It's about hubris and credulity — the hubris of the few to pretend they know the future and the credulity of the many to follow them there.
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To simply write out this story is to strain credulity.
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Senator Joseph McCarthy assailed Americans' civil liberties and their credulity.
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And there, the show might strain credulity for certain viewers.
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And with each subsequent mystery, it starts to strain credulity.
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To say that this view strains credulity is an understatement.
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In her hearing, DeVos also made claims than strain credulity.
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But their size, once I notice it, strains my credulity.
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It rather stretches credulity to believe this was an oversight.
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Vicente's account strained credulity, but Bouto was sentenced to 45 years.
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But the latest rumor is so insane, it truly strains credulity.
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The casting, however, is refreshing, even if the plot strains credulity.
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As the franchise expanded, though, so did its pressure on our credulity.
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"It somewhat stretches credulity, let's put it that way," Hirono told Politico.
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As far as I can tell, it's real, though it strains credulity.
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"We celebrated because we had a good effort," Blanco said, straining credulity.
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When the "Ghostbusters" scientists shamelessly hit on Mr. Hemsworth, it strains credulity.
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"I think this one really stretches credulity," the "Mad Money " host said.
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Which is why the explanation offered by the White House strains credulity.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Gilles Grapinet is testing financial credulity in pursuit of scale.
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But the notion that Chinese leaders need Caixin as a weapon stretches credulity.
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Initially, all three players denied the allegations, stonewalling past the point of credulity.
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Like virtually everything Trump said on the campaign trail, this promise strained credulity.
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To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point.
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To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense and credulity to the breaking point.
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It can strain credulity that it's really that challenging to give away money.
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A Machiavellian tactic designed to inspire devotion in Jaime and credulity in Tyrion?
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" That strained credulity with one student, Dana Bolger, who tweeted: "Do More Now.
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This strains credulity given what happened in the special elections against the Democrats.
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But yes, he had no illusions about the credulity of the average citizen.
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And Trump's credulity about the Saudis extends beyond the specifics of the Khashoggi situation.
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But the slogans could have been switched between the two companies without stretching credulity.
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She manages to escape with a credulity-stretching sprint past some Ghost Nation toughs.
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It stretches credulity that the former president and his Veep wouldn't talk about it.
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Every now and again these short, sharp shocks for the ages test our credulity.
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The idea that his reputation has been harmed by this recent story defies credulity.
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Callum's decision-making can also strain credulity, and some secondary characters feel like tropes.
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Occasionally his teenage powers of insight strain credulity, but readers will enjoy his precocious company.
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This figure strains credulity, but I am not in a position to directly dispute it.
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Egypt is profoundly repressive and the happy talk from supporters of the regime stretches credulity.
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It takes the story in a radically different direction, and parts of it strain credulity.
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But the idea that Nominee Kasich emerges from that scenario stretches credulity to breaking point.
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" Based on facts currently available, it would stretch credulity to fire Mueller for "good cause.
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So, to borrow your words, it stretches credulity to conclude that collusion didn't take place.
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You know, I like to think that the human capacity for credulity is unlimited, unfettered.
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But the human capacity for self-deception — the ultimate self-credulity — is also unfettered, unlimited.
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Young Mary is just there, a place holder, tokenized and straining the limits of credulity.
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"And @NYGovCuomo's continued insistence on hyping the impact strains credulity," Mr. McMahon said on Twitter.
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The writers decided to spring for not one but two bonus credulity-stretching late twists.
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For some investors, the reception strains credulity, considering Snap's lack of profits and other concerns.
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He has an entrepreneur's optimism and the sort of earnest credulity often found among aid workers.
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Depending on your political leanings, you'll greet them with credulity or outrage — either way, you'll watch.
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But the White House's efforts to cast Manafort as a bit player have often strained credulity.
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Something drastic happens in the fourth episode, and it is so ludicrous that it strains credulity.
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Some of the details of Lazar's life are true and easily verifiable, while others strain credulity.
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Binging created the momentum needed to glide past holes in the story line that strained credulity.
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"To me, it stretches logic and credulity to think that there was no impact," Clapper said.
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The extent of the contrivance will set off multilevel credulity alarms in viewers paying close attention.
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Democrats, liberals and academics have made significant, if unknowing, contributions to the credulity of Trump's supporters.
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The lifelong drifter had confessed to numerous other crimes, and some of his accounts strained credulity.
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Most of the allegations that have been brought in recent years stretch the bounds of credulity.
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At a minimum, it stretches credulity to think Putin didn't at least know about these efforts.
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It strains credulity to imagine he truly thought she was excited about what was happening between them.
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That such a well-connected consultancy had so few potentially problematic links to declare might strain credulity.
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The underlying sums strain credulity, requiring heroic assumptions on cost reductions and budgetary gymnastics on revenue-raising.
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Deliberate postings invented by entrepreneurs are the manure that make the seeds of doubt and credulity grow.
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But despite a deep vein of sympathy for survivors, there are some symptoms that strain Cooper's credulity.
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It's an excuse that strains credulity; ballistic-missile launchers do not look very much like drilling rigs.
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She is well aware that her story strains credulity — a stretch for even the most accommodating imagination.
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Maybe. But it seems to strain credulity -- and cry out for a more fulsome response from Trump.
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Yet "I Saw the Light" was roundly deemed a stinker; didn't any notion of awards strain credulity?
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This strains credulity, given that her posts span August 2013 to November 2015, but that is no matter.
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There are so many plot points that not only defy credulity, they invite questions that are never answered.
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"Anyone who draws the connection between fantasy and the tragedy befalling the world is straining credulity," he said.
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It also stretches credulity to accept Mr. McConnell's argument that his actions were "entirely consistent" with Senate protocol.
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However, many of the sky-is-falling claims made by those sympathetic to the status quo strain credulity.
