Sentence examples for sceptical in from inspiring English sources

He is still sceptical, in private, about American policy.

The once euro-enthusiastic Dutch have grown increasingly sceptical in recent years and favour financial rigour above solidarity.

If Severini always remained a little sceptical in his adherence to futurism, Boccioni embraced it wholeheartedly, practically and prescriptively.

I am a fan of the former, but somewhat sceptical in terms of widespread deployment: we will need to make the electricity somehow.

The BBC's reporting on the war had been sceptical: in tune with popular attitudes, perhaps, but not what the government wanted.

The Prime Minister has been sinuous in reflecting and appeasing public opinion, which is sceptical in the proper sense of the word about the EU.

In an epic profile – part-dazzled, part-sceptical – in New York magazine last July, Sam Anderson wrote of Franco's fiction that it "reads like promising work from a writing seminar – not a student whose success you'd guarantee but someone you could see eventually getting there".

But, as historian David Cannadine points out in a fine, sceptical essay in a new book accompanying the exhibition, Holmes's London is actually only sketchily imagined in the stories.

In a speech to a more sceptical audience in April, a month earlier, she had been more nuanced.

The Christian research group Theos claims that "even amongst atheists, the most sceptical group in the population, nearly a quarter (23%) believe in the human soul, 15% in life after death, and 14% in reincarnation".

This later Pyrrhonism was one of the two major traditions of sceptical thought in the Greco-Roman world (the other being located in Plato's Academy during much of the Hellenistic period).