If all these people had to do was believe something new, that would be easy.
It was believed that something new was required to combat Bradman, but it was believed more likely that Bradman could be dismissed by leg-spin as Walter Robins and Ian Peebles had supposedly caused him problems; two leg-spinners were included in the English touring party of 1932 33.
Believe it or not, onstage zombies are no longer that novel, although a play with fast zombies would, I believe, be something new.
We are, I believe, witnessing something new in American politics.
One may believe that something new and exciting has been discovered, but its measurement is on shaky grounds, and evidence for it value is circumstantial.
Or he wants to seek attention; appear different, respectable, fashionable, virtuous, enlightened; judge or condemn others; convert others to his views because he's unsure of himself; find acceptance or advance himself socially; be rejected or persecuted; fill an emotional vacuum in his life by believing in something new, exciting, or dangerous; frighten or shock others.
It's not, as some snake oil salesmen out there would have you believe, something complicated, some sort of new science called content marketing or whatever buzz-phrase you prefer.
But I believe something like the Kindle or this new OLPC is what is really needed in developing countries.
To believe something is to be fallible.
He told me that he believed people wanted "something new, they want to get a person with a human face".
