Among other things, Lovell explains that the geological argument for the power of carbon dioxide is the one that he would take into a bar in Midland, Tex., to debate skeptical peers (his background is primarily in petroluem geology and he worked for decades in the oil industry).
Rubio says he had not read it, but he's skeptical, because "What? Background checks?
Indeed, given Bradley's background skepticism as to our grasp of the positive nature of Reality, he might best be described as a monist who is skeptical of deciding between existence and priority monism.
His comment, which was among those he made in the video of a fund-raiser that Mother Jones magazine posted Monday, has inspired a few skeptical reactions, given his privileged background.
But many of those he has named at Interior, E.P.A. and other agencies with environmental oversight have corporate backgrounds and appear skeptical of the regulatory process.
"We start a little skeptical of someone from a finance background," said Eric Paley of Founder Collective, the investor who declined to back Mr. Vacanti's original idea.
On the whole though, that skeptical millennial asking about Clinton's background as "a politician" (the horror!) probably made it easier for Clinton to begin to dismiss the so-called trust questions.
In fact, the gun rights advocates had had plenty of skeptical responses to Couric's question about background checks.
I had just moved to the United States, and once again I was skeptical about writing because of my Indian background.
I'm doubly skeptical in this case given Wheeler's background: Occam's Razor tells you President Obama appointed a telecom insider who lobbied for the industry to do that industry's bidding.
