Word: spuriousness
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...official holiday, there will be no shortage of time to sit about discussing the slight and what it portends for Iran's current confrontation with the United States. For a people prone to conspiracy logic, the box office success of 300, compared with the relative flop of Alexander (another spurious period epic dealing with Persians) is cause for considerable alarm, signaling ominous U.S. intentions...
...humiliate female characters. This is combined with a truly tasteless eye for settings and d?cor, a staggering ignorance of nuance in performance and an apparent belief that the business of art is to repel rather than to seduce. Or rather to repel and then tack on a little spurious uplift as he finally does here. Another way of putting that is that he is precisely the opposite of Diane Arbus, hopelessly enthralled and self-endangered by her obsession, yet somehow finding in her art the means of controlling it-at least for a time. Shainberg, in contrast, wishes only...
...wise voter must consider the candidate as an individual and with specific regard to public issues. Secondly, there are immense differences in individual beliefs among adherents of any religion, and to exclude any person on the general basis of his creed would be irrational and manifestly unfair, whatever the spurious generalization uttered to explain the policy. Golding is right that a person may legally vote as he wishes on any basis he chooses and may say so. But doing so on the basis of a candidate’s creed would be irrational and intolerant. If most people adopted...
...Love Story, 1978, the first dot painting to be bought by a public art gallery. But where the exhibition breaks new ground is in exploring the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous art. In a room to the right of Love Story, the Australian art divide is made spurious with the photographic works of Rosemary Laing and Michael Riley. The late Wiradjuri-Gamilaraay artist's final Cloud series suspended emblems of Aboriginal identity and dispossession in the same liquid-blue sky Laing sent her brides flying through. For her most recent series, the Sydney-based Laing traveled to the desert...
...instability, sectarian conflict and terrorism. So, President Bush's audience at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday cannot help but recall his address to the same forum four years ago, when he made a case for war with Iraq based on a litany of what turned out to be spurious claims concerning active nuclear and chemical weapons programs and ties with al-Qaeda...