Sentence examples for of the tendentious from inspiring English sources

In light of the tendentious histories of this turbulent period, the intellectual honesty and modesty of the Bollandists is refreshing.

Containing none of the tendentious religious leanings of earlier children's textbooks, it was marked instead by a strong patriotic and moral tenor.

Five days ago, when it emerged that the group had removed all its McCann stories from its websites, I gave some examples of the tendentious, and often mendacious, material the Daily Express had been running.

This paper suggests a theoretical approach to considering these random variations and to estimating the relative dominance of randomness compared to the tendentious changes in a real mixing process.

A sampling of six, chosen from dozens, illustrates the tendentious readings of Kass: The "institution of stable domestic arrangements for rearing the young depends on some form of man's rule over woman".

This uploading of the archival article became, in the tendentious hands of a Boston Phoenix writer, a tremendous Irony – one NYT columnist endorsing stronger copyright protection while a different NYT columnist allegedly "stole" Booth's work.

Of course, a sample of fatuous or silly phrasing doesn't mean there can be no great books of triumphant language, any more than the tendentious example of Stephanie Myer means that there can be no masterpieces emerging from genre fiction.

There is, however, an argument for holding such show trials regardless of the outcome or the tendentious evidence.

And last year, the foundation gave a $2 million grant to a media company "to execute a social action campaign that will complement Paramount's marketing campaign of Waiting for Superman," the tendentious pro-charter school anti-Randi Weingarten film.

Neither produced the results Washington had hoped for, though the Camp David talks pushed consideration of the most tendentious issues further along than expected.

Gani, imam at the Tooting Islamic Centre, has featured in many of the somewhat tendentious "extremist links" attacks made by the Goldsmith campaign and Tory-leaning news outlets on Khan, who is Tooting's MP.