How To Use Speculative In A Sentence

Sadly what he calls'the paucity of evidence and excess of speculative interpretation' is unlikely to clear the air. The Times Literary Supplement
You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
They are highly speculative and you should only invest what you can afford to lose. Times, Sunday Times
Most attempts to quantify the effect of a separation are speculative. Times, Sunday Times
His book is unspeculative to a degree seldom met with outside railway timetables. Times, Sunday Times

Another factor discussed in the post I just linked to is that people differ in how responsive they are to elements which are nonrealistic, fantastic, speculative, supernatural, etc. Archive 2009-03-15
The papers ran speculative stories about the mysterious disappearance of Eddie Donagan.
Therefore in speculative matters the same truth holds among all men both as to principles and as to conclusions, even though all men do not discern this truth in the conclusions but only in those principles which are called axiomatic notions. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
Any synergy realisations were prospective and speculative. Even then, it valued the shares at between 247-266 pence per share.
But the noose and lifeline metaphors dramatize the in-culture ‘factness’ of much writing, its consequentiality, rather than the seductive pleasures of its speculative realm.
These investors are generally more cautious than speculative hedge funds willing to take a punt at a higher price. Times, Sunday Times
There, a sharp rise in interest rates popped the market's speculative bubble.
In the face of such rises, human nature ensures that purchasing turns speculative - and another bubble is born. Times, Sunday Times
We sympathise with people who have difficulty finding tenants but speculative building is still a risky business.
Christine's eyes were on him, looking him up and down with the same speculative gaze he'd favored her with, and again he wondered how deep she was with Charles.
On his second day in office, President Obama repudiated George W. Bushs obsessive and destructive secrecy by ordering his government to obey the Freedom of Information Act. He said it should not withhold documents because they are embarrassing, or reveal failures and errors, or because of speculative or abstract fears. OpEdNews - Quicklink: NYT OP ED: Did They Miss the Memo?
First, while not unreasonable, the assumption that we would bungle the task of assigning rationality is speculative.
At first heat was considered as its essential and dominant feature, then redness, then exudative swelling; while the speculative neuropathologists consider pain the _fons et origo_ of the condition. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
They are highly speculative and you should only invest what you can afford to lose. Times, Sunday Times
Quantifying the compensatory award Unfortunately, but perhaps inevitably, the calculation of the compensatory award is highly speculative.
Because these projected experiments had never been done, assignment to a risk category was, of course, somewhat speculative and subjective.
I would class this a speculative fiction anyway, but there we start in interminable process of labelling, and lets not have that pointless discussion here. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville « I Can’t Stop Reading!
_I answer that, _ _synesis_ signifies a right judgment, not indeed about speculative matters, but about particular practical matters, about which also is prudence. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
The office block was built as a speculative venture.
I am, in short, thankful for private-property markets that are the main driving force behind these and many other anti-pollutants -- a force so powerful that we today enjoy the incredible luxury of being able to worry, should we so choose, about very distant and very speculative forms of environmental problems such as species loss and global warming. Earth Day -some cogent counterpoints to the standard green koolaid
The historical tendency of the unity of science movement is toward a unified science departmentalized into special sciences, and not toward a speculative juxtaposition of an autonomous philosophy and a group of scientific disciplines. Archive 2009-09-01
Paulicians, that pity for their speculative errors, which modern times might think had been well purchased by the extent of the temporal services of these unfortunate sectaries. Count Robert of Paris
This is due to an easing in demand and will lead to a fall in speculative building.
For a system so leveraged and commanded by speculative finance, there is little room for error.
They are not speculative investors looking for a quick profit. Times, Sunday Times
They equate ‘radical’ with high-risk, ill-conceived, and highly speculative projects.
That could perhaps explain why I allocated as much as 80% of my portfolio to more speculative investments in my earlier investing days.
Noting that Islam prohibits "riba," or the usurious loaning of money, it stressed that sukuk bonds (Islamic law complaint securities) are always real investments and never speculative. Columbia Daily Spectator
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the speculative prevention rule called the downtick-uptick rule (which prohibited short-selling when stock prices were falling), in July Booman Tribune
Posner reviews them all in turn, in a hectic flurry of piled-up fact-bites, speculative calcula-tions, passing quarrels, and offhand policy dicta ” an orderless mixture of assertion, guess, remark, and opinion for which the term "farrago" would seem to have been invented. Very Bad News
But it's wildly unlikely that the police would score any direct hits from speculative trawls through the archive footage.
Rather, speculative theology is the ontology of the ens realissimum , the highest actuality as such.
