tendentious

How To Use tendentious In A Sentence

• distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion
• This kind of tendentious whimsy is more peculiar than interesting; as the pages turn, one becomes inured to it and begins to yawn. Archive 2007-09-01
• But other readings are extremely tendentious, and deixis is often a movable feast providing ready-prepared answers. The Times Literary Supplement
• Finally, while this isn’t an objection specific to this line of argument, it’s worth saying one more time how obnoxious and tendentious is all this talk about the supposed rights of “foreign terrorists.” I Take Requests
• This argument mixes so many distortions, falsehoods and tendentious points that it's not easy to know where to start.
• No such cutwork is needed on Twilight, which is merely better suited to the large screen than the large print, where within its 600 pages it was at worst, plodding, and at best, tendentious. Interviews with various vampires
• To cacoon and even entomb one's mind in tendentiously conceived definitions and platitudes, likewise imagining that doing so is tantamount to serious inquiry and thought, is the very hallmark of the ideological religionist, to indulge the term in a simple and purely pejorative sense. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• Principal-part participation is a behavior with tendentiousness and devotion as well as a guiding ideology of all teaching strategies.
• Such tendentious statements are likely to provoke strong opposition.
• His analysis was rooted in a somewhat tendentious reading of French history.