Her eyes darted to him quickly, her gaze showing her undisguised disbelief. |
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A murmur of disbelief spread through the room, but quieted when she spoke again. |
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Thieves made off with a couple of masterpieces while museum-goers watched in disbelief. |
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Its thorns latched on and tore holes in our flesh leaving gaps of salty disbelief. |
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If small churches and dissenting sects thrived in the slums, the great current was active or passive disbelief. |
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The pose of disbelief is all the more threadbare given the facts on the ground in Iraq after more than three months of US military occupation. |
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Shaking the ache out of my hand and pretending not to heed my momentarily stupefied foe, I brush past him, taking advantage of his disbelief. |
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If the advert merely excites your curiosity or interest, something Maloney calls curious disbelief, that will be enough. |
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Rolling his eyes in disbelief, Jamie faced the sky and flicked a bit of ash down below. |
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Prague by day is a melee of tourists, heads cocked skyward, nodding in disbelief at yet another beautiful building. |
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By the time we slow a little into a patch of sharkless blue, I am pumped with adrenaline and metaphorically rubbing my eyes in disbelief. |
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Even at the bell to start the round she stood for a second and looked in disbelief at her coach. |
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I wanted to know, in disbelief, and with more than just a shade of annoyance. |
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Even a short tour of the museum fills you with disgust and revulsion once you overcome your disbelief. |
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I shook my head in disbelief, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I had to do something about my actions, or rather my lack of action. |
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While we ultimately know this film is a mockumentary, these techniques allow us to temporarily suspend our disbelief. |
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Her throat felt dry and her eyes moistened as a tear jerked itself out, her breath turned to gasps of disbelief. |
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I was in disbelief at how these public officials weren't interested in hearing the other side. |
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He looked at the horse in disbelief, and then made a shooing motion with his free hand. |
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Suspend disbelief as the writers reach new depths of unbelievability, by way of twists and turns that infinitely outstrip series one and two. |
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The man slowly unbent himself, a look of disbelief on his face which was now slightly pink. |
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It is a voice swallowed in uncontainable anger still struggling with its own disbelief. |
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My host was unfazed and, before we left, to their delight and disbelief, he presented each of them with a million-dollar note. |
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With goggle-eyed disbelief, we follow the exploits of this audacious free-spirit, gifted with the ability of unflagging self-invention. |
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To our utter disbelief, the story turned out to be totally unfounded, without a grain of truth. |
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Concern for their disbelief, the dishonesty of western leaders and the way in which the mass media has everyone in an unmerciful grip. |
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She snorted in disbelief when she noticed his books were even in alphabetical order. |
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I just have problems suspending my disbelief of unverified conjecture on a universe none of us can see. |
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Carl stared in disbelief at the bodies of some thirty or so children trapped in their seats. |
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He looked back and there was Megan, standing at the door with a tear stained face, her expression showing pure and utter confusion and disbelief. |
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The actress was forced to review her disbelief in ghosts when she saw a spectre at New York's Belasco Theater. |
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As she was standing in disbelief, she heard a mind-shattering squawk and felt the bird's talons tear into her back. |
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Unison members in colleges were in disbelief that they had not been called out alongside members of other unions. |
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His expression soon turned to disbelief however, as he reached into his pocket and pulled out ten shiny half dollars. |
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The initial reaction from governing elites and their media camp followers was disbelief. |
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We would like to voice our disgust, anger and utter disbelief that they had considered such an outrageous act. |
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Caroline told Wendy later, in total disbelief, that Pete had wanted them to change places so he could drive. |
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I never, ever, was able to suspend disbelief about subvocalization when reading science fiction. |
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The disbelief compounded a bizarre, almost surreal fortnight for the south coast club. |
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His bushy brow furrowing, Zethus peered after them speechlessly, choked by his disbelief. |
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Reading fiction requires the ability to suspend disbelief, to dream, and that's a critical faculty that we all need to exercise. |
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The guy is an artist and he inspires his audience not only to suspend disbelief but also, like all great showmen, to believe. |
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It's not like superheroes, where an essentially silly subject has a huge cultural resonance allowing an audience to suspend disbelief. |
