How To Use Credulity In A Sentence

She has practised upon my credulity with huge success.
‘They went crazy,’ he declares with utter incredulity.
At a minimum, they're guilty of extremely shoddy scholarship and overcredulity," says Boston Globe -- Ideas section
Unlike English, Arabic thematic fronting may express incredulity, disbelief, suspicion, uncertainty, denial, limitation and/or exclusiveness on the part of the subject or the object.
My dear, you grossly overrate the credulity of your audience. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS

The plot does stretch credulity.
Martin emitted a long, low whistle of incredulity, then proceeded to resurrect and read a carbon copy of "The Palmist. Chapter 29
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
The policy of their chiefs has on this occasion been admired, and might surely be excused; but a pious baud is seldom produced by the cool conspiracy of many persons; and a voluntary impostor might depend on the support of the wise and the credulity of the people. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
But as Imogen's obsession intensifies, it gets harder and harder not to grow tired of the way everyone caters to her with indulgent credulity.
One is amazed at the extent of the media's ignorance and credulity.
Even at the time this pledge was made, the reaction was one of scepticism and incredulity.
Nevertheless, the script as it stands strains credulity.
The finale is where the true incredulity is borne, as our hero (spoiler alert!)
He tried to practice upon the imagination and credulity of the public.
Before I am struck dumb by incredulity, you might like to know that this test was carried out in the name of research into the theory that women sniff out ideal mates.
Reading Barron, though, I realized that part of the reason his stories leave me cold is that they assume, as too much genre fiction does, a highish level of reader credulity, and I resent it. NY Times Upside My Head
There is barely a frame of this film that doesn't invite ridicule and incredulity. Times, Sunday Times
The idea was greeted with incredulity by people questioned by the Today programme near a crash hotspot in north London.
His campaign voiced incredulity at the claim that the county's Republicans couldn't have braved a snowstorm that dropped six inches to vote. Paul Campaign Challenges Romney's Maine Win
Most of their priestcraft was a vulgar imposition upon the ignorance and credulity of the common people. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
My flip, polite persona masks a smouldering and wrathy incredulity as I learn that another revivalist is stepping up to accept officialdom's accolade.
My sense of humor about this stuff is more or less shot through by five days in which the media has done everything possible - from deliberate overcredulity to misrepresentation to outright fabrication - to rip this woman apart. "I'm the freaking Governor of Alaska. I didn't get there by just eating mooseburgers and popping out kids."
I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Epistle Dedicatory
It is a well-attested fact, especially since the sacred precincts of established truth have been raided by every puerile pedant and sciolist who can handle a pen, that any absurdity whatever, so long as it is clad "in the lion's skin" and no matter how loudly it brays, has some fatal claim upon the rambling credulity of the multitude. The Doctor's Daughter
Speculating about their answers is pointless yet it is inevitable when Mr Garel-Jones's resignation letter crosses the boundary of credulity.
You see, citizens had been pushed to such extremes of cynicism that this latest transparent assault on their credulity was enough to break them.
What is more worthy of note is the credulity with which he swallows the fabulous inventions of the "monkish chroniclers" when set before him in English earthenware. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
For their credulity, they are showered with lies, exaggerations and half-truths, all of which find a sizable percentage of proponents among the voters.
The play's plot stretches credulity to the limit.
All of them are presented as taking place in an environment of such reckless irresponsibility and callous disregard of the value of human life as to strain credulity.
This time he certainly saw blank incomprehension mixed with a liberal dollop of incredulity.
As a third generation licensed victualler (now retired) I have been following the saga of the Wheatley Hotel with a mixture of amusement and incredulity.
His experience there may beg credulity.
It strained credulity to believe that a nuclear war would not lead to the destruction of the planet.
It is an astonishing scene, almost straining credulity. Times, Sunday Times
The avalanche of incredulity, ridicule and scepticism that greeted anyone who came out as a "tweeter" in those early days is hard to imagine now, five years on. Twitter's five-year evolution from ridicule to dissidents' tool
Part boardroom thriller, part domestic drama, the novel, as its punning title suggests, is a tale of fantastic credulity. Times, Sunday Times
So we should perhaps think more kindly of human credulity. Times, Sunday Times
Now, I'm sure that many readers' hair is standing on end with incredulity.
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. Matthew Yglesias » Are Televised Negotiations Even Possible?
