Word: speciousness
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...serrated knife on the viewer's nerves. And the creature creators, H.R. Giger and Richard Edlund, make Sil in her alien mode look variously like evil pudding and a spiny octopus. The monster isn't the problem here; it's the humans, Sil's pursuers, who make Species turn specious. One of them (Forest Whitaker) is an "empath" who can intuit everything about Sil--her moods, motives and fears--everything except that she's standing right behind him. Alfred Molina, playing an expert in cross cultures (and Sil, when riled, is one very cross culture), doesn...
Ehrlich maintained, however, that the reasonsthe Maull-Lewis report gives for the restructuringare specious...
...Republicanism, we were still surprised at the level to which the The Crimson "news" staff will sink. Reporter Michael Luo's article "Republican Groups Trade Insults, Allegations" (news story, May 8, 1995) was nothing more than a forum in which members of the Republican' splinter group could air specious grievances against the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). And, thanks to the selective reporting of Luo, the charges could be made without the fear of a serious response...
Comfort level: High. Aesthetically pleasing. as well it should be. Chairs are contoured wood, floor is carpeted, ceilings are high. Tables are specious; sparse studying population means you can spread all your books out at your pleasure...
...fine. But certainly none of us should share his low estimation of self-worth. Though the nation's eyes don't always turn to Harvard, we must affirm our power to make a difference. The belief that our actions are worthless and heeded by no one is not only specious, it is dangerous as well. Precisely that same apathy allows ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and human rights abuses in China...