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Feature films invite us to defy reality, believe a fiction, suspend disbelief. |
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For a couple of days, even respectable members of the scientific community were suspending disbelief. |
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As with most Hollywood films, you suspend disbelief in order to enjoy them, knowing that they would pop under the slightest examination. |
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For anyone who willingly suspends disbelief, it is an easy matter to enter into the world of pyramids. |
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Will's face was a picture of incredulous disbelief haunted by a suspicion that some of it could be true. |
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Helen's mouth fell open in disbelief as he handed her a small parcel wrapped in brown paper. |
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Companies that are no longer in business spent millions on parties and promotions still spoken of in tones of disbelief and nostalgia. |
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I can already hear ten thousand asthmatic cries of disbelief rising in the peanut gallery. |
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A cloud passed over his face as he struggled with the information and his companion's jaw dropped in disbelief at the usurer's injunction. |
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I remember yelling at my brother in shock and disbelief that fateful April Fools' night. |
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Athlete tests positive, athlete feigns disbelief and incredulity and throws questions in every direction. |
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The dominant emotional reaction to the letter was shock and disbelief or anger and indignation. |
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I'm still in disbelief, and keep looking at the ring on my finger, pinching myself! |
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Offering up the tired conflation of religion with mega-violence is hardly a positive reason for disbelief. |
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I bellowed in a state of disbelief and incredulousness, as the use of an interrobang as punctuation so richly indicates. |
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Conversation is however interspersed with the easier compliments on our chopstick skills and disbelief at how hairy the boys are. |
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Jarod stared in disbelief, then raised his weapon and fired point-blank at Gabriel's chest. |
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Cynthia threw her arms around her husband's neck, in a flush of excitement and disbelief. |
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We watched in disbelief as the nation was craftily wrested from our grip in these three short years. |
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But those who understand the frailties of human nature will find it easier to suspend disbelief, and even sympathise a bit. |
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The thought of seeing 40 faces simultaneously crumple with disbelief was too much for us to bear. |
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The shocked motorist rubbed her eyes in disbelief when she pranged her car. |
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I keep you dangling between belief and disbelief by turns, and I don't mind admitting that I have a reason for it. |
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I gaped at them all, staring in stunned disbelief from one face to the next. |
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I walk out of the lapping, transparent water in a daze made up of disbelief as much as exhaustion. |
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I was in a daze, either from the alcohol or my disbelief about what really happened. |
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How can you reconcile that belief with your disbelief in universal preordination? |
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The denials and expressions of disbelief and even disgust were therefore a bit of a surprise. |
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If you have even the slightest degree of cynicism in your nature, it has moments that will make you howl with derision and disbelief. |
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His ears pricked, trying to identify the sound which had cut even through the grumble of the surf, and then he blinked in disbelief. |
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This intense feeling of disbelief and relief has been a typical reaction in New England. |
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The shock and disbelief was hard to bear, and we were all overwhelmed with grief. |
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To succeed as art, sci-fi and fantasy have to persuade us to suspend our disbelief in the world being conjured up. |
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My first reaction on discovering the burglary was disbelief, indignation and real sadness. |
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Why must you always be expected to suspend your disbelief while watching a comedy? |
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One only had to look at the bewilderment and disbelief on their faces to gauge what they must be feeling. |
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I like to go to movies to suspend my disbelief for a few hours, and I have to pay for that. |
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They had met the news that the terrorists lived among them with shock and disbelief. |
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His outburst ended with a slight smirk, no doubt at my expression of unrestrained disbelief and anger. |
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The expression on Jessica's face changed, I saw the shock and disbelief, and then sadness. |
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Yesterday parents waiting for their children outside school reacted with fury and disbelief at the news. |
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It must survive rejection or disbelief to either be accepted or at least raise a reasonable doubt. |
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When a diagnosis is made that your loved one has a very serious illness the first reaction is of course shock and disbelief. |
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In fact, like any kind of entertainment, it requires a willing suspension of disbelief to make it work at all. |
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No one in her family could believe that she had suffered a stroke at such a young age, but soon their disbelief turned to anger. |
