Sentence examples for tendentious comparison from inspiring English sources

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.

Pundits who lay hold of movies often seem merely to filter them to yield predetermined results — as Frank Rich does, in Sunday's Times, in a piece in which he draws tendentious conclusions from a comparison of the stories and the box-office results of the Coen brothers' "True Grit" and David Fincher's "The Social Network".

Only for the nematode treatment and selection line, the effect was tendentious when taking into account multiple comparisons.

That would be a tendentious exercise in moral equivalence.

Then, the energetic if somewhat tendentious broadcasts of Al Jazeera will seem, in comparison, like the nuanced objectivity of the BBC.

Gun control zealots' choice of Britain for comparison with the United States has been wholly tendentious, not only because it ignored the history of the two countries, but also because it ignored other countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico.

As McMahan acknowledges, the appropriateness and intelligibility of the comparison are disputed by some philosophers and disability scholars, and we do not want to adopt a tendentious label when one of our objectives is to assess that very claim.

This is more tendentious.

He makes tendentious tchotchkes.

Yet these arguments are tendentious.

Plotting and characterisation are tendentious.