Sentence examples for phrase suspension from inspiring English sources

"Did you ever have suspicions?" Did I? As an English major at Princeton, I'd learned the phrase "suspension of disbelief," but with Clark you contributed belief, wiring it from your personal account into the joint account that you held with him.

The distinction Wood draws between literature and belief can be understood as a revision of Coleridge's famous phrase, "suspension of disbelief," particularly in its application to narrative fiction.

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To do so, he knew, he had to make the fantastical seem credible—"to procure for these shadows of imagination," he wrote, in a soon to be famous phrase, a "willing suspension of disbelief".

Mrs. Clinton told General Petraeus last September that his report on Iraq required "the willing suspension of disbelief," a phrase that has been hurled at her since by Republicans.

As her voice and piano engage in a reflective dialogue, the artful hesitations and wide-open spaces between phrases conjure a state of meditative suspension into which feelings spontaneously bubble up and subside.

The actors speak English with thick Russian accents (with varying success), and when Deema and Meela joke about how hard it is to learn silly phrases — while speaking perfect English, no less — any lingering suspension of disbelief dissipates.

Senator John McCain treated the entire phrase as a noun, ad-libbing, "It's a willing suspension of disbelief that Senator Clinton thinks she knows more than General Petraeus".

Going into the draft, Tunsil's suspension was cited as a potential "character issue"—a phrase that rolls off analysts' tongues with the same ease as forty-yard-dash times.

* The phrase was: el incidente que de forma puntual y aislada ha ocasionado la suspension.

Rape allegations, theft, and a team suspension for getting up on a table and yelling an obscene phrase in the middle of the Florida State campus.