Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frenchmen examined their handiwork with a national headshake of disbelief. The support accorded the Communists and Poujadists put a third of Parliament (36% of the popular vote) into the hands of men publicly opposed to parliamentary democracy. The remainder, a workable majority if combined, was decisively split between forces of relatively similar philosophies but bitterly conflicting ambitions and allegiances...
Both in style and in mood the picture echoes Velasquez' huge masterpiece, The Maids of Honor, at the Prado. But where Velasquez firmly persuades the eye to believe in the painted image, Sargent only beguiles it into a momentary suspension of disbelief. And Velasquez' reverent handling of the way light falls on objects becomes mere virtuosity in Sargent. The fortuitous manner in which Sargent's light picks his flowerlike figures out of the gloom smacks more of the theater than of life. Yet when all this has been said, it is true that no painter alive today...
...Association stepped away from their couches and journeyed to Manhattan for their winter meeting. At scientific sessions there was little to distinguish them from any other group of medical specialists;* they jampacked smoke-filled rooms and listened to the latest theories with polite interest, though they were outspoken in disbelief of some of the more farfetched items...
Patriotic Plea. Virtually alone, Mendes fought back. "Our allies are already considering rearming Germany without us, and in September they were on the point of doing it without limitations or controls," he argued. "If we refuse it, they will do it just the same." Deputies hooted in disbelief. Had they not defied the last threat of "agonizing reappraisal" and gotten away with it? Mendes recited the new guarantees he had extracted from the U.S. and Britain, and their guarantee of the Saar deal. He pleaded against abstention-though he himself had abstained from voting on NATO and EDC. "It would...
...wonder is how beautifully she plays it. For the first half-hour Actress Booth breathes such a warm belief into the dull things she is doing that the audience willingly suspends the disbelief the silly plot inspires...