It pointed to dubious influence-peddling at the highest level of Slovak politics and reminded many of the wildly corrupt 1990s.
Under the dubious influence of friends, a man named Youngsoo pressures his girlfriend, Minjung, to change her habits and cut down on her drinking in bars and cafés.
It wearily joins other posters of dubious influence, from The Truman Show (photo mosaics) to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (missing eyes) to For Your Eyes Only (splayed legs framing the protagonist, sexism).
As ever, there's likely a mixture of causes, from the prevalence of the extreme anxiety-inducing N-Ethylpentylone to the ever-dubious influence of social media.
He says "In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanised writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
Nairobi is way too busy to take notice of you and your "profound" journal entries which are likely to wind up as a dubious African influenced concept album.
The 1-1 drawasas celebrated like a win here, but it could have been a famous victory had not some dubious play-acting influenced refereeing decisions.
Many business are often dubious around the influence that emotional well-being impacts an employee at work.
If you grew up in the 1970s, you may have a dim memory of "Chariots of the Gods," an international best seller by Erich von Däniken full of dubious speculation about extraterrestrial influences on ancient earthling civilizations.
The Golden Globes are akin to the Iowa straw poll, a dubious contest with outsized influence.
