Some of Bush's critics found this argument specious and hypocritical; they failed to grasp the President's profound need to be on the side of the redeeming angels.
Steiner quotes Jean Dubuffet's 1962 statement that he found the "specious notion of beauty" with which the female body has been associated "miserable and most depressing": "Surely I aim for a beauty, but not that one".
I have always suspected younger people avoid political enthusiasm not because of apathy, but because, like being force-fed politically correct morality lessons in elementary school, they find something specious in it.
The argument that I find most specious and intellectually suspect is that the 97percentt of climate scientists who support the idea that climate change is linked to the contaminants we've been putting into the air in massive quantities since the Industrial Revolution have been compromised by money, while the tiny minority (often those paid by the polluters) remain intellectually pure.
I find the objections specious and shortsighted.
SUCH arguments, which scientists find specious, have been well received in some quarters.
I find specious the reasons we ask for bloodshed and sacrifice from our young men and women in Afghanistan.
She wrote to me about it, saying she found it "specious, condescending, sexist, and to be making an assumption that is utterly uncalled for".
Hoh finds such reasoning "specious".
"If you use smart tactics, techniques and procedures, we believe the ship is survivable," Mr. Work said, making an argument that Mr. Hunter, the congressman, finds specious.
I certainly do not feel more inclined to trust you because of this specious gesture.
