Sentence examples for spurious notion from inspiring English sources

Savage satire on British colonialism and the spurious notion of "Englishness".

Angela Merkel has promised legislation, based no doubt on her spurious notion that performance of the rite is a right.

One would hope that the 2008 financial crisis put to rest the spurious notion that business functions best when regulation functions least.

Only flawed Western "logic" links turmoil among Muslims around the world to the spurious notion that a Muslim head scarf has "true meaning" in France.

It turns out that the conventional wisdom, more often found on the left, that Dacre and Murdoch can brainwash the masses was another spurious notion ready to be put out of its misery.

Many people are sceptical about the idea of what I like to call "sexy addiction", thinking it a spurious notion, invented primarily to help Hollywood film stars evade responsibility for their priapic excesses.

Drake's win also showed audiences don't care about spurious notions of authenticity and realness – what counts is hooks, storytelling and talent, even if you're a middle-class former child actor from Toronto.

But his rise poses a question: "How many Americans are stupid or unpleasant enough to vote for him?" His rhetoric is entirely based on spurious notions of strength, victory and a return to greatness, his specific ideas appeal almost exclusively to people's least creditable feelings.

But while these spurious notions of human behaviour that informed the ex-cathedra statements of tenured economists stuck in my craw, it was their investiture as the sacred prognosticators of our collective destiny that finally convinced me they were false prophets.

To regard unsystematized features as part of a 'system' and to impose an 'over-all pattern' are spurious notions that must be rejected.

Even more spurious is this notion that there would be precious little empathy flying around if Peaches had been some random junkie mother on a council estate.