How To Use Sceptic In A Sentence

Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
They contain a good deal of material of a rhetorical, formulaic, or supernatural character designed to bolster the Chosen One's claims to prophethood in the face of sceptical or prejudiced critics.
He expressed a great deal of scepticism about the value of psychoanalysis.
Scepticism failed to save her from scenting danger in the ardent courtship of a rich young Philadelphian.
Some of his best mates are journalists, but generally he is sceptical and distrustful of the media and never saw his role as a background briefer to reporters.

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It occurs to me that this may be, at least in part, because they are unusually unskillful and unsceptical users of the medium.
Britain has an age-old tradition of Euro scepticism that goes back to well before the Second World War.
This helped to convince many sceptics of the case for restoring the building to its former condition. Times, Sunday Times
Sceptics point out that the poll only offered a straight choice between Whitehall and regional rule, and left out the option of more local control.
Plimer has made something of a career out of baiting Christians, though his antics have proved an embarrassment even to some of his fellow sceptics.
This was our first visit, and we arrived sceptical about anywhere with such an oversized reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Telfer's accounts of this and other pitched battles with ‘myalls’ might be dismissed by the sceptic as unsupported hearsay.
He has been at pains to assure a sceptical public of various other safeguards to check against the rampant abuses of the disinvestment process.
It is not the reality of scepticism or of truth dissolving relativism, but the claim to truth of all formal argument that is affected.
CLAIMS of clairvoyance, particularly when they come from economists, deserve a sceptical reception.
Not so much to be sceptical as always to keep an open mind. Times, Sunday Times
Taxpaying voters, well used to being taxed to the hilt by politicians of all political hues, are right to be so sceptical about the show being put on in front of them.
Legal sources have expressed mixed views over the true meaning of the company's conditional offer to meet future claims, with some on the union side now extremely sceptical.
Nothing short of substantive and meaningful improvement in the material well being of ordinary South Africans will overturn this tide of distrust and scepticism.
There are sceptics about this poetry boomlet. Times, Sunday Times
The dilemma for most eurosceptics who oppose British integration into a EU superstate — that political chimaera which is finally being brought into being by the EU constitutional treaty — has always been the assumption that EU membership is a take-it-or-leave-it deal. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
For many on the right in the UK, Atlanticism has become synonymous with a self-defeating, virulent Euroscepticism that is bad for Britain. Labour: UK should integrate key defence decisions with Europe
YET I remained basically sceptical when it came to the idea that the spirit survives death.
However, I have become sceptical of governments' humanity, so let me instead repeat what we already know about disease prevention and health promotion.
Today such sentiments tend to be treated with scepticism, if not depicted as elitist.
A similar test involving email yielded the same result, although the researchers' limited pool of testees - 63 for the phone and 50 for the email - coupled to the fact that only nine subjects were filmed across the two tests, prompted "some scepticism". Thoughts are things (thoughts have wings).
The experience of the last 10 years has shown that, for the Eurosceptics, loyalty is a one-way street; something you demand but do not give.
But his allies insist he is an instinctive Eurosceptic who is simply taking a pragmatic approach. Times, Sunday Times
The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope.
The difference by the way between a denialist and a sceptic is important. Cheeseburger Gothic » So, Caprica.
Legal experts remain sceptical over whether the Metropolitan Police and the CPS will be able to make criminal charges stick. Shamed Pakistan players remain suspended after ICC rejects appeals
It is a spiritual ingredient, composed, when one comes to analyse it, of two chemical elements; of what might be called aesthetic egoism and of what we know as philosophic scepticism. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
I promise my by now sceptical family a slap-up lunch in Paris.
There may be some sound reasons for the scepticism about green initiatives. Times, Sunday Times
In some sceptical quarters of England's northeast this building was symbolic of a waste of money that could otherwise have been spent on hospitals.
Ah you will see there is a close similarity, there is well externalism has become a very popular way of addressing the sceptic .
My assurances don't satisfy him: he's still sceptical.
Although most respondents were enthusiastic or supportive of booking, about a quarter were sceptical or not convinced of its value.
Sceptics say this was because criminals targeted less advanced countries such as Britain instead. Times, Sunday Times
I was so hurt by her coldness and scepticism that tears rose to my eyes.
They have joined the great army of moderns who view the land above the sacred / secular divide with scepticism.
