How To Use Believing In A Sentence

  • Edgar Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the excess of praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-estimated American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of prosody in English; [31] but in general the critical writing done in the United States has been of a low order, and most A Book of Prefaces
  • You died near ninety, still unbelieving, unconfessed, and unreceived.
  • Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
  • With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor. Inside the Whale
  • Believing in the authenticity of such apparitions is not even a requirement of Catholic faith.
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  • ‘Up is down, and down is up… My feeling is that someone has essentially conned her into believing that she's going to be voting,’ he said.
  • The folks at are charged with contributing to the delinquency of the film-makers, who were likely duped into believing this could become a satisfying monster movie.
  • For it is through believing that the sun rises and sets, the moon passes and wanes, the rain falls and sunbeams pour down that allows the order and sequence of events to happen.
  • Last summer, when the cruise ship pulled into Beirut, passengers whipped out their cell phones to call disbelieving friends back home. Back From the Brink
  • Our ability to stress over trivial cultural issues while ignoring the extermination of the environment will make medieval peasants believing in miracles seem as reasonable as Einstein.
  • Failing that, and still believing that you are a victim in this whole lash-up, I am going to contact a federal agent who has exposed a number of phonies Peter Sumaruck II
  • When they reach a certain age, they stop believing and consequently stop writing.
  • Believing that my wallet was gone forever, I started calling my bank and credit card companies, but the front desk clerk called my room, saying, “A cabdriver is in the lobby with your wallet.” A wayward wallet returns
  • The refusal to pray for an unbelieving kindred is justified, according to Mahomet, by the duty of a prophet, and the example of Abraham, who reprobated his own father as an enemy of God. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke 
  • But he is mistaken in believing that most voters will come to their own conclusions.
  • Clifford's contention about the reprehensibility of believing without or against the evidence still stands.
  • She makes painting an oil look so easy that the student will automatically start believing he will be capable of the same.
  • One can believe p and believe ~p without believing Self-Deception
  • There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke 
  • It requires holding your nerve, being totally committed and believing absolutely that's what you have got to do.
  • The old man, intoxicated with superhuman enjoyment, and believing himself happy, had just received a cold shower-bath on his passion at the moment when it had risen to the intensest white heat. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
  • And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external existence of the Secondary than the Primary Qualities. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
  • Parents are duped into believing that their child will have a better future.
  • When the Americans did not give up but rather kept building more planes and tanks, the Japanese responded with massive suicidal attacks, believing that Americans, selfish and mongrelized, could not stand up to such a show of national unity and self-sacrifice. Sea of Thunder
  • Here, seeing was surely believing, but truly spiritual seeing was itself a miracle, uniquely manifested by divine grace to this holiest of prayerful petitioners.
  • The 76-year-old from Southend Road, Wickford, was tricked into believing his roof was riddled with woodworm and in danger of collapsing without major repair work.
  • Without any means to establish the truth, not being duped can only mean disbelieving everything.
  • That is to say, Linda is in and out of both cultures, believing in old-world traditions and embracing the new ideals of a liberated woman.
  • Believing that music should be free, man, a groundswell of penny-pinching hippies forced the promoter to provide free concerts as a sidebar to the festival.
  • I have a hard time believing that you are talking about the same kind of creatureliness that has been used to justify slavery, to subjugate women, condemn homosexuality, anathemize birth control, and to pick an example from today's headlines to limit stem cell research. Philocrites: Uh oh: Here come the Christian humanists!
  • They brainwashed the captured pilot into believing he was a CIA agent.
  • Afterward they caressed, laughed, japed, spread two straw ticks on the floor that they might have real room to move about, played, loved, his head rested between her breasts, she urged him anew and yet anew, he swore he had never known the match to her and the believing of him was a tall fire. The Boat of a Million Years
  • With the use of uplifting essential oils their metabolisms could be fooled into leapfrogging hibernation, believing they had already arrived in the scent of spring.
  • Ever after that I double declutched every standard car I ever owned believing to this day that it was better for the transmission.
  • Believing them to be both anti-Semitic and antisocialist, Schneiderman resigned in 1914. Rose Schneiderman.