And in it he asks them to 'Consider' -- his countrymen have scarcely as yet considered it sufficiently -- 'Consider, brethren, it is no speculative theologue which desireth to give you courage, but even your brother in affliction, which partly hath experience what Satan's wrath may do against the chosen of John Knox
Every speculative bubble resembles a chain letter in that profit are provided by late entrants to the market.
Atwood uses the term speculative fiction rather than science fiction.
Quantifying the compensatory award Unfortunately, but perhaps inevitably, the calculation of the compensatory award is highly speculative.
When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk.
Five of the units were speculative projects which would be readily available for companies seeking new premises in the area.
The office block was built as a speculative venture.
The speculative part of metaphysic, which has especially appropriated this appellation -- that which we have called the metaphysic of nature -- and which considers everything, as it is (not as it ought to be), by means of a priori conceptions, is divided in the following manner. The Critique of Pure Reason
The big problem with recommending genre books for readers who either intentionally do not read genre or deny that they do, even when some of the books they have read clearly fit into the speculative fiction rubric, is understanding that the reading mentality in these individuals is different from people who actively and avidly read speculative fiction. MIND MELD: The Perfect SF/F/H Books to Give to People Who Don't Read SF/F/H
The stock market boom was based to a considerable extent on speculative capital, parasitism, and outright swindling.
Though speculative, perhaps these heterodimeric motors walk along the seam of the doublet microtubules or interact optimally with the microtubule-associated proteins found on axonemal microtubules.
I feel that any investment in retail is highly speculative, simply because any business where cash changes hands repeatedly is high risk.
And most of this randier stuff was sold to hedge funds or shipped overseas to other speculative buyers. Making A Mint
Homes became a speculative investment which bubble and burst, leaving thousands without homes or unable to move home.
Being a consummate realist, Joyce reports what he observes and then nonchalantly pares his fingernails, as Stephen suggests in the speculative remarks at the end of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man.
I prefer the term speculative fiction anyway and imagining the throught process of a chimp is certainly speculative. EP073: Barnaby in Exile
An additional consideration is that the adjustment process prior to floating was influenced by the one-way nature of speculative flows.
And what if the highest goal achievable, as a result, is simply the internal coherence of a speculative argument? The Times Literary Supplement
Unlike other recruitment agencies we don't send CVs off speculatively or without your permission.
her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence
A great deal of the demand and supply of international currencies, however, is not for trade but for investment, often speculative investment.
While we wait, one of us might write a speculative novel about a happy, innocent world mercifully free of insufferable literary talk.
Man_, could not better employ their speculative minds than in determining the origin and antiquity of the venerable "joes" which have been in circulation beyond the remembrance of that mythical personage, The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
But as philosophy was widely spread over the world, at the time when Christianity arose, the teachers of the new sect were obliged to form a system of speculative opinions; to divide, with some accuracy, their articles of faith; and to explain, comment, confute, and defend with all the subtilty of argument and science... The Volokh Conspiracy » Nonideological Evil in the Harry Potter Series:
In their detachment and mobility, these characters personify the movements and uses of capital as they enter speculatively into representations of different cultures.
The question was, indeed, broached by the greatest thinkers among the great Greeks; howeer, their answer was always with reference to the presencing of the present Anwesen des Anwesenden, and the ambiguity contained in this "twofold," the tragic flaw contained in this failure to make what Heidegger calls the "ontological difference" was to haunt western thought concerning the tiny word "is" from Parmenides' famous maxim to the "is" of Hegel's speculative propositions. Enowning
These investors are generally more cautious than speculative hedge funds willing to take a punt at a higher price. Times, Sunday Times
Interestingly, the current difficulties which the market is experiencing are not deterring developers in Limerick from undertaking speculative schemes.
Historically, common stocks have been regarded to be too speculative for most small investors.
Thou art a Didymus, Bardolph; -- an incredulous paynim, a most unspeculative rogue! The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
If anything, his work is getting less interesting and adventurous, reworking old ideas for a speculative market.
And some believe that recent price rises partly reflect an increase in speculative trading in oil, as investors look for quick returns by buying and selling oil futures.
Under the common-law rule, therefore, the crucial point is not the certainty or speculativeness of the wife's interest, but rather the precise word choices made by the drafter of the trust document.
In the later Middle Ages it became the linguistic basis of the scholastic speculative grammars, particularly in the University of Paris.
This distinction is not limited to purely speculative notions of truth and falsehood, but rather emphasizes practical moral action and the foresight that makes it possible.
This is a much more speculative venture. Times, Sunday Times
The building is the second of six speculative office blocks to be let at the park - the South Western Area Health Board has already agreed a lease on an adjoining building.
