Adjective : a tendentious novel. From Dictionary.com.
Isn't a certain tendentiousness par for the course?. From Wordnik.com. [Ansel Adams at 100] Reference
Your other issues are stated with equal tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Being left—and being left alone] Reference
That is the explicit tendentiousness of the Do Nothing Crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Case For Doing Nothing] Reference
This is a nice parametric method for measuring “tendentiousness”. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Indian Ocean Hurricanes « Climate Audit] Reference
How much common sense does it take to see the tendentiousness in that sentence?. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary And Obama Campaigns At War Over Bill's Iraq Comments] Reference
Principally it jangles the inference of tendentiousness as praise or denigration. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture Writing And Being] Reference
Mr. Lyons's narrative is vivid and elegant, though marred at times by tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Islamic Enlightenment] Reference
A year later, Mr. Schanberg was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, though not for tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [From WikiLeaks to the Killing Fields] Reference
I would agree he does not support the ID movement or much of its more ideological tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [A. C. Grayling: a product of unintelligent design « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
“I would agree he does not support the ID movement or much of its more ideological tendentiousness.”. From Wordnik.com. [A. C. Grayling: a product of unintelligent design « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
He is the distilled essence of the grating, litigious, humorless tendentiousness of the Clinton campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Supporter Lanny Davis: Howard Dean Should Resign If He Nixed North Carolina Debate] Reference
And he does it without any of the ideological tendentiousness so typical of our public debate these days. From Wordnik.com. [Book review: 'Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan' by Derek Leebaert] Reference
Would we fall into the twin traps of soporific tendentiousness on the one hand, patent offensiveness on the other?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Humor Roundtable - January 1, 2000] Reference
The appearance of the letter samekh before this verse merely emphasizes the negative tendentiousness of this teaching. From Wordnik.com. [Eve: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
People mostly make up this idea to indulge in the joys of ethnic self-pity or out of ideological tendentiousness. jr Says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Minority Report] Reference
I'll let readers such as our conservative regular, Peter, wrestle with the straw men inhabiting that thicket of tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
Cable television news has an earned reputation for its tendentiousness, but still, every now and again I can get caught off guard. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Amsterdam: Joe Scarborough Needs to Wake Up and Smell the Coffee] Reference
I welcome his moments of tendentiousness and extravagance, just as I welcome the historical insight of this least jingoistic of patriots. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Questions for: James Hamilton-Paterson - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Most of the Danner letter focuses on Packer allegedly taking quotes "painfully" out of context and the "corrosive tendentiousness at work.". From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: UPDATED: Top Authors, and Editor, in NYT Book Review Ethics Dispute] Reference
There is no tendentiousness here, no attempt to find deep meaning, no theory about baseball imitating or reflecting anything about "real" life. From Wordnik.com. [The Streak of Streaks] Reference
Because Munich avoids such tendentiousness, the movie may help people to see the Israeli – Palestinian conflict in a more balanced perspective. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Equation] Reference
Some of his later works have suffered from tendentiousness (his characters 'objections to U.S. foreign policy can sedate even readers who agree). From Wordnik.com. [Le Carré's mission keeps changing, but not his mastery] Reference
I think the political nature of that committee and the tendentiousness in that committee -- the paper reports that this morning -- things are flying in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 20, 2002] Reference
They know nothing of the tumult, cacophony, rambunctiousness, and tendentiousness of the actual scientific process, let alone the creativity, passion, and joy of discovery. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 4] Reference
It was clearly written by Marty Peretz – its pomposity and tendentiousness and chest-thumping anti-Palestinian animus are among the tipoffs (I say as a supporter of Israel). From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » So Very Clever] Reference
The spectacle of all this tendentiousness is sometimes comic. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
If tendentiousness and art appear in the same proportion, all is well. From Wordnik.com. [Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Banquet Speech] Reference
I have said nothing here of the effect of tendentiousness on art, which it can make or mar. From Wordnik.com. [Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Banquet Speech] Reference
There's too much tendentiousness in the telling of our story, the greatest political story ever told. From Wordnik.com. [National Review Online] Reference
We can slam their attitudes on immigration and on foreign aid without resorting to any such tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
As all actual, practicing literary critics know, few sentences in critical works scream tendentiousness louder than. From Wordnik.com. [Acephalous] Reference
The New York Times, since I long ago decided that the paper's irrelevancy was exceeded only by its political tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Encounter Books] Reference
Obama has Sumner's basic desire to effect change with grand speeches, but not the Bay State Senator's uncompromising tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [History News Network] Reference
To assert they’re causal without knowing causation is mere tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Treydte, Moberg, Soon and Baliunas « Climate Audit] Reference
4. I like thinking about philosophy of science and pushing for truth vice tendentiousness comes from Rickover training. From Wordnik.com. [Mo' Mo' Moberg « Climate Audit] Reference
I recognize the dangers of tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Shelley, Adorno, and the Scandal of Commited Art] Reference
They barely rise to the level of tendentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But its own tendentiousness gets in the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
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