  • Adding to the evils of status-seeking is that people often deceive themselves and others into believing that they are doing something for a higher motive when in fact they are seeking status.
  • At the time, doctors often performed the operations instead of Caesareans, believing that it would allow the women to continue having children.
  • There she was, sitting as usual, and I was so concerned, believing that due to my interference all the eggs had addled—for I thought the hatching time was three weeks.
  • Believing one of every 10 happy-talk words that the leaders utter about their confabs would seem to be the appropriate discount rate.
  • By which means it is, yet by my courtesy, that scarce any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as believing that Christ will be well enough pleased if in their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness and the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of bishops. In Praise of Folly
  • Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. Christopher Hitchens 
  • For the poor bumblers then go forth, believing that even though they can't understand how the world works, they can nevertheless figure out how to make it work better!
  • It is the relative subjective costs of falsely believing p and ~p that explains why desire or other motivation biases belief in some circumstances and not others. Self-Deception
  • Believing that is roughly what the orient has been calling maya for the last several millennia. Language/thought vs reality process
  • And yet that same culture would flatter us into believing we are a nation of mavericks and rebels.
  • The company started down the slippery slope of believing that they knew better than the customer.
  • The Dengue patrols (from the Health Dept) have stepped it up a notch and instead of believing people who say they don't have a pila in the back yard, (or any standing water) are checking for themselves. Dengue A word of caution
  • Lucien faced his longtime friend and companion, his expression disbelieving. Naughty or Nice
  • Miss Vernon, as she gave a glance after him; it is hard that persons of birth and rank and estate should be subjected to the official impertinence of such a paltry pickthank as that, merely for believing as the whole world believed not much above a hundred years ago --- for certainly our Catholic Faith has the advantage of antiquity at least. '' Rob Roy
  • I cannot imagine any other country believing that the image it wants to present in the 21st century is of tubby politicians in national costume.
  • These communications warrant the President in believing that the so-called Fenian expedition is now entirely, at an end, and that order and tranquility may be expected to prevail henceforth on that border. Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870
  • These people who, while believing in a god and goddess, follow the ancient pagan religions that revere the wonders and beauty of nature and its changing seasons.
  • Stormily what the comburant jointly weirdly is to clavier to them, and to vividly blaeberry what vinaigrette them ministry. were unbelievingly knuckle into this monkeypod of placodermi as chelicerous to zoroastrian and more badlands and seaside. Rational Review
  • Hindus, believing in the transmigration of the soul, similarly fi nd no problem with organ and tissue transplants. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although Damascus insists that its forces are conducting an antismuggling operation, the Lebanese government is eyeing the moves with unease, believing that the unusual scale of the deployment has more to do with tensions between the two countries over recent sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon. Political Resonance
  • Contrary to those believing "Science is a process, NOT a consensus", consensus is very much part of the scientific process as data and models begin converging. Jack Schmitt on Global Warming - NASA Watch
  • I realise acting is a risky profession but you've got to keep believing in yourself.
  • He turned his back on the London art-world and renounced the idea of abstraction, believing that a figurative style would be the only way to convey clearly what he had seen.
  • Her parents told police that she explained to them she had swallowed the liquid by accident, believing it was something else.
  • They informed upon their more believing co-religionist neighbors, and watched them get sent off to the gulags, thinking what a great thing they where doing. And Obama gives a big “FU” to Bibi, too
  • This animosity is based on fear of a Bible believing Christian aspiring to political office. Palin to make announcement Friday
  • We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. Alexandre Dumas 
  • Four Life Guards intervened when a Frenchman was assaulted by a mob believing that he, too, had intentionally fired a house. Exit the Actress
  • We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
  • It is easy to delude yourself into believing you're in love.
  • The ego's greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests are our best interests, and even into identifying our very survival with its own.
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  • Hogarth, in an unusually loquacious mood, had explained to a disbelieving Posy that the Pinks were talented musicians. TICKLED PINK
  • True education does not consist in being taught just anything, any more than true religion consists in believing just anything.
  • I played back the message for my disbelieving friends.
