This was a most improbable rescue against the longest odds.
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"It's the most improbable scenario I could imagine," he said.
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But it proved the strength of Sally's memories, even the most improbable.
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It also harbored another distinction: the most improbable completion of Week 12.
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This is, perhaps, the most improbable and inspiring chapter of the story yet.
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Coming off their most improbable victory yet, the Republicans would beg to differ.
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Most improbable, Anna consumes cases of Merlot and an incapacitating quantity of opioids.
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They show us that, with practice, even the most improbable things become possible.
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My sister managed my Senate campaign and pulled off the most improbable upset.
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Timothy Egan Pretend you are that most improbable of combinations — a lovable billionaire.
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On Sunday night, the Patriots completed the most improbable comeback in Super Bowl history.
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They're a team filled with the most improbable stories and the most unlikely stars.
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Vikings 29, Saints 225 | Divisional Round MINNEAPOLIS — About a half-hour after securing the most improbable victory of the N.F.L. playoffs with the most improbable pass of his improbable season, Case Keenum sat facing his stall in the Minnesota Vikings locker room.
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The most improbable thing is that this short film is based off a YouTube comment.
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But, this is not the most improbable moment of "Nailed," as this episode is titled.
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It begins: Two years, ago your name came up in one of the most improbable places.
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But again, the winds of change are stirring, coming out of the most improbable place: infosec.
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Dikötter's broader point is that this manner spread to the most improbable corners of the world.
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So Curry dipped beneath him and put up that most improbable of shots, a teardrop 3-pointer.
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Editorial Donald Trump ascended the dais on Thursday night as the most improbable of Republican presidential nominees.
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But a year later, she was baptized before network TV cameras by a most improbable mentor: The Rev.
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" The most improbable wins were summed up with an unassuming "That wasn't the way we drew it up.
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Perhaps the most improbable aspect of Brighton's highly improbable automatic promotion push is the presence of Chris Hughton.
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Perhaps the most improbable part of all this is that there were ever TV shows about poor people.
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Finally, Henry David Thoreau's classic "Walden" has inspired what some are calling the world's most improbable video game.
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I'm thinking of "Carol" and especially "The Big Short," which is surely in the running for Most Improbable Picture.
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Though that may be the festival's most improbable combination, its program promises many fertile musical and performative cross-pollinations.
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Mr. Hatch was elected in 1976 in one of the most improbable Senate victories, still, in recent American history.
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It's that his political revolution is winning, turning him into one of the most improbable celebrities in recent American history.
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That he has come as far as he has in politics remains one of the most improbable stories of our time.
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Manafort's work engineering Yanukovych's rise from disgrace up to the country's highest office may represent his most improbable success so far.
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He may also be his party's best hope for pulling off this year's most improbable feat: flipping a Democratic House seat.
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The whole world knows Ali knocked Foreman out in Zaire, one of the biggest, most improbable, and inspiring upsets in sports history.
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Head of Zeus; £14.9953The historian who inspired "Hamilton", Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical, argues that America's most improbable president has been badly misunderstood.
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Still, for a figure as familiar as Clinton, getting voters to give her a fresh look would be the most improbable of feats.
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Its cavalcade of breezy colors, flashing lights, nature's most improbable animal the flamingo, and like, jumping marlins and shit, instantly draws the eye.
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Nine months after guiding the Foxes to one of the most improbable title runs in sports, Leicester City have fired manager Claudio Ranieri.
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They have been similarly taken by the offense of the Final Four's most improbable contestant, Loyola-Chicago, the Missouri Valley Conference tournament champion.
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Henry David Thoreau's classic "Walden" is the inspiration for what Smithsonian Magazine is calling "the world's most improbable video game": Walden, a Game.
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The Fast and The Furious, perhaps Hollywood's most improbable and over the top action saga, is back for its eighth (!!!) installment next month.
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And then, at 219, he completed one of the most improbable comebacks in Olympic history, finishing fifth in Beijing in the 203 meter free.
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Mr Kamstra is the boss of Alphamin Resources, a Canadian-funded company that is trying to build perhaps the most improbable mine in Africa.
