incredulity

Preposition: towards

• metanarratives: What postmodernism supremely represents, according to Jean-Francois Lyotard, is an incredulity toward all metanarratives.

Converse of object

• express: Almost without fail, they have expressed incredulity at our prime minister's position.
• mount: After a few minutes I heard ( with mounting incredulity ) a recorded message saying, " This is the message center.
• provoke: The IRA then provoked incredulity around the world by offering to shoot McCartney's killers: the family turned them down.
• show: It amazes me when artists show incredulity when their labels drop them.
• feign: Hume: Again, Hovind feigns incredulity that complex systems can evolve, ignoring the point that systems are parts of organisms.

Adjective modifier

• ordinary: Thus, ordinary incredulity, say about some feature of the world, occurs against a background of sequestered beliefs about the world.
• complete: However, Anne Campbell Mcinnes soon found that the idea of so early a map appearing after centuries of obscurity provoked complete incredulity.
• personal: It is what Dawkins calls the " argument from personal incredulity " .
• such: But such incredulity, states Paley, would not be defended by any skeptic in the world.
• utter: It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw a doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.
• widespread: But McCormack's claim that nobody at St. Martin's was aware of Irving's reputation prompted widespread incredulity.