Example sentences for: incredulity

How can you use “incredulity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Praise also goes to comedian Mike Nichols' film-acting debut: His "timing is flawless, his speech peppered with strange pauses through which we grasp the full weight of his irony, derision, and sheer incredulity at the peculiarity of the human phenomena that surround him" (Leslie Camhi, the Village Voice ). (Slate's Sarah Kerr argues that the movie is merely pretentious.)

  • The way to slip the accusation past this barrier of incredulity is to pose the idea indirectly, through satire--to savage your enemy with a smile.

  • Here, he curls his body into a sneer, and he's probably the only white man in movies who's wiry enough to trounce a bunch of black guys on a basketball court and not leave the audience snickering in incredulity.

  • Marco Polo’s account of life in legendary Cathay was received with incredulity in Europe, where it was suggested that his imagination had run wild.

  • The campaign for AT&T's "Single One Rate" plan thus features Paul Reiser going around talking to people about how now every long-distance call they make with AT&T will cost just 7 cents a minute, while those he talks to react with a mix of befuddlement and incredulity, peppering him with questions that show that they just don't get what 7-cents-a-minute really means.


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