Sentence examples for flimsy notion from inspiring English sources
Almost 30 years on from the "great" Education Reform Act, which ushered in the idea that choice would raise standards and satisfy all, barely a day goes by without a reminder of what a flimsy notion this is.
Poehlman's entire defense seemed to hinge on a series of flimsy notions.
In this 16th-century work Machiavelli wrote about how rulers should expand their power with no regard for morality or justice.... Quirrell's statement also echoes the thought of 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who argued that individual human will and striving are more important and relevant than morality and more impressive than flimsy notions of right and wrong.
But they're not the only disenfranchised youths quaking within their flimsy notions of identity, looking for some support.
Jargon acts not only to euphemize but to license, setting insiders against outsiders and giving the flimsiest notions a scientific aura.
"It beggars belief that such a major policy should be advanced with so flimsy a notion of how it will be funded.
Their notions of authenticity, however flimsy, didn't allow for his kind of poppy piano tristesse.
But the bank record-keeping was flimsy, and the idea of a private House bank played into the notion of cronyism — a perception that Newt Gingrich, then the House Republican whip, was trying to fuel as he plotted a Republican overthrow of the Democratic-controlled House. Democratic-controlled House
Even the romantic notion of ending his career at Everton, his boyhood club, is a flimsy basis for negotiation.
But serious claims with serious consequences need careful scrutiny and based on the evidence now available, the notion that MMR causes bowel disease or autism, let alone both, is flimsy at best.Dr Wakefield and his colleagues propose that MMR vaccination somehow triggers a previously unknown type of chronic bowel dysfunction.
Against that, notions of "freshness", which are in the eye of the beholder, start to look flimsy.
