Sentence examples for dubious relevance from inspiring English sources

Casual conversations with fellow travellers pass the time but often have dubious relevance; her itinerary can seem – as she says of Scott Fitzgerald's jerky essay about his alcoholic crack-up – "circuitous and rambling".

Newer to me was the story of how the theory, first proposed in 1964, moved from being a curiosity of dubious relevance to the centre stage of fundamental physics today.

The sad truth is that no background check would have prevented the tragedy in Newtown, Aurora or Tucson.The NRA is quite right about the dubious relevance of background checks to these shootings.

"A study which shows you can push some phenomenon around a bit at the margins," he wrote to me in an e-mail, "is of dubious relevance to whether the phenomenon exists".

Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.

Sometimes such knowledge is of dubious relevance: it can be argued that no aid to the study of the 82 string quartets and 104 symphonies of the 18th-century Austrian composer Joseph Haydn is provided by reading about the political and economic conditions of his day.

Not only are such representations of dubious biological relevance, they are also suspect from a statistical standpoint because the number of data points underlying the "modified average gene" vary dramatically depending on real gene length.

And how odd it would be, how dull, if novelists and readers confined themselves, in the name of some dubious notion of relevance, to the events and style of one particular period".

Experts are intrigued by the spiral waves but dubious about their relevance to epilepsy.

"It may be a key piece of evidence," Fischer told the judge, although the photo took place well after the alleged crime occurred, making its relevance dubious.

The methodology is dubious, and its relevance to the problem at hand has not been adequately justified.