Word: disbelief
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...foot male riding shotgun to a female eight inches shorter and roughly half his body weight, giving our fellow riders the “I’m just letting the li’l lady take my chopper for a spin” nod. Detecting a measure of disbelief on the part of our fellow riders, I soon reverted to the more readily believed “I’ve misplaced my penis and she’s helping me to locate it?...
...news bulletin airs on the Qatari channel al-Jazeera, the pre-eminent Arab news network. At Cafe Lialina in the heart of downtown Cairo, the grisly footage of Palestinian corpses in the West Bank town of Jenin--mutilated, burned, rotting in the open air--freezes everyone in angry disbelief...
...proactive responses against assault should be at least as visible and accessible as the victims’ stories that hung on the clothesline.” Alongside a few shirts that detailed successful encounters with pressing charges, there were far too many shirts which spoke of the betrayal and disbelief that victims felt after failing in their efforts to be “proactive.” Perhaps if we had better education and policies in place, there would be more successful stories to tell...
...tell them that you believe in demons—who are not only supernatural creatures, crouching in the underbrush of the soul, but malevolent supernatural creatures—and you will earn first disbelief, and then a stare contemptuous enough to freeze over hell, if such a place existed...
Nicholi’s premise is that all human beings endorse one variant or another of these thinkers’ “worldviews” and that our entire approach to life stems from our belief or disbelief in an all-powerful Creator. We may not have time to fully grapple with all these philosophical issues, though they rest somewhere in our minds. But by bringing out a discourse between two men, Nicholi hopes to present insight and evidence that might change or at least help define our own weltanschauung...