Indeed, all progress depends on the sceptic, the questioner, the person who does not wholly conform.
Professor John Clement, a forensic odontologist at the University of Melbourne, was entirely sceptical.
Sceptics could well ask why the empire should rally to invade Europe just for Batu to take the profit.
It has a track record of exposing frauds, gives space to sceptical views, and sparks debate about controversial subjects - such as ‘Is cryptozoology a science?’
Sceptics argue that it is easier to build a keyboard than a smooth-running touchscreen device. Times, Sunday Times
These sceptical, cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities.
Eurosceptic business and political groups said the figures proved that Britain could thrive without losing its currency.
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?
And there is nothing wrong with being an old, birching, national service advocatin' eurosceptic, dominatrix visitin' Tory either. Battleship Dunwoody to Relaunch
There was also scepticism at the preelection giveaways that started to trickle out at party conference time. Times, Sunday Times
Even at the time this pledge was made, the reaction was one of scepticism and incredulity.
Hume was quite well aware that Berkeley would not have owned to being a sceptic.
I regard their press releases with a degree of scepticism.
There was widespread stockmarket scepticism that the demerger would succeed in increasing the value to shareholders.
We will see the sceptic side of him very much on display as he resists attempts to remove Britain's veto over tax and social security.
The watchman himself had been sceptical of Psalmanaazaar's story from the first, yet he had never been able to disbelieve it completely. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter. The Odyssey of Homer
A rather extreme binarism is thus established, in which the reader is pushed between an absolute trust in fiction’s form-making power, and an absolute scepticism of it. 2009 May 22 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Satan, a sceptical archangel, offers an experiment to test whether Job's piety is really sincere or predicated on his God-given wealth.
While people may be sceptical about politicians who moralise, they are anxious to see them display integrity and principle.
The "No" campaign has been vigorous, comprising a motley crew of aging Marxists, anti-globalisation protesters, traditional Eurosceptics, and obsessive " sovereigntists ".
He is an unreconstructed Eurosceptic, unlike others in the British Labour party.
Such claims should be regarded with a certain amount of scepticism.
This sceptical dogma of "evasiveness" is generally found in alliance with some vague modern "religion" whose chief object is to strip the world of the dignity of its real tragedy and endow it with the indignity of some pretended assurance. The Complex Vision
Despite scepticism, founder Trent Huang was nonsensical and confident about his company.
I'm rather sceptical about their professed sympathy for the poor.
Experience suggests that the public will remain wisely sceptical on the question.
The absence of confident sneers, knowing smirks and sceptical raised eyebrows also makes an enormous difference.
These East Africans have a healthy, smart, informed scepticism and the media manages to remain admirably po-faced when dealing with delicate political issues.
In fact, Sanskrit and Pali have a larger literature in defence of atheism, agnosticism and theological scepticism than exists in any other classical language.
For the stimulus sceptics really do think they can put humpty dumpty together again, and that “aggregate demand”, as Cowen puts it, is a less “fundamental” problem than the financial service sector collapse. Matthew Yglesias » What Instead?
He already had his critics but the scepticism now permeates the public as it has not done before.
That "backlash" is unlikely to materialise, mainly because the core Eurosceptics in the parliamentary party are well aware that the Cameroonies – and Francis Maude in particular - would welcome a showdown, with hard-liners storming out of the party. The advancing tide of disillusionment
His voice was toneless, but his expression was sceptical.
Irish financials have seriously underperformed due to ingrained scepticism on the part of some international investors about the Irish economy's ability to avoid a crash.
Despite scepticism, founder Trent Huang was no - nonsensical and confident about his company.
So to confound sceptics, this week offers two outstanding dramas. Times, Sunday Times
One learns to be sceptical when opera companies announce that famous old productions are being revived'for the last time '. Times, Sunday Times
Scepticism about literary language, however, was not only the province of those opposed in some absolutist sense to literary practices.
Now, I'm sure some of you with a more sceptical nature might find my tales of invisible derring-do a little hard to believe.
My initial scepticism was replaced with respectful admiration.
Among others to take a keen interest in the gymnosophists was Pyrrho, founder of the philosophical school known as the Sceptics.
The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled.
