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262 examples of Disbelief in a sentence

I know there's going to be disbelief.
And I'm just standing there, watching this scene with a complete disbelief, not knowing what to do.
To enjoy being deceived, an audience must first suspend its disbelief.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: I try to convey a semblance of truth in my writing to produce for these shadows of the imagination a willing suspension of disbelief that, for a moment, constitutes poetic faith.
We are all very good at suspending our disbelief.
So he basically set up, or basically shattered the suspension of disbelief, because what he photographed was the real thing, a Mir sub going down, or actually two Mir subs going down to the real wreck, and he created this very haunting footage.
But what I can't quite capture for you was the pity and disbelief with which the interviewer asked her question.
And being a theater person, what I know and love about the theater is that when the audience comes in and they suspend their disbelief, when you see men walking or women walking with a platter of grass on their heads, you know it's the savanna.
You see, as a writer, I approached this issue as an observer, as an Indian, I felt embarrassment and disbelief, and as an activist, I looked at it as a defender of rights, but as a citizen journalist, I suddenly felt very vulnerable.
It's what Coleridge called the willing suspension of disbelief or poetic faith, for those moments where a story, no matter how strange, has some semblance of the truth, and then you're able to believe it.
The first time it happened, I was shocked and filled with disbelief.
But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment.
5,000 people jumping out of their seats, crying, clapping, screaming, yelling, torn between euphoria and still disbelief at what they had just seen, because so many people had worked for years towards this, and this was finally their reality.
All of these mediums require what we call "suspension of disbelief," because there's a translation gap between the reality of the story and our consciousness interpreting the story into our reality.
TM: So we told some family and some close friends, many of whom were still in disbelief as we took our vows.
I was in such disbelief that I questioned myself: Was this just another "La La Land" blunder like at the Oscars?
We looked at each other with these looks of disbelief at what we had just completed.
And that provided the artistic director suddenly the ability to define suspension of disbelief.
But also to challenge the notion of suspension of disbelief such that in the last act of Macbeth, if he or she wants you to associate the parable that you're seeing with Dallas, with your real life, he or she can do so.
Now, just suspend disbelief for a moment, and let's think of what could happen if we could do that.
Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.
You really don't have to worry about the audience suspending its sense of disbelief because, if you start with a talking shark, readers pretty much check their disbelief at the door.
I'm willing to suspend some disbelief for the sake of entertainment, but this whole "demon with a vendetta" story arc is just ridiculous.
Enormous suspension of disbelief is required where Will's "genius" is concerned.
I found myself giggling in disbelief through parts of it.
I laughed my ass off, I yelled at the screen, I sat there numb, nodding my head in disbelief,...
Does all this seem to demand more willing suspension of disbelief than even most Hollywood fare?
The suspension of disbelief required to get through this movie is significant though.
Watching the premiere required much suspension of disbelief, that Mike Olshanskey's fares would so rapidly spill their guts and he would feel driven to intervene in the lives of utter strangers.
Even if you're willing to suspend disbelief, the story itself is pretty threadbare, a pale imitation of an A.J. Cronin melodrama.
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