Sentence examples for slightly disbelieving from inspiring English sources

Through the years Mr. Everett has applied his scratchy, blown-out voice to a full spectrum of sorrows, desperation, alienated insight and slightly disbelieving hope.

Newkirk retained the aloof, slightly disbelieving air of a Victorian schoolmaster, while Witt seemed almost to revel in the torrent of vitriol, his "thank you" to each petitioner sounding more and more sarcastic with every repetition.

All night long, e-mails poured in from friends in France, full not of the kind of triumphalism that was the mark of the left's victory in 1981 but rather of cautious, slightly disbelieving pleasure — mixed, to be sure, with a delight not entirely free from malice at the fall of Sarkozy.

By Adam Gopnik May 7 , 2012All night long, e-mails poured in from friends in France, full not of the kind of triumphalism that was the mark of the left's victory in 1981 but rather of cautious, slightly disbelieving pleasure — mixed, to be sure, with a delight not entirely free from malice at the fall of Sarkozy.

I remember waking up that Monday morning, a bit hungover and slightly disbelieving of what had happened.

Stretched out before our slightly disbelieving eyes was the seven-mile-wide chasm that marks the top of the dormant volcano, dotted erratically with cinder cones and wide, barren lavascapes.

She ran, crisscrossing, disbelieving.

I must look disbelieving.

Virginians are less disbelieving.

Afterwards he appeared disbelieving.

They were stunned, disbelieving".