Sentence examples for spurious sense from inspiring English sources

They combined escape with a spurious sense of uplift: even a literal ascension to heaven at the climax of Cats.

I suspect the Kennedys are becoming a spent force, brought down by hubris and their spurious sense of noblesse oblige.

It appears as though a new day has dawned with a spurious sense of certainty being replaced by a more humble understanding of human behavior as it relates to child-rearing.

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.

What's most curious is that it's widely accepted Shakespeare (or whoever) wrote all his plays about his own times, but chose to set them in geographically and temporally remote locations to distance himself from any political comments he might have been making, and to give them a spurious sense of the exotic.

The dentist's plan was so complex — involving so much money (in Zimbabwean terms, a fortune) for the services of someone who lured the lion away from safety — that not even the spurious sense of dignified combat or pursuit that hunters wish to ascribe to their acts seemed present.

The work of Chen, Song, and Xin [32] is an example of a solution that uses more complex statistics for detecting spurious sensing data in cooperative sensing.

For the detection of spurious sensing data, the most commonly used approach is outlier detection [26], also designated as anomaly or deviation detection.

The turnover in scaling above τ = 1s is therefore spurious in the sense that it does not reflect the scaling of unconstrained, freely roaming Drosophila which can have inter-saccade intervals lasting for more than1s [17], [17].

Finally, the fact that we have observed significant spatial autocorrelation in our data does not determine whether these are true spatial effects or are spurious in the sense that they can be attributed entirely to patterns in other variables, such as income or individual characteristics (such as age, gender, etc).

One possibility is that 5mC oxidation releases a repressive effect on transcription, perhaps by counteracting spurious intragenic anti-sense transcription.