Sentence examples for fraudulent idea from inspiring English sources

Fincher described the narrator's immersion, "It was just the idea of living in this fraudulent idea of happiness".

In stark contrast to Smith's theories, the Street's history is nothing but one of fraud for the simple reason that the entire enterprise is built on a deeply fraudulent idea: that the future can be predicted.

Until Wall Street stops pretending otherwise with "investment strategists" and mumbo-jumbo about "structural problems" that disappear overnight, the entire enterprise is based on the fraudulent idea that the future is predictable at a fine scale.

For example, saying that a clone would not have a personal identity prejudges the clone as inferior or fraudulent (the idea that originals are more valuable than their copies) or even less than human (as individuality is seen as an essential characteristic of human nature).

And yet nothing could be more fraudulent than the idea of a homogeneous oeuvre with a single name attached to it.

Which brings us back to raw, back to that fraudulent (but seductive) idea that a wily rock veteran has simplified her music to show us her soul.

You know, yesterday, as I read The New Republic's attempt to tell me that it was up to me and President Obama to save newspapers through a sustained campaign of refusing to call them out for their failings, thus propping up their reputations, I overlooked a very vital and ongoing story that could help to expose this fraudulent set of ideas.

In "The Teacher," one of her recent stories for The New Yorker, a woman living alone in upstate New York becomes friends with a fraudulent guru; perhaps because his ideas are nonsense, she finds herself making sense of her own life.

But the question has been studied repeatedly, and there is no evidence for such a link; the research that first promoted the idea was subsequently proved fraudulent.

Afterwards, though, I thought it fraudulent too.

Such so-called clawbacks may occur even if the client had no idea that the gains were fraudulent, he said.