Sentence examples for tendentious argument from inspiring English sources

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 customers who were probably minorities, according to the complaint, paid an interest rate that was up to 0.29 percentage points higher than those who probably were not, adding perhaps $300 to their borrowing costs over the life of the loan.Whether such a tendentious argument would have prevailed in court is unclear.

This whole segment was basically set up to sow dissent, because the world really, really needed one more awkward and tendentious argument.

In the two members of the D.C. Court of Appeals who struck down the subsidies attached to policies sold through Healthcare.gov, Cannon and Adler found a couple of jurists who accepted their tendentious arguments.

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".

She has, he writes, "an ability to puncture her colleagues' bloodless abstractions and tendentious arguments, and to explain the constitutional stakes in plain language that all citizens can understand".

Barriga also slammed investigations by press advocacy groups like the CPJ, which he alleged to be "US-financed," calling their work "completely distorted, tendentious, and without argument".

The last thing you want to be armed with as an advocate of common sense are phrases like "gun control," which makes a government-wary public and law-abiding gun-owners uneasy — and susceptible to tendentious "slippery slope" arguments about how "they want to take away your guns".

Here the argument turns tendentious.

Yet these arguments are tendentious.

Every news consumer should be on guard against flimsy arguments or tendentious cuts.