Word: disbelief
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...press quickly convinced the Americans that virtually the entire nation was furious about the salaries government workers had been owed for months on end. When Yeltsin's aides explained that the President had already promised to correct the back-pay problem, the droopy-eyed Dresner shook his head in disbelief. "You can't just promise these things," he told Dyachenko. "You have to do them. And then you have to make sure the people know what you've done...
...Jimmy Stewart flickered across the screen, there was no great transformation in the crowd; derisive comments and the occasional snicker could still be heard from time to time. When Jimmy went on a rampage, punching out the members of the press who had misrepresented his wholesome comments, a general disbelief could be felt in the air; and in the dramatic pause after he had been abused to his face by those same cynical reporters, when his whole face was trembling with anger and disillusionment, the guy behind us could be heard murmuring, in perfect Jimmy tones...
...feelings went from disbelief to excitement to downright fear," says Spahr's survey partner, Carl Hergenrother, 23, an Arizona undergraduate who verified the find with a 90-in. telescope atop nearby Kitt Peak. "It was scary, because there was the possibility that we were confirming the demise of some city somewhere, or some state or small country...
They don't construct thrillers anymore, they deconstruct them. That is to say, they reduce them to a succession of spectacular set pieces either so familiar that they require no explanation or so spectacular that they momentarily overwhelm disbelief. It's as if they were making a musical that was all production numbers, no book; or an infinite trailer that is all effects, no affect...
...What they do react to, we believe, is the anger, hurt, and disbelief represented by the twenty-something names of Thayer students subsigned by the next morning" wrote Young and Muhammad in their message...