Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.
It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature. . . but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.
Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life
What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.
Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.
My suspension was a long-planned move. . . and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.
I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.
The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer found having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. HaHa! Jokes on you dummies. . . I'm not really a lawyer!
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.
By skepticism. . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away. . . Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are necessarily directly in contradiction, because mercy is a suspension of justice.
It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.
Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people. This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.
