unlikeliness

• “He used the extreme unlikeliness of a rescue scenario to his advantage and invented the infinite improbability drive, which became a major plot point in the story.”

  2010 July 05 | The Long Write

• “But not even she can challenge Paul's teenage daughter for sheer unlikeliness.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Theater: Close Up Space Wastes Talented David Hyde Pierce

• “My interest in her was sparked by the sheer unlikeliness of her character.”

  A life of contrast: Daisy, Countess of Warwick | Edwardian Promenade

• “The reason, surely, was the sheer fantastical unlikeliness that Hugh Grant Hugh Grant! might have concealed a tape recorder somewhere on his person before driving down to Dover to entrap him.”

  The Guardian: From Stephen Fry to Hugh Grant: The rise of the celebrity activist

• “Yet the reputation is difficult to marry with the warm, friendly and, quite frankly, hilarious gentleman in an anorak I find in the lobby of a hotel in Beverly Hills, looking a little bemused, possibly because he is standing next to – with pleasing unlikeliness – Joan Rivers.”

  The Guardian: The dark comedy of Werner Herzog

• “Hedge funds eventually evolved, by intentional design effort, insurance policies against unlikely things happening because of the actuarial unlikeliness of those things happening.”

  The Huffington Post: Stephen Herrington: Swarm of the Black Swans

• “In 2003 Clive Woodward's World Cup winners were heavily criticised for the stodginess of their play all the way to the moment of victory, and four years later there were similar concerns when England emerged from their pool despite conceding 36 unanswered points to the Springboks and reached the final without persuading observers to apply superlatives to anything other than the unlikeliness of their revival.”

  The Guardian: Why the world loves to hate England's rugby | Richard Williams

• “It's because of the unlikeliness of the place as a gastronomic destination.”

  The Wall Street Journal: From Ships to Michelin Stars

• “So many years without hard, physical evidence; the extreme unlikeliness of a successful cover-up that spans over fifty years, one that would involve not only multiple U.S. administrations, but numerous foreign governments; the distances involved in interstellar travel ...”

  Governments Suppress Alien Truth - Former NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell - NASA Watch

• “Instead he argued that the requirement for the Security Council to ‘consider’ any ‘further’ breaches did not mean that it was required actually to decide what to do about them – thus provoking Wood to point out the inherent unlikeliness of this interpretation.”

  Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...

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