How To Use Believable In A Sentence
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I would show up unannounced, watch Jaime teach calculus, chat with Principal Henry Gradillas, check in with other Advanced Placement classes and in the early afternoon call my editor in Washington to say I was chasing down the latest medfly outbreak story, or whatever seemed believable at the time.
Unlike many, Escalante believed in teaching, not sorting
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Stevenson, Anne Noted for her realistic, fast-paced stories, believable characters, and excellent use of dialogue.
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The crowd was unbelievable and the best thing is that it is my wedding anniversary today.
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Around the conference table, eight extremely believable-looking exec types, many with the faces of prominent local actors, glare him down as he burbles.
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Scott Hendricks is an equally flexible, believable actor, a passionate advocate for freedom with his strong, virile baritone.
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There were unbelievable floral exhibits and hanging baskets of enormous size and abundant in colour.
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Speaking from the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, where the ballot was held, CJ de Mooi, the president of the English Chess Federation, said: It was unbelievable.
Chess world shocked as Karpov fails to capture top job
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The fact they put it as suicide is an unbelievable story.
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His kicking game in tight situations is unbelievable and his positional play has been superb in the championship this year.
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ROBERTS: Unbelievable, also the spelling bee, the annual spelling bee wrapped up last night, the winning word serrefine.
CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007
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No, the problem is the same problem as it always is really - giving people something better and believable to vote for.
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The script isn't believable, the characters are unconvincing and the plot is not entertaining.
The Sun
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Thanks to gritty, believable and packed graphics, the game is totally immersive.
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His guitar solos are just unbelievable.
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Anytime you see a sign like that, you see this fracture, what we call an oblique fracture so it kind of spirals up, we know that he had some unbelievable force at his ankle that transmitted up through his fibula and fractured it.
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The rubbish about Howard doing a good job for his Battlers is unbelievable.
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Saddled with the most unfortunate perm in the history of the coiffeur, she still manages to create an incredibly believable teen protagonist, filled with instantly recognizable angst and insecurity.
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Even if you look past some of the unbelievable contrivances of this portrayal of the U. S. judicial system and just basic common sense, there's nothing that really stands out in this movie.
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Flipping unbelievable, the Queen would rob the coffers of schools and hospitals so that her tawdry hangers on and distant relatives don't have to pay their way Grr If they are grace and favour, let the residents of them pay if Her Maj ain't got the dough but bollocks to us paying it, we don't pay our taxes so chinless hooray henries and Chlamydia Camilla's can have a ball at our expense.
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The temperature often topped 50 degrees celsius and the hot thermal winds blew with unbelievable ferocity.
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It was unbelievable what happened - a little miracle that we summoned the strength to fight back and win from that position.
The Sun
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The fact that the horn barely missed the aorta is an UNBELIEVABLE piece of luck is what I meant to say.
Close Calls: Gored By a Bull Elk
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On the 6th week, he had a check-up and the doctor said it was unbelievable, but the cancer had shrunken, and was now operable, and that they would take out one lung.
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Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality.
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I found most of the characters in the play totally unbelievable.
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In addition, government policies need to be believable; banning cigarette advertising would almost certainly cut consumption.
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The bunkers were in an unbelievable condition no doubt due to the efforts by the ground keepers on the other eighteen which made them almost unplayable.
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If the rate cuts are seen to be having an effect on the general economy, the idea of a recovery being around the corner may seem more believable.
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It's scarcely believable that he could be so reckless.
The Sun
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When Citigroup is getting hit like this, I mean it's just unbelievable," said Sal Masionis, a stockbroker at Brant Securities, adding that Canadian banks were also suffering as a result.
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Of course, it all sounds a bit fanciful, perhaps even unbelievable, unpractical, but it wasn't as though I were of a brilliant mind and had a university-destined career.
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It was unbelievable what happened - a little miracle that we summoned the strength to fight back and win from that position.
The Sun
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Manchester Science Festival, ManchesterThis might be the season of superstition and spooks, but since science is more unbelievable, wondrous and scary than fiction, it's apt timing for Manchester's cornucopia of explorative events (more than 200 of them).
