Sentence examples for sometimes believed from inspiring English sources

She popularized the sexually charged black dance the shimmy (it was sometimes believed she had invented it).

Rich or powerful people are sometimes believed to be witches or to have paid witches to bring them success, to protect them and to harm their rivals.This can be disconcerting for modern westerners.

With men, I sometimes believed that I was good company, a loyal friend, a benign influence, but I never thought that I was doing them any favors by sleeping with them.

"[N]either are the poor as poor as conventional statistics make out, nor the relatively rich quite as well off as is sometimes believed," says the ICP study.That may also be true within countries.

It was sometimes believed, however, that he accidentally found excellence while seeking mere novelty; the poet Ezra Pound remarked (in Guide to Kulchur [1938]) that "Lorimer honestly didn't know that there ever had been a civilization".

Kennedy loved the mornings she spent listening to her mother recount her dreams, which she sometimes believed were true, and she loved, too, the wildness of Emily Brontë's prose and her story of unquenchable love.

Even the most sophisticated believers sometimes believe that the saints enjoyed a stress-free spiritual life — suffering little personal doubt.

Sometimes, believe it or not, work can be fun.

And sometimes, believe it or not, leaving it alone is the best option".

Audiences sometimes believe I am actually a man with a high voice.

Abelardo Morell writes that he sometimes believes "books hold all the material of life".