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I personally think that he was just looking for a legitimate excuse for Gilla to throw her arms round him … but that could be me being sceptical, I suppose!
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It says a lot that Berndt waits for me to orientate myself – he is noticeably less sceptical of my abilities than he was last time!
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He remained sceptical, I ended another call in Gujarati and his face
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‘Did they, sir?’ the Sergeant asked, his tone openly sceptical
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officials looked sceptical, knowing the Cure and his
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Zarko remained sceptical about some of these legends, as they just seemed too farfetched
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We raised a sceptical eyebrow at this information thinking which genius on the staff had thought this one up
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And Khan’s singer, I was sceptical at first, but it’s a nice touch that you decided to keep her
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He then went back and studied his face, almost sceptical
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Raven looked at him with raised eyebrows, sceptical
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On this subject we also had sceptical views on homosexuals as a security risk and then realised that the only reason why they were a security risk was because of the social stigma attached to it making them vulnerable to blackmail
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Soffen accepted Brock's vision without hesitation, convinced that the events foretold would happen, but Grey remained sceptical, finding such a catastrophe impossible to accept, especially as there were no hard facts
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Mason had been sceptical at first, but all the whispers he’d tracked down regarding the enterprise had convinced him about the authenticity of their claims
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“Like the movie”, I was sceptical
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and sceptical Westerner who denies the very possibility of
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Halfdan was sceptical but said nothing
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BISHOP HIGBOLD: If I had never heard of similar cases, in France and Sicily, perhaps I would be more sceptical
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succeeded, because, as sceptical as they were, they’d felt confident
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” All at once, Mitra’s voice had lost its sceptical edge,
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We crowded around the mainmast with sceptical looks
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was sceptical but nothing the hospital had done for him had helped and there were (and are)
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The officers were sceptical at this logic
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highly sceptical of her account
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I approached Jan with the proposal, but he was sceptical about it
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„And how would you suggest we immobilise the lion, once we"ve bearded him?" Rory was sceptical
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In tracksuit and trainers, Zeno nervously welcomed Jarek and the minibus with its cargo of ten sceptical fourteen year-olds, and led them with their holdalls to the covered eating area
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because they are sceptical and judgemental, they have
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"Just like that?" Travis sounded sceptical
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Some of the world's greatest maritime explorers have scoured the hundreds of islands, reefs, sand bars, channels, coves and indeed, much of the continental shelf, searching for that wretched treasure ship," she said with a thin, sceptical smile, as if the searchers' antics amused her
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Curran was highly sceptical
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Golyakov, still nursing a wounded pride, was openly sceptical of such information
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Donna was sceptical; a slight grin turned up the corners of her mouth
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I’m a bit sceptical, but I thought; what the hell, right?”
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“Mr Jay you need have no fear of the drug not working, a chemist friend of mine who concocted it assured me it was instantaneous, being sceptical I shot him with the first dart, he had time only to look at the dart in his leg before collapsing in a heap, I made him comfortable and read a newspaper while I timed his slumber, four and a half hours later he began to stir, half an hour after that he was sitting up, disorientated but non the worse for his snooze, his first words I remember were, “ You shot me you bastard
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'A prediction?' The voice of the UPS was inordinately sceptical
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Mr Huntley, who was sceptical as to their status and reasons for questioning him
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way and I was sceptical about this claim
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Both of them wanted to prove themselves to a sceptical
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them to prove themselves to a sceptical universe
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offence intended to you, would have been extremely sceptical about sharing
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Gopal was initially a little sceptical about my motorbike, which had a lot to do with all the gaffer tape and tie-wraps that were holding it together
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on occasion for education completely sceptical and closed to the constructive cryptal
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But if, as we believe, the resurrection of Christ is an undeniable fact which cannot be disproved, the whole fabric of sceptical arguments against supernatural religion is undermined, and must fall to the ground
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Where, indeed, could the Apostle have turned for peace of heart, for satisfaction of conscience, for hope in a world to come, if he had gone away from the synagogue of Capernaum with the deserters, and left Christ 1854 years ago! Would he have found what he wanted among the formal Pharisees, or the sceptical Sadducees, or the worldly Herodians, or the ascetic Essenes, or the philosophical schools of Athens, Alexandria, or Rome? Would Gamaliel, or Caiaphas, or Stoics, or Epicureans, or Platonists, have quenched his spiritual thirst, or fed his soul? It is waste of time to ask such questions
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He needs to be very careful indeed before foisting a Chinese plane on a sceptical European market
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Sceptical readers will come to the obvious conclusion about who wins as a result of this retailers’ tactic because the rebate, or a goodly portion of it, almost certainly ends up on the bottom line of the retailers’ P&L
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But whatever the cause, the result is that Western politicians who have for so long been sceptical about the official Iranian line that their nuclear development programme is entirely peaceable, and who firmly believe that Iranian support of the Assad regime is the pivotal reason that the regime survives, now appear to be prepared to take more seriously President Rouhani’s platitudes on these issues (you can read a transcript of his speech here )
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As impressive a display of Blok's talent as the vortex was, many of the dishwashers were still sceptical he could succeed
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How then can I be envious? Of course if Joey knew what I am writing he would thrust an incredulous tongue in his cheek, wink a sceptical eye, and mutter some eternal truth about grapes; but I, on the other hand, would watch him doing it with the perfect calm of him who sticks unshakably to his point
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“Is that a fact?” came Caesar's sceptical voice
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“I was sceptical at first, but my search on the Internet last night revealed that there were
