Sentence examples for spurious authority from inspiring English sources

In the drawing on this week's cover, the music-paper background suggests the medium that gave the cute and scary youth of the nineteen-sixties their spurious authority.

The former were volunteers who had chosen for multifarious reasons – vanity, principle, boredom – to opt to spend 28 days on the run from a spurious "authority".

I wanted to return to the more playful, irresponsible, even irrelevant (in a good sense) roots of storytelling — the alchemy of characters, language, and emotions — rather than relying on the possibly spurious authority of provenance.

The autobiographer or essayist might be said to have a spurious authority because he or she can fall back on the claim to be speaking "truth": if readers express skepticism about anything in the text, the writer can defend it by saying that this is how it "really" was, or at least how it seemed to him.

He feels that novelists, presiding god-like over the world of their creation, enjoy a "spurious authority"; memoirists and essayists, on the other hand, are honest about the fact that their thoughts and even their projections as to other's thoughts are just that.

And such is the frenzy of the current chase that parts of the press want to transform an already shocking tale of "ordinary", widespread, often systematic abuse by teachers, social workers and relatives, given spurious authority by the appalling Paedophile Information Exchange, into a celebrity trophy hunt.

To take an example close to home, it often seems that a spurious sense of authority can enter a column when a writer quotes the precise words of those in the news.

Authorities use spurious "national security" arguments to poke their noses through your deepest personal business.

A sense of authority is achieved, spurious because partly fictionalised.

The English actress Sheila Gish became a particularly aggrieved enemy in 1983, when Maria, acting with an authority that was spurious, tried to stop her from starring in a production of "Streetcar" at the Greenwich Theatre, in London.

In Siberia this year, for example, two metals factories complained that rivals used the law-enforcement authorities to press spurious charges against the factory owners in so-far unsuccessful attempts to take over the businesses.