...

of Quasars. Signet. 1975. ISBN 0-451-61411-9. Starflight and Other Improbabilities. Westminster Press. 1973. ISBN 0-664-32520-3 Notes to a Science Fiction...

inconsistencies in Islam like, the barbarism of certain verses in the Qur'an, the improbability of the existence of God, the wickedness of the possibility of God creating...

18th century. Earlier in the century, critics had complained about the improbability of the fifth act, frequently likened to farce, and to Jonson's highly...

less complimentary view of the script, calling it "a story of extreme improbabilities and sentimental frills". Critical praise was also reserved for O. P...

book follows the usual Chase's “pattern of sex, crime, fast living and improbability”. Two films have been adapted from this book: The Man in the Raincoat...

the evidence. He argued that there were inherent inconsistencies and improbabilities and even impossibilities in the evidence. At the trial there had been...

back to Aschheim, where a walled church of Apostle Peter stood. The improbability of the tale, the details of the saint's martyrdom, which are certainly...

centers within the Nebrodi Mountain region (for example for Demenna). The improbability of the identification with Krastos and the controversial localization...

Puamiria; Stevens, Michael; Tau, Te Maire (September 2021). "On the improbability of pre-European Polynesian voyages to Antarctica: a response to Priscilla...

complete farrago and may have been intended as a hoax". Apart from the improbability of their connection with Madoc (if he existed), the "Doeg" encountered...

sufficiently fertile to produce stiff yarns, but for a sequence of glaring improbabilities commend us to the idealist who has distorted every canon of bush law...

current state of the international system increases "unattractiveness and improbability of war among the political units concerned". For instance, security...

captured from the TNI. This claim was refuted by the TNI, owing to the improbability of TPNPB fighters approaching TNI positions in lower altitudes to capture...

assassination of Kennedy as an example, to question what he sees as the improbability of Oswald's perpetration or to consider the official account of 9/11...

continuously pushed back until the stage where it was nearing the point of improbability. The plot was ultimately scheduled to air in the last possible week...

at the end of Chesterton's career contain narrative stretches and improbabilities, but they do not lack his familiar flashes of insight. In the story...

that all subsequent scenes serve only to highlight and compound the improbability of the principal characters' behaviour. Hayley Mills and Simon Ward...

testimony and that testimony is "so replete with inconsistencies and improbabilities" that no reasonable juror would undertake the suspension of disbelief...

and exploring why we fear insects. She also points out "biological improbabilities" and filmmaking flaws, often noting that some films are "so bad they’re...

pp. 161-163 Balasubramanian, R.; Koblitz, Neal (March 1998). "The Improbability That an Elliptic Curve Has Subexponential Discrete Log Problem under...

Bulletin wrote: "To outline the story is to emphasise its weakness and improbability. On the screen, however, it has been made to seem quite plausible and...

Bickerton (1977) also points out that relexification postulates too many improbabilities and that it is unlikely that a language "could be disseminated round...

2011 AFOI was "[planning] with reasonable probability to shape the improbabilities that confront us as individuals or a community". It was dedicated to...

viewers that the ending had suffered from "the extreme sentimentality and improbability of [the final] reunion". Abel Green of Variety called it a "tip-top...

alternately praised the film, writing: "Despite Rubdown's multiple improbabilities, this story of murder and faked identities is surprisingly absorbing...

empires on record has nothing more wonderful, nor of more sounding improbability, than the demolition of this great nation, which rises up against itself...

British Interplanetary Society, vol. 31, November 1978. A. Bond: On the improbability of intelligent extraterrestrials; Journal of the British Interplanetary...

 xi. ISBN 9780810830271. "Excellent Mystery If You Don't Mind Some Improbabilities". The Film Daily. 16 (2): 15. April 3, 1921. This article incorporates...

conviction of these two, hitherto unshaken by the nonsense and the improbability of the "Vercingétorix document"—as Esterhazy had called it—gave way...

