Sentence examples for rather tendentious from inspiring English sources

He justified his conduct in a preamble to his will, which probably dates to the 880s, described by one of Alfred's biographers, Richard Abels, as "rather tendentious", and another, Alfred Smyth, as "ambiguous and vague – and deliberately so".

See van Inwagen 1986 for an especially clear and illuminating comparison of the two approaches and Plantinga 1987 for his own rather more tendentious comparison.

He also found the tone of both opinions "tendentious" rather than cautious and feared that they might be interpreted as an attempt to immunize government officials for genuinely bad acts.

The interpretation of the Cylinder as a "charter of human rights" has been described by some historians as "rather anachronistic" and tendentious.

The Vatican press office responded to the books with severe, disapproving language: "Publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth but, rather, generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions.

On Monday, when it announced the arrests, the Holy See said in a statement: "Publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions".

"Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather to create confusion, and partial and tendentious interpretations," the Vatican said.

She may be apologetic for her tendentiousness, but she is tendentious all the same.

If this is the political direction of travel we should not waste time in tendentious arguments about the relative merits of academies, but rather on how we can make them work".

The HBM framework was selected for interpretation of the traditional healer outcome, in part because it allowed us to examine broad concepts and their associations with the outcome rather than the specific questions asked, which may only have a tendentious logical connection to the outcome.

Luther's version is tendentious: he consigned the Book of James to the Apocrypha, because it posited good works, rather than faith alone, as a route to salvation.