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36 examples of Incredulity in a sentence

Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."
Sixty years after the film was made and 30 years after I first saw it, I see young faces tilt up in awe, their incredulity matching mine.
Later, however, we are supposed to suspend our incredulity and believe that both Tea Leoni and Kim Basinger (both of whom are sleepwalking through lame roles) lust after this elderly, half dead looking, effeminate man with the ridiculous accent.
The only feeling that this adaptation excited in me was incredulity and also sympathy for Charlotte Bronte who is most definitely turning in her grave.
I wasn't exactly shocked by it, but I was watching in awe and incredulity.
The Volkswagen RevolutionNEW YORK – When Michael Horn, the president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, recently testified before a committee of the US Congress about the software that Volkswagen installed on its diesel-powered cars to defeat emissions tests, he expressed his own incredulity that the blame lay with a couple of engineers.
When Wolfowitz’s name was first mentioned as a candidate to lead the world’s premier development bank, the idea that the architect of America’s failure in Iraq would be so rewarded was met by incredulity.
When I stressed to them that the target was 35%, they signaled their incredulity with polite smiles.
For example, recent criticism of Asian regulators by US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is viewed across the region with scorn, not to mention incredulity.
Risk models do not justify abandoning one’s natural sense of incredulity.
Russia’s invocation of the “responsibility to protect” to justify its 2008 invasion of Georgia was met with incredulity at the time, and rendered even more cynical by its resolute failure since 2011 to condemn the Syrian regime for mass-atrocity crimes against its own people.
Instead, and to the initial incredulity of his fellow insurgents, Gandhi began with a protest march against the British salt tax in 1930.
Her brother, observing the marks of incredulity in her countenance, continued, "You doubt it, and justify his death?"
"If you was to hear him talk, you would think he didn't believe there was such a thing as a moon at all.""It is the misfortune of ignorance and incredulity, madam, that they feed themselves.
If all these tokens are not enough to vindicate the truth of what I say, here is my sword, that will compel incredulity itself to give credence to it."
He remarked their incredulity.
What do you say, Mr. Fogg?''I say precisely what you say,' replied Fogg, with a smile of incredulity.
"Oh, yes, I am not joking," he continued, seeing my look of incredulity.
The gentleman, however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, opened a pocket-book and took out a note.
She turned towards Lucy in silent amazement, unable to divine the reason or object of such a declaration; and though her complexion varied, she stood firm in incredulity, and felt in no danger of an hysterical fit, or a swoon.
A smile of incredulity passed over the pale lips of Milady.
"Or, rather, who pretend not to understand me, sir!" replied the prisoner, with a smile of incredulity.
First stupefaction, then incredulity, lastly a downright burst of rage.
We came upon other bodies at every step amongst this mortal dust, and my uncle might select the most curious of these specimens to demolish the incredulity of sceptics.
I could no longer doubt of the existence of that wonderful traveller and of the fact of his unparalleled journey, without the most glaring incredulity.
However, I am indifferent to their incredulity, and they may believe as much or as little as they please.
But incredulity and indifference were evidently my strongest cards.
He even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity.
Again his astonishment was obvious; and he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification.
Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply; and at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months' suspense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father's incredulity, and reconcile him to the match.