unlikeliness

Everyone talked at the time about the unlikeliness of “Ho Hey” becoming a hit.

It’s a place marked by “unlikeliness and lies and contradictions and occasional transcendence.”

When the sun dipped beneath the mountains and the glare subsided, the lake’s colors deepened and the unlikeliness of it all seemed to double.

Its best feature is perhaps its unlikeliness: It has the oddness of a passion project, inexplicable in commercial terms — three-season deal notwithstanding — but something its makers just wanted to see.

Illustrating the unlikeliness of his stardom, when Walker walked to his car after Monday’s win, he did so virtually alone.