  • This is the source of scepticism about other minds: how, given that the argument from analogy does not work, can I claim to be justified in believing that there are any minds other than my own in the universe?
  • Believing he had been called by God to Christianize Ireland, he joined the Catholic Church and studied for 15 years before being consecrated as the church's second missionary to Ireland.
  • Now, with the public believing the company is the anthropomorphosis of the devil, Ensign Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • Governments only need to spend millions of dollars trying to con us into believing that they've done a good job if they haven't.
  • While the engine pads are about 10 times more expensive than the thin single sheets, with this experience our team started believing they would be worth using under inboard engines.
  • When I say knowingly, I mean knowing what it is to be a child of God and to be born again; and when I say believingly, I mean for the soul to believe, and that from good experience, that the work of grace is wrought in him. The Riches of Bunyan
  • He had been an idiot, a complete git in believing or just hoping that his father had changed.
  • Continue therefore to live even with unbelieving relatives; for, if you are holy, the relation is so, the state is so, you may make a holy use even of an unbelieving relative, in conjugal duties, and your seed will be holy too. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Based on these comments in the pages of Britain's leading conservative magazine, I will no longer bother to worry about the enfeeblement of Britain, the collapse of its sense of moral order, its inability to control drunken yobs in the streets of London and other cities, or its unwillingness to stand up against immigrant groups who would like nothing better than to cut every unbelieving throat in a single night. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. Alexandre Dumas 
  • Western method of keeping Easter on the Sunday after the fourteenth day of the moon should be adopted throughout the Church, believing no doubt that this mode fitted in better with the historical facts and wishing to give a lasting proof that the Jewish Passover was not, as the Quartodeciman heretics believed, an ordinance of Christianity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • I have the manic, disbelieving smile of a winning game-show contestant.
  • The entire neighbourhood had gathered, quite unbelieving of the charge.
  • Unbelieving jinn, those who resisted the Koran, are shaytan, demons, “firewood for hell”. Born of Fire
  • Walter listened disbelievingly as O, affecting his familiar attitude of solicitous older brother, encouraged him to see the bright side in the bewildering estrangement proposed. O: A Presidential Novel
  • How many “Bible-thumpers” have you seen calling evolutionists stupid for believing what is taught to them in public schools? 300 secular students visit Ken Ham's Creation “Museum” - The Panda's Thumb
  • An incorrigible striker of attitudes, which is all the more dangerous and at times effective, as he talks himself into believing them himself… Has no sense of morality, thoroughly selfish.
  • I suddenly realised why these dudes were having so much trouble believing me.
  • She became aggressive and paranoid and was regularly admitted to mental hospitals, believing she was being persecuted and complaining of hearing voices.
  • Believing a man had flashed at his girlfriend, he drove at him, jamming him against a wall.
  • Sensationalists claimed to believe only what they saw, but in fact they were rather better at believing than seeing.
  • I gasped hard, unbelieving at the warmth.
  • Or it might have you believing the quartet roared into town like Marlon Brando and his biker gang from The Wild One, rebelling against the prevailing fashions for abstraction and avant-garde.
  • They're eerily similar to American illos from the same era -- both empires believing that they were rocketing to a space-age, hypermodernist, Tomorrowland/Rollerball future. Boing Boing
  • I bought this system from you believing you to be a reputable firm and I can plainly see you've swindled me out of my money
  • They were people who decided on a pose and, believing none of it, carried it off.
  • Greek, Latin, and the newly discovered Sanskrit, Jones says, show an “affinity ... so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists ...” Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • Children often know what is expected of them, and believing that children will behave poorly can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • Perhaps the most sickening fact is that they have been able to frighten a small number of our older people into believing that they will not be able to afford to pay for vital services.
  • News of the shared experience of tear gas and of the police firing at them was spread in disbelieving, hastily transmitted messages from person to person to, and those who had not been present in the first moments of violence soon informed. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
  • One hears stories of Christians who, in great anguish of heart, hover over the deathbeds of unbelieving dying relatives, hoping to hear, if only as a last gasp, a confession of faith.
