That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.
The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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