But mostly it is the credulousness of men that does so.
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He's the country's credulousness in extremis, its ugly bargains writ large.
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" — to credulousness that can be fractured — "I can't believe he dishonored his proposal!
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Like "A Face in the Crowd," it's about credulousness and lack of critical thinking.
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I see the lies and self-love, cruelty and credulousness, and can trace their causes.
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Facebook, Google and Twitter are on the hot seat for their credulousness about Russian intelligence operations.
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"Extraordinary credulousness among individuals conducting the exam is a big part of the problem," they said.
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Their infatuation, based though it is on credulousness, shows us how confident and attractive he's become.
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The dreaded "permatrip": an urban legend sourced equally in Just Say No paranoia and teenage idiocy/credulousness.
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A slew of news outlets, including this one, wrote about the fish with varying degrees of credulousness.
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You're coming to these radical sexual practices and ideologies with hopeful credulousness, while simultaneously interrogating them rigorously.
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His knowledge of policy has remained thin, and, despite being burned again and again, his credulousness toward online sycophants has persisted.
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The most popular musicians in the world are playing their public lives off the credulousness of the listening public to reach new heights of relevancy.
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Surprise, usually thought to be so important to humor, turns out to play second fiddle to our eagerness to laugh and our ever-renewable credulousness.
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There are some holes in the story, particularly when it comes to Harry and Veronica's relationship; for a woman who seems so savvy, Veronica's credulousness seems hard to believe.
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We may have left postmodernism behind, but we are still generally suspicious of sincerity: It seems to connote naiveté, or worse, credulousness—a belief in the fundamental simplicity of the world.
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Of course, we can only guess whether, in the not particularly gray areas of Jones's addled gray matter, there's a genuine (if delusional) credulousness—a commitment to the conspiracies—or a simple crowd-playing cynicism.
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But he has taken the opposite tack, applying a unidirectional skepticism toward claims of violence against minority groups that looks particularly prejudicial when juxtaposed with the credulousness of his own journalism about some on the right.
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Valor claimed the media had pushed him to tell sensational stories, and Wired tied the incident to a larger credulousness around online sex — like Time's infamous debunked "cyberporn" story, which the author revisited in fascinating detail 220 years later.
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In the nearly twenty years since it was published, I Love Dick has become a cult hit, and is periodically rediscovered by young women in early adulthood, as they age out of credulousness and into critical understandings of women's position in the world.
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The articles, which were a hoax, apparently convinced some segment of the paper's readership — a credulousness that belies the sharp division the public was willing to entertain between the Moon as they had seen it and the Moon as astronomers (purportedly) did.
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The credulousness of all too many journalists about the supposed misconduct revealed by "Climategate," a pseudo-scandal that relied on selective, out-of-context quotes from emails at a British university, prefigured the disastrous media handling of hacked Democratic emails in 2016.
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For instance, in the first one a pig is identified as an astrologer. The work's intent may have been to satirize the credulousness of people who believe the persons spreading these mystical ideas.
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In general the book got positive reviews. Nicolette Jones of The Times UK said 'Pratchett's one-liners, the comic dialogue of the Feegles, the satire about teenagers and the credulousness of ordinary folk, and the reworking of the Orpheus myth, make for a characteristically entertaining mix.' It won the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book in 2007.
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The protagonist of this novel, who was supposed to embody stereotypically German characteristics, is quite similar to the protagonist of Candide. These stereotypes, according to Voltaire biographer Alfred Owen Aldridge, include "extreme credulousness or sentimental simplicity", two of Candide's and Simplicius's defining qualities. Aldridge writes, "Since Voltaire admitted familiarity with fifteenth-century German authors who used a bold and buffoonish style, it is quite possible that he knew as well." A satirical and parodic precursor of Candide, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) is one of Candides closest literary relatives.
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The first set of doctors who investigated Moore were easily duped. According to skeptical writer Bergen Evans: > The credulousness of the first set of watchers was revealed in her admission > that during the whole sixteen days of her first observation she had been fed > by her daughter while the watchers were in the room. The younger woman had > soaked towels in milk and broth and wrung them into her mother's mouth while > washing her face. She had also conveyed food from her mouth to her mother's > while kissing her.
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"Fable 97 Though the story is applicable to human credulousness in general, it has been given a political interpretation since earliest times that continued through most later commentaries. An illustration of the inquisitive blackbird by Henrik Grönvold, 1906 Although this version of the story only existed in Greek sources, one very like it occurs in the Syriac version of the story of Ahiqar, which goes back to the time of Aesop. Ahiqar has been betrayed by his adoptive son Nadan and among the reproaches for his conduct appears this reference: "A snare was set upon a dunghill and there came a sparrow and looked at it and said, 'What doest thou here?' And the snare said, 'I am praying to God.
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After stuffing the fowl with snow, Bacon contracted a fatal case of pneumonia. Some people, including Aubrey, consider these two contiguous, possibly coincidental events as related and causative of his death: > The Snow so chilled him that he immediately fell so extremely ill, that he > could not return to his Lodging … but went to the Earle of Arundel's house > at Highgate, where they put him into … a damp bed that had not been layn-in > … which gave him such a cold that in 2 or 3 days as I remember Mr Hobbes > told me, he died of Suffocation. Aubrey has been criticized for his evident credulousness in this and other works; on the other hand, he knew Thomas Hobbes, Bacon's fellow-philosopher and friend. Being unwittingly on his deathbed, the philosopher dictated his last letter to his absent host and friend Lord Arundel: > My very good Lord,—I was likely to have had the fortune of Caius Plinius the > elder, who lost his life by trying an experiment about the burning of Mount > Vesuvius; for I was also desirous to try an experiment or two touching the > conservation and in-duration of bodies.
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