The movie risks slipping toward sentimental didacticism — and also fostering a spurious, romantic view of mental illness — but the filmmakers are always careful to err on the side of understatement, and the actors show equal restraint.
However, findings related to lifetime consumption could be spurious in view of potential recall bias described later; hence should be interpreted with caution.
It's a lesson that has not been lost on advertisers, many of whom are starting to see the web as a black hole of fraudulent views, spurious statistics (three seconds for a "view") and, more recently, ad blocking software.
The front page story was in my view completely spurious, nasty and wrong.
And Blair is very important to Bush because he gives legitimacy - in my view a spurious legitimacy about the presence in Iraq".
Tracey's contrivance of precautionary acknowledgement of uncertainty and complexity as a "childish desire to simplify" is – under any view – utterly spurious.
An in-depth view on spurious activation of digital plant protection systems of NPPs for human errors in maintenance tasks is presented in this paper.
If many organisations celebrate their success on specific issues, claiming for example they are net positive because they work with the homeless, whilst emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases, these successes and the net positive concept itself will soon be viewed as spurious.
Nor will I dwell here on the well-aired reasons to be doubtful: the blocking of well-loved views, the spurious claims for usefulness and sustainability, the clumsiness of the design, the cost to the public, the potential impacts of crowds, the likely effects of private sponsorship on allegedly public space, the many ways of both crossing the Thames and greening London that would cost less.
What is the difference, in your mature, rational, evidence-based and carefully thought-out view, between utterly spurious claims about the existence of supernatural entities requiring their votaries to indulge in irrational, discriminatory, divisive and sometimes violent behaviour, and those that putatively are not?