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The most improbable qualifier is 688th-ranked Christian Harrison, 22, a once-promising American junior who has missed years with myriad injuries and surgeries.
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In the years since then, it has gained a reputation as one of the best restaurants in the Southwest, and also the most improbable.
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"If you're boastful, and in the most improbable ways, it's just becomes outlandish," said Nicholas Burns, a senior diplomat under President George W. Bush.
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He is the oldest, wealthiest, and altogether most improbable person ever elected president of the U.S. and he will not be got rid of easily.
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It's hard to nail down the most improbable thing about Upside Pizza, a new slice joint a few blocks from the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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It seems like one of the most improbable art forms ever created, but what does it really take to turn a block of ice into art?
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David Ayres, 85033, became the oldest goalie in NHL history to win his regular-season debut through the most improbable of circumstances on Saturday in Toronto.
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All in all, it was hardly an auspicious beginning for what would end up as Ryan's seventh—and certainly most improbable—Major League Baseball no-hitter.
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It is, in many ways, the most improbable of sequels, following a cult sci-fi film 35 years after the original flamed out at the box office.
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His opponent will be 772nd-ranked Marcus Willis, one of the most improbable men to play a second-round match at Wimbledon in many a full moon.
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And in one of the most improbable (and mismatched) collaborations in pop history, Mr. Cohen made his 1977 album "Death of a Ladies' Man" with Phil Spector.
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Anchors like Levy have power, too, because they're famous and in front of cameras (though the show finds the most improbable ways for her to wield it).
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Syracuse isn't your typical Cinderella, but this is a team that knows its weaknesses, and isn't afraid to break convention to pull out the most improbable of wins.
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A Democratic victory in an Alabama Senate race would rank as one of the most improbable, astonishing outcomes in the last few years of improbable, astonishing political events.
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No, I don't mean that they've been surpassed in their claim as the most improbable champions—I just mean that pretty much everything has been written about them already.
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Beat: I cover the relationship between President Trump and the conservative movement, one of the most improbable but so far successful relationships in American politics in a long time.
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In the decisive seventh game of the second round, he made one of the most improbable buzzer-beating shots in NBA history to send the Raptors to the semi-finals.
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The reason people hilariously talk about him as a possible Hall of Fame quarterback is because those runs were two of the most improbable and memorable runs of the past two decades.
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At Aqueduct, a timely head bob barely got Outwork to the wire ahead of Trojan Nation, whose 81-to-1 odds would have qualified him as one of most improbable Wood winners.
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Despite its reputation as a title contender in previous years, Syracuse, with the up-and-down season it has had, was one of the most improbable Final Four teams in the tournament's history.
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SON of a paddy farmer, born in a village in the colonial-era kingdom of Mysore, H.D. Deve Gowda has a good claim to be the most improbable of all India's prime ministers.
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After all, who knew anything about Team USA goalie Jim Craig or goal scorers Mark Johnson, Buzz Schneider and Mike Eruzione before they pulled off the most improbable upset in U.S. hockey history?
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This is why Nicklaus's victory still stands out: it was the most improbable victory of his career, and it was given to the sort of sentimental mythology that golf is given to embrace.
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The guy who one year ago was seen as the architect of the most improbable campaign win of our lifetimes, the co-chief of staff and the Trump whisperer on America First, is finished.
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But here they are, four wins from the most improbable championship in N.H.L. history, if not all of North American major professional sports, after a 229-23 victory against the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.
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The show had already filmed its first five episodes of this season out of consideration for Kerry Washington's pregnancy, but the writer's room nearly predicted one of the most improbable developments of the U.S. election.
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In 2009 the unheralded Y.E. Yang rallied from a seven-stroke deficit to beat Mr Woods at the 2009 PGA Championship, which by EAGLE's estimate was the most improbable major victory of the 21st century.
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It also signaled the rise of one of the most improbable figures in Venezuela's political turmoil last year: a police officer who had once starred in a low-budget action movie about a crime squad.
