Note, There is not a greater enemy to true faith than vain credulity. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
He will strain credulity to find something good in even their most hiddeous error. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Property Rights and Wrongs] Reference
Our credulity is solicited, blandished, directed to the region of possible and desirable things. From Wordnik.com. [Bottoms Up] Reference
Some of the final plot turns strain credulity, and Flynn has a thing for coining hyphenated words. From Wordnik.com. [VinceKeenan.com] Reference
Nor does it strain credulity to imagine that the judges might actually have seen the art in person, as opposed to viewing the works on video or slide. From Wordnik.com. [Turner prize 2010 – review] Reference
There are times in the novel when the reader’s credulity is stretched almost to breaking point. From Wordnik.com. [His Saturday - My Sunday] Reference
Many people have gotten past the personal belief, but haven’t gotten past the notion that credulity is a virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The Consolations of Theology] Reference
It's a quality that makes "Promise Me" an engaging read, though some of its more theatrical moments strain credulity. From Wordnik.com. [Two books on women fighting cancer, reviewed by Nora Krug] Reference
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. From Wordnik.com. [Maxims for Revolutionists] Reference
This kind of credulity borders on the feeble-minded. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: Chaplin's time traveler and the Tea Party] Reference
Nothing in Nisbet's letter bears out these specific charges of Roosevelt's "credulity" in the correspondence. From Wordnik.com. [Neoconservative History: An Exchange] Reference
That statement is precisely the kind of credulity that the media as a whole demonstrates on every one of these Obama stories. From Wordnik.com. ["Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just 'a guy who lives in my neighborhood,' and 'not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.'"] Reference
We speak of credulity as a mark of the uncivilized. From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
You view it with a mixture of in-credulity and disdain. From Wordnik.com. [ACORN, Heal Thyself] Reference
It is credulity rather than imagination which helps him. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
He was not anti-American, though some of his theories strain credulity. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: Wikigate - The Truth Will Out] Reference
He responded: "It would strain credulity to think it was coincidental.". From Wordnik.com. [SEC Blasted on Goldman] Reference
More important, it strains credulity to see any bird shape in the Virgin's lap. From Wordnik.com. [Unfinished Perfection] Reference
That sentiment of credulity which had attracted me to her seemed a proof that she was worthy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But a fine line separates belief from credulity, and the large investment banks are blurring it. From Wordnik.com. [The $5 Billion Mulligan] Reference
"I know you think it strains credulity, but it's the truth," said White House aide Mary Matalin. From Wordnik.com. [Lights Out: Enron's Failed Power Play] Reference
When we encounter Sandra, she has reconciled herself to death, and is so calmly stoical as to strain credulity. From Wordnik.com. [Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard] Reference
It is not creative imagination which the normal child possesses so much as an enormous credulity and no limitations. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
If there has been one commodity that Desmond has traded in over the last decade it is the credulity of the British public. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Desmond: Never afraid to Express himself] Reference
But it's a reminder of the cynicism of so much Arab pro-Palestinian propaganda, and the credulity of those who fall for it. From Wordnik.com. [A Palestinian Victory] Reference
Experts are only human and, therefore, unaware of many of their mistakes, even if they profit from our culture of credulity. From Wordnik.com. [Why we get things so wrong: Books by Kathryn Schulz and David H. Freedman] Reference
The man of light credulity is the man who easily takes on new faiths; not the man to whom tradition and loyalty mean something. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
In his zeal to smother the story, Robb strained the credulity of Beltway insiders with his version of the 1984 evening with Collins. From Wordnik.com. [Senator Robb's Walk On The Wild Side] Reference
Hmm. Those results strained credulity because they weren't clean - and people suspected so from the start but had to wait years for confirmation. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Snider: Rage Against the Machine: Why We Should Be Skeptical About Standardized Test Scores] Reference
Worse, the precision of the required cancellation — erase the ink on every magazine ever printed except for exactly one comma, here — strains credulity. From Wordnik.com. [In ‘Dark Energy,’ Cosmic Humility] Reference
It also stretches credulity to suggest that Giancana, the all-powerful don, would have been waiting around on a station platform in Chicago to meet the train. From Wordnik.com. [Pool Parties In Camelot?] Reference
Perhaps his extraordinary credulity is generally known. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference
If the Obamatons want to lead with this message, they have to understand that it will strain credulity that you just now figured out that this was unworkable. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Are Televised Negotiations Even Possible?] Reference
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