Sapaean Rhescuporis II) as the father of Rhoemetalces II. Despite some improbabilities, this reconstruction has gained some acceptance at least as a viable...

Mathematician's Miscellany. In the chapter "Large Numbers", Littlewood states: Improbabilities are apt to be overestimated. It is true that I should have been surprised...

northerly routes or watercourses from Uruk, and posing the logistical improbability of getting a 27th-century BC Sumerian army through 550 km of Elamite...

the most vivid waking nightmares. He suspends his work in a realm of improbability, where it is possible to think the unthinkable...Perhaps the biggest...

positive responses" to his work "Mainly ... people say it's a farrago of improbabilities, that sort of thing." (A "farrago of implausible and inaccurate theorising"...

Mannix discusses this research. To defend his novel against charges of improbability, he recounts his observations of wild foxes and discusses other people's...

Hoeppner's account. The Wallers alleged that the inconsistencies and improbabilities in Hanlon's account suggest that in fact he never witnessed the shooting...

gross that they can be identified by any historian ... The numerous improbabilities present in the scenario show that the writing of the latter was not...

current pulse returns to those adjacent, as well as calculating return improbabilities. STC is used to avoid saturation of the receiver from close in ground...

"cannot justly make that claim" on the basis of several scientific improbabilities. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past:...

Retrieved February 8, 2025. Coyne, Jerry A. (April 22, 2010). "The Improbability Pump". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved February 8, 2025. Midgley...

the early Israelites, however, are largely fictional: the intrinsic improbability and internal inconsistencies of the account in Joshua and its incompatibility...

and James S. Jackson and Colonel George Webster were discussing the improbability of being killed in action. All three would be killed in the following...

Can't Do That on Broadway!: A Raisin in the Sun and Other Theatrical Improbabilities, by Philip Rose. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879109608. Retrieved...

Pro-Football-Reference.com and ESPN.com Much of the post-game analyses centered on the improbability of the Seahawks comeback. Other analyses centered on key decisions by...

emperor. In this regard, he would agree with Evans' point about the improbability of such a figure going completely unrecorded. He, however, did not provide...

work of Scott's Northern Party ... that we were able to realise the improbability that any explorer could do more in the Cape Adare district than Mr Borchgrevink...

concluded: "One might, however, write a good-sized book to point out the improbabilities and misunderstandings to which the author has given currency.... But...

even though it may seem a better business model to do so. It is the improbability and maze of puzzles that occur in basic research that Thomas believes...

winning as a Republican in Pittsburgh and made remarks reflecting the improbability of victory, which were reported in local media. Less than two months...

[courts] must ask whether the gravity of the "evil", discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the...

obscure, and the earliest accounts of Ferreolus and Ferrutio contain improbabilities: in particular, situating their martyrdom under Aurelian is unlikely...

the plot and slowing the pell-mell pace of the action, exposed the improbability of the situations. After a first night which evoked some wrathful comments...

approach is said to be very weak in construction and plentiful in improbabilities, so much that it was largely criticized by Narciso Díaz de Escovar...

Night Football postgame show. The alliterative name alludes to its improbability ("miracle") and its location in Detroit, which is metonymously known...

misconception and exaggeration." In the first of those reviews he noted "the improbability of Moses having given one system of laws (Exodus chaps. 20ff.) at Sinai...

its Gothic tropes scarcely divert attention from the plot's sheer improbability. The author's additional strategy is, then, to shift focus to problems...

highlighted how The Last Animal is filled with "outlandish albeit endearing improbabilities" and concluded that the novel "is a hairy but cuddly beast of a novel...

creationist arguments, which is the cause of their overestimating of the improbability of the entire process. Hoyle's argument is a mainstay of pseudosciences...

to the artist undelivered, demonstrating Boetti's preoccupation with improbability and chance. Boetti disassociated himself from the Arte Povera movement...

