quasi-scientific

I've viewed your previous work; it's clear that quasi-scientific groups like us don't interest you.

At the start, the girl reads a newspaper account of a quasi-scientific attempt to measure female beauty.

A huge quasi-scientific industry has been built on the dubious association of Mozart, and classical music generally, with children's mental development.

Was there no aspect of these children's lives, she wondered silently, that wasn't designed to serve some quasi-scientific purpose or protocol?

Quasi-scientific work can become freighted with baggage of nationalism or boosterism.

It may be encountered as a colloquial or as a quasi-scientific term.

Called "Construction of Vision," they are resolutely abstract and quasi-scientific.

Although their job was documentary, even quasi-scientific, they were landscape painters steeped in the Romantic tradition.

Methods for overcoming impotence have likewise been the object of considerable quasi-scientific investigation.

Anyway, some designers are now promoting fashion items with a quasi-scientific ability to brighten one's mood.

Most technology in the Discworld universe is powered at least partially by magic, which operates on quasi-scientific principles.

That suggests he is conscious of music as a communicative act, as opposed to a quasi-scientific auditory experiment.

This kind of change is simply disguised by the use of quasi-scientific measures and statistics of 'literacy'.

Mr. Thrift advocates that baseball teams experiment with all kinds of scientific and quasi-scientific minutiae.

Or assessing competing hypotheses with quasi-scientific criteria?"

In contrast Paul Mason is fascinated by a quasi-scientific comparison of mathematics and the structures of life.

Both music and Greek attract people through beauty yet demand a quasi-scientific rigor and discipline from their acolytes.

Use of the former by Conrad Gessner established the quasi-scientific term lanius for the shrikes.

Clinique, which created the quasi-scientific image, is now the best-selling prestige skin-care brand in the country, according to statistics from Euromonitor.

A key concept is that of the dorajuadiok, a powerful spirit-being which Wesselman describes as an "energy field" and other quasi-scientific expressions.

In science fiction cloaking, there is generally presented an assumed quasi-scientific, in-universe basis for the concept of achieving invisibility.

He also processed in the darkroom his own quasi-scientific photographs of rocks, adding typewritten commentaries to many of them.

The Hollow Moon theory never gained enough popularity for any major quasi-scientific hypothesis attempting to rationalize it to become notable.

"At the End of the Ninth Year" is the sort of quasi-scientific factoid we all discuss a dozen times, but neglect to write.

In fiction, seemingly impossible superpowers of superheroes are sometimes given scientific, quasi-scientific, pseudo-scientific or outright supernatural explanations by writers.