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Washington (CNN)It might have been the day when Donald Trump's Washington finally slipped the limits of credulity.
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And then there was Bonnet, whose ability to appear in every aspect of the Fraser story strained credulity.
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Fans of Unger's books won't mind that this one sometimes stretches credulity as it races toward a juicy climax.
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He brought the same starry-eyed credulity to Venezuela that Sidney and Beatrice Webb did to the Soviet Union.
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For the study authors, so many people reporting vivid memories from their first two years of life strained credulity.
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It really begs credulity, sir, when you say you did not know that you got a discount on this.
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He liked to stretch the boundaries of his readers' credulity, to make them wonder how much they could trust.
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She had been the victim of herself, of her careless credulity, of wanting to believe what seemed to be.
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But the first assertion stretched credulity and the second one would be met with major pushback from Rubio backers.
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Much of Chafe's analysis is arcane, in places straining credulity; but Bach, too, was a man of arcane bent.
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It would have strained credulity to have a Party that watched all of its members all of the time.
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"Sorry, Mr. Cuomo, but that strains credulity," the board wrote of his assertion that he didn't know about it.
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His credulity didn't reach its limits, though, until after they exchanged numbers and went on a handful of dates.
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If anything, the layering of credulity and incredulity, dubiousness and polemic complicates if not obviates the artworks' shelf life.
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For years, that meant conspiracy theories — lots and lots of them, all delivered with the same wide-eyed credulity.
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Yet the idea that a legislative initiative of this magnitude could be successfully kept under wraps somewhat strains credulity.
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It also leads her to walk carefully through spiritualism's fraud-speckled history and to occasionally tip the story into credulity.
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But skeptics believed his explanation strained credulity, given that he had attended numerous meetings at which it had been discussed.
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All of it strains credulity and makes reading the biography, at times, as vertiginous as listening to a Cooper broadcast.
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But it strains credulity not to suspect that Hardwick knew that this would upset her friend, and did it anyway.
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The evidence is so expansive as to strain the credulity of the Democrats' current outrage at Trump's behavior with Ukraine.
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"It absolutely stretches credulity to think they weren't involved," said Kevin Mandia, the chief executive of FireEye, a cybersecurity company.
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It can only go "wrong" when the license taken with facts strains credulity, and prevents the narrative from ringing true.
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But that kind of credulity can only stretch so far, and Donald Trump has stretched it to the snapping point.
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While Frank's endurance often stretches credulity, The Punisher avoids action clichés like having bad guys attack him one at a time.
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As it was passed unanimously by Congress and signed by George W. Bush, it stretches credulity to blame it on Democrats.
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But it also throws in a heavy dose of the kind of strained-credulity shenanigans The Walking Dead is known for.
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This Julia Paraiis who claimed to have the information I sought could as easily be a grifter preying on my credulity.
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Or, to strain credulity, he can accept a nominee whom the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee choose.
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"My career was never based on pretty," one of the world's most beautiful women was saying recently, straining a listener's credulity.
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Nevertheless, both big and small screen productions have a habit of straining credulity, especially when it comes to on-screen weapons.
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Washington (CNN)The marvel of Donald Trump's presidency is not that so many things happen that stretch the limits of credulity.
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Adiós Utopia memorializes the driving utopian conceit of contemporary Cuban art, its galleries a testament to the credulity of this dream.
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It strains credulity to believe that Trump would agree to debate with a moderator selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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This has always strained credulity, but these organizations will undoubtedly receive new scrutiny in the wake of the Open Markets fiasco.
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There was this fear of missing out that explains a lot of Walgreens' sort of credulity and lack of due diligence.
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But it strains credulity to claim that the Philippines are vital in any significant way to putting more pressure on North Korea.
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CNN's Russia-probe expert Marshall Cohen emails: In the two years since the election, Stone's denials and explanations have increasingly stretched credulity.
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By December, the number of allegations against Shkreli and the people who had beef with him was testing the bounds of credulity.
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As moving as Mr. de la Manitou's testimony sometimes is, this movie too often feels like a credulity-straining attempt at hagiography.
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The president's defense not only strains credulity, it also undermines the progress Ukraine has made fighting corruption over the past six years.
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It's just a movie with no particular reason for existing, a flashy, trifling throwaway whose surface cleverness masks a self-infatuated credulity.
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This was, in part, cribbed from other folks who defended Cosby long after his cries of innocence defied the bounds of credulity.
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If the notion that a $150-mask with far less detail could fool Face ID strains credulity, that healthy skepticism is probably merited.
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We didn't anticipate the outpouring of genuine support, due partially to the credulity with which this story was so extensively and immediately reported.
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There are times when the plot strains credulity, but that's easy enough to overlook when the suspense has been ratcheted up this high.
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This is deeply troubling, given that Barr is so prominent in these documents, and that the Justice Department's reasoning so severely strains credulity.
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Still, experts interviewed by The Hill said it strains credulity to believe Rosenstein would not have known how the memo would be used.
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As I noted then, Biden's claim that the Kentucky senator and his fellow Republicans will "see the light" after Trump stretches all credulity.
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It also strains credulity to suggest that he was the hospital's only leader with such conflicts or with such apparent difficulty disclosing them.
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Americans have a longstanding credulity problem — 9/11 trutherism; Obama birtherism; J.F.K. assassination theories; the "deep state" — so the ground is already fertile.
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The relationship between Lale and Gita, with its progression from love at first sight to giddy infatuation to deep commitment, sometimes strains credulity.
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It is important as well not to take on the role of yogis, bending so far backward that we pitch into outright credulity.
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The fact that June can't open an iced-over garage door sort of strains credulity — not even the car will break it open?
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When you get fooled that hard, the only non-humiliating explanation is that everyone pointing out your credulity is getting fooled even harder.
