In a budget statement last month that was interpreted as portraying his skepticism toward the euro, Mr. Brown said the Bank of England's freedom to set interest rates was helping Britain to survive economic uncertainty.
The abstinence-until-marriage programs teach young people to view commercials, television shows and movies portraying sex between singles with skepticism, and to refuse physical intimacy not anchored in wedding vows -- values most parents tell pollsters they want schools to pass on.
Mr. Seidemann's questions portrayed the prosecution's skepticism about the sincerity of Mr. Whitaker's version of the events — that Mrs. Astor was coherent and engaged during the signing.
Portraying snake like qualities.
But Mr. Crain portrays these feelings with appropriate skepticism: what Czechoslovakia is going through in the year after the Velvet Revolution is not a sexual awakening, and the presence of Jacob and his friends in that country is not uncomplicated.
On June 7th, Elinor Burkett published an Op-Ed in the Times expressing what she portrayed as a feminist's reluctant skepticism about aspects of the transgender movement.
In "No Place for Sentimental Journalism on AIDS" (Op-Ed, Feb. 2), Bernard Goldberg laments the news media's willingness to dispense with their usual skepticism in order to portray society's downtrodden in a sympathetic light.
California's history of water mirages, along with north-south water wars and the cynicism engendered by the kind of water politics portrayed in "Chinatown," help explain the skepticism that has greeted statewide water proposals in recent decades.
Now it is mainstream news outlets, which Fox News so often portrays as liberally biased, that are facing a wave of skepticism.
I happen to share Hitchen's and Dawkin's skepticism that there is a God like the one portrayed in the Bible.
Therefore, respecting the skepticism that some Muslim women have for how they are being portrayed in the West, in the media and elsewhere, I recommend reading this article written by Dr. Ala'a Shehabi.