But like many who have tried to examine this body of evidence impartially, I remain sceptical, and in virtually all cases it is never really clear that dogs can be excluded outright. The Cupar roe deer carcass
Only sceptics reckon that bulls talk rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
For the stimulus sceptics really do think they can put humpty dumpty together again, and that “aggregate demand”, as Cowen puts it, is a less “fundamental” problem than the financial service sector collapse. Matthew Yglesias » What Instead?
Not only does he need to convince a sceptical market, he also has to reach an increasingly disillusioned customer.
Nevertheless, the first woman literary critic of Malayalam proved her critics and sceptics wrong.
But scepticism persists about whether the deal will hold, amid concerns that no effective mechanism exists to police the cut. Times, Sunday Times
One of the clothes we particularly loved was a black high neck round collared halter-neck top that Nicole had been very sceptical about.
He is very sceptical about the value of rote learning.
The antidote to genetics as a driver of medicalisation lies in remaining sceptical and level headed.
It seems a pretty harmless form of entertainment that may even encourage a healthy scepticism in its audience.
The problem is, however, that such radical scepticism involves a performative contradiction.
At these times, the natural optimist in me needs to be tempered by my more sceptical partners. Times, Sunday Times
There has been a great deal of scepticism about how genuine this miraculous transformation can be. Times, Sunday Times
There was a public scepticism about getting involved abroad. Times, Sunday Times
If you instinctively interpret that sentence as a reference to the battle-scarred topic of climate change, then it is a mark of how successfully those opposed to the scientific consensus on climate change have appropriated the term sceptic ". army of Freedom of Information requesters currently swarming around climate science databases? Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
No doubt the debacle will confirm them in their scepticism.
Many Danes have a deeply ingrained scepticism about the European Union, seen as the bureaucratic and inefficient blueprint for a European superstate.
I want to think it is possible to make a personal, sceptical, essayistic film which does not present history as a simple tale of good people and bad, of beginnings, middles and ends.
After 25 years covering squillions of very similar speeches, you will forgive me for being a trifle sceptical.
In antiquity, sceptics attacked the possibility of knowledge, but still needed to give some account of how they regulated their lives and opinions.
A packed chamber gathered to hear Mr Bush, a long term sceptic of the world body, compare its founding charter to the religious texts of the Bible, Koran and Torah. British Blogs
Some engineers were sceptical about the efficacy and dynamic stability of rotors on ships.
He knew none of them believed in his ferryboat: the sceptics, they would see! COUP D'ETAT
In the case of giant noctule bats, it was for sure the description by Ibañez et al. (2001) of a so far totally unrecognized, outstanding predator-prey relationship that triggered so much initial scepticism. Archive 2007-02-01
There will also be justified scepticism about whether aviation capacity in Britain will significantly increase. Times, Sunday Times
Take a healthy degree of scepticism with you if you're shopping this weekend, ignore the pre-sale price on 'was £xx, now £xx' discounts and make your decision to buy based solely on what you'll pay now.
He is a sceptic but not a cynic, and he finds much contentment in his scepticism. Times, Sunday Times
There is nothing I can say or do to convince a sceptic to believe in the existence of spirit.
At most it counsels caution, prudence and a little more scepticism.
Accordingly, to deprive us of knowledge, sceptical hypotheses need only to be bare logical possibilities.
Xenophanes was a sceptic who denied that knowledge could be obtained by us humans; at best we merely have beliefs, the truth or falsity of which will remain largely unknown to us.
This effort is too sloppy really to merit the term whitewash: the sceptical graffiti are still clearly visible through the transparent white coating. Signs of the Times
Just as individual impressions are corrigible, the system as a whole is fallible, and thus fallibility is at the heart of what Hume in the first Enquiry calls “mitigated scepticism.” David Hume
The MPs, including the climate sceptic Graham Stringer, were unaggressive and seemed to be going through the motions. Hacked climate emails: MPs rake over the coals but find no spark
It occurs to me that this may be, at least in part, because they are unusually unskillful and unsceptical users of the medium.
Even those who remain sceptical of devolution must grant that, now the thing is established, the division of responsibilities makes sense, at least in some areas.
Some scepticism has been expressed by tenants as to whether independently judged rents will be significantly lower than those asked by brewers.
GWU students cheered the news of the Napster plan but expressed some scepticism.
But now the burden is on the sceptic to formulate an argument that does not depend on the doctrine.
I am rather sceptical about their professed sympathy for the poor.
