Never mind that she's shown dubious fashion sense and tried to alienate every single business contact she's made this season, it's still a very wise plan to entrust a multimillion dollar corporation into her oh-so responsible hands.
Like Barthes and Bazin, Murray is a truly original thinker whose inclinations and recommendations are nonetheless rendered dubious by the sense that they're cut to fit a preconception.
Its gore factor is ridiculous and, at least for me, off-putting; its story line is scant, its characterizations are stick-figure, its politics are dubious — but its sense of the psychological disturbance of violence appears not to be an accident of recklessness but a result of directorial thought.
Some St Aubyn newcomers reading Mother's Milk were dubious about Patrick's sense of entitlement: why should he inherit a mansion in France?
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] – I sensed a dubious reluctance in your article ("Sad island story", April 2nd) to pinpoint where responsibility lies for the "gloom" that has settled over the Cyprus talks.
Part of the point of the adverbial theory, as defended by Ducasse (1942) and Chisholm (1957) was to do justice to the phenomenology of experience whilst avoiding the dubious metaphysical commitments the sense-datum theorists take on in responding to the Problem of Perception.
Dubious at first, "I now sense that it does exist, and that it is going to defend itself," he told city legislators recently.
Four of his paintings, all made with a mechanically repetitive touch, give a good sense of his dubious achievement: an inertly composed picture of a church in Old Lyme, a post-World War I pair of overhead New York City views with American flags flying above the street, and a picture of a slender woman in a white dress watering flowers in a rich person's garden.
Chisholm was dubious about such things as sense data, appearances, the "looks" of things.
