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单词 credulity
释义
Examples from literature
  • And now the whole spectacular business was capped by a sensation so dramatic as to strain credulity to its limit.
  • But it will need some telling, and perhaps credulity on the reader's part.
  • Dazzled and bewildered, the heated senses were become the victims of their own credulity, the mind receiving back its own reactions.
  • The subsequent history of the Parker case is a startling example of the credulity of the ordinary jury.
  • The young man smiled at her credulity and enthusiasm.

Examplesofcredulity

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Although historians of science have justly criticized his boundlesscredulity, aimless empiricism, and exasperating eclecticism, he was nevertheless master of his craft.
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But it stretchescredulityto argue that the problem here is one of bounded rationality.
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Such methodologicalcredulitywith respect to dream recall and dream report is particularly troubling because dreams are notoriously ephemeral.
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The posture of self-conscious bemusement seems intended to suggest its opposite, regret at the disappearance of this implicitcredulityand obedience.
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Some of the assertions that the writer makes about the folk scene are so far wide of the mark thatcredulityis shattered.
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The open lips registercredulity; the shut ones, common sense.
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Much modern secondary literature besides stands convicted of ludicrouscredulityand tendentiousness.
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Does it stretchcredulitytoo far to suggest that his two associates were rather jealous of his personal charisma?
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But to deny the existence of an independent objective material world, of which that mind is a copy, strains mycredulitybeyond its elastic limit.
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And how can we explain thecredulitythat made photography of the occult so popular?
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This claim is undeniable unless one were to stretch the limits ofcredulity.
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It strainscredulityto believe that this emergent, politically influential class will voluntarily enlist in a future march to socialism.
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At first blush, this example seems to stretchcredulitysomewhat.
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Why were they received with suchcredulityin their time?
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The second was ultimately weakened by its association withcredulityand with discredited attempts to prove that spiritual agents could be observed at work in the world.
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