Sentence examples for expense of credibility from inspiring English sources

Pramoedya's story moves quickly, but often at the expense of credibility.

Her labored "Catcher in the Rye" allusion reveals her age and she does occasionally pursue a laugh at the expense of credibility, but even with its flaws, make no mistake: This is a remarkably assured debut.

Unfortunately, an actor plays the lead musician, which blunts the impact both of the band and of this too-pat play, which goes for laugh lines at the expense of credibility.

That last role sets human rights researchers apart from journalists but not, Ms. Bogert insisted, at the expense of their credibility.

"Like Beauty" handles Catareen's alienness with marvellous empathy but is bogged down by the usual demerits of mainstream science fiction: creaky expository monologues about how the future came to be, cringe-making references to people taking a "dermaslough" or hydraulicking their pods, and worship of concepts at the expense of narrative credibility.

Khattab: I like to believe that being held responsible for the information you share makes you vet your information properly so we don't have to do it for you at the expense of your credibility.

Bundling relentlessly forward, or cutting erratically between timeframes, the narrative maintains its pace at the expense of both craft and credibility.

Things that almost always came at the expense of their dignity and credibility.

Red herrings (aka ruses, decoys, smoke screens) are thrown, per se, at the expense of a player's credibility but provide the benefit of a needed distraction.

This made online publishers and bloggers more courageous, giving them more credibility, at the expense of the state media and their private media partners who have been left without youths consuming their works.

Like traditional Marxism, it suffers from problems of credibility, and, like other grand welfare schemes, from issues of expense.