1.   If anything, Letterman thinks, these women have a compulsion to reach a higher plane of conversation that strains credulity.

2.   It strained credulity to believe that a nuclear war would not lead to the destruction of the planet.

3.   It strains credulity to think they could beat San Francisco and Dallas on the road.

4.   It strains credulity, I know, but there were nights in those years when no man was bad-looking.

5.   To be asked to see myself as one in solidarity with first-century women strains my credulity.

6.   But it would be straining credulity too far to expect that everything will be absorbed.

7.   And credulity is strained.

8.   As in his previous books, there are astonishing scenes, some that strain credulity.

9.   At the railway station, Ghosh and his assistants attracted friendly laughter, suggesting that milk-drinking idols strained the credulity of many Hindus.