Dubious
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Tony learns about the ontologically promiscuous, the epistemologically anxious, the ethically dubious, the metaphysically ridiculous.
Dr. Wertham does a pretty
dubious
job of proving his case, but his book does inspire the Senate of the United States to hold a series of hearings to see if in fact comic books caused juvenile delinquency.
We tend to, all of us, even those of us who work in marketing, think of value in two ways: the real value, which is when you make something in a factory or provide a service, and then there's a
dubious
value, which you create by changing the way people look at things.
And when the book came out, I was heralded as Africa's answer to Frederick Forsyth, which is a
dubious
honor at best.
So we need to acknowledge that despite the
dubious
statistics, despite the fact that 84 percent of people in Britain feel politics is broken, despite the fact that when I was in Iraq, we did an opinion poll in 2003 and asked people what political systems they preferred, and the answer came back that seven percent wanted the United States, five percent wanted France, three percent wanted Britain, and nearly 40 percent wanted Dubai, which is, after all, not a democratic state at all but a relatively prosperous minor monarchy, democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
So for instance, today, in Ghana, courageous reformers from civil society, Parliament and government, have forged a coalition for transparent contracts in the oil sector, and, galvanized by this, reformers in Parliament are now investigating
dubious
contracts.
Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to terms with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon
dubious
economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.
Now, I know this might sound like a dream job, or possibly a highly
dubious
occupation, but for me, it's something else altogether.
We secretly filmed some of the family of the former chief minister and a lawyer as they told our undercover investigator exactly how these
dubious
deals are done using such companies.
At the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, we saw a War God with a history of
dubious
care.
Now, I was really
dubious
whether anyone was going to want to help with this, and give up their time for something like that.
Now, Mount Everest is actually an interesting comparison of a new approach to how we interact with our environments, as it's often given the
dubious
honor of being the world's highest garbage dump.
The Holocaust which has the
dubious
distinction of being the best-documented genocide in the world?
He had a passion for flight, as you can kind of sense from that rather
dubious
1970s office-leaving present.
So even if you could buy that Costco-sized bottle of telomerase, and there are many websites marketing such
dubious
products, the problem is you could nudge up your risks of cancers.
And I try to do something new with mentalism, mentalism, which is the
dubious
art of getting inside your head.
And a lot of licit banks were also happy to accept deposits from very
dubious
sources without questions being asked.
And so he looked very dubious, Asanga did.
And this can create great natural shelters for animals, but they've also been appropriated for some rather
dubious
human uses, including a bar, a prison and even a toilet inside of a tree.
Due to rather
dubious
plate tectonics, Japan starts to slip under the sea.
Initial predictions say it'll take about 40 years before the country is submerged, but a rogue scientist adds in some even more
dubious
science and determines it will actually take less than 1 year!
I had the
dubious
opportunity to view this movie on TV.
The
dubious
highlights include a barbaric hunting game (you can guess what he prey is), a duel-to-death between a guard and a prisoner and the image of a poor girl having a needle injected all the way through her nipple.
The events that he is rapidly forced to come to terms with are the separation of his parents, the culture shock when his Pakistani roots collide with a complete breakdown of English straitlaced society in the sixties, his father's
dubious
transformation into the revered Buddha of Suburbia, and the turning of his cousin into a feminist militant as his best friend suddenly becomes an icon of the burgeoning punk movement in the seventies.
Per the illogic of these sorts of films, she gets permission to hold the party at a house which used to be a crematorium, a
dubious
place long shut down and locked up.
At least Ed Wood's misguided attempt at making a quality science fiction film had the
dubious "
star" power of Bela Lugusi, Vampira, Tor Johnson, Criswell and Lyle Talbot.
The contrast between Fanny's rather
dubious
family and family home and the splendors of Mansfield is key to, well, so many aspects of Fanny's refusal of Henry, her uncle's rejection, Henry's near transformation to a good person, etc., etc. Again, given the complexity and challenges of the novel, why did they bother?
Strained and humorless (especially in light of its rather
dubious
psychology), but well-paced and comfortably lurid, this genteel body count movie highlights the unusually hypnotic presence of Angharad Rees as a young woman periodically possessed by Jack the Ripper, thus allowing for some nasty gore effects amidst the Edwardian propriety.
In Australia many top male sports stars have been arrested recently for
dubious
assaults and drinking charges, another example of the government controlling the male populous by arresting their heroes and asserting dominance.
The emergence of Quentin Tarantino and his
dubious
influence on the likes of Guy Ritchie may have triggered the wave of appalling British gangster flicks we've been bequeathed over the past few years, but one of our most famous acting exports only serves to perpetuate the cycle by lending his considerable name to trash like this.
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