Taibi made his name against Southampton when Matt Le Tissier miscued a speculative shot so badly that he turned away in disgust.
She slid a speculative glance at her boyfriend.
Speculative poetry had more venues than I knew about, but the pickings were a lot skimpier than they are today. An Interview with David Kopaska-Merkel
Kate could feel speculative glances on her as she rolled down the street and thought, ‘They probably figure I'm slumming, looking for a good time.’
The talks are speculative rather than substantive, for three reasons. Times, Sunday Times
It is a pity that they should wish to finance this by selling land for speculative building development to the detriment of our environment.
It is besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
The first effort of the corruptionist is to fix the epithet speculative upon any scheme which he thinks may cherish the spirit of reform. Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
We sympathise with people who have difficulty finding tenants but speculative building is still a risky business.
While such definitions are generally vague enough to allow for fiction founded on most any conceit of technical possibility (i.e. “speculative elements” in general rather than specific conceits like the robot or the rocketship), incoherent attempts to disallow conceits of metaphysical impossibility have led to an artificial distinction between futurological Sci-Fi and works of a more conceptual nature. Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
As speculative contagion spread across the continent and technocratic placemen were imposed on Italy and Greece, David Cameron and George Osborne clashed with the German chancellor over the mortal threat of a 0.01% EU-wide tax on financial transactions. The City of London isn't a national interest – it's a class interest | Seumas Milne
Figures for lending released yesterday added to fears of a new round of speculative investment. Times, Sunday Times
But it will not engage in high-risk speculative trading to make a profit on its own account.
Apart from speculative activity surrounding the price of voucher books, the pace of privatization was deliberately slowed down by the vested political interests of the nomenklatura.
The term "wildcatter" generally refers to a person or company that drills oil wells in areas not known to be oil fields, indicating that many of the companies included in this fund maintain speculative, risky operations. ETFs News and Commentary from Seeking Alpha
My father, as I told you was a philosopher in grain, — speculative, — systematical; — and my aunt The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Neither of the bids is yet certain, but neither looks speculative, either. Times, Sunday Times
Some business people make initial speculative visits on tourist visas. Times, Sunday Times
Harvesting of the plant was a speculative enterprise, with Indian debt peons spending months in the forest harvesting, drying and bailing the crop.
Maybe his father's desire to escape from too close a Young dependence and to try some of his speculative ventures also had something to do with it. Truman
raised a speculative eyebrow
Scholes splits "fabulation" into two major components: dogmatic and speculative. Anime Nano!
There was a speculative bubble because it was so easy to borrow. Times, Sunday Times
We're left with an irresolvable speculative disagreement; end of story. Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
First, speculative activity behaves like a pendulum involving a transfer of wealth from one section of the population to another.
I don't think there's any real argument about this: China is in the midst of a speculative rise in real-estate prices that can't be sustained.
That interrogative, speculative look with which every Commander is familiar. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Rousseau, by contrast, cast his work as a speculative, and moralizing account of society in general.
Sales of sites to the highest bidder for holiday homes or other speculative investment has become a money-spinner for some.
And what if the highest goal achievable, as a result, is simply the internal coherence of a speculative argument? The Times Literary Supplement
In most cases, this is highly speculative investing, and anyone looking to trade futures should really do his or her homework.
Immanuel Kant was almost the only profound speculative thinker who was decidedly convivial, and given to gulosity, at least at his dinner. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
Dowling said the scheme was one of the ‘largest and most ambitious speculative schemes undertaken in the city’.
The shares closed last week at around $10 and analysts have a speculative buy on the stock due to the high risks associated with the company and a price target of $19.
The speculative bubble had entered its terminal phase. DOT.CON
It hardly needs to be said that this is a highly speculative one. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, despite the butchers' sizable landholdings, the sixteenth-century speculative real estate boom in Antwerp passed them by.
He gave a few speculative mastications, possibly thinking the ball was a bird's egg or a milk chocolate.
Speculative theology is not the same as philosophy of religion, or is it identical with theology in the sense of dogmatics .
Such reasons should be empirically based and not just speculative.
Glasgow is not suffering from maladministration of its affairs, but from an over-indulgence in municipalization, carried into the realm of speculative enterprises, which always involves the investment of a large amount of capital and the running of many risks. Britain's Experience of Public Ownership
Nay I myself, am I the worse for being of a feeble order of intelligence; what the irreverent speculative, world calls barren, red-tapish, limited, and even intrinsically dark and small, and if it must be said, stupid? Latter-Day Pamphlets
Regulators fear that informal lending is fueling speculative investment in real estate and other sectors.
