On direct examination, Mr. Faneuil calmly testified to conversations with each defendant that, if believed, pretty much proves the government's claims.
If the quotes attributed to Steve Bannon and others in "Fire and Fury," the new book by Michael Wolff, can be believed, pretty much everyone has dumped on the President behind his back.
I think it's actually good if you don't, because I do believe pretty much above all else in the importance of independent critical thinking.
All of the big questions come up before first grade — God and death, jail and fairies — and most 4-year-olds will believe pretty much any answer you give them.
The BBC documentary-maker – justly celebrated for series that include The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace – speaks with such paternal conviction, such stylish wisdom, that given half a day in a film archive you suspect he could have you believe pretty much anything.
Given how important it is for us to connect with adults to survive infancy and childhood, we'll believe pretty much anything we're told, follow what is modeled; we generally have little else to compare our family practices with, after all, so if we grow up in "nut houses,' we'll adapt to the insanity.
The stereotypes are true, in other words: Compared to Europe, we are naïve, bumbling hicks who are socially conservative to a fault, willing to believe pretty much every life lesson handed down by Michael Bay movies, and not really that much fun to be around.
The journalists believe Lucas – who we can consider pretty much f*cked by this point – but do they have the courage to pick his story back up after his imprisonment and revisit Zoe Barnes' death?
Amis was someone who believed that pretty much any situation was enhanced by booze; and drinking often found its way into his fiction - most notably, as Scruton points out, in the famous hangover scene in Lucky Jim.
He believed that pretty much everyone in the area was voting for his party.
His politics are pretty stoner, too: two years ago, he called 9/11 "an inside job," admitted that he believed in "pretty much all" conspiracy theories, and concluded, "The whole world is totally fucked, basically".