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Again, I'm not saying that credulity is strictly a conservative problem, but there's no liberal equivalent to Trump and so your comparison is misleading.
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It strains credulity for the administration to argue that denying health insurance to people on the basis of their employment status meets that test.
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It's all very comforting and credulity-testing: even the kindly police officer she encounters (Patton Oswalt) is able to calm her down in Klingon.
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Judge Cott rejected the distinction, saying it "strains credulity" to deny the government "logical inferences" in making its case for arrest and against bail.
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The argument that it is impossible to do for a two-pound drone what companies are doing today for 85033,000-pound cars strains credulity.
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It strained credulity from the beginning to claim that a national campaign chairman would take a "blind" meeting with a foreign national like this.
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Theirs isn't an easy match, partly because it verges on a romantic meet cute that strains narrative credulity and your tolerance for stacked decks.
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With every year that passes, it seems to stretch the bounds of credulity a little further, to demand an even greater suspension of disbelief.
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There was at least one big action sequence in every episode, even when the show had to completely strain credulity to shoehorn one in.
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It definitely ups the show's dramatic stakes, but if you know anything about how television is made, it … strains credulity, to put it kindly.
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I spoke with Maher last week about Donald Trump, the politics of late-night TV, the credulity of American voters, and his criticisms of liberals.
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That is to say, it strains credulity that Jim Grobe would get in front of cameras and say he doesn't know who Shawn Oakman is.
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Yet Turkish and American prescriptions for achieving their ambitions are so far apart that it stretches credulity to suggest that these goals are actually shared.
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" Clapper dismissed the argument that Trump sought to prevent leaks by limiting the number of people in meetings with Putin, saying that rationale "stretches credulity.
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As such, the idea that the 34-year CIA vet wasn't fully versed in—if not directly involved in—the program has long strained credulity.
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It strains credulity that the U.S. government would demand its trading partners enact a law that is being actively reconsidered by House and Senate leaders.
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Given the recent history of Russian launch failures or premature crashes, the idea that Russia suddenly possessed a new generation of flying weapons strained credulity.
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" Mr. Biden added, straining credulity, that because he had entered the race later than most other candidates, he needed to "catch up to the pack.
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At times, the claims have stretched the limits of credulity — like "All Natural" 7Up, Pop-Tarts "Baked With Real Fruit" and Crystal Light "Natural" lemonade.
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And, to be sure, a president who ponders shooting the legs from under illegal immigrants or nuking hurricanes or buying foreign countries often strains credulity.
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Another witness — Gordon Sondland — has also seemed to be trying gamely to protect Trump in his testimony so far, often in ways that strain credulity.
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The idea of "sexiponage" might strain credulity, at a time when cyber warfare between America and antagonists like Russia and North Korea dominate the headlines.
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But when something is this fake, it's discouraging when anyone shows so much as a hint of credulity, and RL got much more than a hint.
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To say aliens might think like us and have language is one thing, but to argue they have brains like ours pushes the limits of credulity.
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But "UnREAL" is a show that invites you to explore the ways the story lines are being told, and in "Guerilla" a few beats strain credulity.
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The story in "Tallulah" sometimes strains credulity, but it's beautifully told and acted — three women and a baby, everyone except the baby in need of clarity.
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Sitting in his doorway here watching sunsets "that test a man's credulity — great gory improvisations in scarlet and gold," Abbey often found himself utterly, blissfully, alone.
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JON CARAMANICA Noisy guitars and brute force, with a walloping, clanking beat, drive this dystopian ditty of coercion, credulity, virtual reality and conquest by artificial intelligence.
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"It's beyond credulity to think that Donald Trump fired Jim Comey because of the way he handled Hillary Clinton's emails," John D. Podesta, who was Mrs.
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The explanation regarding the visitors log decision offered by White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday afternoon strains the bounds of credulity -- and that's being kind.
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Each witness is treated with equal credulity; even a final-episode lead that appears to have merit is simply dropped by the documentarians without any follow-up.
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But I would answer that by saying it would not stretch credulity to believe that... well, I don't believe 9/11 was an inside job at all.
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But even if the recommendations doled out on the board test the bounds of credulity, Tom told me via DM he was "pretty serious" about realizing them.
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The habit of credulity, bred into us, albeit inspiring and empowering and emboldening, has led to some very bad outcomes throughout what we know of our history.
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You're a toothless, yellow old man without even the excuse of real grief for playing on your own credulity and that of a lot of other fools.
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His explanations for his feats allowed him to slip under the radar of viewers' skepticism, tapping into technocratic belief systems in order to produce a deeper credulity.
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They also claim the government's account of the legal process "strains credulity," and allege that rules were bent to ensure that Chapo would be tried in New York.
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Any news organizations that let themselves be bamboozled by cherry-picked stories of firms announcing worker bonuses after the tax bill passed should be ashamed of their credulity.
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"It strains credulity to suggest that local science-based factors have been met to justify this change," M. Sanjayan, chief executive of Conservation International, said in a statement.
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I'm inclined to see something corrupt behind Trump's weird credulity regarding foreign dictators, but his take on domestic political events does raise the prospect that he's simply ignorant.
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Northam also stretches credulity when he suggests he deserves a pass because, after all, this happened way back in 28503, when he was only 22019 years old. Please!
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Adiós Utopia meanwhile memorializes the driving utopian conceit of contemporary Cuban art, its galleries a testament to the credulity of its dream, long dismantled and yet perpetually present.
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His writing is quick and supple, and even the sometimes portentous exchanges on life and love move quickly enough to avoid injuring either our patience or our credulity.
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But it strains credulity to suggest that Clinton and Obama (whose teenage daughter interned for Weinstein last summer) knew the extent of Weinstein's predatory tendencies in the past.