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But it is a huge leap from the junior to senior level of women's skating, and Tennell is headed to the 20183 Winter Games next month in South Korea as a most improbable American champion.
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It's also a point that feels all the more pertinent right now, as Leicester City seem intent on surfing their tidal wave of high spirits all the way to the most improbable title of modern times.
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When it had all ended, Notre Dame a national champion in the most improbable fashion, the shock radiated outward from the court and into both locker rooms, knocking winner and runner-up alike almost physically backwards.
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The seconds kept ticking away, and every so often, I'd peek up from my screen to make sure nothing ridiculous had happened — like the Patriots mounting the most improbable comeback in Super Bowl history, for instance.
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The glittering pageantry of Las Vegas, the N.H.L.'s newest market, meets the white-out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, a dyed-in-the-wool hockey town, in perhaps the most improbable conference finals matchup in N.H.L. history.
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By the time Jordan and the Bulls visited Toronto five months later, on March 229, 230, the Raptors were ready for revenge, and the stage was set for one of the most improbable upsets in basketball history.
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Corbyn's journey from Eurosceptic to last line of defence against leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement, from Socialist rebel to leader of an opposition united against Johnson is among the most improbable in modern British history.
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Corbyn's journey – from Eurosceptic to last line of defense against leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement, from Socialist rebel to leader of an opposition united against Johnson – is among the most improbable in modern British history.
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Though Game 73 of this most improbable World Series in memory concluded in Cleveland, you bet your proton packs that Murray — as much a Cubs fan as he is a Ghostbuster — was there in the stands Wednesday night.
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"Given the financial markets turmoil of recent days, the government saw it fit to prepare for all scenarios, even the most improbable, to be ready to step in to protect savers," the Italian Treasury said in a statement.
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After the Dolphins RB pulled off the most improbable TD of the season -- completing a 69-yard game-winning score with no time left against the Pats -- Drake threw the ball about 30 rows up into the stands.
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The school's 2011 Final Four run — as a No. 11 seed that had to play an extra game because of the expanded 68-team field — was one of the most improbable in the history of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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Most likely, they'll recall the two second-half stoppage time goals in the Champions League Final against Bayern Munich, which turned a one-goal deficit into one of the most improbable comebacks in the history of the sport.
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Up here in the frozen lands just to the right of the UK and atop Germany, we have been basking in the attention lavished upon us during this most improbable of election years, thanks to the Sanders campaign.
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As Mr Adamsky shows, some of the church's earliest, and most improbable, relationships were developed with scientists, both military and civilian, who were involved in different stages of the nuclear cycle, from handling nuclear fuel to designing new weapons.
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Before the formal talks begin on Thursday, the two men will sit for a small dinner with only a select number of aides -- an intimate kick-off to a summit balanced on perhaps the world's most improbable diplomatic friendship.
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Fortunately, since this was a treaty ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate on May 27, 210, it cannot be formally ended without a similar two-thirds vote, which seems most improbable in today's divided political environment.
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In "The Kings of the Dollar Slice Build a Better Pizza," Julia Moskin writes: It's hard to nail down the most improbable thing about Upside Pizza, a new slice joint a few blocks from the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Though her husband's boss — President Trump — has repeatedly called for the shuttering of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Second Lady Karen Pence has emerged as one of the agency's most improbable champions.
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Sophisticated scanning equipment at Durres has often found cannabis and other drugs hidden in the most improbable parts of lorries headed for Italy, but it failed to detect eight metric tonnes of barely hidden weed in a truck on Feb. 5.
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CreditCreditDado Galdieri for The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — One of the world's most improbable sports centers is a hulking, light-blue building on a mud-caked alley in Chacrinha, a favela on the western outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
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After the golfer took home the green jacket at the Masters last month — earning his first major win in 11 years and simultaneously pulling one of the most improbable career comebacks in recent history — he was congratulated by the president on Twitter.
