Word: disbelief
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...walked out one evening and happened to go into a Boston newsagent's shop. There, just at the back of the news stand, almost to my disbelief, was The Western People," she said. "I remember the hunger with which I read the news from home...
...swiped the ball cleanly fromScott's hands to prevent any Stanford heroics.After a couple of Harvard game-sealing freethrows, one final lay-up by Stanford and somedesperation misses by the Cardinal, the finalbuzzer sounded and Harvard's players and coachesrushed onto the court in an exuberant display ofelation and disbelief...
...JAPAN, A BRIDGE TO SUSPEND DISBELIEF...
...greatest debt, for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race. It is only because of King and the movement that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world" without inviting smirks of disdain and disbelief. Had he and the blacks and whites who marched beside him failed, vast regions of the U.S. would have remained morally indistinguishable from South Africa under apartheid, with terrible consequences for America's standing among nations. How could America have convincingly inveighed against the Iron Curtain while an equally oppressive Cotton Curtain...
...have created an elaborate culture of fantasy. The more brilliantly our moviemakers and television makers succeed in their work of the technological and artistic imagination, the more their audiences are transported back into the realm of the child-id that is most hospitable to fantasy--a zone of suspended disbelief wherein all things become possible, including deeds of graphic violence. It is sometimes said that too many television shows and movies are cynically targeted at 12-year-olds. That's not exactly the point: the makers of those shows in effect appropriate the imaginative world of the child because...