Most people, fortunately, do not believe in such extremes, yet most people also appear to be ethnocentric enough to believe, at least just a little, that their own race is superior to others.
Often it's the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.
He had been so sure his parents have been wonderful people that he had never had the slightest difficulty in disbelieving the aspersions Snape cast on his father's character.
Part of the issue is that tribal groups themselves don't always believe their languages are endangered until they are down to the last handful of speakers.
A Common Sense Media survey found that 35 percent of students had cheated via smartphone, though the parents surveyed in that particular study did not believe their kids had ever cheated.
Scarlett was so surprised at the sight of their former overseer driving so fine a rig and in so splendid a greatcoat she could not for a moment believe her eyes.
He had been so sure his parents were wonderful people that he had never had the slightest difficulty in disbelieving the aspersions Snape cast on his father's character.
Last month before this report came out, U.S. President Donald Trump said he thinks something's changing in the climate but that it would change back again and he wasn't convinced that people caused the changes.
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
And as recently as this summer, you experienced the hottest recorded week in history, even as some deny the severity, in fact, the existence of the climate emergency.