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The results are a measure of belief in human evolution, and disbelief in creation science. |
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Now he is presenting nothing less than an entire history of atheism, and an impassioned argument for disbelief in all things supernatural. |
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Among the different disciplines, disbelief in the existence of God was not correlated with any particular area of expertise. |
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The initial shock and disbelief at the news was replaced by a gut-wrenching amalgamation of loss, tears and anger. |
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She believes, even as she acknowledges that her belief must exist alongside disbelief. |
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The Indians have been watching all this, with equal fits of paroxysms of disbelief in private, and cool equanimity in public. |
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Ashley stood on the hillside looking down at the devastation below in disbelief. |
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I looked on in disbelief and her mother walked in and started screaming fit to bust. |
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There is an instant change from mild anger and heavy annoyance to startled astonishment and disbelief. |
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Hearing this devastating turn of conversation, my jaw fell slack in disbelief. |
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As I motioned him ahead he looked at me with disbelief then lunged forward. |
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The shadows were just barely lengthening and Kristram looked at me in disbelief. |
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The fact that this reaction was so widespread indicates the depths of our disbelief. |
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Flowers and wooden curios were thrown onto bonfires as their owners watched in disbelief. |
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When I related to them how, on one jump, I was caught in a thermal updraft and was actually going up instead of down, they laughed in disbelief. |
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Shaking his head in disbelief, he wondered how he'd come to wind up in this situation to begin with. |
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The name hung in the air like an alarm bell before Elise shook her head in disbelief. |
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Staring in disbelief Kana realized that the flower had withered slowly beneath her touch. |
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In the brutalized area one kilometer to the south, a weeping community leader put that sadness into words of disbelief. |
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Shock and disbelief were writ large on the faces as irate depositors thronged the bank's Sector 8 branch to know the status of their deposits. |
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Shock and disbelief sent ratchet and hairdryer alike clattering to the forest floor. |
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The thread of disbelief in his voice was laced with a subtle smear of sympathy. |
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I remember my disbelief when the cell phone on the belt of the man next to me rang during a Yule invocation. |
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There is disbelief that the US, rather late in the day, has decided that this is a crusade for human rights. |
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Even so, the very thought of such self-inflicted personal injury leaves many people with a sense of disbelief and repulsion. |
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I can certainly identify with the disbelief that one's love can be returned. |
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She rang off, leaving me staring at the telephone, mouth open in disbelief. |
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She gingerly pulled the rope of pearls out of the box, staring at them in disbelief, as if she expected them to disappear any moment. |
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You would find faith and righteousness arrayed against the forces of darkness and ignorance, tyranny and disbelief. |
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Sid and I stood and watched in disbelief as a second fox lolloped along the same escape route. |
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I looked up to the transmitter controller who had a look of complete disbelief. |
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Miller discussed and investigated the philosophical basis and long history of atheism and disbelief. |
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He covered his disbelief with a feigned smile, walking his wrinkled fingers across the deep mahogany colored desk. |
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He claims to be being completely truthful, despite the interviewer's disbelief and the fact that his face has changed in strange and unnatural ways. |
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The English and their Flemish allies cheered and celebrated the victory in disbelief. |
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Their fathers sitting there misty-eyed with joy and disbelief, their brothers lurking in the corner muttering with envy. |
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On the other hand, suspending all rational powers of disbelief and gasping out loud in glee can be great fun, and livens up a mundane weekday evening. |
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She heard his sniff of disbelief, but she didn't let that deter her. |
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After blinking in surprise, Tyler recovers with a snort of disbelief. |
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It is in the culture of disbelief so prevalent amongst officials and in their sheer ignorance of the complexities of the cases they have to decide. |
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This is just sickening us all and there's a real sense of disbelief here. |
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She could sense his disbelief and excitement at her suggestions, mingling with the smell of his blood, adding a sharp tang much like a spice on food. |
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The look of slack-jawed disbelief on someone's face is even more satisfying than reliving the whole brain-bending experience through summarization. |
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We were shocked and astonished, thrown into a state of utter disbelief. |