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It is a comic exaggeration of an entirely believable relationship.
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On one level, this scarcely believable feat suggests continuity and durability.
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You are such an unbelievable dweeb sometimes that it amazes me.
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Stevenson, Anne Noted for her realistic, fast-paced stories, believable characters, and excellent use of dialogue.
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Each year hereafter, I hope to make it more and more believable.
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I was going to say unbelievable but no it is all too believable with the whole crooked European Empire.
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They have certainly earned these last few weeks of unbelievable memories.
The Sun
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Even more unbelievable to Etherton was that there was no private photography gallery in this photography-rich city.
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But why is it that the downswings are so much more believable than the upswings?
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He's given a fine and believable portrayal of grief and anguish.
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I've had some unbelievable bluebill shoots in western Minnesota.
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The manner he continued to deceive people and think he could get away with it is unbelievable.
The Sun
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His defenders tend to argue that the operatic elements are anchored in believable plot strands.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But the atmosphere was unbelievable and the place was really heaving.
The Sun
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It is Newman's ability to capture the riots' confusion, noise and incoherence that make the passage so stark yet believable.
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Is there a scale running from Not Believable to This Character is Now a Real Person?
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News of his passing was all the more surprising and unbelievable as he had been active up to the very last.
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We get through an unbelievable amount of food each week.
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His robots fight among themselves most realistically, and his crowning achievement is a pitched battle on an underground road, believable enough to induce cringes and curled fists.
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I find it unbelievable that people can accept this sort of behaviour.
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Behold thoroughly dimensional characters, quirky and flawed and utterly believable whether human or nonhuman.
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And this group of heroes, according to Hitchens, was subjected to a "near-unbelievable deluge of abusive and calumnious dreck ....
Christopher Hitchens' "Hitch 22": Left? Right? Center?
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Management have demonstrated almost unbelievable incompetence in their handling of the dispute.
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He smiles and says: 'It was unbelievable.
The Sun
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Time just passes so quickly, it's unbelievable.
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Although the plot for the cinematic version has been notably streamlined and occasionally reworked in substantial fashion from the bloviated novel, viewers are, by the end, possessors of this little nugget of truth: Dan Brown is just as bad at plotting as he is at writing, and his inability to create characters who are believable is equaled only by his inability to accurately represent the history, art, architecture, and technology found strewn throughout novel/movie.
"Angels & Demons" is methodical, pedestrian, and quite silly
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We don't want to see all the gory details, but it would seem much more authentic if things were a bit more believable.
The Sun
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The first was an unbelievable effort from the edge of the penalty area which required lightning reflexes and incredible skill.
The Sun
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This is a common approach for a duo who delight in blending seemingly incongruent but ultimately believable material into their performances.
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Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. Criss Jami
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“It is unbelievable what happens when you unloose fear,” he said.
Be Excellent at Anything
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That scenario is entirely believable.
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This is a film guaranteed to succeed only to the degree that people find the puppets believable and on that count Strings is an absolute, unqualified success.
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The soft life they lead nowadays as constituency members is just unbelievable compared with the good old days.
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The Red Sox's Kevin Youkilis said Matsuzuka's performance in tight jams is unbelievable: It's amazing.
Dice-K dominant in Boston victory
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We hadn't invested the care to make it a believable action.
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His denunciation of my research is an audacious bluff, believable only by those who have never opened my book.
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Conditions in the prison camp were unbelievable .
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His large-scale color photographs illustrate the unbelievable density of Hong Kong's residential high-rises.
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More incredibly, despite the supernatural nature of the show and carnival freaks, this is one of the most realistic and believable groups of characters I have ever seen on television.
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We can choose to trust in it, even if we find some of the beliefs extrapolated from it to be unbelievable.
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The game delivers an exhilarating thrill ride down huge wave faces and into barreling tubes, allowing gamers to pull off unbelievable moves.
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It is scarcely believable that the drama of that week occurred eight years ago.
