Word: disbelief
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...Asha's family, news of his arrest brought disbelief. "The only problem my brother has is that he is a genius," eldest brother Ahmad told TIME at the family's four-story Amman home. Ahmad insists his little brother has never been an extremist. Friends say his devotion to his studies left no time for student politics. Dr. Imtinan Smadi, who taught a young Asha Arabic, remembers his pupil as "brilliant, tactful, full of joy and humor...
...back. Learned material, forgotten it, relearned it during reading period, and promptly forgotten it again. But when my friends asked me how often I see my parents my response shocked them. They exclaimed: “You only see them a few times a year!” Their disbelief grew deeper when I assured them that even students who attend college only a few miles away from their homes seldom see their parents. Many Israeli college students, even those who are in their mid-twenties who have already served in the army, return to their parents’ house...
...Disbelief can be useful even in finding a hypothesis. Put on your skeptic’s glasses, look at dominant schools of thought for their holes and shaky assumptions, and then find an alternative explanation or argument. I found that after a few months of studying money imagery in fugitive slave autobiographies that I could question the dominant critical narrative about these texts. They were not just stories of freedom through literacy; they were stories of freedom through numeracy, or mathematical ability and market savvy. Polemic is one of my favorite kinds of essays, but I have found that...
...still had a list of questions and leads that I wanted to follow. I felt not just relief but wonder that I had finished what began with a bit of unseen evidence, and sadness that the process was over. What began with belief ended with knowledge, experience, and disbelief...
...adulthood,” my imagination has slipped away. Something about the bumps and bruises we get as we age critically injures that mysterious part of our brain that lets us marvel at the world. To me, having an active imagination means maintaining a certain willingness to suspend disbelief, to act entirely on impulse without any self-consciousness: As a child I was never ensnared by inhibitions or concerns about how my behavior would look. And my worldview was completely different. The very mundane was full of possibilities—sometimes terrifying ones—and I was never bored...