Word: speciousness
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...There are those who say that we can be of more aid to Britain by staying out. . . . This is a specious argument. . . . Can we as a people with our freedom threatened let another nation do all the fighting for us? Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that sooner or later the United States as a nation of idealists will answer a thundering...
...first novel by the brother of New Yorker Artist William Steig is the best story so far about hot jazz and the people who make it. Dorothy Baker's Young Man With a Horn showed tinny enthusiasm, a specious literary talent; Dale Curran's Piano in the 'Band had a warmer enthusiasm, less talent. But even Send Me Down leaves a long way to go. Its author has had some actual experience as a jazz musician, has knowledge and taste about the music, can do good reportage on the professional and erotic life of his colleagues. Beyond...
...Such an argument as Mr. Lear states now is specious, but the fact is that the British have distinguished themselves in the last few years neither for intelligence nor breadth of concern. There is little reason to believe they have suddenly turned impeccable in these respects...
Because it shies clear of familiar Hollywood concepts of good & evil, is buoyed by lively literate dialogue and another of Mitchell's poignant performances, and decorated with the shadowy photography of Lee Garmes, Angels Over Broadway rings with a specious tone of superiority. Cinemaudiences are likely to find later that, like a polished apple, its handsome exterior conceals the same old fruit...
...arrived in London, Mr. Roosevelt, violently and without warning, repudiated the instructions he had given them. Sitting in a boat off the coast of Maine, he hastily adopted a brand-new experimental monetary program for the United States. He denounced the proposal of the conference as a 'specious fallacy...