Sentence examples for believe him capable from inspiring English sources

I don't believe him capable of such a thing".

The jury, after learning that he was banking 20 times his annual salary in graft, could easily believe him capable of murder.

So dapper, so accomplished, and so winning does he prove to be that our heroine can hardly believe him capable of evil.

Young Paul so hated his father Claude, a New York dentist whose "mere presence meant misery", that he was prepared to believe him capable of anything, even attempted infanticide.

The performances, too, are a deliberate clash; Belvaux plays Bruno with such grumpy flatness that you scarcely believe him capable of murderous acts, while Dominique Blanc kicks off her portrayal of Agnès at maximum intensity and takes it from there.

And you could believe him capable of almost anything from the paintings in this show, which range from a crisp Japanese-inspired image of vermilion lotuses titled "Buddha's Manifestation of Joyfulness," to a near-abstract blend of American Color Field painting and Chinese landscape.

Libyans who until a few weeks earlier had coexisted peacefully, if resentfully, with their ruler now believed him capable of any evil.

Even his mother believes him capable of writing the anonymous letters and committing acts of extreme brutality, while his sister has her own secrets.

This isn't such a stretch: Copley was already behaving oddly during the move from Boston, talking and walking like a robot and becoming distant, so Nathaniel believes him capable of more extreme acting out.

Despite the owlish blandness which characterised Smith, almost every senior Labour figure believed him capable of being a strong prime minister, calm in times of adversity and motivated by deeply held beliefs.

He relates his discovery for success by K.C. Flynn, who believes him capable of representing a line of toiletries; next follow the events of a whirlwind day at Studio 54 where the writer meets Steve (Rubell) and Bianca (Jagger) and a transvestite named Faustian Bargain, and suddenly suffers his success vanishing overnight.