Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...felt dizzy and had to grab hold of a nearby chair. Shock. Utter disbelief. Incomprehension. It took a bit for nasty reality to truly sink in. How could the fool who voted against the Gulf War actually...
...form of a mounted Newark police officer outside the brand-new New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). As we talked about Newark, he blamed the bad reputation of the downtown on the bands of homeless men like Raymond who roamed the streets. He shook his head in disbelief when he told me the city built the $180 million NJPAC in the midst of five homeless shelters and next door to the city's main church soup kitchen...
...junior year of high school, in United States History, we learned about voting patterns in our dear country. I sat wide-eyed in disbelief-nobody voted, nobody cared, propositions and presidents were put in place by a measly proportion of the population. The horror, the horror...
...this leads us to an unpleasant conclusion. You can be lied to only if you suspend disbelief. Author Charles Ford asserts that "politicians are mouthpieces for the self-deception of the people. Wittingly or unwittingly, they tell us that which we have asked them to tell us." Ergo, we have all been enablers for Bill Clinton. Poll after poll reveals a populace that doesn't want to know the awful truth. "Lie to me," sings Sheryl Crow, "and I'll promise to be true." Bok says that because we expect to hear hypocrisy from our leaders...
...warm-weather weeks, they decided to give New York a lovely present: a midsummer, Mideastern night's dream. "We said, 'Let's make a great place to go on a hot evening,'" he recalls, "a space with seductive sights and sounds and smells, where you could suspend your disbelief and go with this fantastical tale. It'd be there for just a couple of months--and then evaporate...