  • Believing there is still dignity to be had in his work, the crafty retiree hatches a plan.
  • Psychologist Ray Hyman provides a very telling example of how gurus and true believers can deceive themselves into believing what has been demonstrated to be false.
  • Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
  • Believing in the omnipresence of God in the disposal of man's fate, these stern Puritans accepted all that life delivered with an unbreakable will.
  • Those who tried to delude the people into believing that this was the last war were either fools or knaves, and he inclined to think that there were more knaves than fools.
  • Note that Paul spoke to these unbelieving Gentiles about judgement, not the gospel of the grace of God.
  • And now something happened which had hitherto been deemed incredible; the Sultan sued for peace, a true believer and a sovereign, from an unbelieving giaour. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
  • She nodded, obviously not believing me, but unwilling to make an issue of it.
  • The play tells of a lady seduced by a villain after being tricked into believing her husband is having an affair.
  • On hearing of his misdeeds, the ‘witch’ has no trouble believing that he is indeed the cause of his tribesman's misfortunes.
  • Today, she is starting three-and-a-half years behind bars for her latest deceptions, plus six months for trying to con the judge into believing a fish and chip shop was a hospital.
  • Believing the director to be an uninspired hack fresh from cutting his teeth on music videos and commercials, I was surprised to learn that he helmed a low-budget, insightful drama.
  • There is no distinction in India between deafness and deaf and dumbness and, because Ian can speak, they have trouble believing that he cannot hear.
  • Many young people go through a Walden phase, believing that Thoreau and, in "Self-Reliance," Emerson saw through to the realities of life, past the "phoniness" that so obsessed Holden Caulfield. Love Books? You’re In The Right Place.
  • Your average grizzled patriarch stumbles about making the same mistakes in his senectitude that he had in adolescence, learning nothing, "believing in the same white list of approved 20-carat lies. Borne Ceaselessly Into the Future
  • The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man. Thomas Carlyle 
  • They're proving they exist, punishing us for not believing in them, like gods.
  • Believing that Liberia's future lay in agriculture, he purchased a sugar plantation with earnings from his photography.
  • We have relapsed into disputes about transubstantiation at the very moment when the discovery of the wide prevalence of theophagy as a tribal custom has deprived us of the last excuse for believing that our official religious rites differ in essentials from those of barbarians. The Revolutionist’s Handbook
  • His undesiring sighting of her body achieved the same effect for her as his desirous vision of Robinson: Caroline is disarticulated from the body/property scheme so necessary to the realism of sentimental narratives (to which the prince was himself addicted, believing Maria Fitzherbert to be his soulmate from whose bosom he had been torn by parental pressure to marry against his nature). Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text
  • His language to the wife whom he still loves while believing himself dishonored by her is such that "a beggar, in his drink, could not have laid such terms upon his callet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
  • Beckham briefly saw the red mist when he went chasing after Vata and brought him down after clearly believing he had been fouled himself by the Albanian midfielder.
  • Suzan stood there in complete silence, unbelieving, a red hand mark evident on the taller girl's face.
  • Opposing adultery in principle is not the same as "believing the adulterer is a monster who ought to wear a red letter on his breast," says New York University sociologist Todd Gitlin. Those Cheatin' Hearts
  • But believing instead that meaningful change can come only from the “clerisy,” or educated elite, he has spent most of the past few decades trying to talk sense into British universities, and their English departments in particular. Keeping a Civil Tongue
  • He pulled the trigger, believing that the safety catch was on.
  • Overall, the response was favourable with many Waterford people believing that charging for plastic bags will significantly reduce the numbers used.
  • As long as they stayed out of NATO's hair, that is, the Russians could go on make-believing that they were playing a crucial role in the occupation of Kosovo.
  • Tom refused to join the army, believing that he had no moral right to kill.
  • Am I an elitist bastard running-dog lackey etc for believing that only people who actually care should make the decisions?
  • Even very senior officers can beguiled into behaving unbecomingly, cruelly, and destructively while believing they are acting in the best tradition of the service.
  • By disbelieving in the soul, it comes to disbelieving in the mind.
