disbelief

They get to dispell some of the mystery and disbelief at Google's efficiency claims.

For these schemes to be legal requires a suspension of disbelief - for example, Starbucks doesn't make any profit in the UK[1].

I think this last point is worth emphasising: I don't think we innately are capable of a suspension of disbelief for film.

These background assumptions aren’t true, of course, but just part of the ambient lore of joke-telling, in which we suspend our disbelief in magic and so forth.

It was before my time, but I remember the feeling I had as a child when I first heard about it - not amazement or disbelief, something closer to "oh yeah, that makes sense".

I was born in Canada as it clearly states on my US passport, and he asked me where I was born, then looked at my companion with a sneer on his face as though to show his disbelief.

I care more if an engineer can quickly grasp the "big ideas": Maybe they don't know about threads, but do they express disbelief that they solve a real problem, or an unwillingness to explore them?

All magic requires misdirection, sure, but the audience is usually in a frame of mind that's willing to suspend disbelief for a moment long enough for the magician to exploit it.

It is this same sort of short-sightedness with regards to morals vs profits that caused Alan Greenspan to famously state: "Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity myself especially are in a state of shocked disbelief.