Sentence examples for as if believing from inspiring English sources

For example: the word vagina has no intrinsically humorous properties, but it's uttered here as if believing that it did were sufficient to make it so.

Many of the city's residents abandoned themselves to drunkenness and promiscuity, as if believing the end of the world was nigh.

Those who thought they had knock-offs were more likely to say that people were dishonest and unethical.It looked, then, as if believing they were wearing fakes made people feel like fakes.

Their King is so hilariously contemptuous of his enemy that he doesn't notice that he's suddenly impaled himself on the Nutcracker's sword; he dies as if believing he were incapable of death.

It's as if he believes as long as he thinks somebody is levying an accusation of some kind, it's safe for him to repeat it.

He was giddy and gregarious, as if barely believing the scene.

But the top leaders never reacted as if they believed the country was as vulnerable as it proved to be that morning.

It was almost as if Ewing believed that if he treated it like a normal day, it would be, and he would be able to play.

We certainly talk and think as if we have moral beliefs, as if we believe moral propositions.

As early as the Sixties, Holloway is "deciding to act as if I believe there is a meaning to the universe".

The pain would be more acceptable if the creditors acted as if they believed they faced an existential threat.