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[ verb ] have a firm conviction as to the goodness of something
Examples "John believes in oat bran" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Instead , the audience can sit_back at_ease and , from the perspective of an enlightened time which no_longer believes_in such things , enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)To light industry , the economies of being on one floor are much slighter , but efficiency_engineers usually believe_in them , and manufacturers looking_for ways to cut costs cannot be prevented from turning_to efficiency_engineers . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)While most of his beliefs were still unsettled , he knew that he did not believe_in killing . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)One had_to believe_in final events or one was stranded in the abyss of nothing . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World , for a nation that does not believe_in the cult_of_personality or in careerism , Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said : `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum , or how far it can fly . Related terms |
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