Most attempts to quantify the effect of a separation are speculative. Times, Sunday Times
It is indicative of bubble-like [conditions], though: You get this speculative blowoff, and everyone buys into it at the end. AK Steel, Hess Slide;
Consequently less speculative accommodation is now being provided, which we believe will lead to rents hardening and a build-to-suit market becoming more preeminent.
Likewise, there is an interval of a similarly indefinite length of time between the injection of the remedial serum and the lowering of the speculative fever.
He sympathizes with the curiously antispeculative, positivistic frame of mind which characterizes the whole Russian effort in the first place: he pleads for more careful elicitation LINGUISTICS
The article was dismissed as highly speculative.
As it was, it remained the half - uttered _irenicon_ of a few speculative spirits. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
Some of the more prominent members of the seminar think this speculative question can be confidently answered. Christianity Today
Quantifying the compensatory award Unfortunately, but perhaps inevitably, the calculation of the compensatory award is highly speculative.
Speculative, whimsical thoughts are not compatible with the sobriety required by most issuers of credit.
The "available financial accounting information" may be irrelevant to actual speculative market behavior.
No matter how mad at banks we might be, we have got to leave them with a way to return to profitability that does not rely on speculative bubbles, pump-and-dump schemes, and accounting fraud. L. Randall Wray: QE2 Won't Save Our Sinking Ship
Net speculative bets against the euro were at 25,600 with a value of $4.2 billion in the week ended Tuesday, compared with the previous week's data that showed 21,600 net short contracts with a v alue of $3.6 billion, according to a Scotia Capital analysis of the weekly Commitments of Traders report released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday. Dollar Falls as Data Lead to Growth Bets
Yet despite the mandate for change, high-ranking Fed officials continue to sound more like distant arbiters than cops on the beat on key issues like derivatives and curbs on speculative trading.
This pool of finance has over the years been increasingly funneled into speculative channels, fueling refashioned booms and busts around the globe.
This "greediest generation", who only lived for today, and didn't plan for their own futures (let alone their children's), were the driving force behind the speculative and over-leveraged behavior that caused this down turn in the first place. Poll: Paterson's TV ads still not helping
Just as nothing stands firm with regard to the speculative reason except that which is traced back to the first indemonstrable principles, so nothing stands firm with regard to the practical reason unless it be directed to the last end which is the common good; and whatever stands to reason in this sense has the nature of a law. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
The problem with this argument is that it is highly speculative. Times, Sunday Times
Denmark was forced to use high interest rates to defend its currency, the krone , against speculative attack.
One of the ways to get yourself noticed in Hollywood is to write a "spec" script, which I believe stands for "speculation," "speculative" or "speculum" - but I'm not sure which. You nip, I'll tuck
This notion is speculative and demands further research.
The second demand for money is what we call the speculative demand for money, and it is based upon interest rates. RETURN TO PROSPERITY
Another more speculative concern is that it could increase the vulnerability of the economy to deflationary forces.
Godfearing and unspeculative, they have attached themselves to such creeds as appealed most powerfully to the heart with the least possible admixture of form. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
The one speculative operation most people engage in involves buying dollars and euros as hedges against the anemic local tender, the Moldovan leu. How Moldova Escaped the Crisis
Only three of them avoided the speculative angle, dealing respectively with anatomy, ethical issues and why cloned cells die.
Laborers, barred in large measure from the chance to work on speculatively held land, would either go to the city and become a class of urban poor, or move to hitherto submarginal plots of land and settle on them.
Specifically, owing to the high stock price due to speculative force prior to issuance, coupled with the expected forthcoming negative real estate policy, the new issue price was set higher.
Much memorable speculative fiction has been set either in the developing world or in an obviously fantasticated version of it. Readercon Schedule
Tracing the course of the profits squeeze is inevitably rather complicated and speculative because the various influences can not be quantified.
Over the years he has become an expert in spin, obfuscation and, most of all, fueling speculative excess.
If the plaintiff proved that he had lost a real or substantial chance as opposed to a speculative one the evaluation of that chance was part of the assessment of the quantum of damage.
We've witnessed a lot of reckless Credit and speculative excess over the years.
But any investment remains highly speculative. Times, Sunday Times
Sixth, what on earth are they doing investing in a buyout fund - one of the most speculative punts you can have on the financial markets?
But any investment remains highly speculative. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Jonsson admits to several mistakes before regulators seized Flagship, and amid his reflections is a look at how messy, interconnected and speculative lending became in that state amid a real-estate boom. After a Collapse, End of a Dream
Within Blade of Tyshalle Stover illustrates in several sequences why he is, in my mind, the current preeminent describer of action sequences in speculative fiction, depicting actions that produce gruesome results with uncanny and realistic precision. Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Stover – review
Until these questions are answered, a comparison to Greek rituals will just be speculative.
