Exempel på credulity

• And now the whole spectacular business was capped by a sensation so dramatic as to strain credulity to its limit. 

• But it will need some telling, and perhaps credulity on the reader's part. 

• Dazzled and bewildered, the heated senses were become the victims of their own credulity, the mind receiving back its own reactions. 

• The subsequent history of the Parker case is a startling example of the credulity of the ordinary jury. 

• The young man smiled at her credulity and enthusiasm. 

• Although historians of science have justly criticized his boundless credulity, aimless empiricism, and exasperating eclecticism, he was nevertheless master of his craft.

• But it stretches credulity to argue that the problem here is one of bounded rationality.

• Such methodological credulity with respect to dream recall and dream report is particularly troubling because dreams are notoriously ephemeral.

• The posture of self-conscious bemusement seems intended to suggest its opposite, regret at the disappearance of this implicit credulity and obedience.

• Some of the assertions that the writer makes about the folk scene are so far wide of the mark that credulity is shattered.

• The open lips register credulity; the shut ones, common sense.

• Much modern secondary literature besides stands convicted of ludicrous credulity and tendentiousness.

• Does it stretch credulity too far to suggest that his two associates were rather jealous of his personal charisma?

• But to deny the existence of an independent objective material world, of which that mind is a copy, strains my credulity beyond its elastic limit.

• And how can we explain the credulity that made photography of the occult so popular?

• This claim is undeniable unless one were to stretch the limits of credulity.

• It strains credulity to believe that this emergent, politically influential class will voluntarily enlist in a future march to socialism.

• At first blush, this example seems to stretch credulity somewhat.

• Why were they received with such credulity in their time?

• The second was ultimately weakened by its association with credulity and with discredited attempts to prove that spiritual agents could be observed at work in the world.