Those were dear good people but they must have carried simplicity and credulity to the limit.
Invention of the mystic barmpot, Rudolf Steiner, for whom nothing whatsoever seems to strain credulity. David Colquhoun's Glossary Of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
He deployed the erudition that made his work a source-book of historical and religious criticism in a humane and enquiring spirit, impatient of credulity, superstition, and intolerance.
Much like The Shield, this isn't a narrative that can continue indefinitely without overstraining our credulity. Ask Matt: Entourage, Ringer, Closer, Torchwood and More!
And all this, mind, a century before the Montgolfier brothers ever hoisted themselves aloft, so expect your time frames and tenses to be concertinaed as your credulity is stretched to its breaking point. This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash
He tried to practice upon the imagination and credulity of the public.
Overcoming initial incredulity and long-standing revulsion for this raddled adventurer, from March 1790 the royal couple paid Mirabeau for support in the Assembly and regular advice.
On a very simple level, when presented with an alethic quirk like this, something which "could not happen," there is a response of incredulity to be expected. On the Sublime
Then they began to cry up parties again: the Diabolonians cried Up old Incredulity, Forget-Good, the new aldermen, and their great one Diabolus; and the other party, they as fast cried up Shaddai, the captains, his laws, their mercifulness, and applauded their conditions and ways. The Holy War
Hawke persisted in it, despite a high level of incredulity, bordering on ridicule, in the media.
And so a test was performed to study both the credulity and propensity for lacrimation of mages. WoW.com
Speculating about their answers is pointless yet it is inevitable when Mr Garel-Jones's resignation letter crosses the boundary of credulity.
All that said, the prosecution's version of events seems to stretch credulity.
It stretches credulity that the sixth largest economy in the world could lose a whole corner of its rail network for over a month and a half. Times, Sunday Times
To hear him now blame others for their credulity is breathtaking.
The much-vaunted plot ‘twist’ stretches your credulity to the limit: suffice to say that in order to believe it, you would also have to believe that Skinner is woefully unobservant.
Isn't it time the designated mouthpieces of the political-financial complex wiped that look of incredulity off their faces?
Astonished Europe rings with the mystery for ten months; sees only lie unfold itself from lie; corruption among the lofty and the low, gulosity, credulity, imbecility, strength nowhere but in the hunger. The French Revolution
The plot of the novel stretches credulity to the limit .
This was met with incredulity. Times, Sunday Times
When she told her family she was gay, they reacted with a mixture of shock and incredulity.
The plot of the novel stretches credulity to the limit .
I print this in capital letters merely to emphasise the tone of incredulity with which my colleague, Michael Grant recounted this tale to me from Orlando.
The film's romantic complications are restrained - they neither stretch the viewer's credulity nor make the characters seem airheaded, vindictive, or blind.
Faith and credulity,(Sentencedict) vision and delusion can only be distinguished provided that in case-studies the issue of ontology is kept alive.
Questions of seeing, believing, and credulity are explored in all of the essays and projects in this issue.
He who desires properly to appreciate the profound wisdom of the institution of which he is the disciple, must not be content, with uninquiring credulity, to accept all the traditions that are imparted to him as veritable histories; nor yet, with unphilosophic incredulity, to reject them in a mass, as fabulous inventions. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
It strained credulity to believe that a nuclear war would not lead to the destruction of the planet.
Her latest version of events strained their credulity still further.
He talked on, trying hard not to let her listless air of incredulity freeze the marrow of his bones and the blood in his veins, or cut him so deeply as to destroy his enrooted hope in their splendid future. The Way of the Wind
Drawn at first by my incredulity that anyone would actually name a product “Nads”, I quickly got sucked in by the fun Australian accents, the video (shown over and over) of a wife waxing her husband’s back hair, and the infectious exuberance of the product demonstrators. And If You Call Now … « Snarkmarket
TechCrunch has clearly staked out a new fanatical opposition to anything Apple-related and an unwavering fundamentalism that outstretches welcoming arms of credulity for anything Google-related. Google Should Make Apple Beg For Maps Navigation
Those that, to confute their incredulity, desire to see apparitions, shall, questionless, never behold any, nor have the power to be so much as witches. Religio Medici
Their parents make sacrifices, many of them, that defy credulity. Times, Sunday Times
This was met with incredulity. Times, Sunday Times
Promising to abolish it would have stretched credulity too far.
