He considered their responses to life's main challenges to be profound, sophisticated, and comprehensible, and he was generally skeptical of notions of progress in moral awareness.
Experience had made them skeptical of government notions of opportunity and the longevity of public concern, so they were placing their bets on an immediate redistribution of wealth.
Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel), he said, is "skeptical of such notions and refuses to promise commitment or even consistency, but she does seem to want more and more of Tom's company, and this leads him to believe that her carefully maintained barriers to intimacy are beginning to fall".
Summer is skeptical of such notions and refuses to promise commitment or even consistency, but she does seem to want more and more of Tom's company, and this leads him to believe that her carefully maintained barriers to intimacy are beginning to fall.
Some scholars have been skeptical of the notion of world opinion, arguing that it lacks methodological rigour.
I am skeptical of that notion, because I believe in electoral fundamentals and not airhead pundit notions, and the fact that "Obama probably wants a shutdown" is clearly becoming the hot notion at all the Beltway cocktail parties makes me turn against the notion even more.
He's skeptical of the notion that subpoenas to journalists necessarily have a chilling effect on sources.
So why is it that people are often skeptical of the notion that passion and career should be integrally linked?
Most astronomers are also quite skeptical of the notion that life could be efficiently transfered from one solar system to another.
The Daily Princetonian project has led some Mudd enthusiasts to look for a future when all collections are available online, but Linke is skeptical of that notion.
The state polls are more newsworthy, I suppose, if you had been skeptical about the notion that Mr. Obama had gotten a bounce, and needed further confirmation.
