Sentence examples for tendentious idea from inspiring English sources

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".

Stereotypes are unchallenged myths, overstated beliefs or tendentious, preconceived ideas, often negative, associated with a category that are widespread, and mainly used to define and limit people or groups of people in society (Fiske & Tablante, 2015; Helmes & Pachana, 2016).

The first idea is tendentious, the second naive.

Barry Forshaw of the Islington Gazette thought the war theme was "tendentious" but called the collection "enterprising".

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

This documentary about the effects of globalization on the making and consumption of wine is full of beautiful landscapes and challenging ideas, but it is also repetitious, tendentious and much too long.

Instead of writing a great Tolstoyan novel about America that would "speak to one's time" and capture the social and political pulse of the nation, he increasingly produced tendentious novels that were scaffolds for his eccentric, sometimes perverse ideas about violence and sex and power, what he once called "the mysteries of murder, suicide, incest, orgy, orgasm and Time".

Implicit in Stone's remark was the idea that, unlike serious investigation of this period of European history, Holocaust mongering is politically tendentious.

He makes tendentious tchotchkes.

This is more tendentious.

Yet these arguments are tendentious.