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If she did, it would be in keeping with the larger speciousness of the new marriage manuals.

There is a thread of pure speciousness that runs through this otherwise interesting article.

A lot of historians have already pointed out the speciousness of this history lesson.

Antiquity, as usual, has lent a certain degree of speciousness even to the absurd.

This exercise in speciousness will teach us nothing.

There's an aroma of speciousness about it.

Yes, Crito, there is more speciousness than truth; they cannot be made to understand the nature of intermediates.

Monk's vivid rendering of this family tragedy masks the speciousness of his underlying argument.

Perhaps in the future Orr might consider picking apart the pretense and speciousness that mark so many other modern poetic voices.

He liked her terminology in describing the possibility of speciousness in extrasolar expeditions.

The speciousness of this reasoning is self-evident, but the attitude it represents is so prevalent that attention must be paid.

That claim's total speciousness hadn't been a problem, given Romaine's fundamental philosophical rejection of the entire Imperial system, including its succession law.

"We use maple syrup instead of sugar for sweetening," he replied, smirking as he realized the speciousness of the statement.

Luckily, the solemnity and weight of Mr. Robards in the role successfully camouflage the speciousness of present-day Henry as a dramatic device.

It's not necessary to know which film featured Grand Moff Tarkin and which had Legolas Greenleaf to spot the speciousness of the connection.

Indeed, Pierre Bon-Bon, from what I have been able to understand of his disposition, was of all men the least likely to be imposed upon by any speciousness of exterior deportment.

To support this crusade, Mr. Sullum argues, they have made the claims he characterizes as myths, which because of their speciousness add up to the message "You shouldn't smoke because it's bad for you."

The gradual thawing of cold-war tensions in Korea and the trend toward reform in Iran point to the speciousness of the argument that the United States needs this system to protect itself against rogue states.

"Ornstein's email is just another example of the speciousness of the quote-unquote evidence that Commissioner (Roger) Goodell claims to have to support his erroneous accusations against Jonathan and the other players," lawyer Peter Ginsberg said.

I remembered that occasion and the speciousness of the chairman's argument when I read a new research article about a management experiment in a UK hospital which required all professions (with the exception of doctors) to wear the same "corporate uniform".

The policy alluded to by the Member for Mid-Bucks under the label of Foggartism, because it emanates from that veteran Sir James Foggart, has a certain speciousness in these unsettled times, when every one is looking for quack specifics.

The audience watched the tangled skein unravelled by the eminent French detective, M. Hercule Poirot, much in the way that an audience watches an illusionist, except that instead of the quickness of the hand deceiving the eye, the speciousness of the detective's reasoning deceived the senses.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the book that made Ken Kesey famous, worked its effects so powerfully that it was only when you stopped to think about it that you realized the speciousness of its controlling metaphor, that America was an insane asylum run by a lobotomizing mother.