He could be brusque, tendentious and dismissive, but he was also kindly, direct, and both decent and incorruptible to a degree seldom found among those of great fame.
Such can be a fate of nuanced art in a sphere of gross politics, where Kollwitz's stated, and achieved, intention to express "the suffering of human beings" could be pirated to tendentious ends.
The IDF says videos can be tendentious.
Some of Rukeyser's work is dense to the point of impenetrability, and some of it is tendentious, as Communist-inflected literature of the nineteen-thirties and forties often could be.
Their intertwined tale, which toward its end sings praises of the intricate Book of Kells, is knotty with words like "pubococcygeal," sentences like "According to Margenau's theory, human consciousness could be compared to a field of probabilities in a Fock space, defined as a direct sum of Hilbert spaces," and pages of tendentious analogy between quantum physics and biological processes.
Ever since Rolf Hochhuth's tendentious 1963 play, "The Deputy," Pius's role has become the pivotal question dominating the whole discussion of Christian complicity in the Holocaust -- unfortunately, it could be said, since all the diplomatic papers in the Vatican archives will probably never shed a definitive light on the inner motives of this enigmatic personality.
She may be apologetic for her tendentiousness, but she is tendentious all the same.
Plotting and characterisation are tendentious.
Yet these arguments are tendentious.
"But all these things are tendentious and highly questionable".
