MICHAUD: I found him believable, though increasingly infuriating as I read.
It's a terrific performance, initially beguiling, increasingly unbearable and horribly believable.
And what about the increasingly frustrating paucity of believable, well-sourced data about the program?
When Jack and Hannah, both of whom were expecting to have the house to themselves, meet by surprise there, the resulting encounter — cautious, flirtatious and increasingly drunken — is at once entirely believable and wildly, uncomfortably funny.
Thank heaven, then, for Claire Denis whose 35 Shots of Rum (2008, New Wave, 12A) is that increasingly rare thing – a "proper film" with believable situations and finely drawn characters.
The first is political: if polls about party identification are believable, an affiliation with the Republicans is an increasingly large scarlet letter.
The concept of believable agents in game and simulator design has become increasingly important.
Major publishers are increasingly less willing to accept manuscripts with glaring grammatical errors, less-than-believable characters or poorly developed plots that get in the way of a potentially good story.
For all its increasingly loony plot twists, the show has stayed true to those characters, allowing them to evolve in mostly believable ways and bringing them together in a mostly swallowable fashion.