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Doesn't mean he cannot swash or buckle or both, but it will require additional suspension of disbelief, particularly if he has a fistfight with some muscled-up 20-year old. |
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Her voice was shrill with disbelief and choked with grief as she spoke to someone on her cell phone in Fujianese. |
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His face seemed to dripping with disbelief, rage and sadness all at once. |
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She could not even utter a cry of pain, just a short gasp of disbelief. |
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Neil Webb, 90th MDG emergency medical technician, looked up with a grin of disbelief, as a bronco bucked and narrowly missed crushing a downed contestant's foot. |
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But amid their tumbling words describing their woes, they express disbelief much will come from the talks. |
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It requires that the viewer exhibit a fair amount of willing suspension of disbelief, but buying into the essential premise is more than half the battle. |
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Out of the corner of my eye I noted Patterson scoffing in disbelief. |
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Nicola screeched in disbelief, loud enough to penetrate Allie's earphones. |
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The thought made me swoon with disbelief, so after eight songs had passed, I wasn't sure if it was the twelve cups of punch or the dance that was making me delirious. |
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But this has happened with enough frequency to blow away my disbelief. |
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Colin gazed at his brother full on, disbelief apparent in his gray eyes. |
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Viewers are watching today as the Florida Keys took a beating, while the victims of Katrina shook their heads in disbelief that Rita may also be coming their way. |
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Here, the suspension of disbelief is somewhat trickier, because a great deal of Smiley's data on these beasts comes from telepathy, numerology or astrology. |
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You can imagine my utter disbelief then, when the cab turned up and turned out to be driven by a grey-haired, short man of about fifty years of age. |
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The sad tidings were received with a sense of total disbelief. |
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The Netherlands humiliates an ageing Spain, while the world looks on in disbelief. |
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He poured his solution in, and watched in horror and disbelief as the white membrane filter dissolved and merrily sluiced through the glass frit along with his compound. |
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A number of people were booked quite unnecessarily, causing anger and disbelief that such an innocent action could result in such draconian measures. |
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Harnak made himself speak calmly, but disbelief and hope warred in him. |
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I stood motionless and my tears started flow, because I felt no fear at all, just an overwhelming feeling of disbelief, and then admiration and love. |
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Though it is the house of the First Citizen of India, it doesn't have any security personnel, or even a watchman to monitor the visitors, much to their surprise and disbelief. |
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Frances nods, her dark eyes twinkling with either amusement or disbelief. |
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But when the confetti dropped it was Assaf who stood in disbelief, his life forever changed. |
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But, above all, they will look on with a mixture of pity and disbelief at the poor people who still insist on living in this inhospitable territory. |
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Henry was also a picture of disbelief as his excellent volley on the turn was tipped onto the post and rebounded across the face of goal to safety. |
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The reply from the lassies came from a bloke, naturally, and you could tell his heart wasn't in it by the look of disbelief accompanying his recitation of male idiosyncrasies. |
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The film may not be as elegant as the previous financial procedurals, and Costa-Gavras' brief forays into cinematic trickery threaten our suspension of disbelief. |
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In fact, enjoying the show takes an extreme dedication to suspending disbelief. |
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Certainly at the curtain call they both wore a mixed expression of disbelief at their reception and genuine delight at the effect they had created in the theatre. |
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You can imagine my utter disbelief then, when the cab turned up and turned out to be driven by a grey haired, short man of about fifty years of age. |
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Surprise and disbelief was writ on the faces of many of the members, as they could hardly believe that they had made so much money within a month. |
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After many attempts to verify this relationship, neither confirmations nor denials could be found, only information to evoke laughter and disbelief. |
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He watched in disbelief as the attack was so quickly blunted. |
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His incredible death or glory hundred, in a do or die qualification battle for India at the Sinhalese Sports Club Stadium left the Kiwis rubbing their eyes in sheer disbelief. |
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It has left everybody I know shaking their heads in disbelief and anger. |
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If you're prepared to suspend disbelief as regards the terms and conditions of whoring and pimping in downtown Memphis, this film has a lot of charm. |
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And so there Miss Johnson sat, rigid with disbelief as two of her least subservient students gazed into her watery eyes and grinned wolfishly beneath little lambskin cloaks. |
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All I could do was smile and shake my head in amazed disbelief. |
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Impulsively, he opened the oak barrier, and, with mouth hanging, he stared with amusement less than ever, and an elevated amount of disgruntlement and disbelief. |