Her successive statements were received with the proper expressions of amusement, incredulity and gratitude.
Progressives' preferred image of the diviner was of a ‘knave’ preying on the credulity of ignorant backvelders to defraud them.
By the end of the book, readers will have encountered many illustrations of the incredible credulity and cruelty that are among the most tragic of our species' traits.
The most shocking is the inconsolable grief of friends and family members, combined with anger and incredulity at lives cut short. Times, Sunday Times
He felt a sense of incredulity, anger and pain at the accusation made against him.
But chemistry is often misunderstood, in two ways: in the one case, by the incredulity of total ignorance; in the other, by the overcredulity of imperfect knowledge. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
Obviously grateful for that flash of candor, he started groping for the words that might express his incredulity.
As a third generation licensed victualler (now retired) I have been following the saga of the Wheatley Hotel with a mixture of amusement and incredulity.
A wife whose mind was oriented in the new direction effectually silenced her husband's ridicule of what he called her credulity by reminding him that when wireless telegraphy was first suggested he had exclaimed, "Ah, that, you know, is one of the things that is not possible! Four-Dimensional Vistas
The truth is a tale of invented history and human credulity.
Athlete tests positive, athlete feigns disbelief and incredulity and throws questions in every direction.
Nevertheless suspicion bred credulity, and society's reprobates could not be presumed unavailable for the purposes of prison plotters.
The strength of the walls resisted an army of two hundred thousand Turks; their assaults were repelled by the sallies of the Greeks and their foreign mercenaries; the old resources of defence were opposed to the new engines of attack; and the enthusiasm of the dervis, who was snatched to heaven in visionary converse with Mahomet, was answered by the credulity of the Christians, who _beheld_ the Virgin History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
The press just gaped with their jaws open and tongue hanging out in utter incredulity.
There is barely a frame of this film that doesn't invite ridicule and incredulity. Times, Sunday Times
MPs and peers expressed incredulity that they could have missed the scandal under their noses. Times, Sunday Times
No, it is only fair to my own interests to go graveward a little more openmindedly than do these nature myths, since I lack the requisite credulity to become a free-thinking materialist. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
Reaction from the "locals" is predictably sadness and from our visitors and tourists comes the silence of incredulity. Dog urine causes cancer not pesticides?
The amazing credulity of the customers didn't just apply to the product itself, but to the company.
They had retained their credulity, however—they saw little suspicious in Reich's claim to have explained everything with his discovery of the very ur-stuff of the universe, called "orgone," in a pot of beef stew, among other places. Thinking Inside the Box
He is a man who obstinately refuses to believe the most solidly-established facts in favor of religion, and yet, with blind credulity, greedily swallows the most absurd falsehoods uttered _against religion_. Public School Education
At one extreme, it is used to represent the unswerving conviction and absolute credulity of the true believer.
That the moneyman should be the one to fall on his sword was greeted with incredulity in the art world. A House Divided
Unlike many Americans, whose immediate response was incredulity, he says he knew instinctively that it was a deliberate act.
Before I could signal my incredulity he winked and nodded at a diagram pinned to the wall.
At which point they fixed me a look that was a mix of pity and incredulity. Times, Sunday Times
At present I mainly gaze upon it with a sense of incredulity and delight.
The message was greeted with anger and incredulity by Syria experts and opposition activists. Times, Sunday Times
There is no longer any such article as a separate Scottish language, and, indeed, I am in some dubitation whether it ever existed at all, and is not rather the waggish invention of certain audacious Scottishers, who have taken advantage of the insular ignorance and credulity of the Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
The endless stream of gadgetry and gizmos is impressive, if credulity-stretching.
Belief in plots and conspiracies was yet another sign of the credulity of the times.
But the proposition strains credulity somewhat. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
..in which the media has done everything possible - from deliberate overcredulity to misrepresentation to outright fabrication - to rip this woman apart. "I'm the freaking Governor of Alaska. I didn't get there by just eating mooseburgers and popping out kids."
I read five paragraphs with incredulity and mounting horror.
The plot of the novel stretches credulity to the limit .
Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her.
Jim went off for his first day at work in a mood of tender incredulity, still unable to stop smiling.
They seem to equate intelligent belief with credulity.