Coast television ... situations were rooted in wild and disastrous improbabilities that lacked even the most elementary type of humor." In a retrospective...

of Froissart and Juvénal des Ursins remain, both of which contain improbabilities. Froissart's account exonerates the young Gaston by placing the burden...

species in Kimberley into the 20th century based on the circumstantial improbability of a collection label misassignment, the uniqueness of ectoparasites...

of view, speaking of the stiltedness of the "adventure" plot and the improbability of some of its characters. The short novel Laughter and Grief (Sovremennaya...

thriller, shot mainly on location, is undermined by the staggering improbabilities of the script. Molly's reactions to the threats of the Dark Man and...

according to a CNN report, a Maduro victory was considered a "statistical improbability" by statisticians and political scientists. The U.S. and several Latin...

identification has effectively been made because of the statistical extreme improbability that two different persons could agree by chance ("collide") in so many...

views of slavery, bringing unforeseeable twists and a fresh sense of improbability to a familiar story." Pulitzer Prize for Biography to Washington: A...

Created the Universe", in Martin, Michael; Monnier, Ricki (eds.), The Improbability of God, Prometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-59102-381-4 Stenger, Victor (2006)...

One of the pillars of Rutherford's defense on behalf of Tom was the improbability that a murder of such scale could have been committed by one individual...

performed against authentic and picturesque backgrounds weaves the wild improbabilities into glorious escapist fare. ... The film hangs fire a little in the...

That an audience will be pleased with this picture is certain. The improbability of the thrilling race in the first scenes will not mar the enjoyment...

various genetic-ecological mechanisms; population proteomics; and on the improbability of generalism in nature, with special reference to insects The consensus...

however; based on Cúán mac Amalgado's death date in the annals and on the improbability of the Uí Liathain being involved in a conflict far from their territory...

a fantastic tale, the reader/viewer will withhold judgement on any improbability that might normally render the story doubtful, a contention the artist...

assistance and ran for two months in London. He also wrote and directed in Improbabilities for the Loose Exchange residency at the Soho Poly Theatre (now the...

lecture, and presenting a fallacious creationist miscalculation of improbability by omitting known options, which also contributed to the original publisher...

coincidences for a film. But the pace is fast enough to disguise some of the improbabilities. Freddie Mills makes a brief but bizarre appearance as a moronic cheese-roll...

Stahlin, replacing Blair Honeyman on Bass guitar. Discouraged by the improbability of their second album being released, the band decided to disband in...

consequences when a species is lost, and that once we lose it, there is high improbability that we will ever get it back. I think there is a critical role to be...

procured for that purpose. Father Grant and the others pleaded the improbability of this ridiculous accusation, but they were not heard, and the bottles...

Despite its lack of supernaturalism, critics were concerned with the improbability and excessiveness of the novel. They found it too improbable to lead...

NET communication technologies Indium — Lunar Linux 1.5.0 Infinite Improbability Drive — TransGaming WineX 3.3 Instatower — Macintosh Performa 6400 Interface...

segments are rather jerkily and sloppily tacked together, and its improbabilities and illogic soon overshadow its wit." Margaret Ford of The Monthly...

"The main argument of Rush to Judgment centered around the perceived improbability of Oswald acting alone." Lane also raised doubts—based on timeline,...

Academics Try to Push Back: Ward Churchill, the War on Truth, and the Improbabilities of Interruption". Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 9 (1):...

chorus apologize for not visiting earlier he draws attention to the improbability that the chorus would not have done so. Collard, C.; Cropp, M. J., eds...

next two games and Flamengo won all four of its remaining matches. The improbability of this combination of results led the newspaper O Paiz to declare Vasco...

is not camp, but instead a dead-pan rendition of non-sequiturs and improbabilities. Thus, the audience's sense of humor is being tested, not that of the...

though concluded "it is Lassie's, or Bill's, picture. And, despite some improbabilities in the plot, it is his "acting" and the polychromatic settings which...

