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	Suspension of disbelief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Suspension of disbelief is a willingness in the reader or viewer to suspend their critical faculties in order to "go along for the ride." The phrase was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (pub.
		Suspension of disbelief is an essential component in live theatre.
		The term 'Suspension of disbelief' was originally coined by the romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (1817):
	www.jahsonic.com /SoD.html (221 words)

	Suspension of disbelief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suspension of disbelief refers primarily to the willingness of a reader or viewer to accept the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or impossible.
		Suspension of disbelief is also essential for the enjoyment of many movies and TV shows involving complex stunts and special effects.
		One of the most-well known examples of suspension of disbelief is the acceptance that the iconic superhero, Superman, hides his identity from the world by simply donning a pair of glasses, wearing conservative clothing, and acting in a "mild mannered" fashion, which contrasts with the large and in-charge personality of Superman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief (1507 words)

	Suspension of Disbelief
		This is a semi-conscious decision in which you put aside your disbelief and accept the premise as being real for the duration of the story.
		Suspension of disbelief only works to a point.
		It is harder to suspend disbelief in movies where the special effects appear fake.
	www.mediacollege.com /glossary/s/suspension-of-disbelief.html (431 words)

	Film Appreciation - Willing Suspension of Disbelief
		Willing suspension of disbelief is to a great film like icing is to cake, you can have a movie without it, but it just won't taste as good.
		Willing suspension of disbelief is, in its simplest form, the ability to make an audience forget that it is only a movie.
		Conversely, if you find yourself checking your watch repeatedly, wondering how it was you were convinced to shuck out the bucks to watch this turkey, or simply contemplating any of a zillion other examples of life's little mysteries, you know the film has not pulled off willing suspension of disbelief.
	www.twyman-whitney.com /film/lecture/disbelief.html (202 words)

	The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
		John and Ken examine the role of suspension of disbelief in the enjoyment of theatre, movies, video games, and what this trait reveals about the human mind in general.
		The willing suspension of disbelief is an intermediate state where one puts on hold the belief that the situation is not real, but will pull back when his/her emotions are about to go too far.
		Coleridge says that it is not that people cannot tell the difference, but that the suspension of disbelief is enough to induce the emotional result.
	www.philosophytalk.org /WillingSuspensionofDisbelief.htm (532 words)

	Suspension of Disbelief - Chamber of Secrets
		Suspension of Disbelief is one of the many rules and statements of English Literature and some other types and languages of literature.
		Well a good example would be that you would have employ "Suspension of Disbelief" to believe that Professor Lupin purely forgot to take his potion the night he changed into a werewolf even though he was discussing the fact that he was a werewolf in the Shrieking Shack.
		That's not exactly suspension of disbelief, it is not the same thing as what is being discussed.
	www.cosforums.com /showthread.php?t=83822 (2462 words)

	Intelligent Artifice: Breaking suspension of disbelief
		I find that I use the term "breaking suspension of disbelief" a lot when I write about design, because I think suspension of disbelief is one of the bedrock principles of interactive entertainment, especially the story-based kind I'm interested in.
		Breaking suspension of disbelief means disturbing some part of this model.
		Nevertheless, and even though it is possible to break suspension of disbelief on purpose for certain effects, I remain convinced of the general importance of consistency.
	www.intelligent-artifice.com /2004/01/breaking_suspen.html (1597 words)

	Treasure Chests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Instead of delving into the story-lines of numerous factors causing attitude changes in precious metals investors today, we think it best to keep this treatise simple, focusing on the 'primary' factor, which as you will see in the end is complicated enough on its own.
		Importantly, you as an investor should realize the bull market in precious metals is still in its infancy, and that great opportunity still exists while the market remains suspended in disbelief, implying most meaningful gains lie ahead as a hesitant population succumbs to the normalization process found within lifecycle.
		In this regard we are of the opinion that precious metals market(s) are on the very cusp of 'suspension of disbelief' as it pertains to the bull's status, where after the story becomes clear to all, prices across the sector will enjoy meaningful advances in apportion to a more accurate reflection of the fundamentals.
	www.treasurechests.info /print.php?sid=627 (1207 words)

