Sentence examples for dubious premises from inspiring English sources

The play ruthlessly exposes the dubious premises on which the war was fought.

It was a dubious premise in a nightmare year for Democrats, and Kasich eked out a win.

So much of his new novel, "Skios," is so expertly written and such genuine fun, it seems ill-mannered to quibble about the dubious premise.

For what struck me about the dubious premise behind the AT&T breakup is that a similar premise underlies many proposals for privatizing Social Security.

At that moment the character becomes a mouthpiece for the director, who bases the story's surprise ending on this dubious premise.

Obsession is the overarching theme, probably, but with a dubious premise and four unpleasant characters, the play is not involving enough to be as shocking as it aspires to be.

In explaining the setup to Jess, Nicky tips her off to an absurdly elaborate scheme that both depends on a dubious premise of efficacy and requires wide-reaching, real-world interventions on a superheroic scale.

Neither the filmmakers nor the actors can figure out whether to play this dubious premise as comedy or as earnest morality tale, and Mr. Garcia spends most of the picture looking stricken and self-pitying.

First, even allowing that we all do our best work in highly competitive circumstances — a dubious premise; most of us do our best work when we feel confident that the boss has our back, that we have room to maneuver, and even a little space to fail in — this does not give the newly re-signed Mark Sanchez helpful competitive pressure, but merely weirdly competitive pressure.

But on the dubious premise that big companies are somehow watering down organic rules, self-appointed consumer groups are exposing on their Web sites the real corporate owners behind the scenes.

And that is indeed what Distil Networks did over the weekend, challenging attendees to "fight your friends" and offering a few "title match fights" under the dubious premise that they would attract more spectators.