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suspend
(redirected from suspending disbelief)

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suspend verb arrest, break off, bring to a standstill, bring to a stop, cease, check, defer, delay, desist, differre, discharge, discontinue, halt, hinder, hold in abeyance, innerfere with, intermit, intermittere, interrupt, lay aside, lay off, leave off, postpone, put off, remit, remove, shelve, stall, stay, stop, table, temporize
Associated concepts: suspend a license, suspend a sentence, suspend an employee, suspend payment, suspend the power of alienation, suspend the writ of habeas corpus
See also: abandon, abate, adjourn, arrest, balk, bar, cancel, cease, close, continue, debar, defer, delay, desist, discharge, discontinue, dismiss, disrupt, exclude, forestall, halt, hold up, impede, inhibit, interrupt, leave, negate, nullify, obstruct, palliate, pause, postpone, pretermit, procrastinate, prohibit, quit, recess, relax, remit, remove, revoke, stop, terminate, toll


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the cheese-ball narrative (about a wedding on an idyllic Greek island) is so perfunctory as to spare the audience the trouble of suspending disbelief and succumbing to fiction; the songs whiz by with so little artistic impediment, one might as well be sitting next to one's personal CD player.
Fast & easy: pop music invades Broadway. (Stage) by Wren, Celia / Commonweal
A luxurious theater's gilt and red velvet, for example, seems almost to bribe us into suspending disbelief.
Dorothy Day: the play: 'Fool for Christ.' by Wren, Celia / Commonweal
A luxurious theater's gilt and red velvet, for example, seems almost to bribe us into suspending disbelief.
Fool for Christ by Wren, Celia / Commonweal
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