Wiktionary
alt. People's acceptance, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art. n. People's acceptance, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art.
Wikipedia
Suspension of Disbelief may refer to:
- Suspension of Disbelief (album)
- Suspension of Disbelief (film)
Suspension of Disbelief was the lone AP2 release, put out by Tooth & Nail Records in 2000. AP2 was a sequel of sorts to the band Argyle Park, who released their only album Misguided in 1995. Argyle Park had consisted of Buka and Klayton, while AP2 featured primary players Buka and Level, with Klayton producing the record. In the winter of 2000, Tooth & Nail cut AP2 due to the low sales of this album. Since Buka had only wanted AP2 to release albums for Tooth & Nail, AP2 ended as a band after Tooth & Nail dropped them. 1
Suspension of Disbelief was every bit as experimental as its precursor, including elements of gabber techno, dance-pop, drum and bass, ambient techno, R&B, punk rock, and metal. The opening track, "The End", contains vocal samples from two of the old Argyle Park songs, giving the album some sense of closure to that era of the band before diving headlong into the new material.
Suspension of Disbelief is a 2012 English thriller film directed, edited, co-produced by Mike Figgis, and starring Sebastian Koch, Lotte Verbeek, Emilia Fox, Rebecca Night, Eoin Macken, Lachlan Nieboer, Frances de la Tour, Julian Sands and Kenneth Cranham. It was premiered at the 7th Rome Film Festival in November 2012. It played in the 12th East End Film Festival on 6 July 2013 and in Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival on 26 September 2013. The film was released in the UK on 19 July 2013.
Usage examples of "suspension of disbelief".
Well, I've put these notes at the back of the book to avoid ruining your willing suspension of disbelief.
Probably'd never made it through sixth grade but the skill they pulled this act off with, the sheer artistry, smooth, unhurried, talk about theatre and the willing suspension of disbelief there I am helping the one down on the step while the other one's going through my pockets with the third one covering him?
But I could live with that suspension of disbelief because there was a lot of heart in it.
The famous 'willing suspension of disbelief' on the part of the reader, which convinces him for the duration of the reading experience that he is apprehending real, meaningful events.
And then another would appear, and another and still another, the odds stretched beyond ail credibility, suspension of disbelief tossed aside in favor of pursuing the almighty dollar.
The rest of you, the audience for these, whether reading or hearing them, respond because there is a suspension of disbelief induced by your own dream-links as well.
Auberon never got used to the suspension of disbelief his viewers were capable of, it always gave him a guilty thrill.
The willing suspension of disbelief upon which our literary ghetto is built includes an ironclad infrastructure of reliable, pre-cut devices: teenage runaways bumping into punk elves, disaffected faerie musicians running into punk kids, that sort of thing, with a pop gloss of cultural references du jour --tattoos, piercings, Napster, whatever -- standing in for genuine strangeness, or that sense of profoundly dislocating exile which informs the greatest literary fantasy, from Lord Dunsany to John Crowley.
It requires a major suspension of disbelief - and all for the sake of a mildly ‘.
So she had taken some off the present age, adding to the appeal without voiding my suspension of disbelief.
Kunstler for the suspension of disbelief that has enabled him to carry on for half a century!
The patterns of illusion that made up the modern world require a kind of faith, a suspension of disbelief.