Gibson also believes Condés’s complicity is undeniable, noting the improbability that Condés, upon hearing shots fired in the van, did not intervene...

on Broadway: Presenting 'a Raisin in the Sun' and Other Theatrical Improbabilities (1st ed.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Limelight Editions/Hal Leonard Corp...

has fallen in love with him and they agree to meet later. Despite the improbability of success and without telling Giles or Buffy, Jenny attempts to restore...

The purpose of the rules for excluding liability is ‘the inherent improbability that the other party… intended to release the proferens from a liability...

homology is evidence for evolution, but not for natural selection. The "improbability argument" also misrepresents natural selection. It is correct to say...

Midgley also expressed her interest in Paul Davies' ideas on the inherent improbability of the order found in the universe. She argued that "there's some sort...

bridge on to a slowly moving goods train below. Despite the apparent improbability of the situation, it is effectively staged. The chase across the moors...

from De'Andre Hunter, in a comeback highly noted for its statistical improbability. The Virginia Cavaliers won 67–66 achieving the first 9-and-0 ACC road...

used without that temporal import to denote unreality, impossibility, improbability or non-fulfilment. In such cases we speak of imaginative tenses or tenses...

performances, design, and music, and only noted minor faults such as the improbability that the Plutonians had never questioned their society. DVD Talk's Ian...

the story by somewhat ponderous direction. The plot is weakened by improbabilities, but Elizabeth Sellars, as the unfortunate wife, puts in such a good...

literature about literature, a self-referential poem that comments on the improbability of some of its own plot elements and on its own fictional status, encouraging...

recently, Donald T. Blume has criticized the story for being "laden with improbabilities" and having a "convoluted narrative structure". The Return (1973) is...

the feudal regime set up by the Hoppers in 'Divide and Rule,' ... but improbability is here outweighed by entertainment value and by a certain wild consistency...

from Darius Thompson, in a comeback highly noted for its statistical improbability. February 1 – Duke's streak of 167 appearances in the AP Poll ended...

where he is told they want the "Golden Bail", the ship's Infinite Improbability Drive. They take it, shoot him, and leave. Back on Slartibartfast's...

name, should be able to advance arguments regarding the probability or improbability of the specific emendations Luxenberg has proposed rather than simply...

collaborated again on Harry Black. Variety said "Despite some loose ends and improbabilities it adds up to sound entertainment with a strong climax that will have...

attractively characterised in a modest thriller suffering less from its many improbabilities than a meandering, over-deliberate and for the most part tedious narrative...

predilection for anti-Germanic readings occasionally entangles him in improbabilities, Writing the Barbarian Past remains an excellent introduction to the...

misgiving a green rose, knowing it to be sugar, so one can accept the improbabilities and the fantasy with which Mrs. Christie's stories are liberally sprinkled...

Roet, Sander; Aarøen, Ola; van Erp, Titus S. (2020). "PyRETIS 2: An improbability drive for rare events". Journal of Computational Chemistry. 41 (5):...

New York Times, described it as a "deliberately doltish comedy of improbabilities." Brantley praised the star: "Mr. Broderick floats toward that rarefied...

comprehensible manner but the other acts on the contrary; it thrives on the improbability of reality and on the fact that this can be mediated through photography...

Thompson. Fred Thompson campaign press release. 3 January 2008. The Improbability of the D.C. Madam's Suicide, David Martin, June 10, 2008. See May 31...

time first thought they were receiving prank calls due to the supposed improbability of such a severe accident. The legal proceedings investigating the cause...

pastoral, and inside and outside, employing absurd juxtapositions, improbabilities of scale and vibrant colors, in pointed but playful explorations of...

Kokand fortification of Khujand. Although the Bukhara emir, aware of the improbability of continuing the further struggle with Russia, expressed obedience...

romance as being defined by its fantastic nature ("its imagination and improbability") while defining the "modern" romance as being more deeply rooted in...

no determinable evidence of pilot incapacitation, coupled with its improbability, it was deemed probable that the Vampire was affected by wake turbulence...