Credulity in a sentence

He only goes so far as to acknowledge that the film stretches credulity, a statement that stretched my own credulity.

But the reasons for Worf's appearances in those movies, and his importance to the stories, eventually began to strain credulity.

On Hunter, the “Democracy dies in darkness” crew displayed only willful credulity — at least until they “authenticated” the documents more than a year later, after the suppression ploy had worked.

That Prescott was again thrown into the Ghostface fray in strains credulity to painful extremes.

The alternative to today’s self-propelling spiral into conflict is not credulity toward Chinese leaders’ fine words about harmony and cooperation.

To put it mildly, this story strains credulity.

Where “Ove” portrayed its protagonist as socially inept from childhood, the young version of Otto is a charmer so distant from the irritable old man he becomes that it strains credulity.

Can Putin's Russian authorities be relied upon, given any credulity/credibility to report the truth for the sake of the families of the deceased, even a whiff of plausibility?

That Narendra Modi talked up the market, an allegation made by his bête noire Rahul Gandhi, so that he and his crony capitalist friends would make money out of the gullible retail investors stretches credulity.

Earlier, the President responded with optimism that strained credulity when a desperate restaurant CEO pleaded for an extension of loans designed to keep their industry afloat.

For U.S. officials, past and present, to be professing concern for the stewardship of the Iranian people’s public funds strains credulity.

His have a tendency to show him thick as a brick, stretching credulity like taffy.

On its face, that strains credulity.

But the series perhaps would have been better off avoiding this altogether, since its presentation of Rebecca's talent strains credulity.

It also stretches credulity that technology firms, from Facebook to Pinterest and Google, cannot put proper age controls on their sites to ensure no children under the age of 13 can access them.

Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet.

In the era of Trump, the bar for credulity has disappeared, at least for his backers.

Their reasoning is quite similar, as is their credulity.

You have to admit that this story doesn’t strain credulity.

He seemed to strain credulity because he posited a regime that would go to any lengths to own and possess history, to rewrite and construct it, and to inculcate it by means of coercion.