With his one good eye, he read English at Oxford, perhaps the best perspective to take on this dubious subject.
Not only did it revel in the dubious subject matter of murder, bigamy, illegitimacy and madness, it seemed to pathologise the very act of reading itself, since its narrative method - which fore shadows that of modern detective fiction - turned readers into addicts, titillating them with a series of withheld secrets and startling revelations.
This was the high point of Islamic civilisation, when scholars of various religions from around the world flocked to the Bayt al-Hikma (House of Wisdom), an unrivalled centre for the study of humanities and for sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, medicine, chemistry, zoology and geography, as well as some more dubious subjects such as alchemy and astrology.
It is ethically dubious to subject other people to grave — and predictable — risks.
As for a second referendum "undermining faith in our democracy", I suggest that many of us have already been disillusioned by a politically motivated referendum and a leave campaign based on undeliverable promises, funded by dubious sources and subject to covert manipulation by outside actors.
I am pretty sure the original must have been fairly sound so I could only suspect that it had been subject to dubious – perhaps politically motivated?
Artworks stolen during the war and later sold on the basis of dubious records were the subject of legal struggles to secure their return to the original owners or to their heirs.
The president should have done better, and the Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike, should subject this dubious nomination to the intense scrutiny that it deserves.
Like many such organizations, they were often persecuted by the press and were the subject of dubious reports.
The word is that generic advice on important matters, news of improbable scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, dubious fiats on the subject of maintaining optimum bodily health -- essentially any amorphously authoritative declaration whatsoever -- can be treated as gospel by the intended recipient, no question about it.
It was also based on rigid guidelines, using simple items hardly subject to dubious interpretations.
