Instead of quietly allowing her characters to reveal themselves through tiny, unexpected gestures as she did in "Girl," Ms. Chevalier forces them to make tendentious statements that announce exactly what they are thinking and that italicize the author's sociological points.
Intriguingly, in viewing of the localization of tomato LePT2/ 6 and potato StPT2/ 6/ 7 on their corresponding chromosomes, it is tempting to make a tendentious conclusion that the duplication giving rise of the tomato LePT2 and LePT6 probably occurred before the split of tomato and potato.
At the same time it makes an extended and tendentious argument, defying conventional wisdom and in some cases basic logic, that Le Corbusier, the Cartesian aesthete, maker of "machines for living in," celebrant of automobiles, biplanes and what he called the "White World," was in fact an architect "profoundly rooted in nature and landscape," as the opening text panel to the exhibition announces.
The Dutch D.J. Sander Kleinenberg, who won the award for the best remix (for his version of Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body"), made a less tendentious political speech: "I travel around the world, and I see Muslims dancing in Malaysia, Jews dancing in Israel," he said.
To many in Washington, that tendentious combination is what makes Marja, and the larger strategy behind the surge of 30,000 more troops, such a huge risk.
Apart from the interesting aside on the Templeton Foundation, which exists to keep religion confused with and implicated in science, this makes as clear as day the tendentious purpose of an "education" at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Yet in a follow-up to his original piece, Chait suggests that "associating charges of racism or sexism with tendentious ideological hectoring naturally makes people more skeptical of the veracity of any such charges".
It's less the tendentious didacticism than the comic, mythological vision that makes it compelling.
They think it makes a novel political, which in their vocabulary becomes synonymous with tendentious.
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.
