Sentence examples for without really believing from inspiring English sources

It's also possible that he was mouthing the words of the extreme right without really believing them.

Whiplash was a film that I thoroughly enjoyed – though without really believing in it for a moment.

It was as though my mother were acting the part of being the wife of a rich man without really believing in the role... Another thing that added to the confusion was my father's prominence as a philanthropist.

But they sometimes disconcerted the cardinal's conservative allies, while his liberal critics often ignored them altogether or welcomed them without really believing that they gave a true measure of the man.

And of course you do — Ms. Thurman is impossible to dislike — but without really believing in that life or feeling as if you've learned anything about what is really at stake.

It was as though my mother were acting the part of being the wife of a rich man without really believing in the role... Another thing that added to the confusion was my father's prominence as a philanthropist..

Ruiz Zafón toys with ambiguity without, it seems, really believing in it.

But to believe in something without questioning and searching for truth is not really believing in much at all.

If discussions in meetings are open and probing where people say what they really believe without fear, they are more successful and they may even become profound (5).

If we want to live in open and liberal societies, we need to have safe spaces where we can experiment with new thoughts, new ideas, and [where] we can discover what it is we really think and what we really believe in without being judged.

Without that, it's hard to really believe in the pretty illusions above.