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Перевод: credulity

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доверчивость ; легковерие
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Тезаурус:

1. "This imposter played upon the credulity of the public, awe-struck with his powers, when he perambulated the town with chain and field book."
2. But it is still a very large sum indeed, which may be viewed with some in credulity by the millions of lower paid people who have been hit by the Government's attitudes on, for example, child benefits.
3. A good deal of credulity and nonsense was indulged in the name of psychology but there was no nonsense about the concept of "psychological obsolescence", the new technique for making people dissatisfied with what they had bought more quickly than ever before.
4. He had had some experience, he said, of the extent to which thoughtless, incautious young men were "victimized and not unfrequently involved in utter ruin on the very threshold of their career by money-lenders who prey upon their credulity and inexperience."
5. Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other's horoscope in the newspapers, but without credulity: I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense, being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the "rising sign".
6. This is perhaps understandable, but it is stretching credulity to expect us to bless it as the highest human freedom.
7. But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction.
8. On this page we add a post-script to the Century by straining the readers' credulity still further!
9. "The Created God is the name we give to all that is good", is a statement which makes no demand on the credulity of a young mind.
10. Russell Foreman's The Ringway Virus (1979) has a plot that stretches credulity to the utmost: a virulent virus spreads around the globe, the Israelis blaming the Arabs and the Indians blaming the Pakistanis, until nearly everyone is wiped out - except for a "new Adam and Eve" who then inherit the Earth.
11. And many a quack has traded on the anguish of cancer sufferers and the credulity of their friends.
12. Upholding complaints against the firm, the authority ruled that it "exploited consumers" credulity".
13. Penzias does not, though, embrace the philosophical heresy that computers can be said to reason, even if public credulity, reinforced by science fiction, often imputes sentient powers to them.