It would be only sensible to recognise a doubt, but this is the horse who makes us
suspend disbelief.
Paris and the Arc would seal Frankel lovea ffair
The Hollow Crown (BBC2, 8pm) This is one of the better adaptations of Shakespeare - TV directors tend to have a tough time because they can't
suspend disbelief in the same way a theatre can.
What to WATCH
The two main protagonists played by Muna Fairooz and Abdulla Saad actually manage to make us
suspend disbelief and accept that they really are youngsters growing up in the lanes of Manama or Muharraq.
A slapstick comedy with a message..
But the reality is that Lila and the characters she meets, from stereotypical surfer dude Kody to mysterious market plant man David Exley and surreal laundromat owner Armand, are not credible and the reader has to
suspend disbelief when the plants' magical properties come to life.
romance
"On the positive side, the ability
suspend disbelief is part of the enjoyment of art and many leisure activities...
Deception
Marketers are going to have to step back and
suspend disbelief."
New Parade CEO: Not A Newspaper Man, But Optimistic
Pieces of concrete could never be pub regulars, but some jests demand that we
suspend disbelief. For instance: two pieces of concrete are sitting in a pub when in walks a piece of Tarmac.
Lots of wonderful ways with words
She makes it easy to
suspend disbelief because she makes Flora sound ordinary even while the story is extraordinary.
Wilce, Ysabeau S. Flora Segunda; being the magickal mishaps of a girl of spirit, her glass-gazing sidekick, two ominous butlers (one blue), a house with eleven thousand rooms, and a red dog
Where the novel does become problematic is in the author's expectation that the reader will
suspend disbelief and gloss over holes in the story that just don't make sense.
Cheating Fate
The show - if you can
suspend disbelief for long enough to think that a raft of compelling, if completely unrelated, ideas can somehow hang together as a coherent performance - is part laugh-fest and part post-modern social critique.
Reviews: A witty guy who can waffle for England; Russell Brand Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
That's the most successful way to get an audience to
suspend disbelief."
Scribe turns back clock on Kander & Ebb
The wall texts and catalogue do not always tell us, unless we are meant to
suspend disbelief and give some credit to occult concepts like "vital fluid" and ectoplasm.
"The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
What makes the Amish such an odd and appealing object of cultural tourism is that the visitor is asked to
suspend disbelief, trusting that the Amish are of today, not faux relics of a manufactured past, like Colonial Williamsburg.
The simplest life: why Americans romanticize the Amish
As a mutual rethinking of phenomenology and theology, this turn may require some readers to
suspend disbelief in order to appreciate it, but to do so is well worth the effort.
The Unforgettable and the Un-Hoped For
The fact is that a lot of people
suspend disbelief that we could lose a right in the United States--we don't lose rights in the United States; Roe isn't going to be overturned; Bush isn't really going to do this.
Women's equality under attack