Celebrity endorsements of good causes are sometimes characterised by both ignorance and credulity. |
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Belief in plots and conspiracies was yet another sign of the credulity of the times. |
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Where earlier historians had read ancient authors with deference and credulity, he approached their works with presumptuous skepticism. |
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Nevertheless suspicion bred credulity, and society's reprobates could not be presumed unavailable for the purposes of prison plotters. |
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Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her. |
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You see, citizens had been pushed to such extremes of cynicism that this latest transparent assault on their credulity was enough to break them. |
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Depressed by the abundance of absurd claims for quack alternative therapies, he had set up the site as a credulity experiment. |
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This is an odd but very Washingtonian combination of cynicism and credulity. |
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It strains credulity to believe that these guys were doing this from any altruistic motive. |
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It would strain anyone's therapeutic credulity to believe that Audrey needed no further help. |
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All that said, the prosecution's version of events seems to stretch credulity. |
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Paternal credulity in Terence generally limits itself to mistaking undutiful sons for obedient and honest sons. |
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As students of urban folklore know, legends are perpetuated for reasons other than simple credulity. |
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The amazing credulity of the customers didn't just apply to the product itself, but to the company. |
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At one extreme, it is used to represent the unswerving conviction and absolute credulity of the true believer. |
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Questions of seeing, believing, and credulity are explored in all of the essays and projects in this issue. |
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But as Imogen's obsession intensifies, it gets harder and harder not to grow tired of the way everyone caters to her with indulgent credulity. |
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Those were dear good people but they must have carried simplicity and credulity to the limit. |
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We are required to decide on a measure which stretches our credulity to the limit. |
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One is amazed at the extent of the media's ignorance and credulity. |
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When fictional characters conquer our credulity to this extent, the likelihood is that they stand for some big idea that might, we think, make the world a better place. |
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The truth is a tale of invented history and human credulity. |
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Promising to abolish it would have stretched credulity too far. |
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By the end of the book, readers will have encountered many illustrations of the incredible credulity and cruelty that are among the most tragic of our species' traits. |
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To hear him now blame others for their credulity is breathtaking. |
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For their credulity, they are showered with lies, exaggerations and half-truths, all of which find a sizable percentage of proponents among the voters. |
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You must also be on your guard against the interested recitals of persons who work on credulity with a view to their own benefit. |
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While obviously not as cartoonish as the deluded leaders in The Office, du Pont seemed to stretch credulity at times. |
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However, the notion that nearly two-thirds of Iranians want another four years of Ahmadinejad strains any credulity. |
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This amusing 1965 satire dramatizes the ability of a charismatic doctor to exploit the fear, greed and credulity of an entire town. |
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While scoffing at the credulity of those who obey the requirements of God, the multitudes eagerly accept the delusions of Satan. |
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What counts is to prevent disinformation and fraud, to make sure that we are not playing on the credulity of individuals or populations. |
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It stretches credulity to argue that all this money has resulted in a more porous border. |
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Some of the annoyances can be understood, even if only at a stretch of the credulity. |
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This provision seeks to reduce the exploitation of the inexperience or credulity of children to incite them to release personal data. |
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I think it starts to stretch credulity if this exemption continues indefinitely, but generally I'm sensitive to this kind of criticism. |
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The judgment requires that credulity be suspended in determining that a group did not intend to persuade. |
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And to have three buildings completely collapse due to this unlikely mechanism on the same day strains credulity. |
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Let the faithful remember moreover that true devotion consists neither in sterile or transitory affection, nor in a certain vain credulity. |
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His detective novels contain none of the twists that strain credulity so often relied upon by thriller novelists. |
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Kim Bodnia, Mikael Persbrandt and Maria Bonnevie deliver naturalistic, largely unmannered performances that give their characters a warts-and-all credulity. |
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The excuse that Netanyahu was blindsided by settler gremlins in the Interior Ministry strains credulity. |
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Not given to theatrics, his aggressive questioning is restricted to occasions when witnesses' answers have stretched the outer edges of credulity. |
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All of them are presented as taking place in an environment of such reckless irresponsibility and callous disregard of the value of human life as to strain credulity. |
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It deftly appealed to and mocked American credulity, both satirizing and cashing in on the thralldom of rock and roll and of Elvis in particular: like the singer, it shook things up. |
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The authority and intimidating power of obscure and specialized language still hold sway, and the rule of pedantry over credulity has changed only its outward appearance. |
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This is a test of credulity and an insult to our collective intelligence. |
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Which measures should be taken towards ensuring that the credulity and lacking media literacy of vulnerable consumers are not exploited by advertising, marketing and promotion activities? |
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To attack your organization, social engineering hackers exploit the credulity, laziness, good manners, or even enthusiasm of your staff. |
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But it would scarcely stretch credulity to imagine that the respondent was influenced by the fact that the complainant was Aboriginal, perhaps assuming too quickly that she must be drunk because she was Aboriginal. |
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If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity. |
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People of narrow reach are propone to credulity, mostly because they were never enlightened about the benefits for their lives by the act of thinking and, above all, by the fact of knowing. |
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Most advertising codes, including that of the International Chamber of Commerce, contain comprehensive and effective safeguards which acknowledge childrens natural credulity and gullibility. |
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His many embellishings of the tale stretched the credulity of the listeners. |
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He criticised those whose faith was shaped by books and fashion, drawing an analogy between the scepticism of educated men and the credulity of the masses. |
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Gerald was a keen and observant student of natural history, but the value of his observations is lessened by credulity and inability to distinguish fact from legend. |
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If there is a grain of truth in any of this, it would not stretch credulity to imagine that the Vivaldis got as far as Senegal, and that their adventures ended there. |
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What could be the possible reasons for that adamancy and this credulity? |
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Not only Cato is vanquished by Caesar, but the treachery and perfidiousness of Syphax prevail over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba. |
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