But after decades of promises from reasonable-sounding, carefully calculated candidates, political insiders lacked believability to casual observers, who looked up from their smartphones after another unengaged four years to cast a plague on both houses — the Republican establishment in the primaries and the Democratic establishment in the general election.
What looks and smells like a lack of believability in police procedure, I can't.
"As much as you say he's a threat to people, there's a lack of believability there". Clinton has been doing relatively well given that small-dollar donors were unlikely to to flock to her in the first place, said Nicco Mele, director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
Tiffany Trump serving as a flower girl in Vegas and throwing flower petals out of a Tiffany bag is one of those instances where, if you pitched that as part of a movie script in early 2015, no one would have picked it up for a lack of believability.
Author Lawrence H. Suid wrote in Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film that, "what combat the film portrayed lacked any believability or authenticity.
Andy Samberg, the latest "Saturday Night Live" alum, also offered up his impression of Mayor Rahm Emanuel during the Tuesday "Conan" episode, a take that was enthusiastic if somewhat lacking in believability.
What Culture! reviewer Joseph Kratzer awarded the episode three out of five stars, noting that the episode fell victim to "the overall lack of focus and believability that has plagued The Office all season".
The Israeli ambassador's subsequent assertion that he did not actually use the word "crisis" lacked, to put it mildly, believability.
Brocklehurst noted that these series "lacked [Cold Feets] warmth and believability" adding that they were "unrealistic and cynical".
Even the great Disney animators couldn't make Snow White as compelling as her dwarfs, who have a blobby believability that she is entirely lacking.
