#plausible

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#edge #fake #important #most #plausible

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#convince #create #false #help #i

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. ↗

— Charles Edward Merriam

#doing #done #given #imperative #invent

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#damaging #gradual #more #outcomes #plausible

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. ↗

— Amy Clampitt

#doing #men #most #plausible #some

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#course #had #i #keep #limits

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#difficulties #find #groups #job #nominee

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#directly #either #evidence #having #his