Sentence examples for something tendentious from inspiring English sources

Javier de la Rosa, a journalism professor at Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid, said that while Mr. Évole had emerged as "a very talented communicator" who had managed to identify topics of genuine interest to citizens, "there is an element of manipulation and something tendentious about his work, because he plays heavily on viewers' emotions under the guise of journalistic rigor".

There are a handful of such moments in Ms. Simpson's new collection of stories, "In-Flight Entertainment," but over all the tales feel stilted and contrived, and in some cases tendentious — something her earlier work always assiduously avoided.

Let's hear from them on this — presumably, something other than the muttered excuses and tendentious whataboutism of a political movement that is capable of saying and doing anything except look itself in the eye.

Of course, it is the authors' contention that Las Vegas itself is emblematic of something larger: what they call in this tendentious and often hysterical book "a pervasive and swelling American corruption," the "glorification of mass taste and tastelessness, aspiration, delusion, despair, a glossy if coarse mercenary despotism".

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

Thus, philosophical controversy as to whether space-time can exist without matter becomes tendentious according whether one counts the gravitation field as something material or not.

There is something about it that seems overweening in its condescension, unbearably self-righteous, self-serving, tendentious.

Yes, back when we didn't know to take sexual harassment seriously, so long ago it seems tendentious to bring it up now, except we're not even saying what "something" is.

This is more tendentious.

He makes tendentious tchotchkes.

Yet these arguments are tendentious.