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"I had hoped that Nolan's affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters," she wrote.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

In the filmmaker’s imagination, the trick of hiding Greek warriors inside a wood contraption was more believable if it looked like a waterlogged offering to a god left by a departed army.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“We had to find a way to present it to be believable but also so that you as the audience will have your breath taken away.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

In an amoral age, when so little of what’s seen and said is believable, rules are virtually obsolete.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

It was a fairly believable yarn, Roy thought.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen




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