In the presence of deep mutual mistrust there will always be those who display skepticism about the feasibility of any negotiated outcome.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In either case, Stiglitz displays no skepticism about Brown's sudden, and startling, epiphany -- or indeed that he was somehow far more advanced than others in power.
Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) superbly plays the outgoing head of Britain's MI6 Middle East bureau and he displays a skepticism and wariness for everyone who steps up with a quick answer about either side.
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.
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.