As a motive, that may stretch credulity. The Times Literary Supplement
Isn't it stretching credulity to think that you would repeat the incident and get the exact same result? Times, Sunday Times
For a second -- I bending down, she stretching up -- our faces were neighbors, and I had time to see her expression undergo several lightning changes -- surprise, incredulity, and a few others not as easy to read -- before she retired, leaving Tibe to me. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
His hatred of Protestant missionaries in the East is phenomenal: he calls them "bagmen," ascribes all mischief and infamy to them, and his hatred is only exceeded by his credulity. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
His credulity is shewn by the belief he held, that the name of a place called Ainnit in Sky was the same as the _Anaitidis delubrum_ in Lydia. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
They seem to equate intelligent belief with credulity.
In the circumstances widespread credulity is their greatest asset, and our greatest hazard — especially when we allow the discrete questions of quality (on one hand) and rarity (on the other) to get thoroughly mixed up. Archive 2009-08-01
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
This was met with incredulity. Times, Sunday Times
Thady, whose credulity was of no inferior order, elate with the idea of consummating his wishes, communicated to his master the happy opportunity, and was permitted to seek the counsel of the celestial augurer. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
Then, to his horror, and no doubt incredulity, a dozen or so crabs appear and march toward him.
The second most common criticism leveled against the rape arc is that Veronica's combative distrustfulness has gone from a winning personality quirk to downright annoying, and Buffy alumni can be forgiven for fearing that the show's heroine is being made into such an extreme version of herself that soon it will strain credulity that anyone would actually be willing to spend time with her. Archive 2006-11-01
As Vivaldi expressed his incredulity, however, he returned to examine the garment once more, when, as he raised it, he observed, what had before escaped his notice, black drapery mingled with the heap beneath; and, on lifting this also on the point of his sword, he perceived part of the habiliment of a monk! The Italian
They seem to equate intelligent belief with credulity.
'You packed my socks and chuddies!' his father said, holding up the things with a look of incredulity.
Through the sinuosities of their vast mythology, he worked cunningly upon the credulity of his people. The Son of the Wolf
Our credulity is solicited, blandished, directed to the region of possible and desirable things. Bottoms Up
For some contestants the use of the term'celebrity' stretches credulity. Times, Sunday Times
My dear, you grossly overrate the credulity of your audience. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
In this case, moving the funny-page content to a page formerly devoted to the news just might notch up the credulity paid to what would normally be considered standard WSH editorial right wing "hokum," to borrow a word from Li'l Abner's mammy, Pansy. Printing: Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section
When she finally got through, her relief was inflected with incredulity: for the first time, her usually diligent daughter had overslept, and missed the bus.
The climax of the piece, with the three leads as angels in underwear, strains credulity. Times, Sunday Times
His credulity is shewn by the belief he held, that the name of a place called Ainnit in Sky was the same as the Anaitidis delubrum in Lydia. Life Of Johnson
The incredulity displayed is akin to watching a piano-playing chicken bang out Rachmaninoff.
Where earlier historians had read ancient authors with deference and credulity, he approached their works with presumptuous skepticism.
When fictional characters conquer our credulity to this extent, the likelihood is that they stand for some big idea that might, we think, make the world a better place.
It provides the answer to a question they asked me with genuine incredulity.
When she told her family she was gay, they reacted with a mixture of shock and incredulity.
When it is propagated by a petroleum company, suspicion turns to incredulity.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
This time, the looks Em and Mona exchanged were one and the same: utter incredulity.
Presumably, now that one can just buy them a damn beer instead of sneaking them a mickey, they should be able to get a record review that isn't prefaced with the critic's incredulity that such young'uns should be so focused.
It strained credulity to believe that a nuclear war would not lead to the destruction of the planet.
But I wish before passing from this part of my subject, briefly to examine the curious tenacity with which the belief in this legendary literature was once held, and to show that it was not relinquished until a more critical standard of historic belief was adopted, and scientific investigation took the place of uninquiring and passive credulity. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
Depressed by the abundance of absurd claims for quack alternative therapies, he had set up the site as a credulity experiment.
Mr. Hughes, who offers a popular history of Rome and Roman art from antiquity to the present, finds himself more or less forced into the waggish incredulity of so many Anglo-Saxon writers at the bizarre annals of the papacy's temporal power. The Heirloom City
My perception has been that the truth is closer to the opposite—that is, that the left tends more towards enthusiasm and excessive credulity for healthism, while libertarians and the right tend more towards resentment and excessive skepticism. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore
Even so, it is straining credulity too far to conclude that the debtor has an arguable case.