He has managed to convince even the sceptics.
When it was launched, 21 years ago, the pound coin received a frosty reception from a sceptical public, reluctant to give up the much-loved folding note it was to replace.
She was a sceptic before our fact-finding trip, but it was not long before she was converted to the idea. Times, Sunday Times
The optimistic vision was presented at a council meeting last week, but some of its 43 measures were met with scepticism and labelled as over-optimistic.
I was apprehensive and a little sceptical. Times, Sunday Times
The government must still convince the sceptics that its policy will work.
Sceptics kept pointing out inconvenient facts, but were ignored. Times, Sunday Times
While they were struggling to bring the banking crisis under control, they found themselves simultaneously having to persuade a sceptical governor of the necessity of rescuing the clapped-out Northern Rock, and eventually much of the rest of the banking sector, while he was still lecturing the City about "moral hazard". Can you overrule the King of Threadneedle Street?
But they are usually slightly different; I tended to err on the side of scepticism at the naturally enthusiastic claims of aircraft shot down. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
As a scientist, and as the leading theoretical biologist of our time, he had a healthy scepticism of theoreticians.
Though we should remain sceptical about these accounts – as Domning noted – it is not implausible that they were genuine, and Domning cites a radio-tracked Florida manatee that, in 1995, got as far as Rhode Island. Archive 2006-01-01
It was clear that the evidence would be met with a huge helping of scepticism in Washington.
It is the "ever-closer union" that sceptics claim will yield a brittle political economy, Germanic and dirigiste at the centre, Latin and rebellious at the fringe. The hesitant saviour: how Germany bestrides Europe once again
He was a sceptic liberal who, in Two Cheers for Democracy, reviled Churchillian nationalism and powerfully argued the social value of being tepidly rather than ardently nationalist.
In this way, the coherence theorist sheds light on the feeling that sceptical hypotheses, if not conclusively eliminable, are nevertheless idle.
Miss Ophelia is gay, easy, unpunctual, unpractical, sceptical.
However, many remained sceptical, remembering the Tsars pledge in 1895 in a speech to Zemstvo representative to maintain autocracy.
A number of Presbyterian ministers grew increasingly sceptical of the enduring value of revival.
But his allies insist he is an instinctive Eurosceptic who is simply taking a pragmatic approach. Times, Sunday Times
To the more sceptical listener, some of his musings may seem a little woolly.
So he was ‘extremely sceptical of sightings of large cats in this country and used to consider them the product of someone's fevered imagination while walking home after numerous pints in the village pub’.
He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot -- he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common -- but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses. This Side of Paradise
Scepticism abounds, yet even the police agree there's something out there.
And while sceptics may frown at the collaboration, Orsola argues that anything that gets ethical fashion into the mainstream can only help.
Cynics and sceptics raised uncomfortable questions, and found serious flaws with the script.
The prime minister is afraid that his protestations will be lost in the synthetic public outrage that is being loosed by the Eurosceptic media.
Britain in Europe has had its bust-ups with Mr Brown, arguing either he was dragging his feet over entry to the euro or playing to the Euro-sceptic gallery ahead of key EU finance ministers' meetings.
You can find certain retired generals and admirals who are sceptical about spending money on Trident. Times, Sunday Times
He has managed to convince even the most sceptical among us that Scottish rugby may indeed have a future fit to mirror its glorious past.
She is sceptical of the Western rejection of the term matriarchy as a failed mirror-image of masculinist terminology.
Sceptics pointed out the world has seen no substantial warming for 15 years. The Sun
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
He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriothe suspected that being Irish was being somewhat commonbut Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses. Book 1, Chapter 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice.
Is it not true, furthermore, as some metrical sceptics like to remind us, that if we once admit the principle of substitution and equivalence, of hypermetrical and truncated syllables, of pauses taking the place of syllables, we can very often make one metre seem very much like another? A Study of Poetry
Scepticism and trust are not necessarily incompatible.
But scepticism persists about whether the deal will hold, amid concerns that no effective mechanism exists to police the cut. Times, Sunday Times
‘Charlie, the only bands that play there are full of stoners and wasters,’ Joseph said sceptically.
Environmental groups are sceptical of the government's claims.
Doctors were sceptical about the impact of the patient's charter when it was launched in 1991.
