The Dutch D.J. Sander Kleinenberg, who won the award for the best remix (for his version of Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body"), made a less tendentious political speech: "I travel around the world, and I see Muslims dancing in Malaysia, Jews dancing in Israel," he said.
This is the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read.
Hall's main innovation is to suggest a parallel between Titania and Elizabeth I: a somewhat tendentious idea since Shakespeare's play is a hymn to marital fecundity and Theseus pointedly suggests the rose distilled is happier than that which withers on the "virgin thorn".
Then, having confessed a failure of sympathy, and having earlier called for restraint in the face of "the seduction of binary thinking", Mr Almond hastens to repeat his team's tendentious good-guy/bad-guy narrative: I'm not trying to soft-pedal the very real pathologies of the modern conservative movement.
Yes, I realise that's a tendentious interpretation too, but some people are easily misled by enthusiastic crowds.
State of the Nation never flags in its analysis or its urgent enquiry; it is as good an account of the postwar theatre as I know of, though distinctly tendentious.
In contrast, a long essay from Harper's Magazine called "Why I'm a Pacifist" reads like a tendentious and alarming follow-up to his tendentious 2008 book "Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization," which used highly selective news snippets to suggest that there are no just wars.
"I try not to be too tendentious".
Sitting through his talk I felt growing rage at his tendentious nonsense – the demonstrably untrue statement that modernist architects were nature-haters, for example – and at the fact that no one was allowed to challenge him directly.
Five days ago, when it emerged that the group had removed all its McCann stories from its websites, I gave some examples of the tendentious, and often mendacious, material the Daily Express had been running.
