Sentence examples for dubious wisdom from inspiring English sources

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The source of this dubious wisdom is the Distaff Gospels – a cornucopia of medieval old wives' tales.

As Basam cavalierly peeked underneath, I was reminded of some dubious wisdom he had once dispensed: "If you go toward death, death retreats".

With more dubious wisdom, Ms. Gheorghiu once refused to manage a phrase of Verdi's as Georg Solti gently insisted, setting her own naive, literalistic notions above the experience and expertise of his long lifetime.

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So expert have we become at sanitising public figures when they die that their real significance is routinely lost in a haze of recycled cliches and dubious received wisdom.

Keeping the project on the books with a $2 billion life-line is of dubious legislative wisdom since the MOX facility may never function as originally designed or be reconfigured for any other purpose.

At 61, Sunderland's manager is surely the right man, in the right place, at the right time to not only breathe new life into the England team but challenge all sorts of dubious received wisdoms currently pervading Football Association philosophy.

Dewan is twenty-eight and the kind of person who fits right in at M.I.T.: she is dubious of received wisdom, fond of building, and unabashedly geeky.

However, investment analysts are dubious of the wisdom of re-entering the hyper-competitive consumer electronics business.

Friends of the couple were surprised by the marriage and dubious of its wisdom.

So the visitor inclined to be dubious about the conventional wisdom arrives certain that it is not going to be a mall, or, at least, that he will not see it as one.

The Gastronomist itself didn't have a single Czech moussaka in its own database; in the twenty thousand "seed recipes" it culled for initial inspiration, there were only two moussaka recipes with pork (both found on the Internet, a sometimes dubious dispenser of culinary wisdom), and not a one under the heading of Czech moussaka.

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