Valery Jourdan, a sales associate at Zara, directed a dubious eye at her cellphone.
Casting a dubious eye, Blanc transferred it to a silver dish and dipped in a silver spoon.
Yoga appeals to Mr. Rosen as a superb workout more than as a route to enlightenment, and he tours the various studios and methods of the international yoga scene (from New York to Los Angeles and Hawaii before an extended, and fascinating, trip to India) with both an open mind and a dubious eye for its more metaphysical trappings.
The diehards in his audience no longer bring their children; now it's the grandkids casting dubious eyes over the lanky bloke on stage.
"Mademoiselle" is more slippery, Claire explained, when it's delivered with "a dubious sparkling eye or the lascivious hope that Mademoiselle is indeed a mademoiselle, single and/or available to be seduced".
And a Bloomberg survey of 1,253 investors, analysts and traders found that a substantial majority were dubious about the eye-popping valuation Facebook was seeking.
After that, the great speeches decline into a handful of brilliantly ironic remarks, and the battle-making became more dubious, to American eyes, anyway.
Randolph is dubious, but his eyes are opened when he briefly works alongside Totten and an ex-slave, Leon Frey Brock Peterss), on the Pullman dining and sleeping cars where the condescending white patrons address every black employee as George (after George Pullman, the company's founder).
Stephen Platt's forthcoming book, "Criminal Capital," details the wide variety of ways in which banks' willingness to turn a blind eye to dubious behavior has been instrumental over the years in facilitating drug smuggling, tax evasion, piracy, and terrorism.
As a political officer, Brezhnev's role was not to risk his life in battle but rather to produce and disseminate propaganda, enforce political correctness and keep a close eye on dubious types, although that last aspect of his work is never mentioned in Malaya Zemlya.
As a result, examples of abuse, mismanagement and corporations turning a blind eye to dubious practice abound.