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Depending on what aspects of the evidence you choose to stress or underplay, it's not that hard to conclude that belief or disbelief in afterlife is warranted. |
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His right eyebrow shot up as his face crumpled up in disbelief. |
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Scores of workers on the site downed tools and watched in disbelief. |
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Although the plot convolutions probably employ too many convenient coincidences, suspension of disbelief happens effortlessly thanks to superb acting and directing throughout. |
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Percy expresses her own disbelief not by direct pronouncements but with ironic juxtapositions. |
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What comes across most tangibly from Abdi is a sense of delicious disbelief, to suddenly find himself where he is. |
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Alas, even the most credulous of children find it pretty hard to suspend disbelief when all your heroes end up looking like vaudeville characters on the turps. |
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The suggestion that birth and motherhood are almost as taboo as death in our society, would, as like as not, be met with guffaws of disbelief in mixed company. |
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But, even given the necessary suspension of disbelief, does it work? |
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They listened with audible outrage, sighing and groaning in disbelief. |
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She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City. |
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No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms. |
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There is an agony of suffering in that lingering doubt which haunts the human soul in the beginnings of disbelief. |
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For several moments of disbelief and absolute wonder, he stared at the godwink he held in his hands! |
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Authors such as Strabo, Pliny and Diodorus cite Pytheas in disbelief, although Pytheas' observations appear to have been substantially accurate. |
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Even when Icelanders do not explicitly express their belief, they are often reluctant to express disbelief. |
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Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. |
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For this reason some overfamiliar or recycled accounts provoke boredom or disbelief, and can be made to seem propagandistic. |
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I avowed outright my entire disbelief in the whole scheme of revealed religion. |
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Although the novel was quite far-fetched, I was willing to suspend my disbelief. |
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Van Why looked up to where the first plane had torpedoed the north tower of the World Trade Center and stared in disbelief. |
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Daniels laughs at himself, once again shaking his head in disbelief. |
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That last claim, obviously, required a certain suspension of disbelief. |
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Much of the action in whiplash requires serious suspension of disbelief. |
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This is the moment when Fridge watches in disbelief as his plan to outwit loanshark Dancer fails. |
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Food lovers across the nation reacted with disbelief last week when it was revealed our transatlantic cousins are strangers to the sausage roll. |
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Then Nicola is left open-mouthed with disbelief when the trip is scuppered thanks to some last-minute meddling by her husband. |
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Sometimes one has no choice but to shake one's head in disbelief like an Oregon Duck bobble-head doll in the back window of a car. |
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I was at my hq with my people and what I remember is the disbelief. |
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The only emotions this art provokes are anger and disbelief that anyone could be so insensitively dumb. |
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The news, revealed by Cambridgeshire Police's act-ing Deputy Chief Constable Keith Hoddy in Soham last night, was met with disbelief and tears from members of the public. |
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I REACTED with disbelief when I learned that people in Kenya want compensation for so-called atrocities carried out by British soldiers 60 years ago. |
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Dubai A black-headed gull had birdwatchers in disbelief last week, after it turned out to be a rare and almost unheard of visitor to the Middle East. |
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Faria gawped at him in disbelief as he let rip with the cruel jibe. |
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In science fiction films, suspension of disbelief is essential. |
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Each boy stole a glance at the other and met the same look of disbelief. |
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Consequently, God expelled Iblis from Heaven, with the latter promising to lure mankind into disbelief and evil as an act of revenge from their father, Adam. |
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Unlike a delusional psychotic person, the pseudologue will abandon the story or change it if confronted with contradictory evidence or sufficient disbelief. |
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This has by definition generated a relativistic outlook, accompanied by irony and a certain disbelief in values, as each can be seen to be replaced by another. |
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When she was discovered the next morning by the landladies, Ida and Belle Hall, his insistence that he had slept on the floor was met with disbelief. |
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This disbelief may also be the cause of alteration of Pytheas' data. |
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And every time Balls insists he knew nothing about these antics, you can hear a collective gasp of disbelief from politicians and political journalists alike. |
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