Sentence examples for specious character from inspiring English sources

Here is an idea, hospitality industry: stop trying to conjure specious "character" in your venue using flea market tat (most of which is no less mass-produced than the crockery in Ikea), and please concentrate instead on a) the quality of what is on the plate, and b) said plate being fit for purpose.

Indeed, as processes which occur over time, remembered or imagined movements will themselves occur within momentary specious presents, and so their dynamic character will depend on that of retentions.

That is, in part, a specious argument.

To call it an extension cord would be a serious case of specious logic.

In §4-§6 the focus was largely on the character and composition of individual specious presents, as variously construed by different forms of realism, and the manner in which these combine to form streams of consciousness.

It otherwise is a rather specious drama that stonily observes several variously deluded characters and the snaky individual who works their nerves.

What that Google search and some news outlets are including are superdelegates, the group of elected Democrats and party officials that are cast as shadowy characters every four years because of specious tallies like these.

To write of Washington's spotless character and not address the stain of slavery seems specious at best.

Since the abrasive behavior of Hershel, played by Mr. Biggs, tends to indicate colossal bad manners more powerfully than spiritual enlightenment, the character's deployment as a catalyst is more than a little specious.

In any case, on Trident, talk of compromise is specious.

Nonetheless, the cumulative effect of describing characters in traditional novel fashion may indeed, as postmodernists assert, offer a specious form of reassurance, by implying the existence of a contained and orderly universe.