He completely rejects that her feelings for him could be genuine and forgoes the possibility of a sexual encounter that he desires because it wouldn't be how it was before his accident, assuming that this could never be as good.
Because so many significant people in football did not laugh off the idea, it seemed that the story could be genuine.
AC Milan took him from Barcelona, but it was beyond a leap of faith to think that there could be genuine rejuvenation of the joy, the spontaneity, the performance levels of Ronaldinho.
But the company admitted its system was not foolproof, and that some filtered reviews could be genuine.
In those districts, both finalists might be from the same party, but there could be genuine differences between the two that would give voters a meaningful choice.
(Initially, he had expressed doubts, then changed his mind under duress, and declared that they could be genuine, before finally agreeing that they were a fake).
For the first time these could be genuine "European" elections, the outcome of which will shape European politics for at least the next five years.
"For the first time, these could be genuine 'European' elections, the outcome of which will shape European politics for at least the next five years," said Simon Hix, professor of European governance at the London School of Economics.
"Beware of 2020 and beyond, because we think there could be genuine food shortages by that period," Susan Payne, the chief executive of Emergent Asset Management, told the audience during a talk on Africa's agricultural potential.