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That it is intellectually vapid is not important, but the fact that it adds to an atmosphere of suspicion and credulity and conspiracy is not helpful at all.
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But it strains credulity to imagine the station is not taking his Trump-boostering, right-of-center street cred into account in considering him for its top job.
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Yet Elsa plays into Jojo's youthful ignorance about Jews for her own amusement, telling him wild and fabricated tales for the enjoyment of watching his credulity in action.
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Likewise, all Americans — the news media included — need to be prepared to examine the national credulity or passivity that's led to the longest conflict in modern American history.
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Storr, a British novelist and journalist, has previously written about human credulity and how the stories we tell ourselves about the world color our beliefs about what's true.
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" As the Post notes, "It wasn't clear whether Lanata meant the allegations were 'half serious' or whether the story so defied credulity as to seem like a joke.
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It strained credulity to think that a nun would hold a child's head underwater, until you also heard about the nuns who covered babies' mouths until they turned blue.
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His refusal to acknowledge the Saudi role in Yemen's humanitarian disaster and willingness to place the blame solely on Iran strains the bounds of credulity to the breaking point.
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But while we wait, Billy discovers that Cecil is a jelly-bean heir (this, surprisingly, does not stretch credulity for the random ways NYC trust-funders make family money).
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" In dealing with such cases, Denvir said, Krasner sought to illustrate "prosecutors' and judges' typical credulity with regard to anything that a police officer said, no matter how improbable.
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" He also noted that "it would strain credulity to imagine that Levandowski plundered Waymo's vault the way he did with no intent to make use of the downloaded trove.
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Despite the fact that human feeling is not a meme, the press has, for the most part, covered the Burger King promotion with nothing but good faith and credulity.
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This isn't just the land of the fraud but the home of the knave, and Cohen implored Republican lawmakers and Trump supporters nationwide to learn from his own credulity.
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Then in a tweet that stretched credulity sent from the G7 summit venue in Biarritz, the President claimed he was not alone in his dislike of the US press.
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In fact, they seem to do the opposite, relocating our credulity to any new medium promising to bridge the gap that keeps us from whatever or whomever we've lost.
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The search for him and his reaction to the request still aren't enough; the movie adds yet another complication late in the game, a plot twist that strains credulity.
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The blonde beauty Genevieve, in a series of reversals that strain credulity, falls from grace to decadence — and is punished with death in the elevator of the Eiffel Tower.
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One recent market-research survey stretched the bounds of credulity when it found that 44 percent of millennials would rather give up sex for a year than quit Amazon.
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Many companies interested in creating a network of electric flying taxis have stretched credulity by insisting that people at all income levels will be able to afford to purchase tickets.
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The reality of what's currently happening in American politics keeps stretching the bounds of credulity in such a way that Veep trying to outdo it could have backfired, and quick.
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It stretches credulity to think that the organizers of that meeting were not consciously sending a message to their base: the boys are back in charge, including controlling women's healthcare.
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Giuliani quickly offered a different, credulity-straining version of events: that the tape proved Trump was doing the right thing, by counseling his lawyer to keep the payments above-board.
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"We didn't anticipate the outpouring of genuine support, due partially to the credulity with which this story was so extensively and immediately reported," YACHT wrote in yesterday's now-replaced statement.
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This novel stumbles at the outset, it should be said: One fortuitously overheard conversation in a safe house is a fair device to trigger a thriller; two is stretching credulity.
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His claim that there was nothing sexist or malicious in the phrase "Renate Alumnius" — a boast, in his yearbook, about a girl he and his friends all knew — strains credulity.
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"Such credulity seems strangely out of character for someone like Gowdy, a seasoned prosecutor who knows better than to believe people who continue to hide mountains of evidence," Huckabee wrote.
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But as it spread, it morphed into a more biting satire of the credulity of the people who spend all day online and our inability to sort fact from fiction.
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Amazon Studios released the credulity-straining ensemble sob-athon Life Itself in 2,609 theaters, and that film took in $20173 million in its debut, and maxed out at just $4.1 million.
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If, by some miracle, Jim Grobe actually does not know who Shawn Oakman is, it strains credulity that Baylor officials have not at some point told Grobe exactly who he is.
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"Such credulity seems strangely out of character for someone like Gowdy, a seasoned prosecutor who knows better than to believe people who continue to hide mountains of evidence," Huckabee told Politico.
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The credulity with which the press treated the producer's Instagram post was surprising, considering it contained outrageous and unsourced allegations that just so happened to confirm the biases of its author.
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So did the related matters of Donald Trump's incredible credulity about the Saudi government's role in Khashoggi's murder and his contemporaneous decision to fly to Montana and specifically praise Republican Rep.
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The story from local news station WKBN has been blowing up for months, but this week, the tide of unchecked credulity for this impossible story started turning, even on cop blogs.
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Watch Richardson, who Loyola claims is 73-foot-3, and Custer, listed as a credulity-testing 6-1, get off the team bus and you might mistake them for student-managers.
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As they intensively search old books and photographic archives, their discoveries are recounted secondhand and undramatically, requiring plot contrivances that strain credulity even within the spacious contours of a fantastic novel.
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Indeed, the administration may strain credulity when it takes credit for corporate profit growth, jobs growth and the global economic growth that, combined, have supported stock prices thus far this year.
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But few policy promises stretched the levels of credulity more than Obamacare did with the idea that America's younger and healthier citizens would suddenly step up and buy expensive health insurance plans.
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The board rebuked: ""It strains credulity to think Merlin was oblivious to the potential promotional and substitutional effects of the Pandora/Merlin Agreement, yet still proceeded with the deal on unaltered terms.
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On one level, this would seem to strain credulity: Brin's upbringing in the Soviet Union shaped his views on censorship and informed the company's decision to exit the Chinese market in 2010.