  • Ameri says it is Gaddafi's regime that introduced the use of the term "tribalism", and did so to "crush the confidence of those in their own western Libya cities" as well as to "confuse outsiders into believing that the Gaddafi regime is all that's holding together a fractured and disunited people". The Guardian World News
  • But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • One always has a choice between believing or disbelieving the assumptions, and, along with them, the conclusion of the argument.
  • An attempt to escape reality (her home and life are very gloomy now) and retreat into this mystical meditative "place", instead of believing God and His concrete Word will help you to face reality, as an overcomer. The Better Part
  • He had reasonable grounds for believing the law had been broken.
  • She had a hard time believing that someone with the hotness quotient of Kent would go stag.
  • Now state regulators are reviewing an anonymous e-mail from someone claiming that during tests leading up to the Feb. 1 "cutover," FairPoint created a computer program "to deceive the audience into believing they were watching a real demonstration" of its readiness. The News Tribune Blogs
  • We can try to kid ourselves into believing that following Jesus isn't such a difficult thing.
  • His injury woes have cleared up significantly after selling his Mercedes, believing the strain from the pedals was creating muscle pulls by putting pressure on his back.
  • Sadly though, our binge culture does pressurise young people into believing that inebriation is essential for enjoyment.
  • Residents of a street blighted by a stream of juggernauts have given a slightly disbelieving welcome to Swindon Council's decision to close the road to through traffic.
  • Mount Vernon Director James Rees said the term "presidential library" could mislead people into believing that the Mount Vernon library will receive federal funding, as modern presidential libraries do through their association with the National Archives. The Seattle Times
  • At low levels, it creates a faint mustiness that leaves less-than-confident drinkers believing they just don't appreciate the nuances of wine.
  • It was foolish pride that prevented me from believing her.
  • A dealbreaker for me is believing in astrology, which is handy since so many numbskulls blurt out references to astrology very soon after you meet them.
  • Jesus was a man, of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, and an enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions of divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law. Global Democracy and the Rise of the King of Darkness
  • Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. Christopher Hitchens 
  • Or are these guys just spouting eyewash that they have no real basis for believing?
  • Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein 
  • #25 – Dear Parrotlover – The air quality in smoggy Los Angeles is vastly improved since the 1960’s – quit believing all the propaganda you “parrot” in your posts. Think Progress » Rebuttal To Gore Movie, Enthusiastically Embraced By The Right, Grossly Distorts Scientific Facts
  • I associate this brand of feminism with a certain variety of white, coastal-city dwelling, fairly well-to-do heterosexual cisgendered woman, a woman with a comfortable white-collar job that is so very comfortable and so very white-collar that she is free to spend her spare time yearning for, and semi-believing that she could attain, something with more “meaning.” Already Thursday! How? « Gerry Canavan
  • There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke 
  • But they want Americans to keep believing in coequality, because it sounds good and adds an aura of respect for government that politicians desperately want. Constitutional Rubbish
  • Why do people with a religion start to stop thinking and start believing?
  • We will be given the same opportunities as other members of the church to give Christian witness in an unbelieving world.
  • His fruitcake theory was Cambridge people were clever but isolated and unworldly, believing what they thought was right took precedence over any duty to their country.
  • Australians over 55 seem rock-solid behind Howard while younger Australians seem supportive of Labor leader Kevin Rudd, believing the Work Choices changes mean they have no job security.
  • But there's a major difference between believing in demonic possession and using torture and beatings to exorcize children.
  • Elissa's mouth was dry, and she stared open-mouthed at the paper, hardly believing her eyes.
  • He deludes himself into believing that he has not succumbed to radiation sickness because of some kind of inborn immunity, i.e. invincibility. Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Dreams From My Grandfather
  • For sure, however, every schoolboy (of my generation anyway) knows when at teatime on 16 September the final score – Devon 4 New Zealand 55 – was received by the London sports news agency, the unbelieving subeditor confidently presumed a transmission error and reversed the result to Devon 55 New Zealand 4. How the original All Blacks went down in the annals of history
  • Were believing Gentiles indeed fellow heirs of Abraham along with believing Jews?
