Word: disbelief
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...should make a personal commitment to lengthen our cultural attention span and let powerful performances speak for themselves. For there is an important difference between choosing how you want to experience an event and preventing yourself from experiencing it at all. Every now and then, a willing suspension of disbelief is, like chicken soup, good for the soul...
...occasionally make truly insightful observations. In a chapter titled “Hunting Instincts” he compares the theatrical experience to that of a hunt, insofar as the audience experiences a primal drive to follow the plot along. He uses this metaphor to account for the suspension of disbelief: “We suspend the rational process of intellectualization, which is to say, of the comparison of phenomenon to idea, which is a process too slow for the hunt.” The connection he draws between the theater and the primal rings true, even if the analogy...
...decision that left some in shock, others in tears, and many more in disbelief...
...sleep apnea, which would have given him an edge over other prospective bidders. Cooper notes skeptically that he too suffers from sleep apnea. "But it has never been what I would call disabling," he wrote on his blog Monday. "If anything, I find myself shaking my head in complete disbelief that of all the truly serious injuries that halt the military careers of our service members, this breathing disorder would be excuse enough to get a multimillion-dollar contract...
...rubble. And while some American families may be leaving with a sense of closure, many Haitian families live without that finality. For Lonez Annoule, closure is more a process than a destination. He says that although he's come to terms with his daughter's death, he remains in disbelief at times. "Everywhere I go, I think I see her," says Annoule. "All I want to do is see her one last time...