Word: skepticism
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...Shyamalan does an effective job of bringing the viewer along with the characters; the evidence Dunn considers and the conclusions he reaches are clear and seem logical. However, the larger ideas of the film are not as clear to the audience, and can leave many a viewer as a skeptic...
...crowding at election offices like the one in Portland's Multnomah County, where the line of "mail-in" voters on election night stretched for two blocks. "We have vote-by-mail until the Friday before the election," says Dan Lavey, a Bush campaign consultant and vote-by-mail skeptic. "And from Saturday through Tuesday, we have mildly organized chaos...
...always been something of a cyber-skeptic. Though I was given a free e-mail account my freshman year of college (this was, mind you, back in the Internet's Paleolithic era), it took me a full two years to send my first message. While students all around me were tapping out notes to friends and family and sending breezy missives to professors, I was losing touch with my high school buddies, playing phone tag with my parents and staking out the mobbed office hours of my teachers, where etiquette demanded only the pithiest of conversations. But once professors started...
...Nonetheless, baranek stands out as a relative skeptic in his region, where everyone else speaks of the advent of the paved road as a magic pill for economic development. While all fear fire, few make the connection with the highway, and even fewer in this part of Par? are aware that they live in a potential tinderbox...
...Dawn Chong) who investigate suspected miracles--largely involving visitations from the dead--it's X-Files with a halo. But where The X-Files teased us for years about its alien conspiracies, the feel-good Ways is unabashedly pro-miracle. Chong is introduced as a Scully-like skeptic; by the second episode, she receives a message from her late husband. Sagansky distinguishes Ways from "paranormal" shows like The X-Files--but even that series featured the cathartic reunion of Mulder and his sister's spirit...