His works of faith are also works of doubt, as in "Cassandra's Dream" (where, every time the word "family" is spoken, the mechanism of destruction is tightened by one more turn).
That novel, in thinking about race, constantly works the fissure of doubt between what is seen and what is felt; style and form are always crucial and always wrong.
Environmental advocates contend that the climate debate is manufactured with motivation from fossil fuel industry players -- a longstanding strategy detailed in works like "Merchants of Doubt".
For Christian missionaries, medical advances in the 19th century made material healing an important adjunct to the spiritual work of evangelists; no doubt, tangible improvements in the material condition of the people also assisted the spiritual "healing" required in the conversion of the heathen; and the importance of the human often took precedence over a theoretical religious "mission".
Unlike Cosby's extramarital affairs, these alleged assaults can't easily be integrated into a consideration of his work: no doubt many of his fans will find it easier to put the claims out of mind or, especially if more information emerges, to put Cosby out of mind instead.
At the Huffington Post, David Finkle, who praises it as "possibly Philip Roth's saddest work of art," nonetheless doubts that it has "any larger implication".
She started volunteering three years ago, when she was going through a period of doubt, working as an assistant at Theater for a New Audience and directing "little things here and there and wondering if it meant anything to anyone but me," she said.
Working from a place of doubt and anxiety can cause you to take no action at all.
To Scotto, it seemed that the E.P.A. was carelessly throwing a lifetime's worth of work into doubt.
"Photography is fun when you challenge yourself, work with a little bit of doubt and not be sure how things are going to turn out," he said.
