Sentence examples for Sheer incredulity from inspiring English sources

Only one phrase captures the current Asian perception of the West: sheer incredulity.

Distress at the loss was amplified by the sheer incredulity of facing a second air disaster in five months.

For months, while his rivals in Washington looked on with a mixture of growing contempt and sheer incredulity, Howard Dean went off on the Democratic Party.

One Wall Street report claimed an American financial adviser was forced to stop his car because he was laughing so much from sheer incredulity when the Aramco float news broke.

News of the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine has been greeted with not just horror but disbelief in Malaysia, where distress at the loss was amplified by the sheer incredulity of facing a second air disaster in five months.

I was stopped at the immigration desk of the city's Wayne County airport, not because of any inconsistencies with my paperwork, but because of the official's sheer incredulity as to the reason for my visit: "You're a travel writer and you're writing about Detroit?

I was bowled over by the fearless honesty of the questioning: "what are the beliefs that lie behind newspapers?", "how can you survive if you only cost 20p?", plus much incredulity at the sheer complexity of creating, editing, printing and distributing a newspaper.

By the end of an astonishing 90 minutes, their incredulity had given way to sheer exultation.

Best was the utter incredulity of the European parliament's chief Brexit negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, at the sheer nerve of Boris Johnson promising Turkey to be its strongest advocate for joining the EU.

By contrast, the general demeanor of the other defendants was that of incredulity at being tried; the impression they gave was that they thought only the sheerest, most improbable sort of accident could explain their being haled before a tribunal.

After a while, though, as the pieces of the puzzle snap together, curiosity gives way to incredulity and the film reveals itself to be a preposterous, sentimental fable, almost compelling in its sheer awfulness.