Sentence examples for rather spurious from inspiring English sources

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He has given birth to a mixed progeny of painters who have been inspired by his dynamism and have often taken from it a rather spurious courage.

Its popularity, especially among d.j.s, helped link its creator, known professionally as Lindstrøm, to a specific and rather spurious subgenre: space disco.

Of the chasing pack, the most intriguing are surely Birmingham City, who dismissed the impressive Gary Rowett for rather spurious reasons, replacing him with the affable but not entirely convincing Gianfranco Zola.

There have been some – albeit rather spurious – suggestions that England's captain might have considered his own position during this series, but Cook was adamant he has never been close to resigning.

Yes, David Wheater (who spent most of last season on loan at Darlington FC, providing this rather spurious England Fiver with a hook so fine you could catch your dinner with it) has been called up to the England squad for the upcoming friendly in France.

It's a space that requires an athleticism from the performance and production and musicalising seems to have become a way of filling the void with a rather spurious form of energy which the director fears unable to gain from the actors alone.

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Shame they didn't spend more of the money on decent scripts rather than spurious CGI.

He apparently broke one of those rather more spurious Guinness world records.

The challenge is to obtain meaning from the data that represents something true, rather than spurious.

However, in order to establish the role played by true, rather than spurious, duration dependence, we need to control for dynamic selection on worker attributes.

The major network shows virtually all possible variants for the most expressed candidate (bge_candidate 1 = 4,585,181 reads); however, the modular structure of the network shows that some candidates are clustered in sub-structures (modules), which indicate that they might be real sequences rather than spurious variations of bge_candidate 1.

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