"That makes him cool and gives him a lot of credibility with men in his age group".
And in talking to business, confidence and experience are a big part of credibility; business men and women can have a visceral reaction against platitudes and bullshit – it brings to mind too many inept sales pitches.
No longer believable, neither as man or a character, his lack of credibility ultimately fails the story he's been employed to tell.
He argues that Oklahoma's "entire case" against him rests on the testimony of one man whose credibility is now in question.
So we really don't know how he feels about being called a timid and overly decent man who avoids confrontation at the cost of credibility.
Up until now, Shannon has enjoyed enormous credibility, but Man Of Steel will bring him global fame.
Even without taking those important factors into account, the Stanford researchers demonstrate a clear lack of credibility among skeptics who doubt man-made climate change.
For two white men in almost exclusively black districts there are inevitably issues of credibility.
"He is a man of such international stature that his credibility is unchallenged".
In an editorial at the time, The New York Times stated that the Nixon pardon was "a profoundly unwise, divisive and unjust act" that in a stroke had destroyed the new president's "credibility as a man of judgment, candor and competence".
