Sentence examples for doubtful ideal from inspiring English sources

Yet he continued to hold the doubtful ideal of a language as "clear as a windowpane," through which facts would transparently reveal themselves.

For hybrid interpretivism now seems to recommend that judges extend the effect of any norms they find (or at least the ones not bad enough to fail the test of consistency with even the least acceptable scheme of principle) into situations the norms don't explicitly or clearly regulate, and it's doubtful that some political ideal should support this conservative policy (Raz 1986: 1111, 1994: 224).

After a doubtful start it becomes headlong, devoted, agonised, rapturous – an ideal of passion.

The problem with this method lies in the fact that there is no radial orthogonality of the ideal modes so that the precision of the field synthesis by ideal modes is doubtful.

(Extremely doubtful).

Doubtful glances.

'Racist?' Doubtful".

The President seemed doubtful.

But Heffernan was doubtful.

Mr. Csoka was doubtful.

"Doubtful," she said.