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Once she wrote back telling of an unbelievable class she had in Australia.
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Ever believable, this actress to my mind continually surpasses what I have always come to think of as her definitive performance.
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Spain are technically unbelievable but there still has to be an end product.
The Sun
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The number of paint cans was unbelievable, and there were many different chemical compounds from oven cleaner to fertilizers, all free for the taking.
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Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. Criss Jami
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Frankly, I'm more inclined to find the former more contrived, since a remorseless thug and repenting Christian is a believable dyad.
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I'm worried that at some point, someone's got the purpose of those two rooms mixed up, as the stench of wee in the kitchen is unbelievable.
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These stories are so strange, so incredible, that they are totally unbelievable.
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It seems unbelievable that the Conservative government has prorogued Parliament for the second time in a year.
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For a mare to win 21 successive races is unbelievable.
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It was unbelievable what happened - a little miracle that we summoned the strength to fight back and win from that position.
The Sun
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What is curious is that as time went on and the research unfolded, the evidence for discarnate intention became ever more unexpected, seemingly unbelievable, and increasingly incontrovertible.
The Sacred Promise
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No one had explained the different forms of complaint procedure to me and I found this unbelievable.
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The act of convincing yourself becomes such a smooth process that it becomes completely believable to others.
Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
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Then, in about 1982, a shop opened up in Bantry selling smoked ham and salami and pâté, which was unbelievable for us.
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Matzoh ball, noodles, and a giant kreplach … unbelievable.
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And there's also an added bonus for speed freak dads: the chance to go for an unbelievable spin in a rally car.
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It was unbelievable, everyone was asking after her.
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The house across me has had 15 occupants in less than four years and the partying is unbelievable.
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In a brazen and nearly unbelievable move, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headed by warlord Masoud Barzani has prevented voting by Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) Christians of the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq.
Your Right Hand Thief
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None of the characters is remotely believable.
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The energy and dynamism were unbelievable.
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He manages to translate the comic perfectly and at the same time create believable characters and situations.
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I CANNOT BELIEVE obama's people keep attacking clinton, accusing her of being a racist, of being a destructor etc etc. they've got their nomination, they got what they wanted. are they trying to make us vote for mccain?!?!?!? it is UNBELIEVABLE. clinton isnt dividing the democrats. its the obama people insulting clinton, our gal. and in case you hadnt noticed, we dont forget those who mess with the clintons.
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O.J. outrage, tonight an unbelievable new twist, shocking allegations from Nicole Brown ` s sister that the families were offered what she calls hush money from the people who put together Simpson ` s offensive confession TV special and book.
CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006
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This unbelievable remark was followed by a grim attempt at face-saving, one that relied heavily on the convenient myth of ‘liberation’.
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The only ways to overcome this curse of predestiny are clever writing and serious, believable realism.
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Its just that at the time it seemed so far-fetched and unbelievable.
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It was unbelievable, four men in balaclavas stealing a rocking horse.
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His guitar solos are just unbelievable.
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And then came an unbelievable final three minutes.
The Sun
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His performances over the past two years have been unbelievable.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't back him in the Irish Derby, but at those odds on Saturday, he was an unbelievable bet.
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McNamara has made sacrifices of his own to make something that once seemed unbelievable become a reality.
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I still find it unbelievable that this has to go to court although I have evidence that he is wrong and has been negligent.
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June 21st, 2006 at 7: 42 pm unbelievable says: approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent
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As you can see from my summation, this is an optimistic work, but thanks to focused direction by Bridget Ryan and a measured, intelligent, and believable script, this production manages to be upbeat without being Pollyannaish or maudlin.
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He gets in some unbelievable areas, good scoring positions.
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It is unbelievable the speed you can carry into that section of the track.
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If you go back to 1982 we saw some incredible feats of 'getting things done' for example airborne early warning Sea King, containerised sea wolf, the overall logistic effort in assembling the task force, turning container ships into half carriers and a myriad of other feats of the unbelievableAre we actually capable of doing anything quickly these days given over regulation and all round 'leanness'
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It also isn't entirely believable that two best friends should go through parallel experiences at exactly the same time.
