Over the years, Mr. Pickering has displayed skepticism toward cases involving civil rights and expressed doubts about well-settled principles like one person one vote.
When Jack displays skepticism about Holli and the idea, Holli abandons him to search for the spike on her own.
The Supreme Court's conservative wing displayed skepticism about federal voting rights legislation when it struck down a key section of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 2013, so there are high stakes for the lawsuits in Ohio, North Carolina and elsewhere.
Impatient with a display of skepticism, he then mentioned that three of Mr. bin Laden's "good friends" were known to be in the Shah-i-Kot redoubts: the military commanders Saif-ur-Rehman Mansoor, Mullah Dadaullah and Mullah Amir Khan.
Those who support the evidential value of the experiences will argue that the naturalistic explanations that have been offered are not adequate, that they display excessive skepticism towards well-confirmed accounts, and are in many instances highly speculative.
He then responded to a question about the impact of corporate tax cuts on investment, again displaying some skepticism.
It seemed to me that Levy's article displayed some skepticism toward those who would like to see ayahuasca taken seriously by the scientific community.
The movie displays thoroughgoing skepticism toward authority, toward officialdom, toward those in power at all levels, from the local L.A.P.D. captain (Paul Gleason) to the F.B.I., whose takeover of the mission is greeted as sneeringly by McClane ("The feds?") as it would have been by Ronald Reagan himself.
But the court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has displayed deep skepticism toward such challenges, most notably on the subject of abortion, on the grounds that they require courts to step outside a limited role of resolving concrete disputes brought by parties with actual injuries.
Confucianism and Daoism emphasize the need to to pay attention to the concrete details of the situation at hand and displays healthy skepticism about the power of general principle to reveal what sort of action is suitable to the situation.
