Sentence 1: Villains are picked off in order of ascending nastiness--sadistic brutes, followed by smarmy flacks, followed by twisted visionaries in expensive suits.

Sentence 2: What start out as great ideas by visionaries become twisted into monstrous machines of suffering.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: It's hard to say whether this is really true of Bill Clinton.

Sentence 2: It's very obvious that this is not true of Bill Clinton.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: no

Sentence 1: um-hum i bet she did

Sentence 2: I doubt that she did.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
no