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Sure, that explanation strained credulity somewhat -- Trump had been effusive in his praise for Comey's decision to re-open the Clinton investigation in late October -- but it was defensible on the merits.
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" In a separate statement, Connolly said the Supreme Court "is not some mystical priesthood" and that in the digital age "it strains credulity that this modest effort at transparency would prove impossible.
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It's stretched credulity well beyond snapping to think that Ivanka was simply blissfully unaware that what she was doing in using her private email account was totally on the up and up.
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Two years before Jones soared above New England cornerback Eric Rowe, Jermaine Kearse nearly willed the Seahawks to a late win over the Patriots with a deep sideline grab that strained credulity.
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This proficiency serves the movie well, especially in its double climax, which purposely tests both credulity and whatever affinity the viewer may have had for its title character up to that point.
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"It strains credulity for me to feel like Donald Trump is deeply concerned about the nefarious and terrible effects of slut shaming," said Nita Chaudhary, a founder of UltraViolet, a women's advocacy group.
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Had this kind of an intensive investigation been done in 2007, it strains credulity to believe that charges at least as formidable as the current New York charges would not have been uncovered.
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Given the range of arbitrary, even contradictory, interpretations of morality and ethics we continue to demonstrate as a species, the idea that all variables and permutations can be captured in code defies credulity.
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Reconstructing eerie, menacing crime scenes, making inspired deductive leaps that stretch credulity, lovingly poring over one grim tableau after another… that can be a treat even if it's never quite suspenseful or surprising.
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Juan Ramón Sáenz, the best-known host of "La Mano Peluda" ("The Hairy Hand"), listened with apparent credulity to about half the yarns broadcast over its 22-year history; some were chillingly believable.
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The short story is the ideal form for horror because it can convey a quick, vivid impression of fear, without having to extend the action past the breaking point of the reader's credulity.
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When you consider that the election turned on 80,000 votes or less in three key states, it stretches credulity to conclude that Russian activity didn't swing voter decisions, and therefore swing the election.
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Star couples still enjoy a culture of credulity around their relationships, though people (sometimes rightly) still doubt relationships that seem to spring up around publicity tours, or after high-profile flops or scandals.
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With varying degrees of credibility and credulity, conservatives have fed stories that Mr. Trump is the victim of sabotage by an adversarial intelligence community full of Trojan horse holdovers from the Obama administration.
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Although Brooke-Hitching features extremes of credulity, like a 40-foot "sea worm" that roamed the shores of Norway on a 16th-century map by Olaus Magnus, he also cites more recent mistakes.
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A different lieutenant is ensnared in a blackmail plot after sleeping with Augie's girlfriend, but given how much casual partner-swapping goes on in the show, it strains credulity that Augie would even care.
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A "greatly embellished" version spread through the city and caused a stir, "aided by our natural credulity and the respect paid to the names of the persons concerned" — to the apparent annoyance of Hamilton.
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Mr. Dowd fluctuated between credulity and outrage, at one point telling Mr. Trump after an especially trying meeting with Mr. Mueller that the president may have been right about the special counsel all along.
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By the time Prabhas straps on a pair of metal wings, whooshing around the glass canyons of Waaji City to save his girlfriend, your credulity may have been strained to the point of flatlining.
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Any hint of holiness is wrecked by a rainstorm, and by the glare of the arc lights under which TV cameras hope to catch the miracle, yet Fellini does not rage at our credulity.
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These were just the latest examples of a phenomenon that the sports world shares with politics: a strong desire to be associated with the working class, often in ways that strain logic and credulity.
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It strained credulity to think that Giuliani would have any client more important than the President, but Trump's claim directly contradicts his statements to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in their July 25 phone call.
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True, this perspective doesn't entirely explain why its coverage of the president regularly retreats into misleading euphemism, or treats him with a level of saucer-eyed credulity its top reporters know he has never earned.
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The book is set in the mid-19th century, but its themes — faith and logic, credulity and understanding, the confused ways people act in the name of duty and belief and love — are modern ones.
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"It defies credulity that there was not at least some overlap between those aware of the 2016 breach and those responding to the FTC investigation of the 2014 breach," they wrote in their letter Monday.
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The latter of these strains U.S. relations with America's staunchest Middle East allies — Israel and Saudi Arabia — beyond credulity, and suggests the president may be too absorbed in creating his own legacy to think clearly.
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It's a brilliant story, the kind that stretches credulity when it is written into a movie, but it was just another beautiful tale brought about organically through the chaotic and unrelenting tournament system of sumo.
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Gradient belongs to a breed of scientific consulting firms that defends the products of its corporate clients beyond credulity, even exhaustively studied substances whose dangers are not in doubt, such as asbestos, lead and arsenic.
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In it, Kubrick put these speculators in check with a statement that gets to the heart of these supposed hoaxes: to sustain a conspiracy so vast for so long is beyond the pale of credulity.
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Countless times, I heard some fellow Republicans say they found both Dr. Ford and Brett Kavanaugh believable during last Thursday's hearings, and then come up with explanations that strain credulity to avoid taking her side.
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A judge in California stated in 2015 that Uber's argument that drivers aren't a central part of its business "strains credulity," and another in New York expressed similar skepticism, according to the New York Times.
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Rusch, the author of many nonfiction books for young readers, including the picture book "Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet," occasionally stretches credulity in her attempts to appear evenhanded.
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Talking about substantially reducing payment to medical providers in one fell swoop, as though doctors and hospitals will say, "Alrighty then," and carry on providing the exact same services without any appreciable change to patients strains credulity.
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When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.
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While Kilgrave was a powerful driving force in season 1, his importance was a problem in the middle episodes, as the plot stretched credulity in an effort to keep him relevant while allowing the heroes some wins.