	Safe Haven \| Suspension of Disbelief
		Instead of delving into the story-lines of numerous factors causing attitude changes in precious metals investors today, we think it best to keep this treatise simple, focusing on the 'primary' factor, which as you will see in the end is complicated enough on its own.
		Importantly, you as an investor should realize the bull market in precious metals is still in its infancy, and that great opportunity still exists while the market remains suspended in disbelief, implying most meaningful gains lie ahead as a hesitant population succumbs to the normalization process found within lifecycle.
		In this regard we are of the opinion that precious metals market(s) are on the very cusp of 'suspension of disbelief' as it pertains to the bull's status, where after the story becomes clear to all, prices across the sector will enjoy meaningful advances in apportion to a more accurate reflection of the fundamentals.
	www.safehaven.com /article-2178.htm (1346 words)

	"Willing Suspension of Disbelief"
		The habit of suspending disbelief, of hypothesizing, "What if that's true — then what would it imply?" is what enables learning and communication.
		These represent intermediate to advanced level sf reading requiring suspending disbelief in order to believe an alien "if only." But the "if this goes on" element is suppressed, so finding it is a challenge.
		The disbelief to suspend to enjoy this book lies in the fact that here, humans are colonizing a world and the "natives" are very nonhuman indeed.
	www.simegen.com /reviews/rereadablebooks/columns/0196.html (2186 words)

	The wilful suspension of disbelief - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Watching Bush in action, the decay of confidence is patent - the swagger is less pronounced, the strut is almost gone, and the smirk vanishes as mysteriously as the Cheshire Cat.
		In the theatre, the willing suspension of disbelief is an essential component of really enjoying and participating in what is happening on stage.
		Their suspension of disbelief has not been just willing, but wilful.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20040530T050000-0500_60547_OBS_THE_WILFUL_SUSPENSION_OF_DISBELIEF.asp (1701 words)

	The Suspension of Disbelief and Good TV
		The hardest obstacle to overcome in the suspension of disbelief aren't the fictional cop shows, which are often at least loosely based on real cop-doings.
		The first season was a bold move into the suspension of disbelief genre — a welcome respite from mainstream television at the time.
		For the suspension of disbelief to work well, a story needs to be believable to an aspect where the viewer (or reader) actually believes, if but for a moment in time.
	www.blogcritics.org /archives/2006/12/06/143323.php (1459 words)

	Theory : Suspension of Disbelief
		Of course, a really literal-minded reader like that who is so oppresively anal about his/her SoD in a story should be lead away from your book gently, spoken to softly and then ignored as you go ahead and write for folks who came to your work willing to work with you and your text.
		I think the reason SoD is different in films is for the same reason it's different from play to film: In a film, all the details are on screen, to be seen, rather than imagined.
		And I'm all over Elizabeth's mention of the "midichlorians" as an example of that for all the same reasons she is. And it would've been just as bad if it had been in a book, rather than on film.
	www.speculations.com /?t=103084 (10656 words)

	willing suspension of disbelief - WordReference Forums
		I haven't composed the sentence yet but the phrase refers to the state of mind of an audience member in the theatre who, although she knows that what she is seeing is pretence and illusion, is prepared to suspend disbelief for the duration of the performance in order to engage with and enjoy it.
		Term used to describe the phenomenon in which an audience, while watching a movie, is willing to accept the movie as reality and to believe the story, drawing the audience more fully into the story.
		Without a willing suspension of disbelief, the audience does not enjoy a movie to its fullest because it is viewed as a fiction or falsity, and so the audience does not relate to the movie and its characters or develop emotions and feelings about them.
	forum.wordreference.com /showthread.php?t=30276 (1061 words)

	Learn more about Suspension of disbelief in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Learn more about Suspension of disbelief in the online encyclopedia.
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	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/su/suspension_of_disbelief.html (282 words)

	Suspension of Disbelief: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Suspension of Disbelief: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
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	GameSpy.com - Developer Corner: Wither Suspension of Disbelief?
		Why bother bump mapping and lens flaring these beautiful environments and skinning and animating characters to interact in them if you are going to make them battle with the inventory bar for screen and head space.
		However, everyone seems to agree that if we as an industry are going to grow and reach a wider audience then we are going to have to appeal to the people who watch movies and TV, the enigmatic casual and mass market gamers everyone wants to buy their game.
		I would suggest that this is where, historically, games upholding suspension of disbelief seem to shine.
	archive.gamespy.com /devcorner/november00/bullied1/index2.shtm (623 words)

	Wordsmyth Games - Suspension of Disbelief
		While a little suspension of disbelief is necessary, I think too much of it is a bad thing.
		In his book "Writing to Sell", Scott Meredith (often regarded as one of the most successful literary agents and publishers of his time) talks about possibility versus plausibility, and how important it is in stories to keep things plausible or you'll lose readers.
		I want to close just by reiterating that you do need to have some suspension of disbelief in a game.
	www.martiandreams.com /faraday/disbelief.shtml (711 words)

