Sentence examples similar to a dubious tale from inspiring English sources

Fever and Spear is a morally dubious tale about life and love, memory and time, loss and betrayal, malice and war, as imaginatively told by Jacques Deza, who is separated from his wife in Madrid and working for the BBC in London when he is recruited by his old friend, Sir Peter Wheeler, a retired Oxford don and one-time spy, to the secret service.

Like the hero of a dubious morality tale, however, Khodorkovsky broke the rules established by Yeltsin's ex-KGB successor Vladimir Putin: don't meddle in politics.

Of course, his part in the murder of Rasputin was what would make him infamous, and his somewhat dubious tale of what occurred that night has been accepted as fact.

There is something infectious about gossip; it can transform an official biography into a collection of dubious tales, so that truth becomes indistinguishable from gossip.

The Clinton health rumors spawned the same way that a lot of dubious tales spread on the right-wing corners of the internet.

The Clinton health rumours spawned the same way that a lot of dubious tales spread on the right-wing corners of the internet.

And in one of Verdi's many dubious tales, at 5 months old he was spirited by his mother to a church tower to avoid Russian troops.

And the agency's preferred recruiting method — cash — tends to attract low-level diplomats and retired military officers who peddle dubious tales.

Thousands of prisoners are serving time based on this bogus science, which often props up wobbly eyewitness testimony or dubious tales peddled by jailhouse snitches.

"Impreza," Willa said in a dubious tone.

Lest you think Chipper is basing his conclusions on a historically dubious Hollywood tale, the former baseball star offers his own experience with rifles, as well as the famed Zapruder film, which raised further questions on the validity of the Single Bullet Theory and furthered suspicions of a second shooter on the grassy knoll, as evidence to his claims.