But it would be straining credulity too far to expect that everything will be absorbed.

In one telling moment, he strained both credulity and judicial temperament.

For the severely depressed - people who are in such pain that they consider suicide an escape - her statement will strain credulity.

Rabinowitz's defense is so full-throated that it sometimes strains credulity.

If anything, Letterman thinks, these women have a compulsion to reach a higher plane of conversation that strains credulity.

Doesn't it strain credulity that this is just another in a long line of White House "mistakes"?

One of Saturday's semifinal matches would have strained credulity in a movie script.

Certainly it strains credulity that something so amazingly useful could have evolved entirely by chance.

As in his previous books, there are astonishing scenes, some that strain credulity.

Of course, politicians strain credulity all the time, and the alternative in this case looks unattractive: a trade war with the world's fastest-growing economy.