Sentence examples for a specious theory from inspiring English sources

Violet is of course a nice person who is seduced, not romantically as much as conceptually, attempting to build her career around a specious theory of self-worth and self-esteem that she is developing from leaving test subjects in an observation room with a box of day-old doughnuts, and seeing which of them will hold out for the promised fresh batch.

Violet is of course a nice person who is seduced, not romantically as much as conceptually, attempting to build her career around a specious theory of self-worth and self-esteem that she is developing from leaving test subjects in an observation room with a box of day-old doughnuts, and seeing which of them will hold out for the promised fresh batch.

Mariella replies Perhaps you are! Thank you for providing a sliver of tangible proof to back up my specious theory that the devil you know can occasionally reinvent himself.

For a generation the world, with the London/New York financial axis at its heart, surrendered to the specious theory that lending and financial contracts could grow many times faster than the underlying economy.

In their jumble of specious theories, what Kent and Salem share is their whiteness, which is to say their preconceptions about how and when the world turns.

Thank heavens for the liberating revolution of the 1960s, which for all its shortcomings put to rest the unquestioned authority of such specious theories.

How could someone who traffics in specious theories on intelligence, race, and ethnicity be Heritage's policy expert on not only immigration but education?

There is the irresistible Fergus Wolff, who has trumped Roland to the only tenured job in the English department of Prince Albert College by developing a specious expertise in literary theory.

This is a specious argument.

That is a specious argument.

That is, in part, a specious argument.