Nonfiction historians are hogtied; no amount of speculative verbiage can truly fill an absence of facts. Counting On Progress
South Korea warned investors it might impose further limits on forward trading and India and Thailand said they were looking at steps to control speculative surges.
Western magazines can only tolerate a certain dosage of ethnicity, and there are few native magazines that will publish speculative fiction. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Anil Menon
The boss has put all his money into that speculative enterprise.
he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness
Any financial injury remains speculative. Christianity Today
Some of the more prominent members of the seminar think this speculative question can be confidently answered. Christianity Today
For those of you who enjoy both gay and speculative fiction, Icarus is the magazine for you. Editing results
We fully appreciated the relatively speculative nature of that question.
I would argue that while profits remain the centerpiece of Capitalistic processes, financial and speculative profits today reign supreme.
In any case, as “Centinel” observed, “the lust of power is so universal, that a speculative unascertained rule of construction” provided “a poor security for the liberties of the people.” Ratification
If a decent argument can be made, though, regarding "speculative" fiction's exclusive speculativeness-- or, at least, if it can delineate itself as a form in itself, then, ayun. More Issues Raised
Thousands of pensioners were persuaded to mortgage their homes to invest in speculative bonds.
There was a speculative bubble because it was so easy to borrow. Times, Sunday Times
The significance of speculative manias is that they cause the buildup of debt and bad investments which creates slow growth.
He'd love to write a collection of essays on speculative fiction and, in a fit of frenzied conceitedness, his long-suffering epic fantasy sequence about a wizard who tattooed souls. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F Part IV
First Lord Peter gave him a speculative glance.
It was Rupert's decision that swayed the others; I could still see-with a feeling of grim satisfaction-the look on Dougal's face when his squat, black-bearded lieutenant eyed me speculatively, then patted the dags at his belt and said, "Aye, lass, why not? Sick Cycle Carousel
This is a highly speculative investment. Times, Sunday Times
But did the streets of Speculative Ficville need to be covered in melon seeds to prove this? Ccfinlay: Wow!
The research papers relied on by the Appellant, although of some evidential value, are very general and speculative.
Much has been written about the urgent need for an overhaul of incentive schemes to encourage longterm sustainable performance rather than speculative short-term gains. Times, Sunday Times
The article and the dissertation decidedly follow such speculativeness.
Counsel for the 1986 Trustee submits that the claims are stale, speculative, defensible and likely to fail.
speculative knowledge
If one currency is "forced" to devalue under such pressure, this tends to produce a "domino" effect as other weak currencies are likewise subjected to speculative pressure. Collins Dictionary of Economics
That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929
In a statement Sunday, the Swiss bank blamed its recent $2.3 billion trading loss on what it called unauthorized speculative trading on equity-index futures over the last three months; an employee, Kweku Adoboli , has been charged with fraud by abuse of position. UBS's Controls and Culture in Question
As the reality of politics staggers to its knees, so TV scriptwriters turn up like speculative vultures. Times, Sunday Times
This area of cosmology is less speculative; involving some estimated equations and unverified assumptions.
Now, the massive pool of global speculative finance has its sights on myriad markets and asset classes.
March 10, 2010, 1:13 pm gasman says: ...said the commission would examine closely the possibility of banning outright “purely speculative” trading of theswaps... The Volokh Conspiracy » Two Views of Credit Default Swaps
The implicit tax would thus rise and fall precisely as needed to counter speculative pressures.
Central banks hold reserves to defend their currencies from speculative attacks and to help finance international borrowing and trade.
Price rise only superficial or temporary mainly attributable to short covering also partly speculative purchases.
For 130 miles we plowed through this nebulous and speculative world, peopling it, unpeopling it, fiddling like gods with its probable geology.
I like the term speculative fiction because it encompasses a broad range of genres and tropes: SF, fantasy, horror, alt history, etc. Alternate history: SF, Fantasy, or Something else?
Neither of the bids is yet certain, but neither looks speculative, either. Times, Sunday Times
Some speculative future applications of explosive materials in the space programme conclude the scientific presentations.
He gave Julien a speculative glance and then grinned.
Anderson said construction could start with two speculative buildings.
Moreover, the logic of specialisation in the knowledge necessary to participate meaningfully in such speculative poetics harbours within it a repressed identity.
However, what we are witnessing is not an increase of interest in the Bible or its teaching, but an upsurge in speculative religion and mysticism.
Also the connection between belief and tool-making, while ingenious, is also purely speculative. A second opinion ...

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