credulousness

He looked up at me with an equal mixture of supplication and in credulousness.

It seems that credulousness and a willingness to squander taxpayer money never go out of fashion in Washington.

A shade of in credulousness colored his tone.

Thomas asked, still with in credulousness in his voice, wanting to disbelieve but unable to.

I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me, or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner.

Lytol shook his head at their credulousness.

Vance assumed an air of gushing credulousness.

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.

Their in credulousness became triple-glazed.

In recent days, some Western diplomats here have criticized what they see as naive American credulousness toward the Haitian military.

Indeed, on one of these unfortunate occasions the effects were so patently unconvincing that self-willed credulousness could be the only explanation.

And he left purposefully vague the precise outlines of Today Is Tomorrow's head: there would be limits to her credulousness.

Winkler's credulousness.

Rationalism is cool, credulousness is socially unacceptable - and comedy is dominated by critical thinking on religion.

Instead of being directed as a comedy, this satire of political corruption and public credulousness poses a work of lyric realism.

What's the point in my spending time on you, cultivating you, being perfectly decent towards you, if you're going to manifest such infantile credulousness, eh?'

And with the enthusiasm and credulousness of youth, he had readily envisioned himself traveling the great expanses in search of wondrous beings and places.

Aubrey has been criticised for his evident credulousness in this and other works; on the other hand, he knew Thomas Hobbes, Bacon's fellow-philosopher and friend.

The eyes were closed, but there was no telling what the mouth might be up to behind the gag: suppose the tape was hiding a grin at Hector's credulousness?

And Beatty, acutely conscious of the balance between ironic detachment and yearning for credulousness in his public and the press, played his role to the hilt.

All of which stand up to scrutiny with the solidity of a deflating raft: almost immediately she begins a painful tutorial on the subject of her own credulousness.

Others say its digs at ivory-tower credulousness and Dreyfuss' turn as a neurotic professor make it "too funny to ignore" (David Denby, New York ).

And in the movie's early scenes, Elling amuses him with made-up stories of preposterous erotic adventures that Kjell accepts with the credulousness of a child.

Feigning gullibility-" "-naivete, credulousness, stupidity-" "Shut up, Pal!

Moreover, he was resolute both in his avoidance of any attitude that savored of credulousness and in his adherence to cold, logical exactness in his mental processes.