Use "scepticism" in a sentence

1. ’ She replied, scepticism fighting with humour in her voice

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2. 'But what if it doesn't run?' Ish asked with scepticism

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3. Nevertheless, I said nothing of my scepticism to Alexis who seemed well pleased with my scrutiny so I thanked him for allowing me to see the home of this terrible legend

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4. imperative that he hide his scepticism

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5. tensions a little, but I could still see a healthy scepticism

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6. ‘I see,’ said Dr Rengil in a slow way which may have indicated scepticism

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7. ‘I can understand your scepticism, even in the face of the evidence

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8. Firstly, an understandable scepticism

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9. “In here?” He raised his eyebrows with scepticism

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10. ‘God, is that really you?’ he wondered, not totally divested of his scepticism

11. No one will thank us for our sacrifices, and we will always be looked at with scepticism if not outright hate

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12. As alluded to earlier, in our Western culture, the ideas of rebirth and other realms of existence may be regarded with scepticism and perhaps treated with derision

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13. to judge them with the greatest of scepticism

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14. I listened with a strong dose of scepticism as she told me that Amanda would be

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15. But the desire to finish off the scepticism about Aakash was so intense that Rakesh started his journey to Aakash’s home on foot

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16. ―I would think Defence would be interested in entertaining a level of healthy scepticism

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17. Travis smiled at her scepticism

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18. This was no time for scepticism or bitter memories

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19. For most of our time we had known rejection and the unflinching arms of acceptance and love the calling embraced us with where suitably a subject of such doubt and scepticism

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20. That the Snoopgate ‘revelations’ were met with some scepticism perhaps reflected the credibility crisis afflicting the ruling UPA government

21. �It is the city which is the hotbed of every kind of false philosophy, of Stoicism, Epicureanism, Agnosticism, Secularism, Scepticism, Positivism, Infidelity, and Atheism

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22. And if such subjects are ever brought up in their company, they brush them away with some satirical remark, or some oft-repeated old smart saying of scepticism

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23. For it is an age of free thought and liberty of action, an age of scientific inquiry, and determination to question and cress-examine ancient opinions, an age of greedy pursuit of pleasure and impatience of restraint, an age of idolatry of intellect, and extravagant admiration of so-called cleverness, an age of Athenian craving for novelty and constant love of change, an age when we see on all sides a bold but ever shifting scepticism, which at one time tells us that man is little better than an ape, and at another that he is little less than a god, an age when there is a morbid readiness to accept the shallowest arguments in favour of unbelief, and a simultaneous lazy unwillingness to investigate the great fundamental evidences of Divine revelation

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24. Modi, for example, will always be seen by his critics with a measure of scepticism

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25. Jim understood her scepticism

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26. the whole chain, there has been some vague scepticism about

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27. “Where are the goods you promised?” His voice now dropped, replaced by scepticism as he noted the lack of change within the group

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28. 'You know, at the beginning of the case, I dug back into her family history –- oh, not because I suspected her then,' Rafferty admitted when he sensed Llewellyn's scepticism, 'but because I was interested

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29. They arrived with their pockets full of crumpled newspapers, and answered my queries casually, with gentle smiles of scepticism as to the reality of my interest

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30. "I'm sure!" she exclaimed, sniffing with mock scepticism

31. For ages physicians have been under the dominion of prejudices which have only recently given way; and now there are as many opinions in medicine as in theology, and an equal degree of scepticism and some want of toleration about both

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32. He was pretending scepticism, but in fact this was promising

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33. Given how dangerous it was to criticize religion in any way, she might well have concealed the true depth of her scepticism even from him

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34. He could tell that even the builders in the room agreed with Elfric ’s scepticism

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35. Joan was a bright girl who reminded Caris of herself ten years ago – not in appearance, for she was black-haired and blue-eyed, but in her questioning mind and brisk scepticism

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36. The church hierarchy approved because the wave of piety associated with Mary counterbalanced the scepticism and heresy that had afflicted congregations since the plague

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37. “He’ s a sound conservative, which is important to the church hierarchy in these times of scepticism and

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38. He was very far from thinking Antonia ordinary, whatever verdict his scepticism might have pronounced upon himself

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39. Those two men got on well together, as if each had felt respectively that a masterful conviction, as well as utter scepticism, may lead a man very far on the by-paths of political action