We are excused by ignorance or incredulity no more than by neglect.
The best way I can describe my reaction is some mix of puzzlement and incredulity.
The universal incredulity of the hackery is palpable even through the dead medium of television. Brown's Payola Goverment Dips Into the Pork Barrel
Another point to bear in mind is that all the books on the shortlist have flaws - of course, all books have flaws of some kind, but crime fiction does tend to suffer from cliche, formula and incredulity somewhat more than most, and these downsides canbe applied at times to all the titles on the shortlist, Ithink. Books
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. Unforeseen difficulties.
The crime stands beyond credulity or forgiveness.
He gave a brittle laugh and shook his head, eyebrows raised in incredulity.
The foregoing may strain the bounds of credulity or, at least, seem far-fetched, but respectively, they should not and are not. SAN ANDREAS
When I tell my Catholic confrères that in Lutheran seminary we were taught that every minute of a twenty or thirty minute sermon should be preceded by at least an hour of preparation, they respond with incredulity.
As Jack continued on droning about how Chin dislike anime, Zack's head was swarming with questions & incredulity.
The expression on her face caught between amusement and utter incredulity.
I listened with incredulity to how a "mad scientist Mr. Yacub" had genetically "grafted" the white race from an original black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The incredulity, thinking further back, at all the trivia through the last decade we got ourselves worked up over.
Mitchell returned my look of incredulity with one of her own.
It strains credulity to believe that these guys were doing this from any altruistic motive.
When I came across this page of disclaimer stickers for science textbooks, I had to laugh, although my laughter is heavily tinged with incredulity.
And with an earnest credulity, which contained the germ of purest faith, she, remembering the mother's dream, called her nursling by the name of Olive. Olive A Novel
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Their haplessness, ignorance and apathy are by-products of that still more basic corruption — and credulity is in fact a type of corruption in the current social/political arena writ large. The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball
If told they were doing so, they would express incredulity and scorn. Christianity Today
The play's plot stretches credulity to the limit.
[E] mploys a whiplash plot turn that may strain credulity, but its still an engaging suspense tale. Down to the Wire by David Rosenfelt: Book summary
It would really stretch credulity to suggest that it could.
As students of urban folklore know, legends are perpetuated for reasons other than simple credulity.
Human credulity is elastic, but not endless. The Times Literary Supplement
Instead, I was met with incredulity and anger. Times, Sunday Times
For a theatregoer, credulity has its pluses and minuses. Times, Sunday Times
How far can people's credulity be stretched? Times, Sunday Times
At times, the plot stretches credulity. Times, Sunday Times
When she told her family she was gay, they reacted with a mixture of shock and incredulity.
But, to the odd gasp of incredulity, he has pitched his campaign as that of an anti-elitist insurgent, talking up his working-class upbringing near Warrington and bemoaning his old colleagues 'bedazzlement with wealth, glamour and influence. Labour leadership: The contenders
a loss to know whether or not Tinah himself gave credit to this whimsical and fabulous account; for though they have credulity sufficient to believe anything, however improbable, they are at the same time so much addicted to that species of wit which we call humbug that it is frequently difficult to discover whether they are in jest or earnest. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
This stretches credulity well past breaking point.
The coincidences so strain credulity that they border on a deus ex machina. A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood » Print
One thing is sure, -- that my superstition and credulity reached their height at the very period of my life which my critics reproachfully assign as the date of my Fourieristic beliefs. What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
But to suppose that these lifeless energies, even if possessed of such qualities, could, void of intelligence, produce _such_ effects as _are_ produced in the universe, requires credulity capable of believing anything. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880
Her expression is usually one of barely concealed incredulity.
Celebrity endorsements of good causes are sometimes characterised by both ignorance and credulity.
Paternal credulity in Terence generally limits itself to mistaking undutiful sons for obedient and honest sons.
A brief glimpse of his story and it is easy to understand his incredulity.
It strained credulity to believe that a nuclear war would not lead to the destruction of the planet.
Kim Bodnia, Mikael Persbrandt and Maria Bonnevie deliver naturalistic, largely unmannered performances that give their characters a warts-and-all credulity.
Yet zoologists have consistently reacted to these phenomena with a mixture of incredulity, confusion, and even outright hostility.
It would strain anyone's therapeutic credulity to believe that Audrey needed no further help.
The announcement has been met with incredulity.

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