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distrustful
1. Hop on,” he said as he led the way towards the blimp, while I kept pace by his side, having given up on my distrustful instincts and eagerly embraced the philosophy best summed up in the phrase ‘I got nothing to lose’
2. Feeling her slightly distrustful of him, almost wary, the jester made an effort to lighten the palpable uneasiness between them and said with a wide grin:
3. The children have normal feelings of attachment for each other, but remain withdrawn and distrustful in spite of the love and protection they have received from their caretakers for several of your weeks
4. distrustful, that it was essentially amiss, then whatever was
5. ’ He nodded happily as he considered other possibilities, unaware of suspicious glances between the Mages who were becoming increasingly distrustful of these strange young men
6. 13 Pointing out each of the twenty-four and calling them by name, Jesus said: "And now, which one of you would prefer to take this easy path of conformity to an established and fossilized religion, as defended by the Pharisees at Jerusalem, rather than to suffer the difficulties and persecutions attendant upon the mission of proclaiming a better way of salvation to men while you realize the satisfaction of discovering for yourselves the beauties of the realities of a living and personal experience in the eternal truths and supreme grandeurs of the kingdom of heaven? Are you fearful, soft, and ease-seeking? Are you afraid to trust your future in the hands of the God of truth, whose sons you are? Are you distrustful of the Father, whose children you are? Will you go back to the easy path of the certainty and intellectual settledness of the religion of traditional authority, or will you gird yourselves to go forward with me into that uncertain and troublous future of proclaiming the new truths of the religion of the spirit, the kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men?"
7. He met the Mayor’s distrustful gaze without blinking
8. ‘Is it true, Sir Stanley, the speculation we’ve heard in the popular press, which suggested that Sir Richard was a rather prickly, distrustful, unpleasant personality? That he had a habit of 27
9. Why do you think our government has been so distrustful of Iraq to gain power of nuclear weapons? Why were we distrustful of Nazi Germany gaining that power? These countries have not been trusted with that responsibility
10. situation that he had been so distrustful of the Internet dating scene
11. He was distrustful
12. Knowing that she was distrustful made him suspicious that she could try to do something to prevent them from leaving here alive
13. Be distrustful of your own opinion, when you find it contrary to that of older men than yourselves, and specially to that of your own parents
14. During the past life, she had been distrustful of Nicole and had warned Henri about her
15. But it was an amiable view, and Herr Dremmel was extremely polite and was bent evidently on peace, and the Baron, recognising this, became less distrustful
16. He was startled by the distrustful look in that fierce face
17. He could not help but wonder what dreadfulness she had experienced to make her so distrustful of him
18. But they were distrustful of the bait
19. Yet, the original upsurge of dissonance could have been a sufficient clue that the distrustful
20. Rancor was staring at them too, his eyes distrustful and unhappy at their close proximity and apparent leisurely behaviour
21. When the level of Self-Consciousnesses of scientists and the principles of researches conducted by them change to the extent that their truer Conceptions will naturally change the very “materiality” of the outer Reality and will make it possible to find at least some other “Fields” of non-photon origin that function on the basis of properties of other elementary particles; when it will be possible to clearly identify these “Fields” with our Thoughts and Feelings; when such terms as “matter” and “antimatter”, “gravitation” and “antigravitation” will be known even to schoolchildren of any primary school, then the most stubborn and distrustful scientists will finally understand that these “Fields” have their own levels of Self-Consciousness, and then they will start to call them not simply fields, but the way they must be called — Fields-Consciousnesses
22. Profit teaches and trains people to be distrustful of others
23. For humans to ever attain true balance, true peace, true happiness: they must act as one species: in complete accord with each other… not as splintered groups of competing, distrustful, fearful, hating, killing apes
24. I saw Don Gaspar, I told him the danger he was in if he let it be seen he was a man, I dressed him as a Moorish woman, and that same afternoon I brought him before the king, who was charmed when he saw him, and resolved to keep the damsel and make a present of her to the Grand Signor; and to avoid the risk she might run among the women of his seraglio, and distrustful of himself, he commanded her to be placed in the house of some Moorish ladies of rank who would protect and attend to her; and thither he was taken at once
25. Although master of himself, Monte Cristo, scrutinized with irrepressible curiosity the magistrate whose salute he returned, and who, distrustful by habit, and especially incredulous as to social prodigies, was much more despised to look upon "the noble stranger," as Monte Cristo was already called, as an adventurer in search of new fields, or an escaped criminal, rather than as a prince of the Holy See, or a sultan of the Thousand and One Nights
26. he had been habitually and severely beaten as a boy on one of these feluccas by a short-necked, shaven Genoese, with a deliberate and distrustful manner, who (he firmly believed) had cheated him out of his orphan's inheritance
27. He obtained it without much difficulty, for a large amount of painful experience had not sufficed to make Caleb Garth cautious about his own affairs, or distrustful of his fellow-men when they had not proved themselves untrustworthy; and he had the highest opinion of Fred, was "sure the lad would turn out well—an open affectionate fellow, with a good bottom to his character—you might trust him for anything
28. afraid of them, and distrustful of those that had dealings with them; and
29. As a result, they also tend to be distrustful of consensus and groupthink, and most traders find that fading (going against) moves comes more naturally than following the trend
30. I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard
31. But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad; how that they being the principal proprietors of the Pequod, therefore the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners, left nearly the whole management of the ship's affairs to these two
32. "Captain Ahab," said the reddening mate, moving further into the cabin, with a daring so strangely respectful and cautious that it almost seemed not only every way seeking to avoid the slightest outward manifestation of itself, but within also seemed more than half distrustful of itself; "A better man than I might well pass over in thee what he would quickly enough resent in a younger man; aye, and in a happier, Captain Ahab
33. From the very beginning he was distrustful with you, and you could not see him as he is, but with me, even at Luga
34. “The devil only knows, what if he deceives us?” thought Miüsov, still hesitating, and watching the retreating buffoon with distrustful eyes
35. ’ He looked out of the window at me, half believing and half distrustful, but afraid to open
36. In spite of her haughtiness, she attempted with smiles and humiliation to enter into conversation with some ladies, but they were confused, confined themselves to distrustful monosyllables, "Yes" and "No," and evidently avoided her
37. But Semyon Ivanovitch would not feel this: on the contrary he muttered something between his teeth with the most distrustful air, and suddenly began glancing askance from right to left in a hostile way, as though he would have reduced his sympathetic friends to ashes with his eyes
38. “They can still be called back,” said one of his suite, who like Count Orlóv felt distrustful of the adventure when he looked at the enemy’s camp
39. Moreover, people addicted to love of such a self-sacrificing order are invariably proud of their love, exacting, jealous, distrustful, and—strange to tell—anxious that the object of their adoration should incur perils (so that they may save it from calamity, and console it thereafter) and even be vicious (so that they may purge it of its vice)
40. From the very beginning of the conversation, the two warm friends, it need scarcely be said, were mutually distrustful
41. When we see men so distrustful, we shun them
