I once saw the great Lucille Ball at a seminar at which she was asked, "How did you make so many unbelievable situations so believable?" She answered: "I just believed them.
But for those answers to be believable, for them to make sense - not in an academic way but to land with the resonance of a nuclear life-changing blast - I learned that one had to fully immerse themselves into the total belief system that that religion offered.
These seemed less awkward to ask than questions about the quantity, and the answers seemed more believable.
If someone asks you what you are looking for, your answer must be short, specific, believable, and memorable to be effective.
Her claim is not entirely believable, but it spares her from having to answer the question of whether she would have accepted such an offer.
To make his point, he asked the jury a question with an obvious answer: which man would be more believable, Mr. Jenoff or a "man of the cloth"?
The first answer is more honest, direct and believable.
"Often, the email is scanned or the phone is scoured after direct questions have been asked and the answers do not feel satisfying or believable".
Kit's ex-boyfriend, who does not give Kit's mother the right answer to her most important question, is played with believable borderline unpleasantness by Stephen Barker Turner.