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40. "I recognized something impassive and careless in its tone, characteristic of that Genoese sailor who, like me, has come casually here to be drawn into the events for which his scepticism as well as mine seems to entertain a sort of passive contempt

41. Even his passionate devotion to Antonia into which he had worked himself up out of the depths of his scepticism had lost all appearance of reality

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42. Decoud, incorrigible in his scepticism, reflected, not cynically, but with general satisfaction, that this man was made incorruptible by his enormous vanity, that finest form of egoism which can take on the aspect of every virtue

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43. You know, one of those uncouth new people one’s so often coming across nowadays, One of those free-thinkers you know, who are reared d’emblee in theories of atheism, scepticism, and materialism

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44. He was too severely practical and too idealistic to look upon its terrible humours with amusement, as Martin Decoud, the imaginative materialist, was able to do in the dry light of his scepticism

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45. The popular mind is incapable of scepticism; and that incapacity delivers their helpless

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46. Solitude from mere outward condition of existence becomes very swiftly a state of soul in which the affectations of irony and scepticism have no place

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47. The dusk of purple and red enveloped him, too—close, soft, profound, as no more than fifty yards from that spot it had gathered evening after evening about the self-destructive passion of Don Martin Decoud's utter scepticism, flaming up to death in solitude

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48. I have no doubt that you feel the same way yourself, and that you would not care to stake the whole credit of the Gazette upon this adventure until we can meet the chorus of criticism and scepticism which such articles must of necessity elicit

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49. "Rosy!" cried Fred, in a tone of profound brotherly scepticism

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50. scepticism about Rosy, listened to her music with perfect allegiance, wishing he could do the same thing on his flute

51. But scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill: something we must believe in and do, and whatever that something may be called, it is virtually our own judgment, even when it seems like the most slavish reliance on another

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52. Why should he have got into any argument about the validity of these orders? It was only the common trick of desire—which avails itself of any irrelevant scepticism, finding larger room for itself in all uncertainty about effects, in every obscurity that looks like the absence of law

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53. All advice should be treated with scepticism – even this one

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54. Scepticism should extend to financial advisers

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55. If so, is it appropriate to call such purchases by the name of “investment”? Our answer is “yes,” provided that two factors are present: the first, already mentioned, that the elements affecting the future are examined with real care and a wholesome scepticism, rather than accepted quickly via some easy generalization; the second, that the price paid be not substantially different from what a prudent business man would be willing to pay for a similar opportunity presented to him to invest in a private undertaking over which he could exercise control

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56. Such a ceremonious endorsement of a low dividend rate would probably and properly dispel the stock market’s scepticism on this point and permit the price to reflect the earnings that are accumulating as well as those which were paid out

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57. In view of the scepticism that we have expressed as to whether or not stockholders are really benefited by dividend-withholding policies, we may be thought sympathetic to the idea of preventing reinvestment of profits by imposing penalty taxes thereon

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58. As impressive as the performance outlined at the end of the previous chapter is, you should treat it with a degree of scepticism

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59. Scepticism, that caries of the intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea

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60. I was so hurt by her coldness and scepticism, that the

61. As a result, my initial fears, scepticism and misconceptions are overcome

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62. His frontispiece, boats attacking Sperm Whales, though no doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlor men, is admirably correct and life-like in its general effect

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63. There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause:—through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If

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64. He even had attacks of scepticism

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65. His inveterate scepticism made him very prudent in his relations with everybody about him, and in conducting these he gave proof of remarkable tact and skill

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66. You laugh? You do not believe in the devil? Scepticism as to the devil is a French idea, and it is also a frivolous idea

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67. But all at once, à propos of nothing, there would come a phase of scepticism and indifference (everything happened in phases to me), and I would laugh myself at my intolerance and fastidiousness, I would reproach myself with being romantic

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68. When we ask a Catholic, or Protestant, or Orthodox believer why he leads an existence contrary to the doctrine of Jesus, instead of making a direct response he begins to speak of the melancholy state of scepticism characteristic of this generation, of evil-minded persons who spread doubt broadcast among the masses, of the importance of the future of the existing Church

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69. If you are nearer to scepticism than to belief, you will, in following the doctrine of Jesus, govern your actions by the laws of reason, for the commandments of Jesus make manifest their own meaning, and their own justification

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