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It strains credulity that Oakman was allowed within a city mile of that campus in the first place, let alone on the field with this team that has become a symbol of everything wrong with college sports.
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Adam Schiff says it "strains credulity" to believe President Donald Trump pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on election meddling during their meeting at the Group of 20 summit Friday, and lambasted the proposed US-Russia cybersecurity team.
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Tillerson's bold comments about the end of the regime reflect a stale talking point that frankly damages US credibility and opens up a large gap between American rhetoric and actions into which US credulity falls and disappears.
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When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.
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Moreover, the archbishop and the investigator, Mr. Ruston, were extremely close, as friends and colleagues, the victims and some church figures say, adding that it strains credulity to think that they would not have discussed the matter.
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"Only Politico would strain credulity to find a negative in the President standing with peaceful protesters in Iran, in contrast to the actions of the previous administration," White House spokesperson Raj Shah said in an emailed statement.
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Romney: When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.
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The mere concept has been enough to generate coverage from a wide variety of publications including Forbes, Yahoo Finance, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, which have covered the company with varying levels of credulity.
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But the idea that Saudi Arabia -- now led by a crown prince who, while introducing significant social reforms has been accused of running a veritable police state -- shares America's values and interests strains credulity to the breaking point.
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Given the heightened sensitivity of communications related to the presidency, any assertion that dozens, if not hundreds, of emails sent between senior White House advisers did not contain any information that would be redacted as classified strains credulity.
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While this delegation has paved the way for implementing many beneficial free trade agreements, the current administration has strained credulity by invoking national security to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and possibly even automobiles and parts.
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Broderick Crawford and Richard Basehart, both dubbed in Italian, and Franco Fabrizi, from "I Vitelloni," play con men who steal money from the poor, exploiting their targets' desperation and credulity by posing as priests or government housing workers.
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I complain about The Brands as much as any other testy Gawker Media alum, but I'm also as susceptible as anyone to advertisers stretching the bounds of credulity to make their shit appear much more aspirational—and fun!
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"When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated," Sen.
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It was a surreal new twist to a presidency that has often already stretched the limits of credulity, and has challenged conventions on the decorum and gravity expected in the behavior of the person who holds the office itself.
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Business Insider added it is "not clear" how Instagram failed to detect the mass data scraping, which seems to stretch the bounds of credulity given that HYP3R was openly carrying out the practices while holding recommended marketing partner status.
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Khomyuk, on the other hand, was made out of whole cloth, and her actions strain credulity, from traveling to Chernobyl, uninvited, to investigate the accident to being in the presence of Mikhail Gorbachev at the Kremlin not much later.
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Whether his conduct amounts to fraud will likely turn on the opaque phrasing of e-mails and the doubtful credulity of an oligarch, but the damage to the art market lies in Bouvier's effrontery, the crassness of his gains.
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The government wrote that Person A contacted D2 to communicate that Manafort was trying to reach D1, and also tried to contact D1 — it "would strain credulity to suggest that Person A" made those contacts without Manafort's approval, prosecutors said.
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Donald Trump's assertion that the six-pointed star featured in an attack on "Crooked Hillary" is a sheriff's star, not the Star of David, has strained credulity, not least because the image was apparently taken from an anti-Semitic message board.
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While many of the techniques are well-worn, and promises of achieving "dramatic changes" via small, largely common-sense tweaks might strain credulity, the 87 take-em-or-leave-em tips are bound to include a few nuggets you can implement.
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She appears to possess no physicality, no sexuality, though we're told that she had a love affair not long ago and, in a brief scene that particularly tests credulity, she sleeps with an ex-convict who has rented her basement apartment.
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He was troubled by the wide use of anonymous sources in news reports, and by the credulity of reporters and editors who accepted the "official" accounts of self-serving government spokesmen, especially when facts were being suppressed on national security grounds.
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Given those matters along with accusations of dirty play on the field, it may strain credulity that Talib is able to continue playing, but he and Chris Harris Jr. make up one of the best cornerback duos in the league.
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Given the tight control Obama exercised over every part of his administration and agenda, the idea that any of these appointees and loyalists freelanced their activities without at least his tacit approval or that of his White House strains credulity.
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"This is an opportunistic argument and a highly dubious claim by MGM that strains credulity," said Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law expert at George Washington University who has served as counsel in a number of national security and terrorism cases.
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Perhaps most tellingly of all, "grown-ups" seem totally incapable of influencing Trump's behavior with regard to North Korea, where the president has veered wildly between irresponsible threats, bizarre credulity about the country's dictator, and boasts about totally nonexistent diplomatic breakthroughs.
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Citing findings that two F.B.I. officials had exchanged text messages disparaging — and in one case pledging to "stop" — Donald J. Trump when he was a candidate, Republican senators said that it stretched credulity to believe that the team investigating Mrs.
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Allow me to provide some examples to make sense of all this: In the run-up to the memo's release, two proponents of the document, Representatives Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Steve King (R-IA), made some statements that defy credulity.
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To ludicrously suggest that James Comey, head of the premier law enforcement agency in the world, was incapable of directly confronting a bully of a president or sharing this information with the deputy attorney general, to whom he reports, defies credulity.
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But to suggest that the U.S. rebalance — an obvious theme of the president's trip — does not include rebalancing the relative positions of regional countries such as Vietnam in the face of China's more assertive and more prominent role, strains credulity.
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For a former secretary of state (and senator with significant experience working with classified materials), Clinton's assertion that she did not understand the meaning of these markings strains credulity and will further feed concerns that her responses to this controversy have lacked candor.
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President Donald Trump's condemnations of the violence, first via Twitter and then during a press conference, strained credulity, since he owes much of his meteoric political rise to having unleashed the cruel forces of racial hatred and division on brutal display in Virginia.
