Suspension
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237 examples of Suspension in a sentence
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.
The fold is important because it allows interstitial
suspension.
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.
Or sometimes up in the mountains, people would build these
suspension
bridges, often across some dizzy canyon, using a vine.
It was designed by a chap called Leon Moisseiff, no stranger to
suspension
bridge design, but in this case he pushed the limits just that little bit too far and paid the price.
But this bridge collapse stopped
suspension
bridge development dead in its tracks.
For 10 years nobody thought about doing another
suspension
bridge.
This is a multispan
suspension
bridge across very deep water in Norway, and we're working on this at the moment.
This is a floating, multispan
suspension
bridge.
It works like this: You take a brain, or parts of that brain, and you dissolve it in detergent, which destroys the cell membranes but keeps the cell nuclei intact, so you end up with a
suspension
of free nuclei that looks like this, like a clear soup.
And the sense of
suspension.
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.
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.
And you get to think about yourself and your memories, and before you go back into suspension, you edit your memories and you change your personality and so forth.
You're used to
suspension
bridges with big droopy cables on the top.
Liquids such as water allow chemical compounds to remain in
suspension
instead of sinking under the force of gravity.
What we noticed is when the bacteria were alone, so when they were in dilute suspension, they made no light.
To us, this meant reimagining the car around the needs of the consumer, simplifying nonessential features like interior fixtures and investing in performance-critical systems like
suspension
to create durable and affordable vehicles built for purpose.
To handle acute vibration from rough roads, we ruggedized the
suspension.
Now this gentleman, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designed many great things in his career in the 19th century, including the Clifton
suspension
bridge in Bristol and the Thames tunnel at Rotherhithe.
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.
So it immediately cools, and it can no longer hold in
suspension
all of the material that it's dissolved, and it precipitates out, forming black smoke.
Enormous
suspension
of disbelief is required where Will's "genius" is concerned.
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.
Unlike "Finding Nemo," where (with a bit of
suspension
of disbelief) attention to detail was staggering and the science was as good as the context would allow, "Osmosis Jones" was utter nonsense; don't kid yourself about the science.
The robot is clunky and not very impressive, and the CGI effects (though done by US sfx-people) are ridiculous, totally destroying any remaining
suspension
of disbelief.
Haven't you ever heard of
'suspension
of disbelief?!'" Well, I try to bring that
"suspension
of disbelief" philosophy with me to every horror film I see and it usually works.
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