  • Paul thought that a believer could divorce and remarry if the unbelieving partner called an end to the marriage.
  • Most Americans now alive have gone their whole lives believing they had something approaching a free pass to escape the miseries of war, terror, and want.
  • The reason for believing that it is a largely abstract and theoretical issue is that the Court of Appeal judgments implied strongly that that was so.
  • He tells his naively unbelieving sister which her father "gives his potent regiment to a trull. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • Overall, the response was favourable with many Waterford people believing that charging for plastic bags will significantly reduce the numbers used.
  • In this reform, Shang Yang emphasized severe punishments, believing that draconian penalties helped to prevent crimes.
  • As I argued in my last column, we must not fool ourselves into believing that we can become totally self-sufficient in food.
  • The statement says that members held back from a direct confrontation last week, believing that an open challenge at the time would have merely caused the Vatican's Curia to "close ranks" around one of their own "because of the clericalist culture of that body" and despite the "lack of support" for Fisichella himself. LifeSiteNews.com Headlines
  • Male viewers, for example, may not like a certain woman anchor, believing her to be too aggressive.
  • Kudos to the founders for sticking to the vision, the team for executing it so well and most importantly to their investors in believing the story. Cooliris Keeps On Growing, Adds Desktop Support
  • By and large, the prominent (and well funded, I might add) expounders of the current ID movement were at one time (not so long ago) what you might call diehard crackerjack-creationists (e.g., believing that a WASP/WASC God more or less snapped his/her fingers, there was a crackling sound, and out popped the universe and its inhabitants in all their current variety and complexity). The President and Intelligent Design
  • They are still stuck believing in egalitarian fantasies and clean consciousness. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
  • Meantime the trappers left to guard the fort remained stationed within the wood all night, firmly believing they had their enemy "corraled," as the horsemen of the plains would say. The River of the West
  • The secularists there have not underestimated religion, they have just made the mistake of believing they could control everything with the army.
  • There was a time when a decorator painted walls in small rooms white as a matter of course, believing that white would make a room appear larger.
  • Believing in the other person - extending trust - helps to create and sustain constancy and trustworthiness.
  • There is a trend in connoisseurship to make the mistake of believing that a netsuke that is carved by a pupil in the style of his master and bearing his signature is in some way less powerful or inventive than one might expect from the master.
  • Also at the home is an obstreperous new resident named Patrick, an ex-alcoholic who develops a close relationship with Clara, believing her to be a lost love from the Second World War.
  • That was what I told myself at the times when I found myself believing his wild prophecies. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • It seemed clear to me now what she had wanted from me this morning but I had been unbelieving.
  • She makes painting an oil look so easy that the student will automatically start believing he will be capable of the same.
  • Using the term 'gnostic' for what you believe in all its depth and its totality was intended to reach a similar level of simple courtesy to that I get when unbelieving friends call me a 'pagan' - a good general term for roughly what floats my spiritual boat - rather than 'heathen' - the specific term for what sets that boat alight. [christianity] is fair discussion possible [1]
  • Like most of us, Jeannie had grown up believing that there was something intrinsically wrong with her and that, by way of atonement and being accepted, she had to work hard to be good.
  • She beguiled them into believing her version of events.
  • I trusted in myself believing that my efforts alone would make me successful in this world.
  • Take it as an indication that you're on the right path and persevere, that's what I'm believing.
  • Also, the trailers and TV ads are conning us into believing that it's about a talking kangaroo.
  • She bluffed me into believing that she was an actress.
  • Now, it seems clear that, since believing and considering have different effects if one produces bodily movements while the other does not, there must be some intrinsic difference between believing and considering*; for if they were precisely similar, their effects also would be precisely similar. The Analysis of Mind
  • Many people fall into the trap of believing that home decorating must always be done on a large scale.
  • She's one of those people who claims psychic ability, but has never proven anything more than a talent to sucker people into believing that she has a supernatural gift of some kind.
  • Much of our strongest faith experience comes from simply believing and knowing that God is present.
  • But he admitted that some pupils would have started the new school term ‘disappointed’, believing that they had underachieved.

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