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And if he does possess the almost superhuman ability to manage so many projects, his account of the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, to which he was invited with an email whose subject line read "Clinton - Russia - Private and Confidential," strains credulity.
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It may strain credulity, but one can easily point to a celebrated writer who often ended his plays in the very same fashion, with startling revelations, wedding bells set to peal for more than one couple, and perhaps tears in a few eyes.
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If the Senate's tactic of taking two steps backward to go one forward seems absurd, a feud over the State of the Union address, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told Trump to forget while government is partially shuttered, stretches credulity even more.
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The premise of the mastermind who contrived a treasure hunt sometimes strains credulity, but Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve.
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When James White sneaked into the end zone from 2 yards away, completing a 34-28 victory that defied the bounds of credulity and secured the Patriots' fifth title, his teammates stormed onto the field, flung their helmets and hugged anyone who moved.
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" Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor at National Review, said on Wednesday: "I think that the initial reaction suggested that there is a lot of credulity, especially among liberals who were looking at a story that seemed to confirm their impressions about Trump supporters.
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They can defy credulity but are often taken as truth by mainland customers, who must return to a closed intellectual environment where open discussion of politics is replaced by rumors, giving the books added influence because any discussion of them — even rebuttals — is censored.
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But she said it "strains credulity" for Hoffman to argue that Barclays, the British bank that bought much of Lehman's North American banking business, paid him $83 million as a signing bonus or motivational tool, and that the sum only coincidentally matched what Lehman owed.
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But in late July, a judge in the Bronx said in a scathing opinion that officers claim to smell marijuana so often that it strains credulity, and she called on judges across the state to stop letting police officers get away with lying about it.
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Daniel Wu plays Chong Tin-Po, who runs security at Sky One, a medical research company housed in a C.G.I. skyscraper looming above Hong Kong, an elaborately absurd effect that strains credulity every time it is included in a shot (which is frequently, alas).
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The note of fatalism concluding the review was meant to take the long view, but it's a sentiment that now seems far from certain or clear: If anything, the layering of credulity and incredulity, dubiousness and polemic complicates if not obviates the artworks' shelf life.
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Which of the following is more likely to test the boundaries of credulity: that a handful of Republican congressmen, former congressmen and sundry right-wingers would think that arming three-year-olds is, actually, now you mention it, quite a good way to deal with school shootings?
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What starts as trolling and genuine dumbass credulity in the darkest corners of the web all too often makes this journey to the mainstream, and watching this occur in the weeks following the Parkland shooting has ended up being a pretty great, and terrible, case study.
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"The extent of Mr. Trump's involvement in these efforts is presently unknown, but it strains credulity to conclude that Mr. Cohen is acting on his own accord without the express approval and knowledge of his client Mr. Trump," her lawyers said in a filing this week.
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"When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated," Romney said in a statement, which he also tweeted.
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But his claim that his primary purpose in spending four days at Mr Epstein's house, during which he attended a dinner party there, was to break off the friendship face-to-face stretched credulity, especially when he put it down to his "tendency to be too honourable".
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Although elements of the Alpha Cup tournament in this week's episode of "Billions" stretch credulity here and there, Koppelman, Levien, and the writer of this episode, Willie Reale, know poker well enough to plot the humiliation of a lifetime and make it at least somewhat plausible.
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The time, in other words, for the Republic to admit, "The vehemence of some of the anti-Clinton attacks strains credulity," or for the Morning News to explain that Clinton's "real shortcomings … pale in comparison to the litany of evils some opponents accuse her of," has long since passed.
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"To suggest that he knew nothing about Percoco doing these things while in his office, making 800 phone calls, is just beyond credulity," he said, noting how Mr. Percoco had used state resources while serving as Mr. Cuomo's campaign manager, when he was not on the state payroll.
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The virality of the tweets seem like an example of faux outrage or credulity to generate engagement on information that is relatively intuitive and basic (and, in certain cases, actually wrong); it's such an exploited formula that it's almost worth being skeptical of any information framed this way online.
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It&aposs what I would call my informed opinion that given the massive effort the Russians made and the number of citizens that they touched, to me is just exceeds logic and credulity that they didn&apost affect the election and it&aposs my belief that they actually turned it.
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That said, there is something remarkable about the level of credulity essentially every Republican member of Congress, Fox News host, and CNN Trumpbot has managed to muster about his now-infamous meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya and that the mainstream press has, in its reflexively even-handed way, gone on to muster.
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" Nothing has changed since George Will argued, "So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict.
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" It strains credulity that the European Union would reopen the agreement or that any wholly new set of terms for leaving the union would pass Parliament — or that the E.U. would show any sympathy and patience for Mr. Johnson, whom the French newspaper Le Monde called a "small-scale Trump.
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"When hundreds of thousands of publications appear in predatory journals, it stretches credulity to believe all the authors and universities they work for are victims," Derek Pyne, an economics professor at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, wrote in a op-ed published in the Ottawa Citizen, a Canadian newspaper.
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" When, one wonders, will Republicans acknowledge, along with Mitt Romney, that "when the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's [or Ukraine's] investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.
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Yes, it's Eric Bana (sigh), but Britton's not exactly chopped liver, which makes her character's blinders when it comes to seeing John's flaws feel as if they strain credulity -- even knowing it's a true story -- as questions keep mounting about his claims of being a doctor, his war history, and so on.
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Although horror does tend to address itself to the small, frightened child that lives inside all of us, all our lives, Matheson's horror is for grown-ups, those who have lost the easy credulity of the very young; for us, believing anything out of the ordinary is a process, usually an arduous one.
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And the operatives' surprise at American credulity — "I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people" — was itself a testament to the essentially imitative quality of their work: People believed the trolls were real Americans because so many totally real, born-in-the-U.
