Sentence examples for doubtful notion from inspiring English sources

Nor is there any reason to believe that he has some profound insight into Americans' collective psyche — even if we accept the doubtful notion that such a thing exists.

Like Parsifal, this enterprise was the work of a German production team, here casting aside the over-worked Englishness of Britten's opera - surely a doubtful and confining notion in a work of such limitless appeal.

Hayflick is doubtful if not dismissive of that notion.

Asked whether "Burning in China" would lead to further theater work, Mr. Deschanel was doubtful, refusing even to entertain the hypothetical notion of directing his daughter Zooey Deschanel, the actress and singer, in a musical.

The notion of perpetual progress is not only doubtful in itself but is also compromised as a principle of classification because of its value implications.

Even the notion that businesses are deserting California for cheaper states is doubtful: a recent study by PPIC concluded that only 1.6% of the jobs lost between 1992 and 2002 came about because businesses had fled.

Rose acknowledged the pressure even five years ago, when the notion of he and Slash being on the same stage was doubtful and the media were reveling in the antagonism.

There is no circularity in the first case unless the notion of 'evidence' is itself probabilistic; but artificial examples aside, it is doubtful that the case ever arises.

"It's Japan".The underlying notion that the US-Japan alliance was in trouble struck me as very doubtful.

Yet another crucial notion, for the sake of understanding virtue, is 'human flourishing.' Anscombe is doubtful we will be able to reach a satisfactory understanding of this notion.

Our findings imply that the notion of greater severity and metabolic impact of weight gain during adulthood is doubtful and that prevention measures should be implemented in the early childhood years.