They veer toward the specious, speculative art of the trend story.
The generals make the specious charge that recent unrest was caused by "foreign hands".
Ignoring the specious protectionist reasoning, Ottawa did Potash's shareholders a favor.
The specious argument that it teaches children how to cope with life drives me to despair.
But he has no interest in succumbing to the specious glory of drugs.
John shows himself fluent in the specious rhetoric of irony, self-righteousness and self-pity.
He detects a "fatal particle of vulgarity" in Irving Howe; he dislikes the "specious 'reasonableness' " of Lionel Trilling's prose.
Critics of reform make the specious argument that states have the right to set the rules for federal elections.
It is also time to abandon the specious argument that China's "special conditions" justify authoritarian one-party rule.
"The specious arguments being made by proponents of once-off sales are, I am afraid, ill-disguised and self-serving".
Your April 15 editorial espouses the virtue of government confiscation with the specious argument that the government needs the money.
