Sentence examples for it was specious from inspiring English sources
The specious present is perhaps not really specious: the idea that it was specious depended on an idea that the real (nonspecious) present had to be instantaneous.
It was specious, of course, most of our lives are resolutely the same as before the attack, except for the necessity of putting up with bad security theater at the airport while cargo whizzes through our seaports uninspected.
Consider the first charge: it's specious.
It is specious to focus on the latter condition while ignoring the former.
But it also lays the documentary open to the charges that dog every historical re-creation: it's specious, and it looks like a school play.
"It's specious to argue that we need masks when the incinerator itself is going to destroy these weapons," Colonel Williams said.
It is specious to boast that it should be exported widely, even within Europe Germanyy's combination of wealth, wage discipline and post-war obsession with consensus is pretty unusual.
And it is specious, and very undemocratic, for President Bush and other members of his administration to imply that raising legitimate questions about our nation's actions is wrong.
Pellegrini was occasionally placed in awkward situations because everyone knew he was only keeping the seat warm, but he was hardly stabbed in the back and it is specious of Seluk to suggest otherwise.
"It is specious to the point of misleading to suggest that the needs for liquidity currently provided by banks will not be filled," said Wallace Turbeville, who represented Americans for Financial Reform, a nonprofit group that favors new restrictions on Wall Street risk-taking.