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It did not take long to convince us, nor would it have failed to convince the most sceptical, that both had come from the same source and the same writer
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Miss Entwhistle found herself in the position she had tried so hard to avoid, that of defending and explaining Wemyss to a highly sceptical, antagonistic audience
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So I was more than a little sceptical about what Mr Tony Lawrence MP might have to give
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telling a sceptical Athithigva, who had opposed this
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“Forgive me, my lord, if I’m sceptical, but you have been away for ten thousand years
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Soon, just by surface-mining, Carmack was producing $1400 of gold a month; but still many were sceptical about the Klondike
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“How does that prove anything?” asked Elsa, her voice sceptical
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Some hunters are rather sceptical about these stories of trick shots
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Bearing this latter figure in mind, I'm always sceptical when I hear of bears weighing 660lbs
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“If we were to retrieve this Stone, what should we do with It?” Hallen asked, sceptical
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Because although Thomas personally knew Jesus before His death, Thomas was as sceptical as any person would have been, and did not believe with unfettered faith in the risen Christ, without first having to see with his own eyes, the evidence of Christ’s wounds (John 20:26-28)
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Many of us perhaps can strongly relate to Saul and Thomas’s sceptical spiritual/intellectual dilemma regarding the need for concrete evidence before allowing one’s self to believe in the possibility of a mighty and wondrous miracle, such as the resurrection of the Christ
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“Elfi’s your sceptical scientist
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I must admit I was sceptical about the medium’s claims that she could contact the dead, but she had a large bottom and gave me coffee with some very nice cake so I was persuaded to give her a chance
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I was highly sceptical, but decided to try (Note: You need
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It is easy to understand that two parties, one sacerdotal, aristocratic, sceptical, the other popular and devout, would react upon the mass of each other's opinions, and render compromise or modification impossible
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Fear not, he replied, for your audience will not be hard upon you; they are not sceptical or hostile
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Marraud had always been sceptical, and after what he had just observed, was even more so
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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day
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Merthin was quietly sceptical about the clergy
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He personally, being of a sceptical bias, believed and didn't make the smallest bones about saying so either that man or men in the plural were always hanging around on the waiting list about a lady, even supposing she was the best wife in the world and they got on fairly well together for the sake of argument, when, neglecting her duties, she chose to be tired of wedded life and was on for a little flutter in polite debauchery to press their attentions on her with improper intent, the upshot being that her affections centred on another, the cause of many liaisons between still attractive married women getting on for fair and forty and younger men, no doubt as several famous cases of feminine infatuation proved up to the hilt
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was sceptical, but willing to listen
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But Mair was right: even as a child, Caris had asked sceptical questions
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She had always been sceptical of religious observance
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Caris was the best person to run the nunnery, even though she was sceptical of lives spent in prayer and hymn-singing
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” Seeing his sceptical look, she added: “Sister Oonagh said I could
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“Without a doubt, and I don’t even need to tell you that I was sceptical at first
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At first they all suspected their computers had been hacked, but I was sceptical from the start – I knew how sophisticated Frans’ encryption was
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The police had by now been alerted, but he doubted they would able to assemble a unit quickly enough – especially as they were sceptical about the lack of information
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He listened with a sceptical smile on his gaunt face, and roared with laughter on hearing that the Professor had convinced me
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("No, no," from a sceptical student in the back row
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His sadness was the sadness of a sceptical mind
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In temper he is naturally acid and sceptical
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How I wish I could reproduce the glamour of his discourses, the peculiar mixture of accurate knowledge and of racy imagination which gave them their fascination, until even the Professor's cynical and sceptical smile would gradually vanish from his thin face as he listened
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Challenger struts about like a prize peacock, and Summerlee is silent, but still sceptical
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' 'Mere conventional symbols, Mr Ryder, and this is an age rightly sceptical of
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Costume, at a glance, gave him a thrilling association with horses (enough to specify the hat-brim which took the slightest upward angle just to escape the suspicion of bending downwards), and nature had given him a face which by dint of Mongolian eyes, and a nose, mouth, and chin seeming to follow his hat-brim in a moderate inclination upwards, gave the effect of a subdued unchangeable sceptical smile, of all expressions the most tyrannous overa susceptible mind, and, when accompanied by adequate silence, likely to create the reputation of an invincible understanding, an infinite fund of humor—too dry to flow, and probably in a state of immovable crust,—and a critical judgment which, if you could ever be fortunate enough to know it, would be the thing and no other
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Horrock, at a question from Fred about his horse's fetlock, turned sideways in his saddle, and watched the horse's action for the space of three minutes, then turned forward, twitched his own bridle, and remained silent with a profile neither more nor less sceptical than it had been
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sceptical lawyer, the least complying of usurers, always hesitate to admit decrepitude of heart or the corruption of worldly calculation while the eyes are still bathed in purity and no wrinkles seam the brow
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By dint of jostling with men, travelling through many lands, and studying a variety of conflicting customs, his ideas had been modified and had become sceptical
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We are sceptical of the ability of any paid agency to provide reliable forecasts of the market action of either bonds or stocks
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When the bonds were created in 1931 the investing public was either sceptical of the validity of the lease or—more probably—was not familiar with this situation, for American Tobacco Preferred sold at a much higher relative price than the Tobacco Products bonds
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Here again a sceptical attitude on the part of the analyst is “amply” warranted
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But it is essential that the public recognize that the Commission’s powers in this respect are severely limited and that only a sceptical analysis by the intending buyer can assure him against exploitation