tendentiousness

Examples of tendentious

tendentious
The relationship between the narrative and the actual scientific work is like that between a tendentious documentary film and the actual historical event it depicts.
Even where less tendentious autobiographies are involved, a lifetime's reading is a heterogeneous business that must often defy the powers of an autobiographer's memory.
Further, none of the four claims seem particularly tendentious.
The treatment of ideologies in part 1 is partial and tendentious.
This book has little to say of these tendentious questions, but it does not ignore them.
The book is also marred by a tendentious tendency that makes it partly a political document in its own right.
This contention has been shown to be tendentious.
Tendentious distinctions are made with no attempt to defend them against obvious objections.
The prominent orthodox argument, that quantum physics gives up causality in principle while classical physics gave it up only in practice, itself crystallized in this tendentious construction of the past.
Goethe's 'withdrawal from appearance' was an archetype of the dialectic of subject and object in late art, an archetype that evolved into more tendentious forms.
The strongly emotive language of this discourse is more suited to individual ethics than large-scale systemic practices, is often tendentious, and probably hampers detached analysis and comparison.
It was meant to dismiss males from the reader's picture of nineteenth-century ballet without probing any more deeply than a few hundred words' worth of tendentious observations could.
For all its rich detail and sweeping range, however, this is a disappointing effort that erects a highly tendentious argument about policy on a supposedly neutral basis of scientific fact.
I think "fool's paradise" is a rather tendentious description.
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