Lukács's neo-Marxist literary criticism can be tendentious, but his neo-Hegelian insights, strikingly expressed, have appealed to those eager to salvage the more humane aspects of Marxism and to promote revolution, even against a modified capitalism and social democracy, by intellectual rather than political means.
When this suggestion first surfaced, in a tendentious 1991 biography by Bruce Perry, the criticism was huge, but Marable insists that the evidence is now more compelling.
But an essay with such a title has inoculated itself against the criticism of being too polemical or tendentious — after all, did you read the title?
Had he not just argued, in an extremely tendentious fashion, that Hispanic immigrants are, on the whole, parasites, he might have endured public criticism of his dissertation.
Kotsko is a virtuosic practitioner of what might be called creepy criticism: a mode of cultural analysis which is fastidious, scrutinous, erudite, and yet totally tendentious — the kind of fever dream that I. A. Richards might have had after an episode of "M*A*S*H".
Kotsko is a virtuosic practitioner of what might be called creepy criticism: a mode of cultural analysis which is fastidious, scrutinous, erudite, and yet totally tendentious — the kind of fever dream that I. A. Richards might have had after an episode of "M*A*SH*." Many readers will recognize it as a frequent mode of cultural writing on the Internet (not necessarily excluding this piece).
He makes tendentious tchotchkes.
This is more tendentious.
So far as I'm able to tell, criticisms of Sarah Palin center on her unfortunate and confused locutions, her manifest deficiency of intellectual curiosity and her tendentious claims on behalf of evident falsehoods — for example, death panels.
Yet these arguments are tendentious.
