An author could easily succumb to the timidity of good intentions, too fearful to include anything that might allow a reader to ask questions and, oh dear, nurture doubts about the author's ultimate decency.
Any serious glitches at Three Gorges will nurture doubts about the wisdom of that plan, which has just got under way.Francis Li, a Canadian hydro-engineer who worked on the Three Gorges project, says his early scepticism has turned to confidence.
Even as he steeled himself for an attack this past week, two advisers said, he nurtured doubts about the political and legal justification for action, given that the United Nations Security Council had refused to bless a military strike that he had not put before Congress.
Not coincidentally, Adichie opens with a nod to Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, a stream-of-consciousness novel about a middle-aged society wife who accepts her role in life but also nurtures certain doubts about it, and about the choices she made to get there.
During the investigation into Ergenekon -- a clandestine organization nested within the state trying to overthrow or manipulate the democratically elected government -- we nurtured certain doubts.
Whether such familial talent is a matter of nature or nurture will, no doubt, be the subject of a future prize.
"I've nurtured a seed of doubt about my place in others' hearts".
Frances's circumstances often seem to be at war with her sense of entitlement, the idea, no doubt carefully nurtured by sympathetic parents and progressive schools, that her specialness makes her immune to failure.
Whether it's nature or nurture there is little doubt that little girls are more likely to oblige when it comes to sitting quietly, practising their numbers and letters.
Seeds of doubt have been nurtured by the rather dismal economic situation in most Latin countries, ranging at best from cases of very slow and therefore insufficient growth, as in Mexico, to unprecedented financial crisis, as in Argentina.
