11.   Indeed, people seem to want to believe the worst.

12.   Its perennial critics believe the worst.

13.   Jaeckel, like many patriotic German Jews, refused to believe the worst.

14.   Journalists get another strike against their credibility, especially from those who dislike and mistrust the news media and are always ready to believe the worst about them.

15.   Lomborg also chides journalists, saying they uncritically spread the Litany, and he accuses the public of an unfounded readiness to believe the worst.

16.   Now people are willing to believe the worst.

17.   So they believed the worst.

18.   The Astros arrive at the ballpark almost every day believing the worst is over.

19.   The public seems eager to believe the worst about them.

20.   They feel every pain acutely and believe the worst.