	Greenflame: Comics Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Interesting article over at Suspension of Disbelief on the portrayal of religion in comics.
		See Suspension of Disbelief: And the new Spectre is...
		Suspension of Disbelief : A Fact-Check for the Four-Color World is a group blog reality-checking comic stories.
	www.greenflame.org /archives/cat_comics.php (7641 words)

	Release 1.0 / Fresh Produce / Robot Requirements: Suspension of Disbelief
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		The trick to making a robot, Ugobe CEO Bob Christopher tells me, is that you have to make it lifelike enough to engender a "suspension of disbelief" in its user, so that the user treats it as living.
		Once that bridge is crossed, people will start to attribute to the robot a personality, and skills, that it probably doesn't have.
	www.release1-0.com /freshproduce/article.cfm?serialnum=FRP200602072302 (914 words)

	Suspension of disbelief Automotive Design & Production - Find Articles
		Suspension of disbelief Automotive Design and Production - Find Articles
		The beauty of MR fluid, says Hoptry is that it has "damping authority and lots of it" that can be altered near-instantaneously in an analog fashion.
		And that ability to infinitely vary the damping force within the jounce and rebound parameters of a shock absorber not only fundamentally changes the ride-handling compromise by increasing the suspension's effective bandwidth, it offers automakers the opportunity to standardize a platform's specification while customizing each model's feel.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KJI/is_10_117/ai_n15759961 (655 words)

	Suspension of disbelief
		Pandering to the camera is what gave us the dross which Harlan Ellison derogatorily refers to as “Sci-Fi”, or pseudo Science-Fiction, the soulless kind that's laced with Star Trek technobabble, baroque stereotypes, and hackneyed concepts.
		While both of these poor sods can crank out material that is technically competent and fills eight-bucks worth of ticket or paperback, it's still just filler, and it still leaves the audience feeling hungry afterwards.
		Hollywood has had a way of hijacking Science Fiction since its creative peak as literature in the 1950s.
	www.disenchanted.com /dis/humanity/disbelief.html (1284 words)

	ScrappleFace: Iran Suspends Uranium Enrichment, E.U. Suspends Disbelief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ScrappleFace: Iran Suspends Uranium Enrichment, E.U. Suspends Disbelief
		(2004-11-22) -- Iran today said it had suspended uranium enrichment as part of a deal negotiated with several European Union countries which, for their part, have agreed to suspend disbelief.
		"In the theatre we know that the people on stage are just actors but, for the sake of entertainment, we suspend disbelief.
	www.scrappleface.com /MT/archives/001942.html (155 words)

	The Cult Test, Questions 0
		In order to become one of the group, he must embrace all of the beliefs and teachings of the cult, so the newcomer suspends his disbelief and enters into the movie.
		When a cult recruit crosses the invisible barrier in his mind -- when he enters the world of the cult and its doctrine at some point in his flirtatious sampling of the cult -- he is tripping the switch of his voluntary suspension of disbelief.
		So the suspension of disbelief is also another veiled ego game, where the follower likes to believe that he is very important, involved in very important work, doing the Lord's Will and saving the world...
	www.orange-papers.org /orange-cult_q0.html (12880 words)

	Deus ex machina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For other uses, see deus ex machina (disambiguation)
		The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, though more palatable, ending.
		In modern terms the deus ex machina has also come to describe a person or thing that suddenly arrives and solves a seemingly insoluble difficulty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deus_ex_machina (345 words)

	CD Baby: JOHNNY NO STARS: Willful Suspension of Disbelief
		Jerky metal influenced rhythms interspersed with flowing melodic breakdowns leaves much for the listener to digest.
		Each song on their debut album, Willful Suspension of Disbelief (due out in October 2005) is an organic unraveling of influences and textures.
		Ranging from psychedelic and ethereal to anguished and pounding, JNS manages to mix their eclectic tastes into one catchy conglomeration of sound.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/johnnynostars (569 words)

	LILEKS (James) :: the bleat
		As for the inevitable sequel: Why not move the final battle to space, where they can breathe, and we can hear the sound of fists striking fur?
		I’m willing to suspend disbelief both piecemeal and wholesale; if a movie requires me to believe that Bruce Willis can fight terrorists on a skyscraper for a night, well, fine.
		If the Lord of the Rings asks that I believe in ghost riders and evil rings and magic and elves, fine.
	www.lileks.com /bleats/archive/06/0406/040406.html (729 words)

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