doubting Thomas
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His contemporaries may have been interested in the biblical lesson of the doubting Thomas, but we are attracted to Thomas’s uncertainty, which we read, in some way, as the painter’s own.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
If you’re still a doubting Thomas, check out your children’s school policy on community service and see if it pushes them toward giving back.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
Attempting to assuage the doubting Thomas, Roberts insists that protecting “privacy” from new digital technologies accords with “Founding-era understandings” because the framers’ “central aim” was to impede “surveillance” that is “too permeating.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2018
Five hundred years of complaints against the onslaught of the trawl meant nothing to our doubting Thomas.
From Scientific American ● May 24, 2013
“Aha,” he said, “then it is up to Santini to prove to his doubting Thomas family that he is the tops when it comes to choosing a house for his family.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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