I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.
Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.