His sensible advocacy of greater judicial review brings with it a dubious desire for lots more lawyers.
There are no innocents in Scorsese's vision; the movie is a unified field of dubious desire, of temptation, evil, and sin.
Berlin's pluralism points the way to a politics of compromise; yet Berlin also warned against the dangers of certain types of compromise, particularly those involving the employment of dubious means to achieve desired ends.
He apologized for his actions, broke into tears, promised to keep clear of dubious friends and expressed his desire to join the local kickboxing club.
The truth is that his desire to claim the dubious glory of his youth, while sidestepping blame (and perhaps prosecution) for its darker side, is shameful.
The auto-rickshaw is a sublimely apt symbol for contemporary India, one that combines both the desire for progress and the dubious methods by which that progress is sought.
If you doubt your desire, it will surely be dubious in manifestation.
She has to walk a tightrope between pandering to nations of dubious ethical and democratic credentials and getting the desired results, while cutting through the diplomatic candyfloss language used at the UN to hide lack of purpose or achievement.
She, who is veiled and lies behind a partition, warns Holly that the power of her splendour arouses both desire and fear, but he is dubious.
She is regarded as one of the more impressive artworks of the Eighties, a dubious accolade that perhaps falls short of the acclaim she obviously desires as an artist in her own right.
