Credulity

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!" ❋ Claude Fayette Bragdon (1906)

Some of the final plot turns strain credulity, and Flynn has a thing for coining hyphenated words. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The coincidences so strain credulity that they border on a deus ex machina. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor does it strain credulity to imagine that the judges might actually have seen the art in person, as opposed to viewing the works on video or slide. ❋ Laura Cumming (2010)

[E] mploys a whiplash plot turn that may strain credulity, but it’s still an engaging suspense tale. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That the circumstances described are, sadly, fairly tame compared to the horrific situations I've encountered covering court cases, stuff that would probably strain credulity if I ever attempted to present any of it as fiction. ❋ Marshallpayne1 (2009)

"The escalating hysteria and grisly set pieces of Bug may strain credulity, but Ms Judd has never been more believable as a woman condemned to attract the wrong kind of man," writes Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our credulity is solicited, blandished, directed to the region of possible and desirable things. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He will strain credulity to find something good in even their most hiddeous error. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What strains credulity is the idea that our Cold War adversaries would not take into consideration Kissinger's and Nixon's bloodthirstiness in Indochina in the face of fierce criticism from the American public. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It would be very surprising indeed and would strain credulity if anyone were to report an anthrax strain which is virulent for rabbits, but not for mice and guinea-pigs. ❋ Unknown (1967)