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The script is contrived and unbelievable.
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The large rear door provides great access to comfy seats with unbelievable leg room.
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But, then again, I suppose it's ultimately within the province of the fact-finder to determine whether the alleged case of amnesia is actually believable.
Medical Malpractice
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Naron Williams on May 26, 2009 because recently none of brad pitts roles were truly believable after you see an actor so many times in so many roles its hard to connect to the character (at least in my book) unfortunately the last time he was in an enjoyable and believable role was in ocean's 13 and MAYBE (depending on you who are) the curious case of ben button patrick on May 27, 2009
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An all-too-believable future has divided the world into the genet.
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It't unbelievable that the lamebrains who caused the financial disaster, by throwing money at people who couldn't repay it, are hired to fix it.
The Sun
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[WYWH tempo is variable, but other than that, unbelievable.]
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No one in this film shows a spark of charismatic quality, much less any halfhearted attempts at believable characterization.
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The suffering the Afghan people have endured is unbelievable.
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The plot twist, inspired by O. Henry, is made believable, because you are prepared for it…
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I find it unbelievable that our city leaders do not support an event that will bring exposure, people, fun and money to the city.
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This kind of turnout is just an unbelievable thing.
USATODAY.com - Crowd rocks Carrier Dome in greeting champion Orangemen
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We get through an unbelievable amount of food each week.
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Katie Holmes is about as believable as an assistant DA as the guy who hangs out on my corner in a bathrobe is as a judge.
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Due to my fellow apartment dwellers leaving unbelievable amounts of festering food waste in the garbage cans, the management removed them.
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She made the character coarse, foul-mouthed end utterly believable - but with a sad side which made me feel some sympathy with her.
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Everyone knows there will be people like Mr. Setoodeh who will not be able to resist calling you too "queeny" or too "butch" to be believable playing a straight person.
David Dean Bottrell: Getting It Straight
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It is unbelievable that anyone would have the nerve to even suggest this - especially someone who has a responsible position in Government.
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The amount of stories they have to find is unbelievable.
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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. Rene Descartes
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The trouble with the story is that at this distance the whole fuss looks so idiotic as to be scarcely believable.
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His will to win is unbelievable and that is something which he has drilled into us.
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It was unbelievable the way his voice and carisma stirred the people.
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There is flood of company rejects too in the market which are available at unbelievable prices.
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In the battle field of mind, to live consciously is not only improbable but also unbelievable.
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An unbelievable snob is described at the New York Times article at the link.
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The amount of moaning and complaining coming from certain sections of the stands was unbelievable.
The Sun
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The characters are likable and believable, and the friendship between Grant and Paul comes across as authentic.
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Her explanation certainly sounded believable.
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In view of the views expressed in the rest of the column, how believable is the apology?
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Those unconvinced by James’ alleged infallibility might see it more as evidence of scarcely believable smugness.
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Despite this, the characters remain believable and the narrative engaging.
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He was a prolific scorer from the first day out and he clocked up some unbelievable scoring totals.
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Buddhism held an alternative but no less unbelievable theology - that there was no such thing as a God, and that on death your soul transmigrates into the body of some new born creature.
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It amuses primarily thanks to Newhook, largely because he plays his character with the lightest touch, investing Vallis with a believable cantankerousness.
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Like most writers, I collected an unbelievable number of rejections for things I'd written in the past.
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Just to be there was unreal, but the stress was unbelievable.
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He died there in October 1774 amid scenes of unbelievable squalor.
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It's not a perfect movie as it runs a little too long and the cinematography is jarring at times, but this is a movie with strong believable characters in the lead.
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The characters are much more believable as we have seen cases like this in Australia for a while now.
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He made me an unbelievable trumpet with carvings and designs and a big double bell, like a space-age trumpet.
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On the other hand, what he's already proved himself able to do with very little money is unbelievable.
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What made the food taste fabulous was the unbelievable view from my window.
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It was unbelievable how much junk was stuffed into the small space.