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Then again, even Singapore as it is — born a slum-ridden speck with no oil, no hinterland and a volatile mix of ethnicities, raised with an authoritarian hand and transformed into one of the most prosperous, most politically meek nations on earth — even this Singapore tugs at the bounds of our credulity.
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CLAPPER: It&aposs what I would call my informed opinion that given the massive effort the Russians made and the number of citizens that they touched and given the fact it turned on less than 80 000 in these states, to me it exceeds logic and credulity that they didn&apost affect the election.
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Although the setups are plausible and gripping, characters make too many credulity-straining choices that are explicable only in the contrived service of heightening drama, and the strands begin to fray as resolution approaches — a dizzying confluence of C.I.A. drone strikes, Swedish special forces, khat-stoned kidnappers and an underground railroad that exfiltrates jihadists.
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The California-based "somatic energy practitioner" and chiropractor says he's been in practice for over 25 years, but this month proved to be Amaral's breakout moment, when his methods were featured on Gwyneth Paltrow's new Netflix program The Goop Lab, which focuses on alternative treatments and provides a visit to the furthest reaches of credulity.
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Then again, the show strains credulity at various turns -- starting, without giving anything away, how long it's possible to maintain a seemingly absurd deception -- and doesn't benefit from the fact that it's hard to identify with any of the key players, who for the most part become more impenetrable, not less, as the narrative proceeds.
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Even Bank of England Governor Mark Carney; now we know at least he had a plan B. While the Leave side, which did not have a plan, as we also now know -- which refused even to accept there would be uncertainty ahead of a vote out of the EU -- was mostly treated with kid-gloves and credulity.
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It is difficult to look at the word today and imagine the hope and credulity with which it was once invested: These days, people who possess faith in the possibility of the post-racial are usually those who've already experienced a measure of its promised ease, as they pass relatively unimpeded through a relatively white world.
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The idea that the new Center for Contemporary Art & Culture will show "not only craft, but craft, art, design, and show that these are actually all interrelated and that they actually feed off one another" strains credulity, because the ideal model for that kind of programming just happens to be the Museum that they're about to close.
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As U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Albert Gallatin's name may not be as infamous; however, the credulity of Lewis and Clark ascribing it to this "new land" has been greatly diminished by the 2014 scientific breakthrough in which the 12,000 year-old remains of the child found in a gravesite just north of Bozeman in 1968 was genetically matched to present-day Native Americans.
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President Donald Trump is stretching credulity at home and abroad by declaring there is "no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea" after his summit with Kim Jong Un. But Trump&aposs top diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, cautioned that the U.S. would resume military exercises with close ally South Korea if the North stops negotiating in good faith.
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For one, Surefire's list of intelligence experts included similarly poorly doctored photos ripped off the web, including models and celebrity actor Christoph Waltz:As all of this inane scheming began going viral Tuesday following the Atlantic's report, someone apparently forwarded one of the accusations to the Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for both its popularity with Trump supporters and wild-eyed credulity.
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Africa has figured large in black American dreams of an existence truly and finally unencumbered by racism, and it's no coincidence that Hollywood's first major black superhero film isn't about an American at all: Even in the Marvel Universe, with its frozen supersoldiers and warlock mystics, a film about black Americans who'd never had to contend with racism would strain credulity.
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A much smaller fraction of the fraction is left for the more baroque theory, elaborated (with caveats, but also way too much credulity) by Jonathan Chait in New York magazine recently, that Trump was actually compromised-cum-recruited by Russian intelligence all the way back in 1987, and that his whole worldview was somehow made in Moscow to help unmake the West.
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The right-wing critique focuses on race, arguing that racial preferences are corrosive to merit-based admissions, because the quest for racial balance creates unfair and discrediting results — a "not too many Asians, please" quota system, a seeming tilt against lower-middle-class white applicants, and a bias (to the point of credulity, in the Louisiana case) in favor of African-Americans and Hispanics.
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CHARLES HURT, OPINION EDITOR, "WASHINGTON TIMES": I think the most interesting thing is the top line where you have people saying there is no evidence of political bias in the whole process, which is strange credulity to think about that, because, OK, maybe there is no smoking gun where James Comey said blatantly I want to rig this thing so that Hillary Clinton wins and Donald Trump loses.
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Trump's credibility has sunk so low that conservative commentator George Will, in a recent column, openly declared Trump unfit to lead the U.S. military: "So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict," Will wrote.
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Trying to teach nuanced critical thinking when there may be a more basic lack of education that's contributing to fomenting mistrust and driving credulity, as well as causing the spread of malicious fakes and rumors targeting certain people or segments of the population in the first place, risks both being ineffectual and coming across as merely irresponsible fiddling around the edges of a grave problem that's claimed multiple lives already.
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At this point, it is trivial and relatively inexpensive to break into iPhones, and it strains credulity that the Justice Department cannot simply hack the gunman's iPhone 5 and iPhone 7 Plus (iPhones that are several years old, as these phones are, are generally easier to hack.) If, for some reason the Justice Department cannot hack these iPhones, it needs to explain exactly why it can't hack them.
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What a study in contrasts: Where Christine Blasey Ford was calm and dignified, Brett Kavanaugh was volatile and belligerent; where she was eager to respond fully to every questioner, and kept worrying whether she was being "helpful" enough, he was openly contemptuous of several senators; most important, where she was credible and unshakable at every point in her testimony, he was at some points evasive, and some of his answers strained credulity.
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So Sontag responded to a 21993 survey "about intellectuals and their role" with a kind of regal pique: What the word intellectual means to me today is, first of all, conferences and roundtable discussions and symposia in magazines about the role of intellectuals in which well-known intellectuals have agreed to pronounce on the inadequacy, credulity, disgrace, treason, irrelevance, obsolescence, and imminent or already perfected disappearance of the caste to which, as their participation in these events testifies, they belong.
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