Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Einstein sports a Princeton sweatshirt and keeps having flashbacks; Roeg clearly enjoys using them. His apparent guilt is hammered home repeatedly, but it never becomes credible. We learn, to our disbelief, that Einstein blames himself for nothing less than the dawn of the nuclear...
Confronting the unthinkable, Smith had to move gradually from disbelief to doubt to desperation. It was 12:05 a.m. when he ordered all passengers mustered on deck, 12:15 when the first call for help was sent out on the wireless, 12:45 when the first of 20 lifeboats was lowered...
...last 25 years Like Miguel Angel Asturials and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Children Allende presents such oddities as a child who can see the future, a beautiful woman with almost transparent skin and green hair and a dog larger than a horse with utter disregard for any possible disbelief. Like the best of Marquez, The House of The Sports retains the innocence. Which comes from writing about the bizarre as if it were commonplace and presenting magic as an integral part of life...
From behind police lines, residents of Osage Avenue, who had been evacuated the previous evening, watched in disbelief as a column of thick black smoke rose from the rooftop. Minutes later flames appeared, mere flickers at first, then a mountain of orange. The fire raged unchecked as officials delayed responding so the flames (they later said) would burn through the roof and drop the bunker. Then they planned to drop tear gas through the opening. Just so, they hoped to flush out the occupants of the house, a bizarre radical cult known as Move...
...WILLARD REQUIRES is that her readers suspend all disbelief and accept the element of magic in even the most mundane things. There is really nothing else to be done with a book that begins, "In Paradise, on the banks of the River of Time, the Lord of the Universe." It seems God is quite a pitcher, plucking balls from the bed of the River of Time and hurling curves that change color as they break, determining the future. Either you believe...