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They were outmuscled but kept on coming back, kicking unbelievable penalties under pressure.
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Despite this, the cast members manage to make each character a believable one, with an individual personality, and show that beneath the bravado and bluster and laddish behaviour, there lurks a decent human being.
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It was unbelievable that we were expected to pay twice.
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But for a lot of gamers, this one included, a believable story is relatively low down on the list of desired features.
The Sun
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Voters will respond to facts when they are presented in a compelling and believable fashion.
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It was unbelievable that the Azapo leader was being appointed and not the IFP leader.
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But then I stepped back, saw the name 'herm' and suddenly it wasn't so unbelievable.
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And the city is unbelievable too - a mad hubbub of noise and action.
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They work with an unbelievable speed.
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The challenge then became to be physically competent enough to cope with the rigorous demands of filming, and to cut a suitably believable action hero.
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I'm very well-aware that people like this do exist, but in this case I felt that the characters were too caricatural to be believable.
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The thing about victimization fantasies is that there are plenty of * believable* ones you could write without turning to the unbelievable ones.
Intertribal: more Under The Dome angst
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It's simply not believable that Susan would start to have feelings for Captain Groton, despite the physiological changes that cause him to appear more human and supposedly more endearing.
AUDIO REVIEW: Aliens Rule edited by Allan Kaster
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Car chase, rooftop chase, sewer chase, apartment knife fight chase, boat chase, plane chase, Chase-Morgan, certainly they all were purloined from the Bourne genre but somehow Bourne’s were more believable.
Quantum of Solace review
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Right now my enthusiasm, my excitement and my adrenaline levels are unbelievable.
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The large rear door provides great access to comfy seats with unbelievable legroom.
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The Dutch-born abstractionist's death from a disease that eats memory is an irony that imbues ‘Erasure ‘with unbelievable sadness.’
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I read it over again myself and found the words to be convincing and believable.
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It's frankly unbelievable that at the touch of a button, I can choose between live or near-live performances from a host of acts at the world's greatest music festival.
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He said: ‘Ten people who don't know the town will decide the future of that site. The way things get railroaded through district is unbelievable.’
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It was unbelievable, absolutely incredible.
The Sun
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Rod never ceases to amaze us all with his unbelievable voice that seems to just keep getting better as time goes on.
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This game was about the last half-hour with 11 players playing unbelievable and winning.
The Sun
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To the naked eye it was a glorious spectacle; through the telescope, it was unbelievable.
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Generally, the more detail a memory has, the more believable and convincing the account is.
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"Just a… nightmare, " she responded with a hopefully believable smile.
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It hovers so close because like life, it's often unfair, unpoetic, plain contradictory, and retrospectively embarrassing - few of Darnielle's stories have chronicled passions so unadorned and believable.
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May 7th, 2006 at 1: 27 pm unbelievable says: the sprig of parsley is placed in such a “devil may care†manner.
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The weakness of the narrative derives from the realism the film achieves: the tigers are so believable - as real tigers and as multifaceted characters - that the film's fairytale ending is unbecoming.
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It is unbelievable that one little protest is causing so much hoo-ha and so much scandal.
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His world is strange, fantastic, gritty and believable, it works very well as a fantasy world.
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As James, Mark Caven gives an honest and believable performance with clear diction and a consistent accent.
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The mash had just the right amount of truffle oil and a general richness to make you moan with pleasure and the gravy was unbelievable.
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Use frames such as ‘What if…’ and ‘Wouldn't it be nice if…’ amongst others, and as you play with those thoughts they'll become more familiar and more believable.
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You don't hear a lot of instrumentals, which is great because you get to hear her unbelievable vocal ability.
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Her ubiquity here almost makes her whole schtick believable.
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You took a fairly two-dimensional character and made her believable, even sympathetic at times.
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I would recommend a book called The Paleolithic Prescription written about 20 years ago by an anthroplogist and physician that describes the unbelievable feats early man could perform.
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Foyle's transformation from common man to revenge-seeker is fairly quick but entirely believable.
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