Sentence examples for a tendentious one from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the very idea of using the Tax Policy Center study to accuse Romney of planning to raise taxes on the middle class is a tendentious one.

The difficulty of closing down the Guantánamo Bay prison is nicely exemplified by a choice posed to Slovenia: take one of its inmates, and your president will meet Barack Obama.The third category, a tendentious one, purports to show other countries' private thinking.

The contrast between Laura and Alec's thwarted passion and the rampant randiness of the station staff clearly makes a point about stifling, middle-class conventions; it is also a slightly tendentious one, since neither of the other couples is currently married.

It's not the first time that Dieudonné, a former mainstream comedian who now puts on highly politicized, tendentious one-man shows in which the far right and the far left unite to laugh at his anti-Semitic humor, has come under the sanction of the law for his remarks.

A reader looking for a nuanced examination of the many factors behind these complex phenomena will not find it in this tendentious, one-sided book.

This was a tendentious view but not an uncommon one, especially in Escobar's early years.

Starring Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin as a suburban couple whose teenage daughter (Linnea Heacock) has disappeared into the wilds of the East Village, it remains one of the most closely and compassionately observed films of a tendentious decade and will receive a rare screening as part of a two-week retrospective of Mr. Forman's films that begins Thursday at the Museum of Modern Art.

(Yes, I know you can blame it all on the government, but that's a tendentious "reality is the opposite of what you see" argument).

One day this summer, a tweet included a link to the speech, with a tendentious summary: "Bill Cosby Bashes Negro Thugs and Black Welfare Moms: 'We Can't Blame the White People Any Longer.' " The name on the Twitter account was @WhiteResister.

The decision arises in a tendentious political context, as President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko refused to sign off on the customs union with Russia and Kazakhstan, to Russia's south.

That would be a tendentious exercise in moral equivalence.