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You know, made the title run seem a little more probable.. Now, with the team in disarray and ownership deciding to dump the manager who made it all possible, we can truly appreciate what the Foxes accomplished: one of the most improbable
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That it took so long for Bencic to finally reach a Grand Slam semi-final when it had once seemed like such success would be a certainty, she said she never lost faith during the arduous journey even when it seemed most improbable.
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The win sparked a frenzy on social media, as fans and celebrities alike reached out to congratulate the 43-year-old golfer on pulling one of the most improbable career comebacks in recent history (even better than Michael Jordan's, if you ask the man himself).
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Syracuse 68, Virginia 62 CHICAGO — Shortly before Coach Jim Boeheim cut down the net to celebrate a most improbable victory, he grabbed a microphone and noted to the assembled fans that he had just witnessed the best comeback in Syracuse's long, rich basketball history.
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For a President whose election and elevation to the White House was among the most improbable in modern political history, the United Nations stage represented a milestone, even if some in the audience still find the sight of Trump in front of the iconic green marble jarring.
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CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Delcan & Co. The way Alastair Mactaggart usually tells the story of his awakening — the way he told it even before he became the most improbable, and perhaps the most important, privacy activist in America — begins with wine and pizza in the hills above Oakland, Calif.
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"It was the most improbable story in the history of international aviation, for a passenger aircraft cruising at a speed of 280 kilometers per hour, to hit the ground with everyone on board unhurt," Peter Brotschi, a Swiss aviation expert, told the state broadcaster SRF after the recent discovery.
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Sister Wendy Beckett, a Roman Catholic nun who interrupted a cloistered life of prayer in England in 1991 and soared to international stardom with lyrical BBC documentaries that made her one of the most improbable art critics in television history, died on Wednesday in the village of East Harling, England.
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On the same stretch of Causeway Street where their last appearance in the Cup finals cratered 49 years ago, the Blues — who had missed the playoffs only nine times since the team's inaugural 1967-68 season but had never savored their ecstatic conclusion — completed the most improbable in-season turnabout in N.H.L. history.
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He got ample help from teammate Kyrie Irving, whose 223-pointer with 53 seconds remaining gave the Cavaliers their final lead — and one of the most improbable titles in the history of the N.B.A. Improbable because the Cavaliers became the first team to rally from a 3-1 series deficit to win a title.
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In perhaps the most improbable leak of a movie ever, Sony Pictures seems to have accidentally uploaded the entire, full length movie of Khali the Killer to YouTube early this morning, instead of a new red band trailer announcing the film's availability on disc and digital that the company theoretically intended to upload, via CBR.
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For this, unlike most of the library-bound literary reassessments produced to mark the moment, demands of Dickson many thousands of miles of hard slogging as he seeks to inquire into the playwright's appeal around the world and to discover the plays being performed with often wild and eccentric enthusiasm in the most improbable places.
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Saints 73, Giants 18 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Given that the opponent was the New Orleans Saints, and the game was at home, on a crystalline autumn night, you could forgive the optimistic Giants fan for thinking this might be the Sunday to end what looks more and more like the N.F.L.'s most improbable streak.
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For them, Trump represents the most improbable of all ascensions, one fueled by their undying loyalty, and he represents their personal sentiments about society: a thumbing of the nose at the establishment, a rebuke of the authorities and the intellectuals, a disdain for inclusion and multiculturalism, and a willingness to fight for white power and its privileges and purity.
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When the Democratic National Convention is called to order on July 2900, some pundits are suggesting another drama-filled gathering, starring the most improbable of presidential rock stars, Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE.
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The gallery spaces display some of the work that has been created here: ceramic musical jewelry from Christie Wright and Arjen Noordeman; a clay kimono from Karen LaMonte, whose glass dresses are in several museum collections around the world; and the most improbable project of all, Filip Jonker's "Dante GT ceramic," a 1985 Pontiac Fiero with a frame that's been covered with a ceramic body.
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NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Less than two months after a civilian government took many of the levers of power in Myanmar for the first time in a half century, Secretary of State John Kerry conducted a seemingly routine diplomatic meeting on Sunday with the most improbable Burmese counterpart: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident who now sits atop a government that had long kept her under house arrest.
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