Being sceptical about the polls is, of course, convenient at this phase of his premiership.
The Sceptic philosophy as such dates from Socrates, from whom the so-called Megarian school took its origin, but it did not reach its greatest importance until the second century, when the Academic school became Sceptic. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity
This is admirably described by Alphonse Daudet when he writes: "Bien vite, s'il s'agit de l'affreuse politique, nos qualités tournent au pire: l'enthousiasme devient hypocrisie; l'éloquence, faconde et boniment; le scepticisme léger, escroquerie; l'amour de ce qui brille, fureur du lucre et du luxe à tout prix; la sociabilité, le besoin de plaire, se font lâcheté, faiblesse, et palinodie. Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
The hype and fervor surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.
On the other hand, when remonstrating with sceptics in private he pleads the mind-blowing evidence that crosses his desk from many intelligence people at home and abroad as if it were raw gospel truth.
The sceptics of antiquity lived under the rule of absolute emperors; those of the Renaissance under absolutist monarchs.
Despite her scepticism, she has nonetheless banished me to the camp-cot in the study so that my nocturnal hacking and spluttering won't interfere with her slumbers.
Then again, what Atheist calls the "tediousness" of the journey has undoubtedly a great hand in making some half-in-earnest men sceptics, if not scoffers. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
This helped to convince many sceptics of the case for restoring the building to its former condition. Times, Sunday Times
Sceptics could well ask why the empire should rally to invade Europe just for Batu to take the profit.
Initially, the producers were sceptical about casting two English women in the roles, but Holofcener insisted.
So you can imagine my initial scepticism. Times, Sunday Times
To Tories of a Eurosceptic bent, which is to say nearly all of them these days, his other demonstration of boldness was to say no to a new European treaty. Cameron: over-confident, cavalier and careless… and still on top | Andrew Rawnsley
Camillo limited his reaction to a look combining reproach with scepticism. MURKY SHALLOWS
It is not aimed at the total sceptic, but rather the serious seeker.
Most of the sceptics have been convinced,' he claims. Times, Sunday Times
Public scepticism and opposition had to be overcome before the system could function effectively, he said.
Industry specialists also advise clients to be sceptical about expensive and unnecessary products which lenders and brokers may try to sell you as bolt-on products to the basic mortgage loan.
Many were sceptical at the idea of human and robot drivers mixing on the roads. Times, Sunday Times
Time and again sceptical journalists return to the issue of what deals have been done to secure 'victory' in the matter of the Counter Terrorism Bill and the desire to introduce internment without trial, albeit for a limited period of forty-two days. Brown's Payola Goverment Dips Into the Pork Barrel
We are critical in the sense of being sceptical of received ideas. Times, Sunday Times
They are most sceptical when the weather is hot. The Sun
Sceptics suggest the Minitel's relaunch is little more than a stay of execution.
In the face of the demands of the state for outward conformity, freedom can only be found by retreating into oneself, by taking refuge in a philosophy such as Stoicism, Epicureanism, or Scepticism.
It is always sensible to be a little sceptical about the politicians' preparedness.
Eventually, the new Works Minister and his officials will win hearts and minds in sceptical Caparo only if the flood waters are actually contained within the concrete cylinders.
It behoves the sceptics among us to listen and argue rather than to whoop with delight at the superficial difficulties.
If you are still a contented fallibilist, despite my plea to hear the sceptical argument afresh, you will probably be discontented with the Rule of Attention.
Put very crudely, familiarity and success bred scepticism and contempt.
Now, first, I have to say that I admire Lord Hoffman's style, and am glad that someone else is as sceptical as I am of what he calls a regrettable tendency, and what I call human rightsism. Archive 2008-06-01
Across Europe, among the sceptics and the doubters and the out-and-out protesters, a pernicious process of elision is taking place.
In the late eighties, he introduced quality control standards to a sceptical industry.
A sceptic might say that his almanac is the all-purpose Christmas gift for the person without personality.
As he stuck a sceptical thumb into a tub of rock-hard Camembert, he knew he was facing a first-class mess.
But they also show widespread scepticism about whether any politicians have the ability to get to grips with it. Times, Sunday Times
However, this sceptical triumph is evanescent, it vanishes when his attention turns to other facts.
We all know that the film is being turned into a movie, to satisfy all the religious sceptics who can't actually read.

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